news archive - January 2009

  • Europe elekta VMAT

    ELEKTA synergy systems will enable three university hospitals to begin shortened radiation treatments on patients.

    30/01/2009 | 0
  • Drug developed to attack solid tumours

    A NEW drug is being tested by TGen Clinical Research Services (TCRS) that may offer broad potential to treat solid tumours.

    30/01/2009 | 0
  • Agilent rename genomics division

    AGILENT Technologies have announced a renaming of a division of their life sciences solution unit.

    28/01/2009 | 0
  • FDA approves faster MRSA testing

    A BIO-RAD developed chromogenic medium has received FDA clearance for faster interpretation time in the screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

    28/01/2009 | 0
  • New generation slides launched

    SCHOTT has launched its latest generation of aminosilane microarray slides.

    27/01/2009 | 0
  • Jammer makes testing a breeze

    AGILENT technologies has launched a PCI testing technology said to allow developers to shorten test cycles and improve the time-to-market of their device.

    27/01/2009 | 0
  • Oxoid optimises E.coli agar

    OXOID has optimized Oxoid Brillianc E. coli/coliform Selective Agar to allow the indole reaction to be performed directly on the culture plate.

    23/01/2009 | 0
  • This is your cells on CRACC

    RESEARCHERS at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) have identified a molecule which increases the function of Natural Killer cells (NK cells).

    21/01/2009 | 0
  • Gene abnormalities may lead to cancer bio markers

    RESEARCHERS at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre have identified abnormalities in genes that may help identify patients at high risk of pancreatic cancer.

    20/01/2009 | 0
  • You CAN teach an old drug new tricks

    A DRUG developed in the 1970’s has found its way back into modern medicine, performing as a chemoprevention agent in animal models.

    20/01/2009 | 0
  • Proteins keep the chromosomes on track

    SCIENTISTS at Dartmouth Medical School , have identified two proteins which maintain chromosomal segregation throughout cell division.

    19/01/2009 | 0
  • Rudd government fund prostate cancer research centre

    THE FEDERAL Government has granted the Princess Alexandra Hospital $7.5m to establish a Prostate Cancer Research Centre, which will be hosted by the Queensland University of technology (QUT).

    19/01/2009 | 0
  • Higher level of drug therapy research called for

    THE CANCER Council of Australia has expressed its concern at the lack of independent research into cancer treatments.

    19/01/2009 | 0
  • Smokers see hope through the haze

    IN POTENTIALLY life saving news for the 1.3b smokers worldwide, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have identified a class of molecule that could lead to the detection of lung cancers.

    16/01/2009 | 0
  • China maps panda genome

    IN A STUDY similar to the Human Genome Project, researchers at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen have mapped the genetic code of giant panda Jingjing, the Beijing 2008 Olympic mascot.

    15/01/2009 | 0
  • High-risk leukaemia gene identified

    RESEARCHERS at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine have identified a gene which may be linked to the 20% fail rate of treating children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).

    15/01/2009 | 0
  • Seventy eight year old theory revisited

    NEW support for German scientist Otto H. Warburg’s 1924 theory on the origin of cancer has surfaced through the work of scientists at Boston College and Washington University School of Medicine.

    15/01/2009 | 0
  • New Link found Between Inherited Genes And Breast Cancer

    SCIENTISTS at the American National Cancer Institute have determined an important link between inherited factors and the progression of breast cancer into the metastatic stage during a recent study in mice.

    14/01/2009 | 0
  • Protection from a protein

    OUR DNA is not as defenceless as once thought, with researchers at the University of Michigan identifying a key protein which plays not one, but two critical roles in affecting the development of cancer.

    14/01/2009 | 0
  • Genome Link To Age Related Hearing Loss

    The scientists discovered a common deviation in the GRM7 gene which they believe is associated with a patient’s susceptibility to glutamate excitotoxicity and hearing loss.

    13/01/2009 | 0
  • Fused genes identified in prostate cancer

    RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have identified a series of genes that become fused when their chromosomes trade places with each other, thought to be the reason why certain cancers develop.

    12/01/2009 | 0
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