The $32.23 billion NIH budget represents an increase of 3.2% over fiscal year (FY) 2010, and the $7.4 billion NSF budget reflects an 8% increase over FY 2010.

The Metabolic Syndrome Arrays from Randox offer simultaneous determination of analytes associated with Metabolic Syndrome and related disorders for improved patient profiling.

Engineering of the Ca2+-sensing domain in existing yellow Cameleon Ca2+ indicators is used to create indicators with a range of increased Ca2+ affinities capable of detecting subtle changes in intracellular Ca2+ at low resting levels.

Awards under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program have just been given a boost. As of March 30, the cap for SBIR phase I awards has risen from $100,000 to $150,000, and for phase II awards from $750,000 to $1,000,000.

Using Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, cMyc, and Nanog on lentiviral vectors together and in the presence of LIF, human iPS cells can be generated that behave much more like mouse iPS cells...

Latest list of papers reporting use of Camelid Antibody-based GFP-Trap.

By injecting double-stranded RNA into the abdomen of male cricket, the gene that controls species barrier for reproduction was identified.

Using enhanced fluorescence microscopy techniques without damaging the organ by slicing or sampling.

Last Friday (July 30^th) Allele Biotech hosted a breakfast table at San Diego State University in the Life Sciences building. 

By measuring 163 metabolite concentrations and ratios in serum and use them as metabolic traits, SNPs were identified that provided what Illig et al. called “genetically determined metabotypes”.