SciBog: Science & Medical Writing Blogs
Create your own blog and share your thoughts, today! With SciBog.
- Blog Posts (23)
- Discussions (1)
- Groups (1)
- Photos (1)
- Photo Albums
- Videos
Biotech Learning Institute's Discussions
Will biotechnology allow people to live forever?
6 Replies
Started this discussion. Last reply by anup chowdhury Apr. 28, 2009.
Blog Posts
Loading feed
Biotech Learning Institute's Page
Gifts Received
Biotech Learning Institute has not received any gifts yet
Profile Information
- Scientific/Professional Discipline(s):
- Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biophysics, Cardiology, Clinical psychology, Clinical research, Genetics, Molecular biology, Molecular physics, Molecular virology, Pharmaconomy, Pharmacy, Physical chemistry, Urology
- Website:
- http://www.BiotechLearning.com
Biotech Learning Institute
The Biotech Learning Institute offers convenient training tools used to provide continuing education to biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical, and regulatory industry professionals.
The Institute has compiled a comprehensive list of online courses, seminars, books and other training tools used for teaching the enormous variety of applications commonly used in the industry.
By employing advanced eLearning training techniques, coupled with new automated tracking systems, the Biotech Learning Institute is assisting companies with educating their employees, maintaining training records, and improving the companies overall quality of service.
With expertise in managing large training projects, the Biotech Learning Institute aims to assist professionals with uncovering new discoveries and furthering their understanding of the industry and the peripheral technologies within it.
The Biotech Learning Institute has both the experience and course content required to deliver the high quality training you, your employees, and/or your colleagues need to advance careers and succeed with achieving professional objectives.
The Institute has compiled a comprehensive list of online courses, seminars, books and other training tools used for teaching the enormous variety of applications commonly used in the industry.
By employing advanced eLearning training techniques, coupled with new automated tracking systems, the Biotech Learning Institute is assisting companies with educating their employees, maintaining training records, and improving the companies overall quality of service.
With expertise in managing large training projects, the Biotech Learning Institute aims to assist professionals with uncovering new discoveries and furthering their understanding of the industry and the peripheral technologies within it.
The Biotech Learning Institute has both the experience and course content required to deliver the high quality training you, your employees, and/or your colleagues need to advance careers and succeed with achieving professional objectives.
Biotech Learning Institute's Photos
Biotech Learning Institute's Blog
deCODE Files for Bankruptcy- Planned Asset Sale
Late Monday evening, deCODE genetics, Inc. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The company, headquartered in Reykavik, Iceland, was incorporated in 1996 to engage "in gene discovery with the goal of bringing to market DNA-based reference laboratory tests and consumer genome analysis services."
While the company has developed and markets six such DNA-based diagnostic tests, it has primarily been devoted to research and development. As a result, the bankruptcy filings reveal t… Continue
While the company has developed and markets six such DNA-based diagnostic tests, it has primarily been devoted to research and development. As a result, the bankruptcy filings reveal t… Continue
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 7:22pm —
New DNA test uses tiny crystals called quantum dots
[Posted: August 25, 2009]
(Nanowerk News) Using tiny crystals called quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer. This test, which detects both the presence and the quantity of certain DNA changes, could alert people who are at risk of developing the disease and could tell doctors how well a particular cancer treatment is working.
The new test was reported in a paper called “MS-qFRET: a q… Continue
(Nanowerk News) Using tiny crystals called quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer. This test, which detects both the presence and the quantity of certain DNA changes, could alert people who are at risk of developing the disease and could tell doctors how well a particular cancer treatment is working.
The new test was reported in a paper called “MS-qFRET: a q… Continue
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 10:10am —
Are Zebrafish the key to stopping the loss of hearing?
[By SHIRLEY S. WANG ]
For many people, loss of hearing is irreversible.
For scientists trying to figure out what can be done about that, one answer may lie—or swim, actually—in freshwater aquariums.
