Twenty pneumococcal serotyping methods were put to the test. Medical doctors express concern about healthcare quality measures in the United States. Many recently developed pneumococcal serotyping ...

RNA interference technology, which is used in cell biology, has revolutionized functional research of the gene products in the last ten years. Now researchers have developed a method which allows a ...

Jonathan Weissman at the University of California, San Francisco wants to know how cells fold proteins into the right shapes, and he knocks down genes to find out. For that he uses massive RNA ...

Yes, many are attracted to next-generation sequencing, but loyalty to chip-based phenotyping has its rewards, particularly in screens of large sample sets. The microarray, the legacy technology for ...

Microarrays provide a way of organizing biological samples for high-throughput analysis. Samples are arranged in columns and rows upon a support surface consisting of a glass slide, a nitrocellulose ...

At CombiMatrix Corp., a diagnostic laboratory in Irvine, white-cloaked techs sit hunched over microscopes while their gloved hands deftly pick through the remains of lost pregnancies, pulling the ...

In order to keep pace with rapid advancements in protein microarray technology, detection systems have also been significantly improved. Important parameters critical for the success of various ...

Relationship of pro-angiogenic factor Cyr61to colorectal cancer development and prognosis. Background: Microarrays are widely used to study gene expression patterns in cancer. In colorectal cancer, it ...

Many recently developed pneumococcal serotyping methods detect the dominant serotype in a laboratory or field sample, but several fail to detect minor serotypes, according to a study published this ...

Microarrays have revolutionized cancer research over the past decade. In particular, microarrays provide for higher degrees of specificity and sensitivity while allowing research results to be ...