Clinical Research

Clinical studies and the instrumentation behind them, from trial design to the platforms generating the data.

42 articles

Big Pharma to Get Apple’s ResearchKit Into Their Clinical Trials.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Purdue Pharma have declared their interest in Apple´s ResearchKit platform to gather medical data from iPhone users. The big pharmaceutical companies see it as an...

Apps

Automated Cell Culture System To Improve In Vitro Studies

  Fluidigm Corporation announced last week the CallistoTM, a microfluidic cell culture system  that can revolutionize the development of in vitro cell models. With this fully automated system, manual procedures and long hours at the bench are...

Biotechnology

uBiome Moves from the Gut to the Womb

uBiome has announced a partnership with a health and wellness resource for women, HelloFlo for an upcoming crowdsourced study of the microbiomes associated with pregnancy....

Biotechnology
3DNA nanoparticles

Using 3D DNA Nanoparticles to Deliver Drugs: 3DNA

  A new method of delivering drugs might be just around the corner with Genisphere using 3D DNA nanostructure that can be functionalized to deliver...

Bioengineering
Microscope slides

Simple Method to Untangle DNA Found

Researchers have found an extremely simple way of untangling DNA by dragging a droplet of water mixed with DNA on a polymer treated glass slide....

Biotechnology
genetics database

23andMe Begins Sorting Through its Vast Genetic Database

With a genetic database of 850,000 people at its personal disposal and the newly hired ex-CSO of Genentech onboard, 23andMe is stepping into Biotech realm...

Bioinformatics
Smartphone Diagnosis

Quick Smartphone Based HIV Test

“There’s an app for that!” this particular sentence now holds even true for low cost STD tests on smartphones. To be technically correct, there’s an...

Biotechnology
petri dish

Paper Demystifies “the Great Plate Count Anomaly”

Researchers have found out one of the main reasons behind irregularities in gel based bacterial cultures.  Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide in the culture medium as...

Biotechnology