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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Most sensitive platform for Chip-chip experiments</title>
      <description>Study reveals that microarrays employing longer oligonucleotide probes (50mers) are the most sensitive at detecting very low enrichment in simulated Chip-chip experiments</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Characterisation of protective intestinal flora</title>
      <description>The medical University of Graz becomes the first Austrian university to enter the world of ultra high-throughput DNA sequencing technology by purchasing the sequencing technology of 454 Life Sciences</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>US patent for imaging technologies and ClonePix FL</title>
      <description>Genetix has been granted US Patent No 7,310,147 covering important features that include the integration of imaging capabilities into Genetix robotic platforms, most notably the ClonePix FL</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Expanding sales and service in Asia</title>
      <description>Genetix announces the opening of an office in Japan, Genetix KK</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Funding to expand sales and launch new products</title>
      <description>Lab901, a developer of innovative automation for life sciences based in Loanhead, Edinburgh, has raised £3.55 million in its latest equity funding round</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>A step towards the routine sequencing of humans</title>
      <description>Researchers use 454 Sequencing to publish the complete genome of an individual human, achieving a key milestone on the path to personalised genome sequencing.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>MWG Biotech buys its second Genome Sequencer</title>
      <description>454 Life Sciences reports that MWG Biotech is further expanding its 454 Sequencing capacity in order to meet the demands of a steadily increasing number of sequencing customers across Europe</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Sixfold improvement in genetic analysis throughput</title>
      <description>Illumina says its iScan system provides researchers conducting genotyping and gene expression studies with significantly greater throughput, enhanced automation, and improved ease of use</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Illumina</category>
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      <title>Comprehensive assessment of genotoxicity</title>
      <description>This new product allows the automatic detection of micronuclei formation, providing scientists with a more productive method for screening compounds earlier in the drug-discovery process</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Thermo Fisher Scientific</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/thb/thb196.html</link>
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      <title>Virus purification kits are quick and safe </title>
      <description>Millipore announces the availability of its two Fast-Trap virus purification and concentration kits, one for adenovirus purification and one for lentivirus purification</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Millipore</category>
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      <title>WT-Ovation amplifies RNA for LightCycler</title>
      <description>Roche Applied Science and Nugen Technologies announce an agreement that will enable Roche to market and sell an RNA amplification product based on the technology of Nugen's proprietary WT-Ovation</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Analytica research prize winners named</title>
      <description>Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology presented the prize to Gerhard Schratt and Albert Sickmann on the opening day of Analytica 2008 in Munich</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Gel documentation with bigger screen and memory</title>
      <description>The CSL MicroDoc ultra-compact, transportable, gel documentation system, has recently been modified and now incorporates an 8inch screen and a 1GB flash card</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cleaver Scientific</category>
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      <title>GATC Biotech opens subsidiary in Stockholm</title>
      <description>GATC Biotech has added to its facilities with a wholly owned subsidiary in Stockholm, Sweden, building on the company's existing presence in Europe with offices in Germany, France, and England</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GATC Biotech</category>
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      <title>Efficient and economic studies on RNA editing</title>
      <description>Current research in the area of RNA editing is limited by the lack of cheap, effective approaches for screening for new editing sites or for mutants affected in the editing process</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Analytica prize to strengthen research in Germany</title>
      <description>The declared aim of this prize is to recognise outstanding scientific work within the rising generation of scientists working in Germany and to identify the high-flyers in bioanalytical research</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>Stable dye suits microarray applications</title>
      <description>GE Healthcare announces the launch of the photo- and ozone-stable Amersham HyPer5 fluorescent dye for gene expression and aCGH applications</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Healthcare</category>
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      <title>A new generation of gene-silencing libraries</title>
      <description>These libraries contain constructs against all identified genes in the human and mouse genomes with the unique ability to silence targeted genes specifically and effectively over long time periods</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Agilent Technologies Europe</category>
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      <title>Two new CloneMedia semi-solid media reagents</title>
      <description>CloneMedia-HEK and CloneMedia-CHOK1 - are designed for the semi-solid cloning of suspension-adapted, serum-free HEK293 and CHOK1 cells, respectively</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Genetix</category>
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      <title>Virus detected using genome sequencer technology</title>
      <description>Researchers at Columbia University and Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory have discovered a new virus that was responsible for the deaths of three transplant recipients</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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      <title>First African human genome has been sequenced</title>
