News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
In a joint project with the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany's Scienion is adapting its nucleic acid chip technology to handle protein applications. The project aims to develop antibody chips for the analysis of human proteins.
Bio-Rad has completed its purchase of MJ GeneWorks, the parent company of DNA analysis specialist MJ Research, for $32 million, well short of the $47 million originally forecast.
In an open letter to the British medical Journal, the director of the UK Cochrane Centre Sir Iain Chalmers has added his voice to those calling for complete disclosure of clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies.
Researchers in the US and Austria have developed a method that could vastly improve the ability of atomic force microscopes to visualise the chemical composition of a sample, follow variations of the sample, as well as map its topographic structure.