Archives for September 23, 2004

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Microarray offers clues to Parkinson's disease

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center, using GE Healthcare's CodeLink microarrays, have identified key changes in gene expression that provide an improved understanding of the malfunction and death of the neurons controlling...

Advances made in Parkinson's research

Key changes discovered in gene expression that provide an improved understanding of neurones controlling movement and coordination and their malfunction and death in Parkinson's Disease has lead to the possibility of a drug therapy that halts disease...

UCLA research uncovers 'smart antibiotics'

A new generation of 'smart antibiotics', which uses a virus that adapts to recognize and attack bacteria, could become the latest approach to tackling the growing public health problem of antibiotic-resistant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant...

MorphoSys enters Japanese venture with GeneFrontier

Antibody technology company MorphoSys has formed a marketing collaboration with Genefrontier, with a view to accessing the Japanese life science market. This agreement will aim to establish MorphoSys' HuCAL technology in the Far East, the world's...

Smallest, fastest flow cytometer launched

Denmark's DakoCytomation has started shipping a new flow cytometry instrument for use in the analysis of cells in disease research that is smaller than any other product in the class, and is claimed to be the fastest system on the market.