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BTF Decisive Microbiology is developing its bioparticle dispensing technology platform for quantitative DNA analysis. The technology can be configured in kit format that provides accurate calibration of DNA measurements either from sample to sample, lab to lab or country to country. Caliper Technologies Corp. has developed two new biological assays for drug screening and a new 12-sipper LabChip device. The Calcium Flux Assay, is now available for purchase as an early release edition and in late stage development is an Ion Channel Assay. Caliper expects shipments of its first 12-sipper LabChip device to begin in 2002. Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. and Beckman Coulter, Inc. have formed an alliance to automate clinical proteomics research by combining Ciphergen's biomarker discovery and assay platform with a custom configured version of Beckman Coulter's Biomek 2000 system. The system is optimized for use with the Ciphergen's ProteinChip Biomarker System. Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that an initial analysis of the STRENGTH I Study identified a number of statistically significant associations that link specific genetic markers to changes in the levels of LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides in patients taking cholesterol statin drugs. MDS Proteomics Inc. have identified key regulatory protein switches inside human cells that can be used to distinguish between healthy and diseased cells and to uncover the key protein targets against which new drugs will be made. The Mayo Clinic and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. are developing genomic markers that may be able to predict responsiveness to the most common ovarian cancer chemotherapy regime, platinum-paclitaxel. Although this is the most common form of treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer, and most women derive some benefit, only 15% of advanced-stage cases are cured with this approach.
Molecular Biology - February 2002
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