Exosomes as way to make 'personalized medicine' easier and more precise

30-Jun-2017 - Today, doctors can tailor a drug therapy to your unique genetic profile, giving you the full benefits of a drug while reducing unwanted side effects -- all in harmony with the blueprints of your biology. But problems remain in the push toward "individualized medicine." For instance, genetics ...

Analytik Jena enters Ultra-High Throughput Market

Access provided by Co-Marketing agreement with Illumina

09-Mar-2017 - Analytik Jena has entered a partnership with Illumina, Inc. headquartered in San Diego. In so doing Analytik Jena gains access to the growing genotyping market currently being served by Illumina’s technologies by offering a production scale solution to provide ultra-high throughput sample ...

LGC Genomics invests in new laboratory in Boston, US

23-Apr-2012 - LGC Genomics announced the launch of its new US genomics services laboratory based at the Cumming’s centre in Beverly near Boston, Massachusetts. LGC Genomics has seen the number of employees in its US business expand from 1 to 20 in the past year and this new facility marks a significant step in ...

Rutgers receives $10 million in support of national efforts to track genetic causes of alcoholism

06-Dec-2011 - Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) has received a $10 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to provide DNA extraction, basic genetic testing, and repository services for more than 46,000 saliva samples, in support of national research ...

Largest rice genetics study finds vast differences between Asian rice subpopulations

16-Sep-2011 - The largest publicly available genomewide association mapping study in rice to date has found that although the five subpopulations of Asian rice - indica, aus, temperate japonica, aromatic and tropical japonica - all belong to one species (Oryza sativa), their genetic structures are so different ...

Genetic variants associated with caffeine intake identified

08-Apr-2011 - Two genes in which variation affects intake of caffeine, the most widely consumed stimulant in the world, have been discovered. A team of investigators from the National Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

OGT Grants DNA Sequence Variation Licence to Biotype Diagnostics GmbH

24-Nov-2010 - Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) and Biotype Diagnostics GmbH announced the completion of a licence agreement granting Biotype access to OGT patents for the detection of DNA sequence variations. The licence, which will remain valid for the lifetime of the patents, provides Biotype with certain rights ...

European collaborative research to develop lab-on-chip system for cheap and fast cancer diagnosis

03-Sep-2010 - At the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims at developing an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of ...

Labcyte Awarded US Patent for Real-Time Power Optimization

26-Aug-2010 - Labcyte announced the grant of its 40th US patent. Patent number 7,717,544 describes how in real time acoustic energy is optimized to transfer a droplet of any fluid, even those that are unknown. Labcyte’s acoustic droplet ejection technology offers touchless transfer of a wide variety of fluids, ...

BioServe and NGC Medical SpA Launch BioServe-Europe

BioServe-Europe provides comprehensive pre-clinical molecular services and biospecimens to European life science researchers

10-Aug-2010 - BioServe and NGC Medical SpA announced the opening of BioServe-Europe. Based in Milan, Italy BioServe-Europe provides the European life science research industry with molecular services, including the processing of new personal genetic tests, high-throughput genotyping, and DNA and RNA ...