Human DNA sequencing may become part of routine medical care if costs continue to drop, a university expert says.
22/10/2009
RESEARCHERS at the Delft University of Technology (DUT) in the Netherlands have discovered the forces acting on a DNA strand as it travels through a pore during electrophoresis are dependent on the size of the pore.
12/05/2009
RESEARCHERS at the University of Barcelona have proposed a new model for DNA packaging during cell division.
19/02/2009
RESEARCHERS at Osaka University in Japan have developed a method of tuning the electronic characteristics of adenine-thymine (A-T) pairs making the building blocks transport no longer DNA sequence dependent.
16/04/2009
Melbourne researchers believe that understanding how kangaroos repair their DNA could be the key to preventing skin cancer in the future.
02/12/2009
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Glycon of New South Wales, Australia, are partnering to bring IDT’s products and services to researchers in Australia.
22/04/2010
APPLIED Biosystems, part of Life Technologies, has announced a new generation of forensic DNA kits with chemistry reagents designed to address the increasing challenges facing 21st century forensic laboratories.
14/10/2009
A team of international researchers claim to have mapped the DNA of a domestic pig, saying this could lead to better breeding techniques and improve vaccine development against diseases such as swine flu.
05/11/2009
THE LIFE Technologies Foundation has announced it has awarded $2m to three grant recipients working to advance life science, including the University of North Texas for DNA-PROKIDS, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Science Museum in London.
16/06/2009
MILLENNIUM Science has announced an exclusive distribution partnership with integrated biosample management company GenVault.
16/07/2009
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
DIFFERENCES in the DNA among Mexico’s 65 ethnic populations must be identified to significantly advance that developing nation’s public health.
12/06/2009
SCHOTT has launched its latest generation of aminosilane microarray slides.
27/01/2009
APPLIED Biosystems has unveiled new approaches for using next-generation genomic analysis sequencing to better understand methylation patterns in different cancerous disease states.
22/04/2009
US researchers have published a paper in Nature demonstrating how next-generation DNA sequencing can be used to identify DNA mutations in a small cell lung cancer (SCLC) line, which identify the mutational burden associated with tobacco smoking.
17/12/2009
ROCHE NimbleGen and Sigma-Aldrich have amalgamated their complementary technologies to further chromatin immunoprecipitation-on-microarray (ChIP-chip) research.
27/04/2009
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
RESEARCH in Queensland has been given a boost with the opening of three new facilities which will be used in the study of plastic made from sugarcane, nano-chips to speed up computers and new DNA based bio-medicines.
01/06/2009
An international consortium of scientists plans to collect DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus.
06/11/2009
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