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
The gene, the clinic and the sex life of the dung beetle
25 July, 2008 by Kate McDonaldThe July/August 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now.
Suspect protein promotes DNA repair
24 July, 2008 by Kate McDonaldCaution against targeting HMGB1 protein in inflammation drug development
A white horse, of course
21 July, 2008 by Kate McDonaldSwedish researchers track down the mutation that causes horses to go grey
