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Predicting the Future of Green Energy and Technology
The past few years have shown us advancement in green technology that people never thought could ever be possible. Harvesting energy from everyday things has shown that there are serious and cost efficient alternatives to fossil fuels and other environmental pollutants. While the green technology that we have right now is nothing short of amazing, [...]
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Why Lab Pregnancy Tests Promote Better Health
Becoming pregnant is a milestone in most women’s lives, and testing for pregnancy is an exciting time when a concrete “yes” or “no” are needed in answering the big question at hand. Having a 100% accurate answer is not only detrimental to the emotional and psychological health of the potential mother-to-be, but it is also [...]
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Battered Helicos Files for Chapter 11
Battered by years of rough financial sledding and tough competition from rival next-generation sequencing companies, Helicos Biosciences filed Thursday for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In its filing (Case 12-19091) in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, Helicos listed $15.478 million in liabilities and only $3.503 million [...]
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StemCyte and UC Davis Tethered in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking
StemCyte entered an agreement with the UC Davis Umbilical Cord Blood Collection (UCB) Program to advance the collection, processing, and registration of high quality and diverse cord blood cells from California mothers for public banking. According to the company, the agreement is the first of its kind under California’s statewide program. Legislation signed into law [...]
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Developing Chicken-Derived mAbs
Crystal Bioscience and Integral Molecular launched a research collaboration to generate panels of chicken monoclonal antibodies against undisclosed therapeutic GPCR and ion channel targets. According to the firms, the collaboration will leverage the synergy between Integral Molecular’s Lipoparticle technology for immunization with native conformation multispanning membrane proteins and Crystal’s GEM technology for the recovery of [...]
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Grades of Chemical Reagents
Grades of chemical reagents describe the sufficient purity for use in chemical reactions, chemical analysis, physical testing and various laboratory applications. Purity standards for reagents are set by organizations such as ACS(American Chemical Society), ASTM International, European Pharmacopeia. Some reagent grades are registered trademarks such as BAKER ANALYZED™, ULTREX®/ULTREX®, PHOTREX®. Below is a list of common reagent grades. Reagent A.C.S. [...]
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What You Shouldn’t be Doing for Your Health
While the American population is not as healthy as it should be right now, we’re at a wonderful point in history, whereby there are cures and treatments for the most common diseases and conditions. Regardless of age, gender or race, there are many maladies to which you may be prone, and some of them may [...]
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Developing a New Blood Test for Multiple Sclerosis
DioGenix formed an alliance with Fast Forward, a subsidiary of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to develop a novel blood test for multiple sclerosis (MS). Fast Forward will provide up to $500,000 as part of a Sponsored Research Agreement that will enable DioGenix to expand an ongoing clinical trial of its MS diagnostic, MSPrecise™, a [...]
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Horizon Applies Gene Editing to Huntington’s Disease
Horizon Discovery inked a gene-editing research collaboration with the Institute of Neurology, University College London. The partnership will focus on the creation of human isogenic disease model cell lines with insertion of Huntington’s disease-causing triplet repeats. The company will provide UCL with access to GENESIS, its rAAV-mediated human gene-editing platform. This collaboration is a novel [...]
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HPV Vaccine Benefits Women with HIV
A vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) may benefit women with HIV, even if they have already been exposed to HPV, according to a study released by an NIH research network. The study, published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes in an article titled “Prevalence and Risk Factors for HPV in HIV-Positive Young Women [...]
