ROCKVILLE, MD and SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA–(Marketwire – 07/26/10) – Seegene today announced SeePrep and SeeCycler, new clinical instrumentation optimized for Seegene’s multiplex real-time detection tests. SeePrep performs automated magnetic bead nucleic acid extraction, and SeeCycler is an automated detection system for processing samples in real-time. With the addition of these equipment Seegene is …

The Addition of Nucleic Acid Extraction and Automated Real-Time Detection Provides Integrated and High Performance Testing Process for Seegene MDx Tests

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The greatest threats to New Zealand’s competitiveness as an international dairy exporter are here at home, a major study by DairyNZ, the industry organisation for dairy farmers, shows.New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter…

It can make blood look like cream of tomato soup. Patients with high levels of triglycerides in their blood, a disease called hypertriglyceridemia face an increased risk for heart disease and stroke. HTG affects one in 20 people in North America and is also associated with obesity, diabetes and pancreatitis. Most people now understand the importance of LDL, the bad cholesterol and HDL, the good …

The spread of cancer cells in the tongue may be reduced if a gene that regulates cancer cell migration can be controlled, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Oral cancer is an under-treated and poorly understood disease, says Xiaofeng “Charles” Zhou, assistant professor in the UIC Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases and lead researcher of the study. More …

( The Translational Genomics Research Institute ) The Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation continues its fight against advanced breast cancer with a $50,000 donation to the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), for a total contribution over two years of $300,000.

Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few diagnostic blood tests.New scientific fields may someday generate blood tests that can be used for these purposes. Some of the areas under increasingly intensive study are genetics, the study of …

Bosco at the Trapped in the U.S.A. blog wants to know if you’ve ever made a protein sequencing error . If you ever have, you probably know at little about how the researchers at now-defunct biotech company Genetics Institute felt when they realized that three errors out of 166 amino acids in the protein sequence of erythopoietin, or Epo, cost them $2 billion in lost income and a very valuable …

Atwal’s research is focused on developing and deploying mathematical and computational tools to address quantitative principles governing the behavior of many-body biological systems including molecular interactions in a single eukaryotic cell to the evolution of the species Homo sapiens.

Giant panda habitats are too fragmented and need to be reconnected in order for the endangered animals to maintain their genetic diversity, a new study shows. The study, conducted by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Wildlife Conservation Association, both in Beijing, was published July 23 in the open-access journal BMC Genetics . [More]

(PhysOrg.com) — The University of Idaho College of Natural Resources is leading efforts to advance scientific understanding of a relatively new area of research called “landscape genetics,” a science that has high potential for practical conservation and management of natural resources.

Drug companies are harnessing new knowledge of cancer genetics. The plummeting cost of DNA sequencing has enabled scientists to explore the genetic complexities of cancer with an ever-finer comb , uncovering a growing number of genetic mutations that drive cancer. Now this genetic knowledge is being used to direct drug development by testing specific compounds on 1,000 cancer cell lines that …

SALT LAKE CITY — Myriad Genetics, Inc. today announced that it will release its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and year-end financial results at the close of market on Tuesday, August 10, 2010.

IRVINE, Calif.—-Molecular dermatology research and development innovator DermaGenoma, Inc. today announced that the PsoriasisDX Genetic Test for Psoriatic Arthritis is now available as a CE Marked product under the European In Vitro Diagnostic Directive.

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) participated in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) public meeting on the oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Dr. Karen Mann, President of AMP, served on the second panel of the meeting titled, Clinical Laboratory Challenges. Additionally, Dr. Elaine Lyon, Chair of the AMP Professional …

( Association for Molecular Pathology ) The Association for Molecular Pathology participated in the USFood and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) publicmeeting on the oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Dr. Karen Mann, President of AMP,served on the second panel of the meeting titled, Clinical Laboratory Challenges. Additionally, Dr.Elaine Lyon …

One of the primary goals of genetics over the past decade has been to understand human health and disease in terms of differences in DNA from person to person. But even a relatively straightforward trait such as height has resisted attempts to reduce it to a particular combination of genes. In light of this shortcoming, some investigators see room for an increased focus on an alternative …

A DNA expert assesses the science behind horror movie Splice

Journal: American Journal of Medical Genetics . 2010 Jun;152A(6):1398-410. Title: Array CGH in molecular diagnosis of mental retardation a study of 150 Finnish patients.