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Glowing proteins lead the way to the Chemistry Nobel Prize

13-Oct-2008 - The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded equally to three chemists "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP),” one of the most important tools in bioscience.

Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of HIV and HPV

10-Oct-2008 - The scientists who discovered the viruses responsible for causing AIDS and cervical cancer have been honoured with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Bio-Rad speeds up antibody screening

05-Oct-2008 - Bio-Rad has published new results showing how its ProteOn XPR36 protein interaction array system can dramatically speed up monoclonal antibody (mAb) screening.

FEI to light-up Sun Pharma’s research

01-Oct-2008 - India’s Sun Pharmaceutical has installed a 3D imaging system from FEI Company to speed up the development of new therapeutics and aid its quality control processes.

Astech REACTS to pharma’s automation needs

28-Sep-2008 - UK-based automation expert, Astech Projects, has been signed up to assist a ‘top 5 pharmaceutical company’ just months after launching its new automation maintenance service.

BioTrove clears the way for new disease pathway research

28-Sep-2008 - BioTrove has launched a series of assay panels that enable researchers to skip the laborious initial steps of gene selection and assay optimisation and start studying disease pathways straightaway.

ChanTest to increase range of ion channel services

23-Sep-2008 - Ion channel expert ChanTest is expanding its range of ion channel services and cell lines that help identify promising target compounds and those that could cause harmful side effects.

Illuminating the life cycles of parasites

19-Sep-2008 - European researchers have devised a method of purifying parasites that will enable scientists to gain deeper insights into the biology of the organisms responsible for millions of infections every year.

Pharmaceutical Profiles the effects of diabetes drug

18-Sep-2008 - UK-based Pharmaceutical Profiles has used an imaging technique known as scintigraphy to quantify the effects of Amylin / Eli Lilly’s latest diabetes drug on the stomach.

Bee Alert: new threat to US honeybees identified

08-Sep-2008 - US scientists have discovered a new threat to the US honeybee population using technology developed for detecting viruses on the battlefield.

ReInnervate the difference for stem cells

08-Sep-2008 - UK researchers have developed two synthetic molecules that coax stem cells to differentiate into either neurons or epithelial cells for use in drug discovery applications.

Applied Biosystems removes the bias from gene expression analysis

29-Aug-2008 - Applied Biosystems (ABI) has developed a sequencing-based tool for gene expression analysis that can detect even minute amounts of previously unknown RNA transcripts.

New research takes the bite out of the stem cell debate

29-Aug-2008 - Japanese scientists have derived ‘embryonic’ stem cells from tissue taken from discarded human wisdom teeth, potentially bypassing the ethical dilemma of taking them from embryos.

LGC adds digital PCR to its service offering

28-Aug-2008 - UK laboratory services firm LGC has brought the first BioMark system into the UK in order to accurately quantify rare gene sequences for its pharmaceutical customers.

Probing the structure of membrane proteins

22-Aug-2008 - US researchers have developed a new technique that has enabled them to determine the structure of membrane proteins without having to first crystallise the samples.

Producing heparin without the heartache

20-Aug-2008 - US researchers have developed a chemoenzymatic strategy to synthesise the anticoagulant drug heparin and avoid the contaminant that has killed more than 80 people.

Advalytix amplifies the importance single cell analysis

18-Aug-2008 - Advalytix’ AmpliGrid technology is playing a key role in enabling researchers to discover how just a single cell can lay a huge role in complex biological systems.

New genetic variations linked to schizophrenia

18-Aug-2008 - Researchers have used Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) arrays to discover genetic variations that increase the risk of schizophrenia.

Paraytec expands UV detection to new application areas

08-Aug-2008 - University of York, UK, spin-out Paraytec, has published new results that extend the use of its ActiPix UV area imaging detector to applications in enzyme assays and protein sizing.

Millipore tech unravels neural degeneration

25-Jul-2008 - UK researchers have used the ReNcell VM stem cell line, licensed by Millipore from UK stem cell therapy experts ReNeuron, to model neural degeneration observed in Parkinson's disease.

Nanotubes threaten to replace the mass spectrometer

25-Jul-2008 - US physicists have built the world's most sensitive 'nanomechanical mass spectrometer' that can accurately determine the mass of objects lighter than a single gold atom.

Thermo Fisher and Genedata to accelerate metabolomics research

20-Jul-2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific has integrated Genedata's Expressionist software with its high resolution mass spectrometry (MS) offering to enable high-throughput metabolomics data processing.

Sequencing to illuminate disease pathways

20-Jul-2008 - Scientists have completed the most comprehensive mammalian transcriptome analysis to date and believe the results should further our understanding of disease pathways.

Affymetrix tech to save pharma 'billions'

10-Jul-2008 - Researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute are using Affymetrix' assay technology to develop tests that detect drug induced liver injury (DILI).