About one of every 10 Americans suffers from hearing impairment, according to a survey conducted by the Better Hearing Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group. By far the most common cause of hearing loss is damage to the so-called hair cells in the inner ear as a result of excessive noise, certain i… Continue
For many people, loss of hearing is irreversible.
For scientists trying to figure out what can be done about that, one answer may lie—or swim, actually—in freshwater aquariums.
About one of every 10 Americans suffers from hearing impairment, according to a survey conducted by the Better Hearing Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group. By far the most common cause of hearing loss is damage to the so-called hair cells in the inner ear as a result of excessive noise, certain i… Continue
Posted on August 4, 2009 at 12:30pm —
FDA to use DNA in fight against "fish switching"
[By BEN RAINES, Staff Reporter]
The fishermen competing in the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo are helping to catch crooked fishmongers who engage in fish substitution — passing off low-value fish, something like a croaker, for a premium species, such as red snapper.
Such switches are fairly common, according to FDA officials, because the skinless, boneless filets of many fish appear nearly identical to most people.
A study published in the science journal Nature found that 77 percent of fish… Continue
The fishermen competing in the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo are helping to catch crooked fishmongers who engage in fish substitution — passing off low-value fish, something like a croaker, for a premium species, such as red snapper.
Such switches are fairly common, according to FDA officials, because the skinless, boneless filets of many fish appear nearly identical to most people.
A study published in the science journal Nature found that 77 percent of fish… Continue
Posted on July 20, 2009 at 10:51am —
First amplification-free, unbiased view of a transcriptome by single molecule sequencing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which single molecule sequencing was used to provide a digital expression profile of a eukaryotic transcriptome. The research article, now appearing in the on-line edition of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates the unparalleled accuracy, precision and sensitivity of the Helicos™ Digital… Continue
Posted on July 8, 2009 at 4:27pm —
Your SciBog Box:
Biotechnology News
Health Discovery Corporation Inks Deal for Final Validation of a New Molecular Diagnostic Test for Colon Cancer (Business Wire)
SAVANNAH, Ga.----Health Discovery Corporation announced today that the Company has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Pancreas, Biliary and Liver Surgery Center of New York at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York City to provide clinical specimens to be utilized to complete the final validation of HDC's molecular diagnostic test for colon cancer.StemCells, Inc. Announces First Human Neural Stem Cell Transplant in Landmark Myelination Disorder Trial (GlobeNewswire)
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- StemCells, Inc. announced today that its proprietary HuCNS-SC® human neural stem cells have been used to treat the first patient enrolled in its Phase I clinical trial in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease , a myelination disorder that afflicts male children. The stem cells were administered yesterday at the University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital by direct injection into the brain of a patient with connatal PMD, the most severe form of the disease. This marks the first time that neural stem cells have been transplanted as a potential treatment for a myelination disorder, and the second clinical trial involving the use of HuCNS-SC cells in a neurodegenerative disease.Capstone Therapeutics to Host Quarterly Update Conference Call (GlobeNewswire)
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Capstone Therapeutics , trade name of OrthoLogic Corp. will host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 4:30pm EST / 3:30pm CST / 2:30pm MST / 1:30pm PST. The call may be accessed at 888-857-6932 , 719-457-2637 ; accompanying slides can be viewed by logging onto the Investors section of the Company's website, www.capstonethx.com. A replay will be available beginning February 17, 2010 at 7:30pm EST until midnight February 20, 2010 and may be accessed at 888-203-1112 or 719-457-0820 with replay passcode 9579164.© 2010 Created by Biotech Learning Institute
Comment Wall (5 comments)
You need to be a member of SciBog: Science & Medical Writing Blogs to add comments!
Join this Ning Network
I am fond of writing on your blog.
Regards
Anup chowdhury
www.genetoday.com is a networking site for biomedical science professionals.
Here one can meet other professionals in the same field, can upload pics/videos, create ones own blogs,forums,meetups,seminars and conferences.
In addittion it provides links to interesting educational websites, daily updated news in the field of biomedical science, and links to protocols.
You are invited to join www.genetoday.com
Gene Today Team
eng Mohamed Ahmed ezz