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Complete Genomics’ Sequencing Service

While a year ago, the FDA put a hold on companies selling genomic kits directly to consumers, researchers are [MORE]

BGI and CHOP Begin Pediatric Genomics Work

Last fall, the Beijing Genomics Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced their “Joint Genome Center” for discovering [MORE]

The $1,000 Genome, Pretty Soon

Ion Torrent Chip
Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, CA) is now taking orders for it’s “Ion [MORE]

Nanoscale Lipid Vesicle Platform for Millions of Tests on One Chip

Nanolipid Vescile Platform
The ability to make incredibly small containers from phospholipids (liposomes) has been known since the early 1960’s, [MORE]

Nanochannel Electroporation

Most gene therapy protocols rely on recombinant viral vectors for transfection, but that has not been without problems.  However, [MORE]

Twenty-Eight SNPs of Hypertension

In a European consortium’s study of hypertension, initially involving 70k people, with 133k more for validation, researchers identified 28 [MORE]

Leukemia Trial Brings New Hope from Gene Therapy

Purple Cells – New Leukemia Treatment
This piece reports a gene therapy success against chronic lymphocytic leukemia for three patients [MORE]

Hand-Held Genomics Meter

It doesn’t take much of a leap of faith to imagine a handheld glucose meter-like device used to sense [MORE]

Single Cell Science

Single Cell Analysis
Genomics scientists at the University of British Columbia have developed an integrated microfluidics device that performs cell [MORE]

Genetic Engineering: Eliminating the Stop Codon

George Church, PhD
Harvard’s George Church, Farren Isaacs, and colleagues have used a technique called “multiplex automated genome engineering” to [MORE]

Storing Specimens at Room Temperature

Sample Matrix
Recently, Biomatrica (San Diego) signed a cooperative research agreement with the US Army Medical Research Institute of [MORE]

New Technique for Engineering Dopaminergic Neurons

Italian researchers at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan) have reported their success in transforming human skin cells into functional [MORE]

ATCC’s Move on iPSC’s

iPS Cells
It’s a fair guess that Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka could win a Nobel Prize this year for [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]