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Invitrogen Corp., which makes technologies for disease research and drug discovery, on Thursday agreed to pay $6.4 billion in cash and stock for scientific instruments maker Applera's Applied Biosyste

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Gen-Probe said its offer for Innogenetics NV would create the biggest stand-alone molecular diagnostics company, with close to $500 million in annual sales, and open a beachhead in Europe for it

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Posted 4 weeks ago

In their findings, published in the journal Nature, they described how they zeroed in on the protein, IGFBP-4, and then removed it from tadpoles after their hearts were formed. After the molecule was

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Posted 10 weeks ago

Targets in New York's letter-writing campaign include the high-profile 23andMe, in Mountain View, Calif, (run by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) and Navigenics, of Redwood Shores, Calif., a

Posted 15 weeks ago

A combination of cholesterol-associated gene variants can increase a person's risk for heart attack, stroke or sudden cardiac death, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers report.It may someday be

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Posted 15 weeks ago

The identification of genes that are key to disease is greatly advancing diagnostics and scientific research, one expert said. There has been a big shift in the practice of genomic medicine. When gene

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Posted 15 weeks ago

A new way of turning genes on and off, pioneered by a Nobel prize-winning British scientist, is promising to transform treatment of conditions such as HIV/Aids, heart disease and diabetes. Named zin

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Posted 15 weeks ago

Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood v

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Posted 17 weeks ago

That information already is being put to medical use. Last August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration changed the labeling to say that doctors should consider a genetic test when first prescribing

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Posted 17 weeks ago

The work is being published in this week s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper is titled, Molecular asymmetry in extraterrestrial chemistry: Insights from a pristine