Sigma® Life Science and King's College London co-developing miRNA Target Identification Technology

09-May-2011 - Sigma Life Science of Sigma-Aldrich® and King’s College London announced an exclusive license to develop and commercialize new technology for the identification and validation of microRNA (miRNA) targets in research and clinical diagnostics. miRNAs function as critical regulators of gene ...

Cenix BioScience Signs Collaboration and Technology License Agreement for In Vivo siRNA Delivery

06-May-2011 - Cenix BioScience GmbH announced that, together with its new subsidiary, Cenix BioScience Belgium bvba, it has signed a Collaboration and Technology License Agreement with Janssen Research & Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, to improve the in vivo applicability of siRNA-based ...

Rice's origins point to China, genome researchers conclude

04-May-2011 - Rice originated in China, a team of genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history through large-scale gene re-sequencing. Their findings, which appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), indicate that domesticated rice ...

Endogenous proteins found in a 70-million-year-old giant marine lizard

04-May-2011 - With their discovery, the scientists Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, and colleagues have demonstrated that remains of type I collagen, a structural protein, are retained in a mosasaur fossil.The scientists have used synchrotron radiation-based infrared microspectroscopy at MAX-lab in ...

New material could improve safety for first responders to chemical hazards

Carbon nanofibers assembled into photonic crystals change color as activated charcoal filters become saturated with dangerous vapors

03-May-2011 - A new kind of sensor could warn emergency workers when carbon filters in the respirators they wear to avoid inhaling toxic fumes have become dangerously saturated. In a recent issue of the journal Advanced Materials, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Tyco ...

Several baffling puzzles in protein molecular structure solved with new method

Determining the molecular configuration of proteins is important in nanotechology, drug design, disease research and many other fields

03-May-2011 - The structures of many protein molecules remain unsolved even after experts apply an extensive array of approaches. An international collaboration has led to a new, high-performance method that rapidly determined the structure of protein molecules in several cases where previous methods had ...

Researchers create terahertz invisibility cloak

03-May-2011 - Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range. Though this design can't translate into an invisibility cloak for the visible spectrum, it could have implications in diagnostics, security, and ...

Phenomenex Opens New Office in India

02-May-2011 - Phenomenex Inc. announced that it has expanded its international subsidiary network to serve India directly from a new office in Hyderabad. The new entity, which opened this month, will serve research communities throughout India with sales and service teams that sell all Phenomenex products ...

Lab M appoints Akralab S.L. as distribution partner in Spain

02-May-2011 - Lab M has appointed a new distribution partner in Spain. Akralab S.L. is based in Alicante and is an established supplier of laboratory products, including laboratory equipment and diagnostics. Akralab’s experience and reputation as a supplier to the Food and Agriculture sectors in Spain fits ...

Controlling Flavors in Wine by Measuring Organic and Inorganic Acids

02-May-2011 - Dionex announced a new method that enables a higher-resolution separation of the organic acids and inorganic anions found in wine. Using a Dionex ICS-5000 system with an OmniPac® PAX-100 Analytical column and IonPac® ATC-HC Trap column, this application demonstrates that ion chromatography (IC) ...