Illumina to Genotype 2M Irish Animals
Illumina will genotype two million animals for the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). The federation is carrying out a €300 million Beef Data and Genomics Program, funded...
NGS
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A Breath Test Has Potential to Detect Liver Disease
Scientists from the University of Birmingham have discovered that three breath volatiles have excellent capabilities to diagnose liver disease. Methanol, 2-pentanone and limonene levels are...
Biomedicine
Synthorx Makes its First Proteins with Novel Amino Acids
Synthorx Inc, a little known biotech startup from California, has announced success in creating in-vivo DNA with synthetic nucleic acids. The feat was possible thanks...
Bioengineering
Five-week Old Human Brain Grown in a Dish
A research team from Ohio State University has developed a brain in vitro that has the maturity of a five-week old human brain. The brain...
Biomedicine
FDA Approves Libido Drug for Women
Sprout Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that the FDA has approved Addyi™, a drug for the treatment of acquired, generalized hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in premenopausal women. Addyi is...
Biomedicine
Bruker Launches the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope
Bruker has announced the release of the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope. The Opterra II™ is a high speed, quantitative live-cell miscroscope characterized by low photo-toxicity and...
Equipment
Bacterial Enzyme Might Help Quit Smoking
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, CA have discovered a bacterial enzyme that degrades nicotine. The enzyme has been tested in...
Bioengineering
NEB Releases a Thermostable Reverse Transcriptase
New England Biolabs has released the WarmStart® RTx, an in silico-engineered thermostable reverse transcriptase optimized for speed, sensitivity and inhibitor resistance. The new reverse transcriptase...
Biotechnology