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ANNUAL REVIEW: Looking Back-- Looking Forward.
February 1, 2004... Last year, 2003, was quite a year in the field of molecular diagnostics and it took your dazed editor an extra month to digest it all and come up with a review of some of the more critical events: Cepheids amplification technology was included in anthrax sensors that will be installed...

ARRAYS: Tissue Microarrays Speed Cancer Research.
February 1, 2004... According to a recently published review (Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 3(4), 421-430 (2003)), new molecular techniques such as cDNA, protein or antibody arrays potentially allow for high-throughput identification of thousands of disease-related markers at the genome, RNA transcript or protein...

From Microarray to Data Analysis.
February 1, 2004... Silicon Genetics (2601 Spring Street, Redwood City, CA 94063, Tel: 888/531 8600, 650/367 9600, Fax: 650/365 1735, Website: silicongenetics.com) and Affymetrix (3380 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Tel: 408/731-5000 , Fax: 408/481-0422, Web: affymetrix.com) have agreed to work...

BIOMARKERS: Predicting Breast Cancer Progression.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... According to U.S. Patent 6,673,559 issued to the National Cancer Institute, the Met proto-oncogene can be used to predict the prognosis of breast cancer. Inventors named on the patent are Ilan Tsarfaty, James H. Resau, Iafa Keydar, Donna Faletto, George F. Vande Woude. The patent is...

GENOMICS: Fly-Based Cancer Screening Assay.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The NIH technology transfer office has available for license an assay system in the fruit fly Drosophila that is useful for (i) identifying genes that are functionally required for invasion and metastasis and (ii) screening for drugs that block tumor growth and metastasis. The system employs...