Playing God; Is Genetic Testing The Answer To A Mo...

Some parents don’t want to know the sex of their upcoming child. Others do. DNA profiling has been a hot topic amongst scientists for years and this week the topic heats up even more as a few reports published last December are now appearing on the scientific grid months later. Included in the studies is news that doctors could essentially reconstruct a baby’s genetic makeup by recovering fragments of fetal...

qPCR – Quantitive Polymerase Chain Reaction ...

With increasing applications in research to provide sensitive quantitative measurements of gene expression, including SNP genotyping, mutation detection and quantification, and gene dosage studies, quantitative polymerase chain reaction technology (qPCR) could soon be the standard for determining the genetic changes in response to a pharmacological agent. Topic Overview * Biomarkers clinic * Increasing through-put * Solid...

Tepnel Expands Genetic Services Portfolio with Add...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom & STAMFORD, Conn.–Tepnel Life Sciences PLC (AIM: TED) today announced that it has expanded its molecular genetic services offering through the addition of Illumina’s iScan System, a next-generation scanner that provides researchers conducting genetic variation studies with significantly greater throughput and application diversity. This announcement marks the first anniversary of...