• DNA Facility Acquires New Sequencing and Genotyping Instrumentation

    Updated: 2009-09-30 18:08:33
    The Carver College of Medicine DNA Facility has recently added 2 new instruments to support investigators in translational and personalized medicine studies.  An Applied Biosystems SOLiD v3.1 Genome Sequencing System and a Fluidigm EP1 System for genetic analysis have both been recently installed and are available for use. The Applied Biosystems SOLiD v3.1 Genome Sequencing System [...]

  • CCOM Investigators Receive NIH “Challenge” and “GO” Grants

    Updated: 2009-09-30 18:04:48
    Four Carver College of Medicine Investigators have been awarded grants as part of new “challenge” and “GO” programs offered by the National Institutes of Health.  Together, the four grants represent over $5 million in new funding. Investigators receiving challenge grants include: John Engelhardt, PhD, Roy J. Carver Chair in Molecular Medicine and professor and head, anatomy [...]

  • Search Terms

    Updated: 2009-09-30 16:58:57
    …or ‘what people have been looking for this week’. “phosphate buffer in the

  • The The Evolving Role Of Pharmacovigilance a discussion with John Loucks, VP of Oracle Health

    Updated: 2009-09-30 06:52:48
    To gain an understanding of the current state of pharmacovigilance in the industry, Life Science Leader spoke with Sujith Eramangalath, the senior analyst in medical imaging, healthcare IT, and life sciences IT at Frost & Sullivan; Drew Kilpatrick, Ph.D., director of global safety and pharmacovigilance at Kendle; John Loucks, VP of Oracle Health Sciences; Nayan [...]

  • Biomedical Research Store Offers New Web Presence

    Updated: 2009-09-29 20:09:59
    The Carver College of Medicine Biomedical Research Store has recently launched a new website.  The new site, at www.medicine.uiowa.edu/corefacilities/biostore/ allows investigators to view the Store’s inventory and after logging in, view product pricing. Located on the second floor of Eckstein Medical Research Building, the Biomedical Research Store provides molecular and cell biology enzymes, reagents and kits [...]

  • CCOM Investigators Receive ARRA Funding

    Updated: 2009-09-29 18:26:37
    Several Carver College of Medicine  faculty members have been successful in receiving American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) funds through National Institutes of Health awards.  As of September 29, CCOM had received over 70 awards worth over $22.5 million in first-year funding.  This includes 28 new competitive renewals and 37 supplemental funding awards. CCOM faculty responded in large [...]

  • Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    Updated: 2009-09-29 01:43:37
    Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Download Full PDF Part1, PDF Part2

  • Abboud Named to Advisory Panel for Space and Gravity Studies

    Updated: 2009-09-28 15:41:02
    Francois Abboud, M.D., University of Iowa faculty member, has been appointed to the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Animal and Human Biology Panel, which operates through the National Academies. The Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board organized the group to establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and [...]

  • Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Series Welcomes Greenberg October 15

    Updated: 2009-09-28 14:41:59
    The University of Iowa Department of Microbiology together with the Carver College of Medicine will host E. Peter Greenberg, PhD on October 15 as part of the Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series. Greenberg’s talk, “The Social Life of Bacteria,” will also be the first annual Michael A. Apicella Endowed Lecture in Microbiology. Distinguished Biomedical Scholars [...]

  • Cells and Organelles...

    Updated: 2009-09-27 08:34:41
    Try this cell biology animation from Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry

  • Building block of life reported found in comet

    Updated: 2009-09-26 10:37:21
    Scientists have reported finding a fundamental building block of life in samples of comet Wild 2 bro

  • About Tea and Toasts

    Updated: 2009-09-25 00:26:23
      A 70 year-old English lady that lives alone is admitted to the hospital for evaluation of a leg w

  • Database of the Week: Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts

    Updated: 2009-09-23 18:50:58
    The Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts Database — part of the CSA Illumina suite of databas

  • unSAP the Lifescience Industry with Oracle’s Healthy Lead in Lifescience Vericals

    Updated: 2009-09-22 20:04:55
    unSAP the Lifescience Industry with Oracle’s Healthy Lead in Lifescience Vericals. According to the latest IDC Insight Report In the Oracle vs. SAP life sciences battle, Oracle gains a healthy lead. read the full report at http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid41_gci1368762,00.html

  • Translational Research: From Bench to Bedside

    Updated: 2009-09-18 15:49:35
    ‘Translational Research: From Bench to Bedside’ Capitol Hill Breakfast Briefing Hosted by the Council for American Medical Innovation The Briefing is the second in a three-part series on “Achieving Recovery Through Discovery” This is the second in a three-part briefing series examining the role of public policy in promoting medical innovation to help our nation recover from [...]

