Tech Review“It’s going to be the PC for biologists”

01.02.10 The market share of ultrafast sequencing machines on the total sequencing market is set to expand rapidly. In April 2010, Roche daughter 454 Life Sciences (Branford, US) is launching a new system especially designed for...more

Tech ReviewA small country bets big on biomarkers

01.02.10 Jeannot Krecké is a busy man these days. Luxembourg’s Economics Minister is pulling every string he can to put the little country on the biomedical map in Europe. In total, his government has earmarked EUR140m in funding until...more

Tech ReviewExploring Networks at the genome scale

01.02.10 Transcription network inference – which reverse engineers the transcriptional control of an organism from high-throughput gene expression data – offers valuable insights into the induction/inhibition relationship among genes and...more

Tech ReviewDownstream processing tomorrow – Great Expectations?

16.11.09 The biopharmaceutical industry has seen plenty of change over the past 20 years, with the yield of recombinant proteins increasing from tens of milligrams to more than 10 grams per liter for some monoclonal antibodies in early...more

Tech ReviewMore flexibility in upstream processing

16.11.09 Dr. Andrew Bulpin is Vice President Upstream Processing at Millipore Corp., Billerica (US). After completing undergraduate studies, he undertook his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Caen (France). Bulpin then moved to the...more