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August 12 2010
Miraculins Launches ELISA Kit for Detection of PSP94 in Urine and Announces Distribution Agreement With GenWay Biotech
Miraculins Inc. launches its PSP94 Immunoassay for Urine Specimens, a research use only (RUO) tool utilizing enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of PSP94 in urine.

February 18 2009
IBM develops MRI with 100 million times more detail
Researchers at IBM have developed a medical imaging tool that provides doctors with 100 million times more picture detail, or resolution, than conventional equipment.

July 26 2007
New instrument helps find risk indicators for breast cancer
In a long-delayed harvest from the human genome project, researchers say they have found six new sites of variation in the genome that increase the risk of breast cancer.

July 16 2007
Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Defends Gold Team Status in
For the second year in a row, Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (Spokane, WA) is the Gold Team Winner in the ARTEL Pipetting Olympics. ARTEL's contest, held each year during National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, challenges laboratory technicians to test the accuracy and precision of their pipetting skills against colleagues and other laboratories.

July 16 2007
ClinPhone's drug accountability solution wins International Best New Product award
ClinPhone has been awarded a prestigious International Stevie Award in the fourth annual International Business Awards. The award for Best New Product or Service was made for ClinPhone's innovative drug accountability solution.

May 24 2007
New species named after Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a world leader in serving science, has been honored by having a new species of worm named after it by researchers at the Natural History Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin.

September 05 2006
E-conference Centre Links Ontario Heart Care
The London Health Sciences Centre will be opening an electronic conference centre thanks to a recent $300,000 contribution from Servier Canada Inc.

August 22 2006
Electric Tweezers Expand Lab Capabilities
Watch out ladies, tweezers may soon become hot property in the laboratory.

August 14 2006
3-D Model Improves Surgery
In an effort to improve training methods for surgeons, a group of researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are combining 3-D computer models with the sense of touch.

July 17 2006
Canada and California Construct Superhighway
A partnership between Californian and Canadian researchers has resulted in the completion of a new ultra-high bandwidth connection between Canadas national research and education network and the California state education network

July 14 2006
A Method for Hardware Flexibility Evaluation of Laboratory Automation Architectures
By Peyman Najmabadi, PhD, Andrew A. Goldenberg, PhD, Andrew Emili, PhD
Abstract
Flexibility is considered one of the major attributes of laboratory automation systems, particularly for the sizeable community of small to medium-size biotechnology research laboratories.

May 31 2006
Software Prevents Drug Name Similarities
A computer science professor at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) has donated his talents to a project designed to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approve less-confusing drug names.

May 29 2006
Computer Program Predicts Heart Risk in Drugs
Any pharmaceutical company would love to have a magic ball that reveals whether or not a particular drug candidate will be toxic for the heart.

May 19 2006
Endeavouring to Identify Disease Genes
A new computer program that compiles and processes data from a variety of sources could help researchers identify genes that play a role in a particular disorder.

May 15 2006
Computer Program Helps Plan Pandemic Response
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) have developed a computer program that will allow government and health officials to test emergency preparedness plans for health crisis situations, such as natural disasters or pandemics.

April 30 2006
Web Tool Improves Patient Diagnosis
A recent study has shown that a web-based tool can help reduce the number of clinical diagnostic errors.

March 20 2006
Computers Read Body's Messages
Computers that can sense how you're feeling - it's not the plot of a science fiction movie.

March 13 2006
New Microbial Database Launched
A publicly available database, designed to play host to a wide variety of microbial genome sequences, has been launched by the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg, VA).

March 07 2006
Internet Helps Cancer Patients Cope
The Internet isn't just a place to download music and movies, it can greatly affect a cancer patient's attitude toward their medical care, a recent study from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) researchers shows.

February 20 2006
Computer Chip Method Improves Imaging
A team of researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) has created a new computer chip method that allows for imaging capabilities at the nano level.

February 13 2006
New Online Journal Launched
Online publishing house BioMed Central has unveiled Biology Direct, its open-access journal that features a novel peer-review process.

January 09 2006
Drug Database Largest Yet
With the vast number of drugs on the market, sorting through the options can be a daunting task for any physician or clinician - until recently, that is.

October 18 2005
Experimental Design Automation
By Alan S. Louie, PhD and Michael Swenson
A Novel Solution for the Informatics Bottleneck in Drug R&D Productivity

October 05 2005
Microarray Could Predict Response to Breast Cancer Treatment
DNA microarray analysis could save breast cancer patients from undergoing ineffective and unnecessary treatment, according to a new study published in Breast Cancer Research.


