Memory shuts down as you doze off Oct 10, 2007
Will there be any operon releated shut on/off that controls this memory shutoff during nights. 09 Oct, 2007. (Nature News Service)
NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services Mar 29, 2007
UCLA, in addition to the Affymetrix platform, processes Agilent arrays; Duke offers LCM services, Ambion mirVana arrays, and Operon oligo arrays; Yale offers expression profiling and genotyping on the Affymetrix platform and uses the Affymetrix exon arrays to look at splice variants, in addition to the new Illumina expression and genotyping capabilities. The principal investigator at Yale, Shrikant Mane, says that the "Illumina platform provides an important complement to the other technologies... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Special Chip Provides Better Picture Of Salmon Health Oct 20, 2006
How do you tell if a fish is fit and well. This is a question which has troubled farmers and biologists for years, but now scientists may have come up with the answer - using DNA chips. (Science Daily)
Life Cycle Of Operons Yields New Look At Bacterial Genetics Jul 7, 2006
In a breakthrough that will immediately benefit biologists who study bacteria, and could in the future have bearing on the advancement of synthetic biology, a team of researchers has determined the life cycle of operons, small groups of genes with related functions that are co-transcribed in a single strand of messenger RNA. Present in all known bacterial genomes, operons play a crucial role in gene expression programs that enable microbes to adapt to environmental stresses ... Berkeley Lab... (Science Daily)
Large-scale cross-platform study of research microarrays uncovers high concordance across platforms Jul 3, 2006
In Kuo's study, gene expression measurements were obtained from 10 different microarray platforms (Affymetrix, Applied Biosystems, Agilent Technologies, Compugen, GE Healthcare, Mergen, MWG BioTech, Operon, academic cDNA and an academic long oligonucleotide array) and two different QRT-PCR approaches (Applied Biosystems TaqMan Assays and Roche Diagnostics Universal Probe Library). It has been an emphasized goal during this effort to develop a sound and consistent framework for cross-platform... (EurekAlert!)
