Gene Logic sells in genomics division

It hardly a week I have wrote about acquisition and mergers , it seems the rain is noit going to stop any time soon, the latest one , to give away the home plate is Genelogic agreeing to sell its genomics division to India HQ Ocimum Biosolutions subject to the authorization of the transaction at [...]

Toxicogenomics can change face of clinical trials

“Genomics is only the start. Proteomics has been around for years and metabonomics is an up and coming important technology, both of which are complimentary to genomics. But still I think that genomics will be the most successful and most predictive of all these technologies.” Dr Phil Hewitt  Head of Toxicogenomics at Merck. Meanwhile Gene [...]

Even the hopeful US president jumps on Web2.0 bandwagon

 Barack Obama looks to be diving into this whole “Web 2.0″ thing head first, what with his own Facebook profile, Flickr account, and YouTube account. In addition to all this stuff, he also has my.barackobama.com, a social networking type site for his supporters to create profiles, network, and make blogs all about how great Barack [...]

Microarray for clinical diagnostics in hand-foot-and-mouth disease

The following study was published in journal of clinical microbiology, Combining Multiplex Reverse Transcription-PCR and a Diagnostic Microarray To Detect and Differentiate Enterovirus 71 and Coxsackievirus A16 Tsan-Chi Chen,1,2 Guang-Wu Chen,3 Chao Agnes Hsiung,4 Jyh-Yuan Yang,5 Shin-Ru Shih,6 Yiu-Kay Lai,2 and Jyh-Lyh Juang1* Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan,1 [...]

Rapid genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using OLigonucleotide microarrays

Published by  1Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden and 2Clondiag Chip Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany ABSTRACT This study evaluated a DNA oligonucleotide array that recognised 38 different Staphylococcus aureus targets, including all relevant resistance determinants and some toxins and species-specific controls. A new method [...]

Microarray for Clinical Diagnostics- For detecting sepsis

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2006/12/19/gene_chip_technology_shows_potential_for_identifying_lifethreatening_blood_infection.html Right now there’s no rapid way to diagnose sepsis, a fast-moving blood infection that is a leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units. The illness unleashes a powerful inflammatory response that can quickly overwhelm the body, causing organ failure and death, often within days. New research now suggests that doctors one day [...]

DNA Analysis Could Boost Accuracy Of Thyroid Tests

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/genetics/ By fine-tuning “fine-needle aspiration” biopsies with a super-fast genetic microarray technology, a team of surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City says they can greatly enhance the accuracy of these tests. “For patients with worrisome thyroid nodules, this means better information on whether the nodule is malignant or benign. [...]

DNA microarray–based analysis may be useful for assessing the risks and benefits of hormone therapy

Hormone-replacement therapy influences gene expression profiles and is associated with breast-cancer prognosis. The US FDa has apprved use of two new microarrays for clinical decision making. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encourages the development of new technologies such as microarrays which may improve and streamline assessments of safety and the effectiveness of medical [...]

Microarrays and Toxicogenomics service for Drug development

Microarrays are finding more usage in drug discoverry and development process, toxicogenomics and pharmacogenomics studies have helped researchers to speed up the druug discovery to process, though it is still long way to produce any immediate effect to the patients. The use of toxicogenomics and comparative genomics studies can help scientists to unearth new therapeutic [...]