Science and Genetics -The Hollywood Connection

  I thought of actually righting about presence of genetics genomics and biology in Hollywood and popular entertainment and books, here is a collection of blogs and websites on the topic Prestigious journal makes science sexy again- Scientific American Science of TV impure but Cool – Expert Voice Tv science Best science fiction Movies – [...]

next generation literature awareness tool

Another science website that seems to be as taking its cues from web2.0 anthology. Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of [...]

microarray for transgenomics studies and Study of Evolution of organisms

Barcode microarrayshas demosntrated the various ways in which the microarrays can be used in various ways.Though mirred in controvesy as any new technology has been subjected in its infancy, the basic principles behind the technology can be put to use in many other frontiers. It may be optimized to study transgenomics organims and its evolution. [...]

Consolidation in Oligo industry and Growth for India based companies and outsourcing value proposition in Genomics and microarray/oligo industry

Ocimum Biosolutions acquires European based Oligo manufacturing company – Isogen Life Science November 17, 2006, IJsselstein/Hyderabad – Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems (LIMS), bioinformatics solutions, Microarrays and contract research headquartered in Hyderabad, India, has acquired the BioMolecules synthesis business of Isogen Life Science based in The Netherlands. Ms. Anuradha Acharya, [...]

Indian company gets 6.5 million USD IFC funding to promote contract research in bioinformatics and genetics industry

Hyderabad, November 15, 2006 – Ocimum Biosolutions today announced that International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will invest USD 6.5 million of equity, for a minority stake, and debt in the Company. Funds raised from this transaction will be used for financing both organic as well as inorganic [...]

can open source ideals begin to give a real answer to biotech’s future

would it be possible to adopt the ideals of the open source in microarray development, there has been many research works that can be hailed as open source ideals in the biotechnology space, human genome project can be the perfect example, But apart from the few attempts by academia and non profits institutions there havnt [...]

microarray software

Ocimum Biosolutions is a life sciences R&D enabling company with three focus areas, BioIT, Microarrays and Research services. The Microarray division of Ocimum has been recently acquired from MWG Biotech. These include Catalog “OciChip”, Custom “OciChip” and microarray services. Ocimum biosolutions offers an                       microarray analysis software called Genowiz, An [...]

microarray from ocimum biosolutions

Ocimum biosolutions offers microarays and bioinformatis sofftware to researchers across the world, The microaray division of ocimum offers the MWG chips which were earl;ier manufactured by MWG biotech of Germany for more detail visit www.ocimumbio.com OciChip™ Design – Route to a perfect Array OciChip™ design and production concept ensure the highest microarray quality. First, sophisticated [...]