Impetus at the Right Time

T. Rehbein, Messe München, Germany

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Advances in Synthetic Biology

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Barcelona Plays Host to BIO-Europe Spring 2010

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Biological Barriers

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SBS 16th Annual Conference & Exhibition

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RNAi & miRNA World Congress

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Understanding the Proteome

The Missing Link for Successful Drug Discovery?

M. Wikström, M. Sundström, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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EATRIS Infrastructure Accelerates Translation

Prof. Dr. R. Balling, University of Luxembourg; Dr. R. Becker, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany

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Aqueous Nanodrops in Aqueous Media

Genetic Reagent Patterning on Living Cells

H. Tavana, PhD, et al., University of Michigan, USA

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Not Working on Mice or Humans?

A Pipeline to Rapidly Generate Species- specific Microarrays from Sequence Databases

Dr. L. Pariset et al., Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy

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Mycoplasma Contaminations of Cell Cultures

Dr. C.C. Uphoff, Prof. Dr. H.G. Drexler, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ), Germany

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IMAGO: It’s a Knock-out!

B.A. Hassan, PhD, KU Leuven School of Medicine, Belgium

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Break Dance in the Genomes

Dr. K. Chen, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

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Quantum Dots DNA Nanosensors

Ultrasensitive Platform for Detecting Genomic Cancer Markers

Dr. T.-H. Wang et al., Johns Hopkins University, USA

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Genome: Rediscovered

Transforming our Fundamental Understanding of Biology

A. Lakdawalla, Illumina, United Kingdom

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Next Generation Sequencing

Offering an Alternative to Microarray Analysis

Applied Biosystems, USA

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