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| x Personalized medicine |
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Oncotype DX | Proteomics |
Personalized medicine is an umbrella term for all medical technologies enabling medicines tailored to individuals or specific groups of individuals. In contrast to current treatment modalities, where individuals and their disease states are grouped...
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| Irinotecan | Information technology | ||||
| AmpliChip CYP450 Test | Bioinformatics | ||||
| TruGene-HIV 1 Genotyping Kit | Nanotechnology | ||||
| Imatinib | Genomics | ||||
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| x Genomics |
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Personalized medicine |
Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as...
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| Molecular Diagnostics | |||||
| x Synthetic biology |
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Synthetic biology is a new area of biological research that combines science and engineering in order to design and build ("synthesize") novel biological functions and systems.
In 1974, the Polish geneticist Waclaw Szybalski introduced the term ...
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| x Monoclonal Antibody |
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Rituximab |
Monoclonal antibodies (mAb or moAb) are monospecific antibodies that are identical because they are produced by one type of immune cell that are all clones of a single parent cell. Given almost any substance, it is possible to create monoclonal...
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| Trastuzumab | |||||
| Palivizumab | |||||
| Adalimumab | |||||
| Bevacizumab | |||||
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| x Vascular Closure Devices | |||||
| x Algae Farming | |||||
| x Aptamers | |||||
| x Bacterial Drug Delivery Systems | |||||
| x Biofuel |
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Biofuel is defined as solid, liquid or gaseous fuel obtained from relatively recently lifeless or living biological material and is different from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material. Also, various plants and plant...
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| x Biomarker | AmpliChip CYP450 Test |
According to the FDA a valid biomarker is described as a “biomarker that is measured in an analytical test system with well established performance characteristics and for which there is an established ...
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| x Capillary electrophoresis |
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE), also known as capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), can be used to separate ionic species by their charge and frictional forces. In traditional electrophoresis, electrically charged analytes move in a conductive...
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| x High-throughput screening |
High-throughput screening (HTS) is a method for scientific experimentation especially used in drug discovery and relevant to the fields of biology and chemistry.
Using robotics, data processing and control software, liquid handling devices, and...
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| x Fluorescent-activated cell sorting |
Fluorescence-activated cell-sorting (FACS) is a type of flow cytometry (FCM), a method for sorting a suspension of biological cells into two or more containers, one cell at a time, based upon specific light scattering and fluorescent characteristics...
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| x Cell therapy |
Cell therapy describes the process of introducing new cells into a tissue in order to treat a disease. Cell therapies often focus on the treatment of hereditary diseases, with or without the addition of gene therapy.
There are many potential forms...
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| x Chemical synthesis |
In chemistry, chemical synthesis is purposeful execution of chemical reactions in order to get a product, or several products. This happens by physical and chemical manipulations usually involving one or more reactions. In modern laboratory usage,...
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| x Chromatin immunoprecipitation |
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay is a method used for experiments in molecular biology. The purpose of this assay is to determine whether proteins including (but not limited to) transcription factors bind to a particular region on the...
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| x Computational Modeling | |||||
| x DNA sequencing |
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The term DNA sequencing refers to methods for determining the order of the nucleotide bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, in a molecule of DNA. The first DNA sequences were obtained by academic researchers, using laborious methods based...
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| x DNA synthesis |
DNA synthesis commonly refers to:
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| x Data mining |
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Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered, with the amount of data doubling every three years, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is...
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| x Dendrimer |
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Dendrimers are repeatedly branched molecules. The huge number of papers on dendritic architectures such as dendrimers, dendronized, hyperbranched and brush-polymers has generated a vast variety of inconsistent terms and definitions making a clear...
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| x Deuterium Chemistry | |||||
| x Diagnostics | AmpliChip CYP450 Test | ||||
| x Directed evolution |
Directed evolution is a method used in protein engineering to harness the power of natural selection to evolve proteins or RNA with desirable properties not found in nature.
A typical directed evolution experiment involves three steps:
Together,...
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| x Drug delivery | Personalized medicine |
Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals. Drug delivery technologies are patent protected formulation technologies that modify drug release profile,...
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| x Drug test |
A drug test is commonly a technical examination of urine, hair, blood, sweat, or oral fluid samples to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces. It can also be used to test for a multitude of substances at the...
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| x E-prescribing |
E-prescribing or electronic prescribing is the use of online, computerized tools to create and sign prescriptions. Physicians are taking advantage of new e-prescribing software intended to replace written prescriptions with electronic prescriptions...
