ProteoMonitor | May 15, 2008

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Volume 8 - Number 20 | May 15, 2008

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Tecan, MDS Debut Next-Gen Scanners To Keep Up With High-Density Chips

Arrayjet Launches Ultra-Marathon System to Take Advantage of Spotting ‘Renaissance’

Wyeth, Agilent Technologies

Applied Microarrays CEO Discusses Future Of Codelink, Including Tapping New Markets

Almac Diagnostics, Biogen-Idec, Affymetrix, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, LineaGen, Nanogen, Applera, Celera, Applied Biosystems, Gentel Biosciences, PriTest, Lumera, Plexera Bioscience, Fluidigm, AME Bioscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Pathwork Diagnostics

Oxford Gene Technology, ExonHit Therapeutics, Asper Biotech

Jai Nagarkatti, David Harvey, Lee McCollum, Avi Nash, Steven Paul, Pedro Reinhard, Timothy Sear, Dean Spatz, Barrett Toan, Rebecca Bergman, William O’Neill, Mimi Torrington, David Norwood, Riccardo Pigliucci, Trevor Nicholls, Hagan Bayley

Features

Life Sciences a �Top Priority� for Agilent As Firm Considers M&A Options, CEO Says
Bill Sullivan said Agilent remains on the lookout for acquisition targets, and that the firm’s “top priority continues to be in the life-sciences area, and we will continue to look for opportunities that we believe will drive value for shareholders.”

Move Beyond Setbacks and Just Do It, Researchers Tell AACC Attendees
At last week’s American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s conference on translating proteomics from discoveries into diagnostics, presenters focused less on beating up on themselves for past setbacks and more on figuring out how to move past their shortcomings to create a genuine clinical pipeline.

Harvard Proteomics Researchers Develop Array for High-Content Protein Expression
The array is the next generation of a technology called nucleic acid programmable protein array, or NAPPA, that enables researchers to produce proteins en masse — a capability that so far has not been attainable with protein microarrays.

Papers of Note

Recent Research Papers of Note in Proteomics

Industry Briefs

Applera, Celera, Vermillion, GE Healthcare, Geneva Bioinformatics, Proteome Sciences, Varian, Precision Detectors, Enzo, Biomol, Kinaxo, Onconova, GenTel, PriTest, SomaLogic, Otsuka, Foldit, Miraculins

Movers & Shakers

John Cooke, William Hiatt, Joseph Coll, Eric Fung

New Products

Agilent, Ludesi, Geneva Bioinformatics, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Millipore