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One may participate in the next workshop by submitting monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that react with molecules on the surface of human leukocytes, platelets or endothelial cells, by carrying out investigations on the mAb panels sent out by the workshop, or by attending the concluding meeting.
Over 350 companies will be showing off their wares at next week's 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Featured exhibits will include a new closed-loop mass cell culture device and an ultrasonic cell disrupter.
New methods for the precise (state-detailed) resolution of ionization thresholds open new vistas in photoionization dynamics, ion spectroscopy and state-selected ion-molecule reactions.
In the news this week — autorads with a white background, a silicon-based biosensor for neuroscience research and "clip art" designed specifically for biologists and chemists to improve the look of scientific presentation material.
Databases for neuroscience must handle large volumes of image and graphical data as well as domain knowledge. Several software development efforts are addressing these issues in an attempt to aid the acquisition, analysis and exchange of complex data sets.
New Orleans, Louisiana, is the venue for next week's 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New developments to watch out for include a single-cell transfer system and a selection of implantable transmitters for studying animals under field conditions.
The detection and characterization of mutations in genes has become a major area of interest in many areas of biology. Such variation may account for speciation, tumour formation, drug resistance, as well as the more obvious nature of inherited disease.
About 450 exhibitors from 20 countries are expected to attend Biotechnica '91, the International Trade Fair for Biotechnology that is to be held 22–24 October in Hannover, Germany. A new gel capillary for capillary electrophoresis and an inverted confocal microscope are among the exhibits.
A new substrate for the growth of anchorage-dependent cells and a closed perfusion chamber that provides the right environment for making single-cell fluorescence measurements — new tools and tips for cell and tissue culture.
Next week's American Chemical Society meeting to be held in New York City will feature an automated peptide synthesizer based on a proprietary dry-activation FMOC chemistry, a mass analyser for molecular weight determination from picomole amounts, and an NMR software module.
New technologies for multiple chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides and stepwise hybridization on a solid-phase support enable the rapid and cost-effective preparation of long duplex DNA regions. Will these new technologies usher in a new era in protein engineering?
A recombinant T4 gene 32 protein, antisense phosphorothioate oligos and a second generation capillary electrophoresis system with a thermostatting capability — new product ideas from the molecular biology marketplace.
A human and bovine serum alternative and a microbalance that cuts down on unwanted temperature fluctuations and vibrations by separating the weighing cell from the control unit — new product news from Switzerland.
Building upon earlier studies with fluorescent probes, the authors describe a new cell tracking compound, PKH95, with a radioactive signal, which has been developed specifically for high-sensitivity cell tracking and biodistribution studies.
