Tracking down fusion events
25 September, 2008 by Kate McDonaldCSIRO and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are working together on new image analysis techniques to reveal the secret lives of cells.
ComBio: DNA methylation is the queen bee’s knees
19 September, 2008 by Kate McDonaldIn an elegant experiment published earlier this year, Ryszard Maleszka and his team at ANU showed that silencing a gene for DNA methylation in honey bees directly mimicked the effect of royal jelly on whether larvae go on to become queens or workers.
ComBio: Shadoo not a shadow of itself
19 September, 2008 by Kate McDonaldThe Shadoo protein has generated much interest over the last five years as it is one of only three known members of the prion protein family.
ComBio: making and unmasking faces
18 September, 2008 by Fiona WylieAustralian-trained scientist Dr Paul Trainor has made a career of making faces. In doing so, he hopes to uncover novel ways to prevent or treat congenital birth defects.
Stabilise membrane proteins
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorThe new MembraneMax Protein Expression Kits allow researchers to rapidly produce milligrams of soluble membrane proteins that are exceptionally easy to purify.
Qdot Western Blot kits
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorWith detection performance and ease-of-use that exceeds existing ECL-based methods, the WesternDot 625 kits make use of the extremely bright Qdot 625 streptavidin conjugate
Protein expression media
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorPowerCHO 1, 2 and 3 are chemically defined, non-animal origin, hydrolysate-free and serum-free media optimised for cell growth and protein production.
Protein analysis Protoarray
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorInvitrogen Corporation has launched the ProtoArray Human Protein Microarray v4.1 which enables customers to screen biological samples or labeled probe of interest against approximately 8,200 unique human proteins in as little as one day.
Flow cytometry from Millipore
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorMillipore and Guava Technologies have entered into a long-term partnership to deliver optimised benchtop flow cytometry products.
White wells can improve qPCR results
16 September, 2008 by External Press Release AuthorEvery researcher doing real-time PCR always considers the components that affect the quality of their results.
The turn of the worm
29 August, 2008 by Kate McDonaldThe cotton bollworm, the world's most economically destructive insect pest, is having its genome sequenced.
A bank designed to profit all
26 August, 2008 by Fiona WylieA pocket of middle Australia on the northern outskirts of Perth is the setting for a proposed biobanking project that even its instigator, Professor Lyle Palmer of the University of Western Australia, calls “ludicrously ambitious”.
Mover and shaker of the genome
19 August, 2008 by Graeme O'NeillEpigenetics is moving from the laboratory to the clinic and the pharmacy, with several histone deacetylase inhibitors on the market and epigenetic screening likely to become as widespread as genetic screening.
Stalling PTKs in their tracks
14 August, 2008 by Kate McDonaldAn enzyme called TCPTP keeps a tight rein on damaged DNA
Telomerase implicated in endometriosis
07 August, 2008 by Kate McDonaldUK researchers find unsual levels of telomerase in cells of endometriosis sufferers