August 19 2005
Software Helps Search for "Red Tide"
A group effort is being used to develop new software to detect harmful algae in North American waters.


August 08 2005
Lowering the Cost of Sequencing Your Genome
An advance in gene sequencing technology has significantly lowered the price of personal genome sequencing.


July 25 2005
Painting the DNA Picture
In recent years, technological advances have produced an unprecedented amount of genetic data - complicated information that the average person would have a hard time comprehending.


July 19 2005
Gene Prediction Program Can Foresee Gene Transcription
A modification to the gene prediction software program Twinscan has made it possible for investigators to find and predict the protein sequences and untranslated regions of the human and fruit fly genomes.


July 12 2005
Gene Scanning Technology May Greatly Improve Disease Research
A new gene mutation detection method developed by researchers at the University of Southampton (Southampton, U.K.) could help future investigators find the proverbial needle in a genetic haystack.

June 13 2005
NRC Technology Assesses Burn Wounds
Rapidly assessing skin burns is critical to preventing extensive skin damage, as well as saving lives.

May 30 2005
Study Endorses Standardization of Gene Expression Technology
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, OR) are calling on scientists to use common commercial gene expression technology in lieu of "homemade" platforms unique to individual labs.

May 17 2005
Software Finds Lost Genes
Software developed by a computer science and engineering professor at Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) has uncovered 150 yet undiscovered genes in a worm genome.


March 28 2005
International Consortium to Create RNA Bioinformatics Tool
Researchers from around the world are combining their expertise to form the RNA Ontology Consortium, designed to help scientists navigate the rapidly expanding field of RNA research.


March 22 2005
New Tool Helps Predict Effect of Drugs on Cells
An algorithm developed by researchers at Boston University (Boston, MA) may help drug developers predict the precise effects of a given drug on a cell's chemical processes or molecular properties.


February 14 2005
Open Source Biotech Tool Kit Launched
As part of its BIOS Initiative, non-profit research organization CAMBIA (Black Mountain, Australia) has introduced what it calls the foundation of the worlds first open source biotechnology tool kit, as well as a new Web site research platform for biological innovation.


January 17 2005
Agilent Introduces Shared Microarray Design Program
Researchers from around the globe will soon be able to share custom-designed microarrays, through a new program introduced by Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA).


January 10 2005
New Security Software Provides Extra Data Protection
Keeping computer-based medical records safe is a growing concern for the R&D and health-care industries, but a new software system could help close the security gap.

November 07 2004
Tool Offers Stronger Safeguards for Web-based Application Data
By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World
Many life science companies use Web-based forms to collect and share data.

August 23 2004
Anti-spam Program Uses Life Science Algorithm
A team at IBM Corp.'s (Armonk, NY) Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery Group has developed a spam filter based on an algorithm originally developed to search DNA sequences

July 19 2004
A Microfluidics-based LC CHIP for Mass Spectrometry
By Kevin Killeen, PHD
Today, proteomics is centred on analysis by mass spectrometry - once the domain of physicists and chemists.

July 12 2004
Movement Key to New Computer Graphics Technique
Researchers at the University of California, Davis's (Davis, CA) Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing have developed a new computer graphics technique called kinetic visualization that uses movement to show the contours and structure of static objects.

May 10 2004
IBM Forecasts Key Pharma Technologies
A report released by IBM Business Consulting Services, a division of IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY), identifies information technologies that are expected to dramatically cut the time and cost required to develop a drug.


April 19 2004
Tech Support
By Patricia Nicholson
Whether it's data mining or electronic drug submissions, biotech has some major information technology (IT) needs.

April 12 2004
Vendors Demonstrate and Launch Biotech Wares at Bio-IT World
Life sciences and health-care vendors, including big-name IT companies like IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY), EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, MA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, CA), demonstrated products and rolled out new wares for biotechnology markets during the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Mass. from March 30 to April 1.

January 19 2004
Spin Control
By Robert M. Frederickson
MP3s downloaded from the Internet may be wreaking havoc with CD sales at your local music shop, but if the plans of Uppsala, Sweden-based Gyros AB are successful, you could be seeing a lot more CD technology in a research lab near you.


August 01 2003
Run, Spot, Run
By Patricia Nicholson
New developments are pushing spotted microarrays to new frontiers

July 01 2003
Probing Proteins
By Deborah Komlos
A glance at key Canadian proteomics projects