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10-02-2009
A team at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics of Ludwig Maximilian's University of Munich and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching has succeeded in reducing X-ray sources of typically several kilometres in size to the dimensions of a dining table. This involved a new method ...
Research identifies eotaxin as a novel drug target
02-02-2009
If you've ever wondered why some allergic reactions progress quickly and may even become fatal, a new research report published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology provides an important part of the answer. In the report, scientists from Queen's University of Belfast, University of Oxford and ...
06-10-2008
Veronique Gouverneur and colleagues from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, Cheshire, have developed a novel tagging-detagging strategy. This could be extremely useful for the purification of known and novel 18F-radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography. It is the first detagging ...
Nanotube device gives precise spice advice
05-06-2008
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and into the lab - chemists can now use carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry. Richard Compton and his team at ...
07-30-2007
Using a variety of Agilent Technologies genomics tools, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the University of Oxford, U.K., have achieved a major milestone in solving some of the perplexing differences ...
OGeS joins consortium focused on the development of new personalised management of colorectal cancer
04-13-2006
Oxford Genome Sciences (UK) Ltd (OGeS) announced that it has entered into collaboration with the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford to discover new clinical biomarkers for colorectal cancer (CRC). The collaboration forms part of a consortium, which was initiated ...
10-24-2005
SEQUENOM, Inc. has acquired exclusive rights in certain countries including the United States, United Kingdom and other countries in Europe and elsewhere, to non-invasive prenatal diagnostic intellectual property from Isis Innovation Ltd., the technology transfer company of the University of ...
08-10-2005
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and Oxford University in England have been awarded a $4.2 million five-year grant to conduct basic science aimed at speeding the rate at which the next generation of DNA sequencing technologies will become available to ...
