A SIGNIFICANT increase in the success rate of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures is reported today by BlueGnome, with the results of the first randomised study of pre-implantation chromosome analysis. The company’s 24sure array platform was employed in the study, published…
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Microscopy reveals the inner architecture of cells
A RESEARCH project looking into microtubules in yeast cells has produced ‘stunning’ results, which could change our understanding of cellular misregulation disorders including Down’s, lissencephaly, and some cancers. The team, working at the University of Leicester, UK, has identified for…
Abstracts invited for SLAS 2013
THE SOCIETY for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is now accepting abstracts for presentations at SLAS2013, its second annual conference and exhibition. Areas of interest include clinical diagnostics, drug discovery and development, forensics, food and agricultural sciences, and petrochemicals and…
How to double the resolution of FT mass spectrometry
A NEW computational trick developed by researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, is said to double the resolution, sensitivity, and mass accuracy of Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS) with no cost penalty. The new approach hinges around the phasing…
Beetle video wins prize
PROFESSOR Javier Alba Tercedor, of the department of zoology at the University of Granada, Spain, has been awarded the Best Film of the Year at the SkyScan Micro CT Meeting in Brussels, Belgium. His one-minute film, ‘Micro-CT anatomical study of…
Scientists stifled by Canadian government
ENACTING a policy that might seem more at home in North Korea, or in the darkest days of Soviet oppression, the Canadian government agency Environment Canada has issued instructions to its scientists attending an international polar research conference not to…
Mononuclear cells are suitable for biomarker research
HIGH survival and recovery rates are said to be assured with Amsbio’s new ImmunoPure range of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), which are supplied in proprietary reagents. The range includes seven types of immune cells derived, from the peripheral blood…
Research projects target sepsis
SEPSIS is the target of the latest development in the UK’s Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents (DIIA) programme, which manages a number of government-backed projects to develop technologies to reduce the impact of infectious agent. Sepsis is the result…
New particle exists in two places at once
THE WORLD of quantum physics is, for most people, difficult to grasp at the best of times. The latest research published today from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge is unlikely to change that, invoking a new class of subatomic particle…
Tasmanian Devil researcher wins 2012 Eppendorf award
THE 2012 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators has been announced: Dr Elizabeth Murchison of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, takes the prize for her work with Tasmanian Devils. Murchison’s work in Tasmania has focused on…