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Friday 3 September 2010, 21:18

Maybe today I’ll have the answer…

AMPK AMPK AMPK!!!! That’s all that Larry Shapiro’s lab at Columbia University in NYC can talk about in “Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist“. The excellent documentary was produced and directed by Richard A Rifkind Emeritus Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. ...

Friday 27 August 2010, 23:21

Biomarkers ROCK

5 years. Plasma from 7,000 participants. 180 potential biomarkers. Will it be enough to gain a greater understanding of the genetics and biological pathways of heart disease? We hope so. Sigma® Life Science recently announced plans to work with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the N...

Friday 20 August 2010, 22:04

Gene regulation is right here

One of our goals with the Your Favorite Gene tool is to create one place for as much information as possible about a specific gene or protein of interest. Here we highlight gene regulation for hypoxia inducible factor 1 or HIF1A. To create the gene regulation viewer, the Sigma Life Science bioinform...

Friday 13 August 2010, 20:34

Maybe you’re not laughing because you aren’t a scientist?

The Where Bio Begins/Sigma Life Science marketing department is housed along with Sigma’s Research and Development scientists. Every day, we have the pleasure of interacting with them. We often find common ground, even though they carry their tubes of DNA, proteins, and such from lab to lab, and a...

Friday 6 August 2010, 21:42

Biomolecules in the News – Spotlight on Sirt-1

I had an idea for my next blog entry. Hmmm. What was the topic? Who doesn’t pause to ask themselves that question only to find that they do not have the answer? With information coming at us from multiple platforms regardless of our location, it is a challenge to keep it all in our [...]...