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Microarrays for Autoimmune Diagnosis

Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University recently reported on their use of protein microarrays to differentiate systemic lupus erythematosis from [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

Personal Genome Machine

Personal Genome Machine
Recently, Ion Torrent (Guilford, CT, a branch of Life Technologies-formerly Applied Biosciences) named Ambry Genetics (Aliso Viego, [MORE]

Regenerative Drug Discovery Lab

Stem Cells Progenitor Labs
This piece has two stories in one-the first about combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening, and the [MORE]

New Genetic Target for Hypertension

Yale scientists recently announced their findings that a genetic mutation resulting in loss of potassium channel function is implicated [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

Motor Plates
While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. [MORE]

Synthetic Macromolecules

Artificial Proteins
“. . . the molecular parts kit for life need not be limited to parts likes genes and [MORE]

Problems in Stem Cell Genetics

Stem Cell Errors
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute recently made a [MORE]

Growing Tumors Rapidly in the Lab

Dr. Todd Ridky
Todd Ridky, MD and a group at Stanford, were able to transform several human epithelial cells into [MORE]

Upward Trend for Microfluidic Chips

Kevin Hrusovsky
Microfluidics applications are rising in both scientific and clinical medicine and Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of chip-maker Caliper Life [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

New Material for Growing Stem Cells

Surface for Stem Cell Reproduction
Most labs that grow stem cells rely on traditional plastic Petri dishes that have a [MORE]

Roche and IBM Nanopore Sequencing Genomes for $1000 or Less

Roche is picking up on IBM’s development of nanopore sequencing, which streams DNA through a nanopore of a silicon [MORE]

“Flying Vaccinators”

Mosquito
Why might the world benefit from a healthy mosquito?  Professor Shigeto Yoshida, at Jichi Medical University (Tochigi, Japan) believes [MORE]