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Researchers at UC San Diego who last year genetically engineered bacteria to keep track of time by turning on and off fluorescent proteins within their cells have taken another step toward the construction of a programmable genetic sensor. The scientists recently synchronized these bacterial "genetic clocks" to blink in unison and engineered the bacterial genes to alter their blinking rates when environmental conditions change.Their latest achievement, detailed in a paper published in the...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wound Management Technologies, Inc., (WNDM), has named Deborah Jenkins Hutchison as its new president to help spearhead WNDM's leveraging of its existing technology and infrastructure to develop opportunities in the rapidly growing markets of biotech and genetic engineering, and to expand WNDM's technology footprint. WNDM noted that the appointment is extremely timely in light of their upcoming acquisition of Secure eHealth, a technology...

Biologists have developed an efficient way to genetically modify human embryonic stem cells. Their approach, which uses bacterial artificial chromosomes to swap in defective copies of genes, will make possible the rapid development of stem cell lines that can both serve as models for human genetic diseases and as testbeds on which to screen potential treatments, they say."This will help to open up the whole human embryonic stem cell field. Otherwise, there's really few efficient ways you...

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Food Safety Testing - A Global Update of Market Trends & Opportunities http://www.reportlinker.com/p0164213/Food-Safety-Testing---A-Global-Update-of-Market-Trends--Opportunities.html Food safety testing refers to examination of food products for disease causing organisms, chemical residues and other hazardous material. Food processing companies are increasingly...

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology is experiencing a surge of interest and rapid expansion as a result of advances such as instrumentation that pushes capacity to 1,536 wells and optimization-free multiplexing, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). The technique's ability to both detect and simultaneously quantify specific DNA sequences is increasing its use in basic research and diagnostics, according to the November 15 issue of GEN."With some...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wound Management Technologies, Inc., (WNDM), announced today that its BioPharma Management Technologies Division will search for partners to aid in leveraging its existing technology and infrastructure to develop opportunities within the International Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering fields. The company intends to announce developments concerning advisory board appointments, research affiliations, and new partners as details emerge....

More than 200 experts on GM and non-GM coexistence will converge on Melbourne next week as part of the GMCC-09 conference.Conference chair, Professor German Spangenberg, says GMCC-09 will provide an opportunity to showcase world-leading science on the development and implementation of coexistence frameworks."Coexistence between GM and non-GM crops will be considered across the entire agricultural supply chains," said Professor Spangenberg."The conference will be a truly international...

Amidst growing concerns of global food shortages, scientists continue to push the frontiers of genetically modified foods in an attempt to head off the looming crisis.  Some of their efforts, however "” such as attempts to test a new variety of GM corn in Mexico "” are clashing with millennia-old cultural traditions seeking to preserve the original form of the ancient staple food.A number of pre-colonial Indian religions even believed that human life first sprang forth from the sacred,...

Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists."Cultivated squash is susceptible to a variety of viral diseases and that is a major problem for farmers," said Andrew Stephenson, Penn State professor of biology. "Infected plants grow more slowly and their fruit becomes misshapen."In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved genetically...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced it is expanding the development of ataluren, an investigational new drug, to a third indication with the initiation of a Phase 2a clinical trial in nonsense mutation hemophilia A (nmHA) and hemophilia B (nmHB). Hemophilia is a rare and debilitating genetic disorder that causes loss of blot clotting proteins and can lead to serious, recurrent bleeding episodes. It is estimated that nonsense...