Carnivorous Plant Ditches Its ‘Junk’ DNA
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online There are approximately 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, however, only about 2 percent of those are actual genes. The rest is considered ‘junk’ DNA. For years, scientists have...
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Production of Therapeutically Relevant Levels of Clotting Factor VIII Further Demonstrates Breadth and Leverage of this Novel Approach to Monogenic Diseases RICHMOND, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced the presentation of new data demonstrating the successful application of Sangamo's proprietary In Vivo Protein Replacement Platform (IVPRP) to produce therapeutically relevant levels of Factor VIII in a mouse model. Sangamo has...
MetLife Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2013 Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease: Yueming Li, Ph.D., member and professor, Sloan-Kettering Institute and director and professor, Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lennart Mucke, M.D., director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and professor of Neurology, University of California, San...
Bestselling sequencing system is now even more powerful: new workflow automation, Ion PGM(TM) chips and software to be deployed to all new and existing users CARLSBAD, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that Ion PGM(TM) now significantly outperforms its competitor on the major performance metrics for benchtop sequencing. It offers the simplest and fastest workflow, lowest cost-per-sample, and highest sensitivity for...
The global electrophoresis market is expected to reach nearly $1.8 billion by 2018 after increasing at a CAGR of 4%. The expanding realm of molecular profiling applications is providing continued demand for this technology, ahlthrough electrophoresis exhibits characteristics of a mature market; which nucleic acid and protein separation are the two major applications of this technology. Wellesley, MA (PRWEB) May 12, 2013 The global electrophoresis market was worth nearly $1.35 billion in...
CARLSBAD, Calif., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today the issuance of a new patent covering nucleic acids encoding Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nuclease fusion proteins (TALENS) and the formal launch of an associated sublicensing program. The technology has broad utility in the pharmaceutical industry, synthetic biology, and plant sciences for creating genetically modified cell lines, animals and plants, and is being...
Development Agreement Signed LEAMINGTON SPA, U.K., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA Dynamics, Inc. (OTC PINK:DNAD) announces that it has been chosen by a large digital PC Publisher to bring one of its hugely successful PC games to the mobile space. The game, which was unveiled in May 2010 and released in 2011, is a Real Time Strategy PC game and was the latest installment on a prestigious series which has an incredibly strong and loyal fan base globally. Now, DNA Dynamics,...
Kalorama Information said tests are a 5.2 billion dollar market and will grow 8% each year to 7.6 billion by 2017. Rockville, MD (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 Tests aimed a molecular target for use in clinical decision-making will produce much faster revenue growth than traditional IVD tests, according to Kalorama Information. Kalorama Information said tests are a 5.2 billion dollar market and will grow 8% each year to 7.6 billion by 2017. That's four times as fast as revenue growth in...
MANSFIELD, Mass., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PrimeraDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, will be highlighted in a conference call with the Goldman Sachs Healthcare Research Team as part of the GS Emerging Healthcare Series on May 13, 2013 at 11 am. Matthew McManus, MD, Ph.D., President and CEO of PrimeraDx will provide an overview of the Company's innovative technology and its two-pronged approach to the market: offering an "open platform" system to reference labs, academic...
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...
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The activity of any living cell, and by extension life itself, depends on protein synthesis and the transcription of DNA. If proteins are the machinery of cellular function, then DNA are the machine assembly lines – responsible for accurately and efficiently ‘transcribing’ protein messengers, structures and enzymes. DNA transcription begins in the nucleus of a cell when an enzyme called RNA polymerase binds to the DNA strand. Sequences within the DNA direct the polymerase to...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a highly technical field like genetic engineering can be a beacon of stability and growth in today’s slumping job market. Genetic engineers, or biomedical engineers, are expected to see their career prospects grow as new technological advances drive an ever greater demand for individuals to specialize in this field. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) says that a position as a genetic engineer typically requires at least a...
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 &...