      <description>Sequencing of this HapMap sample was conducted internally and marks the first human genome sequence generated exclusively with paired reads of 35 to 50 bases in length</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>GE Healthcare to acquire Whatman</title>
      <description>The transaction has been recommended unanimously by the directors of Whatman, who have agreed to vote their shares in favour of the transaction</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Healthcare</category>
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      <title>NanoPhotometer at Dr Horst Schmidt hospitals</title>
      <description>Implen reports the successful implementation of the NanoPhotometer in Wiesbaden, Germany according to the European series of standards for medical laboratories DIN EN ISO 15189</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Implen</category>
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      <title>BeadChips used in 10,000 sample Generation R study</title>
      <description>Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam has purchased Illumina's Infinium HD (high-density) Human610-Quad BeadChips for the analysis of 10,000 samples and a third scanner to support the Generation R Study</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Illumina</category>
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      <title>More SNPs for genetic variation in cattle</title>
      <description>Illumina says its Infinium BovineSNP50 BeadChip contains the highest number of novel and known SNPs for characterising genetic variation in cattle</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Partnerships with PAA and MatriCal</title>
      <description>GE Healthcare announced at the 2008 CHI high content analysis meeting in San Francisco two strategic partnerships, with PAA (Process Analysis and Automation) and MatriCal</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham BioSciences)</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/ars/ars181.html</link>
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      <title>Sequencing the genome of the Pinot Noir grape</title>
      <description>Researchers from the Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige and Myriad Genetics have used 454 Life Sciences's Genome Sequencer 20 to sequence and assemble the genome of the grape Pinot Noir Noir</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/rop/rop122.html</link>
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      <title>Sequencing the bonobo genome at Max Planck</title>
      <description>With the acquisition of the second Genome Sequencing FLX system, the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig's total 454 Sequencing capacity is now 400 million bases per day</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/rop/rop121.html</link>
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      <title>Power supplies offer more versatility and capacity</title>
      <description>Electrophresis specialist Cleaver Scientific has added new models to its successful Omnipac range of power supplies which include substantially upgraded specifications and re-styled models</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cleaver Scientific</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/clv/clv114.html</link>
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      <title>Faster assays through shorter hybridisation times</title>
      <description>New application note demonstrates the outstanding feature of the maintenance-free SlideBooster system: a considerably reduced assay time with consistent or even improved hybridisation quality</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Implen</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/iml/iml102.html</link>
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      <title>Human genome sequencing service launched</title>
      <description>GATC is the first sequencing company worldwide to offer whole human genome sequencing to industry and academia and aims to deliver, in ten years, a quality dataset for euro500</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GATC Biotech</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/gat/gat102.html</link>
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      <title>Seven more Genome Sequencers for Baylor Center</title>
      <description>The Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine increases its fleet of Roche Genome Sequencer FLX systems to ten instruments</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/rop/rop120.html</link>
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      <title>Large-scale targeted genomic resequencing speeded</title>
      <description>'Sequence capture' technology enables fast and accurate enrichment of thousands of selected genomic regions, either contiguous or dispersed, such as segments of chromosomes or all genes or exons</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/rop/rop119.html</link>
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      <title>Win a trip to New York in image competition</title>
      <description>The competition is supported by BioTechniques and invites all users of the In Cell Analyzer system to submit three of their best images with a short description by 24 November 2007</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham BioSciences)</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/ars/ars180.html</link>
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      <title>GRI to promote CodeLink gene expression bioarray</title>
      <description>GRI is to promote the established CodeLink gene expression bioarray system for human, mouse and rat whole genomes in the UK and France</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GRI</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/gri/gri139.html</link>
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      <title>DNA sequencing study to evaluate drug response</title>
      <description>454 Life Sciences and Perlegen Sciences to conduct large scale genetic re-sequencing in hundreds of DNA samples collected by from humans with specific responses to a widely prescribed class of drug</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/rop/rop118.html</link>
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      <title>Efficient method of sequencing ancient DNA</title>
      <description>Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have used 454 Life Sciences's Genome Sequencer system to sequencing the entire mitochondrial genomes from ten individual woolly mammoths</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Roche Applied Science</category>
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