Personalized Medicine

Treatment matched to individual biology: genomic profiling, biomarkers and the platforms making patient-specific medicine practical.

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MinION Oxford Nanopore

A Cheap, Portable DNA Sequencing Device That Holds a Lot of Promise

Oxford Nanopore’s recently released data shows that although a significant advancement in nanopore based sensing technologies, it is still not ready for use in laboratories...

Biotechnology

Nanoparticle Vaccines for On-demand Vaccine Production and Administration

Engineers at the University of Washington synthesized nanoparticles using an engineered protein to improve vaccine production and administration. Moving from attenuated or killed pathogens to...

Health and Pharmaceuticals
23andMe

FDA Asks 23andMe to Stop its Services

23andMe, a personal genome sequencing service company has been directed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to desist from selling its genetic test kits...

Biotechnology
Graphne transistor nanopores

Graphene Provides Breakthrough to Nanopore Sequencing Technology

Graphene based Nanopores may be the technological leap that researchers have been looking for achieving reduced error rates in solid state nanopore sequencing. Researchers at...

Biotechnology

Tumour-on-a-chip Device to Revolutionize Personalized Treatment for Cancer

Researchers from University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) have developed a new tumour-on-a-chip microfluidics screening platform for predicting the behaviour of nanoparticles...

Cancer Research

EKF Molecular Launches Four New Products in its PointMan Range

EKF Molecular, a part of EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc, is the provider of highly specific, sensitive and innovative technologies and products for molecular diagnostics to...

Cancer Research

DNA Spectrum Launches myDNA Safe DNA Storage Product

DNA Spectrum, a DNA profiling company has introduced a new myDNA Safe secure DNA storage system that allows individuals to store their genome over a...

News
IDT xGen AML Panel

Integrated DNA Technologies Launches its First xGen Cancer Panel

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has launched the first next generation sequencing product for cancer. The xGen Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Cancer Panel has 11,743 xGen Lockdown...

Biotechnology