has just released the G:BOX, a modular image analysis system designed for a range of applications and budgets.

Courtesy of Eppendorf UKHungry scientists taking a trip to the vending machine for refreshments may soon find Taq polymerase and IPTG next to their Coke and M&Ms. Helena BioSciences of Sunderland, UK http://www.helena-biosciences.com has developed the Smartstore, a -20°C reagent-vending system for 40 Eppendorf and Fermentas reagents. The machine, which is accessed via a cashless "smartcard" that can also track inventory wirelessly, is offered free-of-charge to research institutes, and r

Larry Rome is a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how frogs and fish move.

For a while it looked as if proteomics' next frontier was the clinic, if one was to believe the hype surrounding a 2002 study from US Food and Drug Administration scientist Emanuel Petricoin III and National Cancer Institute scientist Lance Liotta.

Last summer got off to a hot start at the June 2005 American Society for Mass Spectrometry meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

A new, single-cell computational model developed by scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory borrows a technique used in the social sciences to digitally study how random molecular events within a cell influence its behavior.

that's the basic concept behind MALDI, an ionization technique developed in the late 1980s to enable mass spectrometric analysis of large biomolecules.

Innate immunity, the first line of defense against infection, has revealed surprising complexity for what is considered a relatively primitive and conserved function.

Though we think of them as blood cells, lymphocytes spend much of their time in distinct locations in the body.

Applied Biosystems of Foster City, Calif., has released a MALDI-TOF/TOF instrument that, according to the company, offers a 10-fold increase in sensitivity over current models.

RNA interference seemed poised to transform functional genomics and therapeutics with the 2001 publication of a paper by Tom Tuschl and colleagues showing that 21-base-pair (bp) RNA duplexes silence mammalian genes in a sequence-dependent manner.1 Though prior research demonstrated the effectiveness of double-stranded (ds)RNA as a posttranscriptional gene-silencing tool in plants and nematodes, its use in mammals was limited by the fact that dsRNAs larger than 30 bp can activate the interferon r

Bioimaging Systems of Rockville, Md., has released a second-generation version of its CARV confocal imager.