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Ricki Lewis | Jul 22, 2001 | 2 min read
Move over golden rice, genetically modified cats are in the works. Syracuse, N.Y., residents Jackie and David Avner, among the 10 percent of the population who have cat allergies, are working to create a feline that won't make their eyes water. Their privately held company, Transgenic Pets LLC (www.transgenicpets.com) is using knockout technology to create kitties that are missing the sole human allergen. David Avner, an emergency medicine physician, got the idea about seven years ago, according
Opinion: IP problems for personal med
Jennifer Gordon, Steve Lendaris and Anna Volftsun | Jun 14, 2011 | 3 min read
Legal battles over gene patents and uncooperative patent holders threaten the widespread implementation of personalized medicine.
The AIDS Research Evaluators
Lynn Gambale | Jul 9, 1995 | 6 min read
Chairman: Arnold Levine, chairman, department of molecular biology, Princeton University Barry Bloom, Weinstock Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, department of microbiology and immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Rebecca Buckley, professor of pediatrics and immunology, Duke University Medical Center Charles Carpenter, chairman, Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee; professor of medicine,Brown University School of Medicine Don
New Immunoassay Products Let Users Put New Twists On Old Themes
Lisa Seachrist | Sep 29, 1996 | 8 min read
Advanced Chemtech AFfinity Bioreagents Biodesign International Bio-Rad Laboratories BioSource International Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals Cardinal Associates Inc. Immunochemistry Technologies Peninsula Laboratories Inc. Tropix Inc. Wako Chemicals USA Inc. Wallac Inc. A quick inventory of nearly any molecular biology laboratory these days will turn up a kudzu-like infestation of monoclonal antibodies, fluorescent-tagged secondary antibodies, and immunoassay kits. Immunoassays have become de
Week in Review: August 3–7
Tracy Vence | Aug 7, 2015 | 2 min read
Copy number variants in humans; chemical-only approach turns skin cells into neurons; courts rule on retraction, a nutrition researcher’s libel suit, and more
Whole-Genome SNP Genotyping
Marilee Ogren | Jun 1, 2003 | 8 min read
Clockwise from top left: images courtesy of Affymetrix, Illumina, Sequenom and Illumina Take any two individuals, sequence and compare their genomic DNA, and you'll find that the vast majority (about 99.9%) of the sequences are identical. In the remaining 0.1% lie differences in disease susceptibility, environmental response, and drug metabolism. Researchers are understandably keen to dissect these variations, most of which take the form of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A SNP (pron
Those We Lost in 2018
Ashley Yeager | Dec 26, 2018 | 10+ min read
The scientific community said goodbye to a number of leading researchers this year.
News in a nutshell
Jef Akst | Apr 13, 2011 | 3 min read
Fukushima update; antidepressants probed; money for nutritionally-enhanced crops
Who Sleeps?
The Scientist and Jerome Siegel | Mar 1, 2016 | 10+ min read
Once believed to be unique to birds and mammals, sleep is found across the metazoan kingdom. Some animals, it seems, can’t live without it, though no one knows exactly why.
Of Cells and Limits
Anna Azvolinsky | Mar 1, 2015 | 9 min read
Leonard Hayflick has been unafraid to speak his mind, whether it is to upend a well-entrenched dogma or to challenge the federal government. At 86, he’s nowhere near retirement.

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