SIGMA-Aldrich has announced an agreement to supply services and oligonucleotides to gene synthesis company Gene Oracle.
01/04/2009
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
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified the gene ATDC which is over expressed in 90% of pancreatic cancers.
03/03/2009
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
Type 1 diabetes may be attributed to a tiny genetic irregularity of a particular gene, say researchers at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
22/10/2009
A team of international scientists have been able to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus.
10/11/2009
RESEARCHERS from the National Cancer Institute’s Centre for Cancer Research have identified a gene called PTEN which may play an important role in the formation of melanoma.
27/03/2009
VICTORIAN RESEARCHERS have identified a new scanning technology and a gene called scribble as two potential new prostate cancer management systems.
02/10/2009
Researchers at the Australian National University, Canberra, have discoverd a a subtle mutation in Arabidopsis, a small, rapid growing plant, which may lead to establishing drought resistance throughout the plant kingdom.
04/11/2009
CLC bio has released the latest version of its solution for analysing and visualising next generation sequencing data.
06/02/2009
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
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
RESEARCHERS using the Applied Biosystem developed SOLiD System have identified comprehensive profiles of gene activity from single cells, representing the first use of any next-generation genomic analysis platform for a hypothesis-neutral, genome-wide survey of expressed genes in individual cells.
14/04/2009
AUSTRALIAN researchers at the CSIRO Preventative Health National Research into Colorectal Cancer and Gut Health, Flinders University and Clinical Genomics have developed gene expression biomarkers which can accurately discriminate pre-cancerous and cancerous colorectal growths from non-cancerous controls.
04/06/2009
BioProspect has made an agreement with Bio-Gene Technology for the intellectual property (IP) rights to its natural insecticide Qcide, which is an environmentally friendly treatment for household and human pests.
16/02/2010
RESEARCHERS at the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries are about to undertake a study into the links between the genes thought to cause behavioural problems in humans and those in cattle.
07/05/2009
Scientists from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have found gene expression in a prostate cancer cell to be more complex than previously imagined.
04/03/2010
Researchers at the Australian National University have found that a faulty circuit in the immune system causes loss of immunisation memory and would explain why infections reoccur in some people.
09/11/2009
SCIENTISTS across Europe and the US are offering hope of a breakthrough treatment for people with type 1 diabetes, discovering a way to make cells found in the pancreas turn into those which produce insulin.
12/08/2009
SCIENTISTS at the Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE) lab will leverage Sigma-Aldrich’s exclusive CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) gene editing technology to define, develop and offer a new generation of genetically-engineered rodent research models.
24/08/2009