Last week, Merck and Millennium signaled that gene technology is now speeding drug development.
IBM's vice-president of systems research, there are several areas in which Blue Gene technology could be applied.
The charity Cancer Bacup voiced concern that Dr Reid had fuelled unrealistic public expectations about the potential benefits of gene technology.
To quickly compare the genes, the Genomics Center is using gene sequencing technology developed by Lynx Therapeutics, a biotech partner of Hoechst in Hayward, Calif.
Using gene chip technology, they found that the development of the disease seems to be linked to the secretion of proteins called cytokines, which trigger inflammation.
Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.
While GSK's partner Human Genome Sciences invented the drug, Glaxo invested in HGS' gene-hunting technology back in 1993 and stayed the course even after murky early results.
He has moved to embrace new gene-deciphering technology as one of the PGP-10 the first ten participants in the Personal Genome Project being run by Harvard Professor George Church.
GSK's two predecessor companies, SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome, which merged to form GSK in 2000, had been among the first to invest in gene-hunting technology that scientists once thought would fast lead to a bushelful of new drugs.
But developing drugs from genes has turned out to be very difficult, and now companies like Myriad and Millennium have turned to buying potential drugs to tide them over until drugs based on their gene-finding technology can make it to market.
The Rosetta purchase gave Merck expertise in figuring out exactly which genes the body is reading--a technology called gene-expression profiling.
To get a new gene count, Velculescu and his colleagues used a different technology called serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), which was developed at Johns Hopkins University and licensed to Cambridge, Mass.
The technology used in gene doping is already well within the skill-set of thousands of laboratories around the world.
It has taken over 10 years since the role of the mutated gene was identified for the technology to identify it in stools to be developed.
Almost a decade ago, Leonard Guarente at Massachusetts Institute of Technology found a gene called SIR2 in brewer's yeast that, when mutated, seemed to extend the yeast's life.
The technology is a form of gene silencing and could lead to a new class of medicines to treat a variety of diseases.
Eventually Monsanto started to pull away from its rivals as it became the first seed developer to patent the gene traits of seeds and to license its technology broadly.
And even though steel and concrete are still the most cost-effective materials, new combinations of these substances provide greater strength and fire retardance, says W. Gene Corley, senior vice president at Construction Technology Laboratories in Skokie, Ill.
Eliza's technology also could be used in Blue Gene, IBM's supercomputer under development and aimed for biotechnology research.
But then Illumina came up with new technology and ripped away much of the gene chip market, before moving on to dominate sequencing.
Gene Marks is owner of Marks Group, a technology consulting firm, and author of The Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists.
Gene Marks is owner of Marks Group, a technology consulting firm, and author of In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash--Simple Lessons From Smart Business People.
That's where Rosetta (nasdaq: RSTA - news - people) comes in: Its technology can help scientists discern what proteins each gene makes.
Rudolf Jaenisch. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Science to Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to two researchers who discovered a new kind of gene, upending dogma about how biology works and leading to a new technology that has been embraced by drug companies and has led to the formation of two publicly traded biotech firms.
Gene Longo, Cisco's project manager for the program, said that technology takes a supporting role to the teachers and the needs of the students.
The technology can also find cases in which different proteins are produced by a single gene.
Rather than trying to predict which diagnostic tests and gene-based drugs will emerge and make money, what you can do is invest in the technology itself.
Now a similar sea change may be afoot, thanks to a new technology called RNA interference, or RNAi, which allows scientists to stop a disease by silencing a particular gene.
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