multipathogen- and chemical-detection Microarray.

CombiMatrix announced that the DoD has awarded a one-year, $2.2 mln contract to CombiMatrix for further development of its microarray technologies for a multipathogen- and chemical-detection system.

IS Microarray facing the DOOM….Invading microarray turf……….

ChIP-sequencing (ChIPSeq) – a combination of chromatin immunoprecipitation and next-generation, or parallel, sequencing. The feat was performed “with a speed and precision that goes beyond what has been achieved with previous technologies,” comments University of Washington geneticist Stanley Fields, in an accompanying essay in Science. hIP is a well-established lab technique to identify those specific [...]

Gone in 60seconds-

Personalized Medicine in 60 Seconds Bioinformatics was a BOOM its was predicted to be next big thing, yet the industry which had hundereds of fragmented mom and pop kind small companies are now under mergers and acquisitions, Does everyone got their money back. Bioinformatics is yet to become the big Billion billion Dollar, and on [...]

Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine The next big thing

Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine! Why because The next big thing in health care? is You the individual personalized medicine is the place step every one wants to be. Roche recently went after Nimblegen for a small foothold in this developing ssicne field, Now its the turn of Affymetrix the leader in microarray DNA chips. [...]

Chikken Tikka and Alzheimer’s !!

Does eating a lotf of spicy curry eliminates the chances of geting cancer and diseases like Alzheimer’s thats a yummy proposition, I wish it was that easy, but apparently the Indian curry cuisines has the capacity to prevent the onset or delay the disease, but dont reach out for the qwik e mart yet. The [...]

Collaborative Drug Discovery

Collaborative Drug Discovery Releases Next Generation Database for Both Private Collaborations and Public Open Access Collaborative Drug Discovery enables scientists to archive, mine, and collaborate to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets.  The technology enables novel community-based research efforts that become more and more useful as additional participants contribute data. [...]

Hocus Locus Spins out of University of Albany

Hocus Locus, a bioinformatics company which is part of the $225 million Gen*NY*Sis   Programe (Generating Employment through New York State Science) is located at the Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics in University of Albany, it makes products to help small drug discovery companies speed up development of new drugs.

Affymetrix microarrays in mental retardation research

Affymetrix is collaborating with the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the University of Tuebingen in Germany and the NHS Regional Genetics Laboratory in Birmingham, U.K. for the European Cytogenetic Research Initiative to investigate causes of mental retardation, microarray technology will be used to try to identify the specific causative mutations in mentally retarded children. [...]

Tougher times for Drug Resistant Bacteria

The Secret of how to prevent bacteria from developing drug resistance has been revealed in a new study.Drugs called bisphosphonates, widely prescribed for bone loss has been found to help in preventing an enzyme that helps in conjugation of bacteria, by help of which it derives drug resistance. Many highly-drug resistant bacteria rely on an [...]

Microarray to detect mutations in largest Human Gene

The average human gene consists of 3000 bases, but sizes vary greatly, with the largest known human gene being dystrophin at 2.4 million bases. Residing at Chromosome 4 it has long been of interest to the medical community because its the gene responsible for huntington’s disease, polycystic kidney disease, a form of muscular dystrophy and [...]

New horizons ahead

Its been two years since I have been with Ocimum Biosolutions ,the India HQ company serving bioinformatics and microarray market in US with office in Indianapolis and another lab in netherlands, I have been working in the business development of the company’s microarray arm in US which was acquired from MWG biotech, we had tasted [...]