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| x Enzyme Design | |||||
| x Gas Delivery | |||||
| x Genetic testing |
Genetic testing allows the genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherit diseases, and can also be used to determine a person's ancestry. Normally, every person carries two copies of every gene, one inherited from their mother, one inherited from...
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| x Glucose Monitor | |||||
| x Health insurance |
Health insurance is insurance that pays for medical expenses. It is sometimes used more broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. It may be provided through a government-sponsored social insurance...
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| x Hearing aid |
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A hearing aid is an electroacoustic body worn apparatus which typically fits in or behind the wearer's ear, and is designed to amplify and modulate sounds for the wearer. Earlier devices, known as an "ear trumpet" or "ear horn", were passive funnel...
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| x High performance liquid chromatography |
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High-performance liquid chromatography (or High pressure liquid chromatography, HPLC) is a form of column chromatography used frequently in biochemistry and analytical chemistry to separate, identify, and quantify compounds. HPLC utilizes a column...
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| x Hospital Management Systems | |||||
| x Implantable Combination Drug Therapies | |||||
| x In Silico Modeling | |||||
| x Information technology |
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Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications...
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| x Intense pulsed light |
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Intense pulsed light (IPL), most commonly employed by medical practitioners and estheticians working under the guidance of a physician, is a method of hair removal from the body. It involves the use of a specially constructed xenon flash lamp and...
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| x Label-Free Protein Detection | |||||
| x Liposomal Drug Delivery | Arikace | ||||
| Cisplatin Lipid Complex | |||||
| TKM-0167 | |||||
| x Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry |
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Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS, or alternatively HPLC-MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that combines the physical separation capabilities of liquid chromatography (or HPLC) with the mass analysis capabilities of mass...
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| x Microelectromechanical systems |
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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) (also written as micro-electro-mechanical, or MicroElectroMechanical) is the technology of the very small, and merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and nanotechnology. MEMS are also...
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| x Mass spectrometry |
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Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique for the determination of the elemental composition of a sample or molecule. It is also used for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, such as peptides and other chemical compounds. The MS...
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| x Medical device |
A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery. If applied to the body, the effect of the medical device is primarily physical, in contrast to pharmaceutical drugs, which exert a...
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| x Medical imaging |
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Medical imaging refers to the techniques and processes used to create images of the human body (or parts thereof) for clinical purposes (medical procedures seeking to reveal, diagnose or examine disease) or medical science (including the study of...
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| x Metagenomics |
Metagenomics (also Environmental Genomics, Ecogenomics or Community Genomics) is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples. Traditional microbiology and microbial genome sequencing rely upon cultivated clonal...
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| x microRNA | SPC3649 |
microRNA (miRNA) are single-stranded RNA molecules (21-23 nucleotides in length) that regulate gene expression. Regulation is accomplished though annealing of the miRNA to the target strand to block protein translation, although in some cases...
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| x DNA microarray |
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A DNA microarray is a multiplex technology used in molecular biology and in medicine. It consists of an arrayed series of thousands of microscopic spots of DNA oligonucleotides, called features, each containing picomoles of a specific DNA sequence....
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| x Microfluidics |
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SUNY Buffalo SMALL (nanobio Sensors and MicroActuators Learning Lab) |
Microfluidics deals with the behavior, precise control and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small, typically sub-millimeter, scale. Typically, micro means one of the following features:
It is a multidisciplinary field...
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| SFU Microinstrumentation Laboratory | |||||
| Prof. D.J. Harisson's Group | |||||
| University of Waterloo - Advanced Micro- / Nano- Devices Lab | |||||
| ASU Micro/Nanofluidics Lab | |||||
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| x Microparticles |
Microparticles are particles between 0.1 and 100 μm in size. Commercially available microparticles include those made of glass, latex, polystyrene, various metals (carbon, silver, copper, etc.), and various magnetic materials. One can encounter...
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| x Mimotopes | |||||
| x Molecular Diagnostics | MMD BRC-ABL Mutations | ||||
| MMD BCR-ABL Quantitation | |||||
| x Molecule Detection | |||||
| x Nanoparticle Drug Delivery | Abraxane | ||||
| x Nanotechnology |
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Personalized medicine |
Nanotechnology, shortened to "Nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices...
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| x Neurostimulators | |||||
| x Neutraceuticals | |||||
| x Polymerase chain reaction |
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In molecular biology, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique to amplify a single or few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating millions or more copies of a particular DNA sequence. The method relies on...
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| x Peptide Therapeutics | |||||