  • Constructing gene targeting vectors via recombineering

    Updated: 2009-09-15 21:21:47
    Phage-based E. coli homologous recombination systems have been extensively developed in recent years, and these recombination-mediated genetic engineering (“recombineering”) methods are now the preferred technique for carrying out genetic modifications in chromosomes and plasmids. Recombineering is efficient and precise and circumvents many of the problems of traditional genetic engineering methods, primarily the need to [...]

  • Enzymes, Part I (Intro and Enzyme Kinetics)

    Updated: 2009-09-13 11:30:43
    Enzymes are proteins that function as biological catalysts for almost all reactions in the body. The

  • Lab Technician Post at NARI

    Updated: 2009-09-12 07:44:51
    Lab Technician Post At NARI Essential Qualification:B.Sc. In Microbiology/ Biotechnology with one ye

  • New RSS feeds available, see new protocols by subject area

    Updated: 2009-09-11 15:44:51
    Although many feel that RSS is dead, I still find it to be a highly useful tool for finding new interesting reading material. As such, we’re happy to announce some new functionality in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols involving our RSS feeds that send out alerts when new articles are published. Previously you could [...]

  • Oracle’s 3rd Annual Drug Development and Safety Forum 2009- India

    Updated: 2009-09-09 14:19:13
    Oracle’s 3rd Annual Drug Development and Safety Forum 2009 October 21 – 22, 2009 Oracle invites you to the 2009 Drug Development and Safety Forum At this forum we will be discussing important topics and issues facing the Indian Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, and CRO industry. This event will be highlighted by presentations from key industry thought leaders who will [...]

  • Emerging Model Organisms for September 2009

    Updated: 2009-09-08 22:20:06
    Our long-running series of articles highlighting emerging model organisms continues in September with three entries, The Starlet Sea Anemone (Nematostella vectensis), Cephalochordates (Amphioxus or Lancelets) and The Western Clawed Frog (Xenopus tropicalis). The slow rate of sequence evolution, the presumed high degree of preservation of ancestral traits, the ease of culturing, and the availability and experimental [...]

  • Biochemistry

    Updated: 2009-09-05 17:51:33
    Solution models Cannot describe DNA Binding at surface James Smagala University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry.

    Updated: 2009-09-02 18:15:48
    28th ed. Copyright: 2009. Click for availability: QU 4 H2941

  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)

    Updated: 2009-09-01 16:20:58
    Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an invaluable method for studying the interactions between proteins and DNA on a genome-wide scale. ChIP can be used to determine whether a transcription factor interacts with a candidate target gene, and is used to monitor the presence of histones with posttranslational modifications at specific genomic locations. The results are often [...]

  • India to implement E-Governance for Clinical Trials

    Updated: 2009-08-23 01:03:55
    The health ministry of India  is planning to introduce e-governance for clinical trials in four years. The move will enable drug companies that want to carry out clinical trials in India to register online from any part of the world. Once the required approval for conducting trials is obtained, the companies can also submit [...]

  • Satisfying REACH Requirements in Predictive Toxicology

    Updated: 2009-08-19 13:50:17
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  • Hollywood, bollywood and the thing called Clinical Trial

    Updated: 2009-08-19 11:06:24
    Whats the relationship among hollywood and clinical trial, only thinng I could think of is controversy, money and perhaps the uncertainity of success or failure. I am not aware of any celebrity ever being part of a clinical trial project , till this date. In emrging market (read the BRIC countires) human watch groups accuse [...]

  • Neuronal Culture Techniques

    Updated: 2009-08-17 19:15:36
    As new imaging methods are developed and our knowledge of neural development deepens, methods for growing neuronal cells in culture where they are readily manipulated and observed become more and more important. In the August issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, Amy MacDermott and colleagues from Columbia University provide a series of protocols describing [...]

  • Sleeping Beauty Transposon and Mouse ES Cells

    Updated: 2009-08-06 14:54:06
    As noted earlier in the week, our featured article focus in August’s Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is on gene transfer into stem cells. The first featured protocol presented a method for using lentiviral vectors as the means for getting your gene of interest expressed. Alhough viral vectors are highly efficient, their use can [...]

  • Gene transfer in stem cells

    Updated: 2009-08-03 19:19:29
    Our featured articles in the August issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols focus on methods for gene transfer in stem cells. Vectors derived from retroviruses are useful tools for long term gene transfer, because they allow stable integration of transgenes and propagation into daughter cells. Lentiviral vectors are preferred because they can transduce [...]

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