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Melting DNA in microfluidic devices
13-Jun-2007 - German researchers have developed a microfluidic device that greatly increases the efficiency of measuring the melting temperature of DNA double strands.
Identifying the connections between cancer pathways
13-Jun-2007 - Researchers have used a protein lysate array to profile and classify multiple components of aberrant cell signalling pathways in 90 cancer cell lines.
Hunting for drug candidates on Kinase SARfari
12-Jun-2007 - BioFocus DPI has released a new informatics system that can combine chemical and biological data from various sources to optimise protein kinase inhibitor candidate selection.
Agilent reduces the noise in proteomics experiments
11-Jun-2007 - Agilent has launched a new tool that removes the 14 most abundant proteins found in blood plasma and serum to speed up the discovery and identification of low-abundance proteins and biomarkers.
IDBS launch latest electronic lab notebook
07-Jun-2007 - IDBS look to speed up laboratory research by enabling more efficient knowledge transfer with its latest electronic lab notebook (ELN) suite, E-WorkBook 7.0.
Nanodots take the matrix out of MALDI-MS
06-Jun-2007 - Japanese researchers have developed a way to increase protein sequence coverage by removing the need for organic matrices that can mask low weight analytes during MALDI-MS experiments.
deltaDOT lets fly with new drug discovery tool
05-Jun-2007 - DeltaDOT has been given a government grant to commercially develop a new tool to allow researchers to reduce dramatically the time it takes to weed out unsuitable drug candidates.
Thermo launches new proteomics MS
05-Jun-2007 - Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced a range of powerful new mass spectroscopy products at the 55th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry currently being held in Indianapolis, US.
Revolutionary Phase I trial design speeds up development
05-Jun-2007 - A new approach to Phase I clinical trials could revolutionise drug development, enabling innovative drugs to get to market faster and cheaper.
Improved image analysis in proteomics research
04-Jun-2007 - Analysing the images from protein separation experiments, such as 2D gel electrophoresis (2DGE), is not only time consuming but can often miss 'hits' and give false positives. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to Swedish company Ludesi.
High throughput screening of Alzheimer's inhibitors
04-Jun-2007 - Japanese researchers have developed a high throughput method for screening the activity of beta-amyloid protein aggregation inhibitors that should speed up the discovery of new Alzheimer's therapies.
Neural data recorder from ADInstruments
31-May-2007 - ADInstruments has launched its Neuro Amp EX to improve neurological data collection from animals and humans during drug candidate testing by reducing noise and improving ease of use.
Bird flu blood could hold key to new cure
31-May-2007 - Antibodies from the blood of bird flu survivors could hold the key to developing an alternative prevention and treatment for the deadly H5N1 virus for the 6bn people potentially at risk should a pandemic emerge.
Imaging the glutamate system
30-May-2007 - Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden and AstraZeneca have developed the first method that allows the glutamate system to be studied in living people.
NIST launch proteomics reference materials
29-May-2007 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first ever reference material to improve the performance and reliability of proteomics research.
Nanopoint the way to live cell imaging
24-May-2007 - Nanopoint has released its cellTRAY imaging system that enables time lapse imaging of individual cells while reducing experiment costs.
EpiStem's 'plucked hair' technology attracts AstraZeneca
23-May-2007 - A non-invasive technique that uses hair plucked from cancer patients to guide the development of new chemotherapy drugs has attracted the attention of UK pharma giant AstraZeneca.
Arrayjet Sprints into benchtop microarray production
22-May-2007 - Arrayjet's new Sprint benchtop inkjet microarray spotter promises to allow researchers the ability to design and print their own microarrays and array-based biosensors.
Humanised mouse 'far more useful' to predict side effects
21-May-2007 - An animal model used to evaluate vaccines could be "far more useful" to predict potential side effects than current methods, according to its developers, AMDL.
ART's new imaging system
17-May-2007 - Advanced Research Technologies (ART) has launched a new imaging system for studying molecular events in small living animals to further our understanding of disease and treatment mechanisms.
New DNA damage test could reduce animal experiments
16-May-2007 - A new tool for checking if drugs damage DNA could reduce the number of animal experiments needed in drug development, and also be cheaper than conventional techniques, according to its designer.
New HIV tests look to speed up viral load analysis
15-May-2007 - Abbott Laboratories and Roche Diagnostics have both had HIV-1 tests approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that should allow clinical laboratories to deliver viral load results faster.
The future of separating biomolecules?
14-May-2007 - A new device that allows the separation of complex biological mixtures by the physical properties of its constituents has been developed.
Studying reactions in micro-channels
09-May-2007 - A new microfluidic device has been developed that uses fluorescence lifetime measurement to allow researchers to study the kinetics of molecular processes that are usually too fast to study accurately.
Automatically detecting crucial protein features
09-May-2007 - A new tool can automatically analyse a protein's structure to detect residues crucial to its function, allowing pharma firms to design better drugs.
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