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A recently added market report by Transparency Market Research on “Biopesticides Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share And Forecasts, 2012 - 2018” is now available for pre-order. To browse the report, visit http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/biopesticides-market.html Albany, New York (PRWEB) May 11, 2013 Biopesticides are essential for controlling the effect of agricultural pests, insects, and bacterial and fungal growth on food and field crops. Use of biopesticides...
SAN DIEGO, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ALS Emergency Treatment Fund (ALS-ETF) and Denovo Biomarkers (Denovo) have announced a partnership to explore using Denovo's technology to identify potential responder groups for drugs being studied in ALS patients. This personalized medicine approach may accelerate drug development in ALS and other life-threatening disorders. The partnership will integrate Denovo's pharmacogenomic technology into the analysis of biological...
Medrio proudly announces Provonix to join the Medrio Partner Program. San Francisco, CA and Mullica Hill, NJ (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Provonix, a customer-focused CRO providing innovative clinical trial solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, today joined the Medrio Partner Program after earning accreditation in Medrio’s eClinical Software as a Software (SaaS) platform. The Medrio Partner Program is a collaborative effort aligning Medrio resources with...
Cellars Wine Club shows how differences between Old world and New world growing techniques has produced controversy in the wine world. (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Locally based wine of the month club membership provider, Cellars Wine Club, sheds light on the Old World Wine/New World Wine controversy. By discussing the lesser known differences between these two wine growing philosophies, the company hopes to meet its goal of educating its members not only in the taste of different wines but also...
nanoRETE has been awarded an Air Force SBIR contract for the development of a field-ready, real-time biosensor for the detection of tuberculosis, and has received a matching grant from the State of Michigan. nanoRETE is developing cost-effective nanoparticle biosensors that can detect multiple pathogens and toxins while generating screening results in less than three hours. LANSING, Michigan (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 nanoRETE, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a Phase II contract...
SAN DIEGO, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink, www.trilinkbiotech.com), a leader in manufacturing high quality oligonucleotides, nucleoside triphosphates and mRNA, announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with QuantiBact A/S (QuantiBact, www.quantibact.com) to offer twisted intercalating nucleic acid (TINA) modified oligos. TINA molecules are intercalators placed at the 5' end of primers to stabilize duplex formation. Their unique properties...
Superior Accuracy and On-Demand Validated Assays Covering the Whole Exome Enable Major Clinical Sequencing Providers FREMONT, Calif., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) today announced the launch of its new SmartChip TE product - a PCR-based target enrichment solution for sample preparation prior to targeted re-sequencing on Next-Gen platforms. As clinical Next-Gen sequencing rapidly expands into the mainstream molecular testing market, the growth...
A key type of human brain cell developed in the laboratory grows seamlessly when transplanted into the brains of mice, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, raising hope that these cells might one day be used to treat people with Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and possibly even Alzheimer's disease, as well as and complications of spinal cord injury such as chronic pain and spasticity. "We think this one type of cell may be useful in treating several types of neurodevelopmental and...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KBIO) today announced that the company will present at the Credit Suisse Antibody Conference, to be held in New York City on May 10, 2013. KaloBios President and Chief Executive Officer, David W. Pritchard, will provide an overview of KaloBios and the company's three current clinical programs for its proprietary, patient-targeted monoclonal antibody therapeutics. (Logo:...
IRVINE, Calif., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneTex, Inc., a leading manufacturer of antibodies and antibody-related reagents, is introducing a new mouse monoclonal antibody to the human Ten-Eleven Translocation 1 (TET1) protein. The discovery in 2009 (Tahiliani et al, 2009) that this enzyme can convert the DNA methylation mark 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) helped to usher in a new field of research in epigenetics. Since then, it has become clear that TET1...
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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1979 under the title Journal of Applied Biochemistry and published by Academic Press. It assumed its present title in 1986 and publication was taken over by Portland Press in 1993. It is now published bimonthly by Wiley-Blackwell (since 2011). It is the official journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The journal publishes scholarly Articles and Reviews relating to...
Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal founded by Benjamin Lewin in January 1974 with the sponsorship of MIT Press. Lewin bought the rights to the journal in 1986 and published it under his own publishing arm Cell Press. Cell Press was sold to Elsevier in 1999, which currently publishes Cell twice monthly. Cell Press publishes several biomedical journals, including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Cancer Cell, Current Biology, Structure, Chemistry &...
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease (the formation of tumours) in over 140 species of dicot. It is rod shaped. Symptoms are caused by the insertion of a small segment of DNA into the plant cell. It is an alphaproteobacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae which includes the nitrogen fixing legume symbionts. They are pathogenic and provide no benefit to the plant. It also affects a wide variety of plants. In an economical sense it affects walnuts, grape vines,...
