Chips advance but cost constraints remain

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Companies such as Affymetrix and GeneTrace Systems are developing microchips that can perform advanced laboratory analysis. Affymetrix is developing a 1 cm by 2 cm silicon chip that can perform such sample preparation as DNA extraction and enzymatic digestion. The chip can also perform theromcycling through an architecture of independent thermoelectric coolers, vents and heaters. GeneTrace systems has developed a chip that can perform mass spectrometers without sample preparation.

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GeneTrace systems develops chip that can perform mass spectrometers without sample preparation

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Product development, Product information, ICs by Function NEC, Integrated circuits, Coprocessors, Affymetrix Inc., Article, GeneTrace Systems Inc.

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US patent office strategic plan may penalize biotechs

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The strategic plan represents the biggest change in patent office operations and procedures since the patent examination process began in 1836. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) hopes to reduce patent prosecution to 27 months by 2008.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Management dynamics, All Other Publishers, Book publishing, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Legal/Government Regulation, Patent Law, Educational Tests, Management, Laws, regulations and rules, Examinations, Company business management, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Biotechnologists, Educational tests and measurements

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Racially defined haplotype project debated

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The US National Human Genome Research Institute is debating how to proceed with population-specific haplotype maps in relation to the next phase of the Human Genome project.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Public affairs, Genetic Engineering, Abstract

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