Computer Hardware and Software
Low-Noise Data Acquisition System
May 10, 2013 12:01 pm | Product Releases | CommentsMolecular Devices launched its next generation Axon Digidata 1550 Low-Noise Data Acquisition System. The new Digidata Platform enables the parallel patching of up to eight cells simultaneously to provide better insight of neuronal network function and capture more data points per experiment.
LISTED UNDER: Data Acquisition and Control
Software for Performing and Analyzing Dissolution via HPLC
April 25, 2013 1:28 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAgilent Technologies introduced LC Dissolution Software, an add-on module for use with the ChemStation Edition of the Agilent OpenLAB Chromatography Data System. This software module simplifies the quantification and reporting of dissolution samples analyzed by HPLC.
LISTED UNDER: HPLC Software | Chromatography Data Systems
NMR Data-Acquisition Software
April 15, 2013 2:11 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAgilent introduced the latest version of its data-acquisition software for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The new software, VnmrJ 4.0, provides enhanced spectral quality with every measurement, along with all the tools necessary to make magnet, probe and console work together to generate optimal results.
LISTED UNDER: Data Acquisition and Control
Software Drives Light Microscope Systems
April 11, 2013 12:01 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCarl Zeiss is expanding its ZEN software to drive all ZEISS light microscope systems. Users will experience one identical software interface for all their microscopy experiments. This offers synergies for research institutes using several microscopy technologies.
LISTED UNDER: Imaging Tools and DevelopmentSoftware for Studying Molecular Interactions
April 10, 2013 1:49 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCresset announced a new release of its XedTools package, including the next generation of the XED force field. The XedTools package contains command line utilities for studying molecular interactions using the XED molecular mechanics force field.
LISTED UNDER: Oligo Design
Data System Unites Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
March 27, 2013 2:00 pm | Product Releases | CommentsThermo Fisher Scientific introduced the next generation of its Chromeleon chromatography data system (CDS), which now supports mass spectrometry along with mainstream front-end separation techniques in the same software package.
LISTED UNDER: Chromatography Data Systems | HPLC Software
Computational Chemistry Software
March 26, 2013 12:49 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCresset announces the release of a new version of its computational chemistry workbench forgeV10. This release is the first major update following the launch of forgeV10 in 2012 and brings new features and many improvements.
LISTED UNDER: Computational ChemistryManagement System Transforms Lab Operations
March 19, 2013 2:05 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAccelrys Inc. announced the expansion of the Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite with the addition of the Accelrys Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
LISTED UNDER: Laboratory Data Management SoftwareCheminformatics Platform Enables Collaborative Science
March 18, 2013 2:01 pm | Product Releases | CommentsACD/Labs announced the commercial availability of ACD/Spectrus DB. This database is at the core of the Spectrus integrated analytical and chemical knowledge management platform. Release of database represents a three-year effort resulting in the completion of the Spectrus platform
LISTED UNDER: CheminformaticsAmniotic Fluid Yields Alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cells
July 3, 2012 6:06 am | News | CommentsStem cells found in amniotic fluid can be transformed into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells.
LISTED UNDER: GenomicsThe “$1,000 genome” May Cost $100,000 to Understand
May 11, 2011 8:31 am | News | CommentsAdvances in technology have almost lifted the curtain on the long-awaited era of the “$1,000 genome.” However, a price tag of $100,000, by one conservative estimate, is necessary to analyze that genetic data so it can be used in personalized medicine.
LISTED UNDER: GenomicsStudy Maps Hotspots of Genetic Rearrangement
April 6, 2011 5:54 am | News | CommentsResearchers have zoomed in on mouse chromosomes to map hotspots of genetic recombination — sites where DNA breaks and reforms to shuffle genes. The findings of the scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU) have the potential to improve the detection of genes linked to disease and to help understand the root causes of genetic abnormalities.
LISTED UNDER: GenomicsDNA 'End-Caps' Lengths are Linked to Diabetes Risk
March 28, 2011 9:57 am | News | CommentsNew evidence has emerged from studies in mice that short telomeres or “caps†at the ends of chromosomes may predispose people to age-related diabetes, according to Johns Hopkins scientists.
LISTED UNDER: GenomicsStructure of DNA Repair Complex Reveals Workings of Cell Motor
March 28, 2011 5:38 am | News | CommentsOver the last years, two teams of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have steadily built a model of how a powerful DNA repair complex works. Now, their latest discovery provides revolutionary insights into the way the molecular motor inside the complex functions – findings they say may have implications for treatment of disorders ranging from cancer to cystic fibrosis.
LISTED UNDER: GenomicsEpigenomic Research Illuminates Veiled Variants
March 24, 2011 9:26 am | News | CommentsUsing a new mapping strategy, a collaborative team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and MIT has begun to assign meaning to the regions beyond our genes and has revealed how minute changes in these regions might be connected to common diseases.
LISTED UNDER: Genomics