Exosome Diagnostics and DxS Collaborate to Develop Blood Based Tests for Key Cancer Mutations
The collaboration is based on the development of blood based companion diagnostics for key cancer gene mutations.

TriLink Announces Sales and License Agreement with Glen Research for CleanAmp™ Amidites
Glen Research can now sell the patented CleanAmp™ Amidites to third parties for use in production of CleanAmp™ Primers.

Mean new microRNA Data Analysis Method Gives Sharper Results
New method helps researchers to better understand the delicate interplay between differences in microRNA expression levels and their target genes.

Ingenuity and Integromics Offer Integration for Comprehensive Genomics Analysis
Companies integrate the RealTime StatMiner® and Integromics Biomarker Discovery™ for TIBCO Spotfire® with Ingenuity Pathway Analysis.

SYBR® Green I as a biomarker for schizophrenia
Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon

The purpose of this study were to examine if the mRNA of the peripheral dopamine receptor is changed in schizophrenia patients. 50 Naive patients were enrolled. After extracting RNA from white blood cells, cDNA is synthesized. After doing the quantitative Real-time PCR, expression of D3 receptors in healthy persons and patients were compared. Results of this examinations reveals that expression of D3 receptor is increased in compared with controls sample.

Evaluation of a Novel Approach for the Measurement of RNA Quality
LGC Limited

The potential medical applications of microarrays have generated much interest, within the biomedical community. Numerous potential sources of variation have raised concerns regarding assay consistency and data quality. Previous studies have highlighted RNA integrity as having a major effect on data quality. We describe here a comparison of the performance characteristics of the Agilent (Bioanalyser) and Lab901 (Screen Tape System) platforms, and their capacity to determine sample RNA integrity.

Senior Director ADME
The RSA Group
Hatfield, Herts, UK

Mass Spectometry Scientist
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY, USA

Principal HTS Scientist
St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA


Quantitative PCR Techniques, Avans University, Breda, The Netherlands
07 July 2009 - 10 July 2009

Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) is becoming more and more important in almost all laboratories. The aim of this international short-course is to give the participants an in-depth view in the theoretical and practical knowledge of qPCR Techniques.

Target Discovery World Congress, South San Francisco, CA, USA
04 August 2009 - 05 August 2009

Target Discovery World Congress will be a meeting focusing on the research looking to find new potential drugs for development. The topics will include presentations on the latest in screening platforms and new methods such as those in High Content and Label-Free Screening and will also focus on the work being done looking for new drug targets in some of the major protein families including Ion Channels, GPCRs, Protein Kinases, Nuclear Receptors and the Ubiquitin Pathway.
  


Dynamic Arrays to Measure Expression of Nucleic Acids and Proteins

Michael Lucero of Fluidigm speaking at AMT 2006


The OpenArray™ Nanotiter Plate Technology and Applications

Colin Brenan of Biotrove speaking at AMT 2006.


A Sequence Oriented Comparison of Gene Expression Measurements Across Different Hybridization-Based Technologies

Winston Kuo of Harvard School of Dental Medicine speaking at AMT 2006

ScreenTape® Enables Fast Quality Control of miRNA qPCR Reactions
AnaSpec

The ScreenTape® System, developed by Lab901, employs a unique microscale polymer tape that contains all the reagents required for DNA electrophoresis. It brings major advantages of convenience, ease of use and safety to molecular biologists as absolutely no handling of gels and buffers is required.