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Judicial Review Is Available for PTO Director’s Fintiv Rulemaking Procedure
Written by: Justin J. Gillett & David J.K. Hulett APPLE INC. v. VIDAL Before Lourie, Taranto, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern...
Trademarks and the Digital Age: Protecting Your Brand Online
In today's digital age, trademarks are becoming increasingly important for businesses looking to protect their brand in the online world. With the rise of social media and online...
From Monopoly to Competition: The Intersection of Patent and Antitrust Law in Promoting Market Efficiency
In a free market economy, competition is essential for promoting innovation, improving product quality, and providing consumers with greater choice and better prices. However...
Health Tracker Systems Alleges Garmin’s Smartwatch Infringes Patents
Written by: Eric Wittgrove Health Tracker Systems LLC (“Health Tracker”) sued Garmin International, Inc. (“Garmin”) for patent infringement in...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Case
CASE OF THE WEEK Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., Appeal No. 21-2168 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 6, 2023) The Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent...
Feed tagged as "DNA":
Researchers at New York University and University of California, Los Angeles have developed a method called ‘DNA Molecular Recognition’ that uses... Read More »
A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San... Read More »
The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now a four-year... Read More »
Researchers have created a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule quickly and cheaply. This new technique could make DNA... Read More »
Gene synthesis has become an important tool in many fields of recombinant DNA technology, including vaccine development, gene therapy and molecular engineering. The... Read More »
Using a new technology, scientists have created a ‘nanoslinky’ that manipulates and measures DNA molecules and other nanoscale materials. On the nanoscale ... Read More »
Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a... Read More »
Exercise alters your DNA ... well, sort of. Your DNA is not really altered. Exercise cannot rewrite your genetic code. I’m sorry, but exercising will not... Read More »
Watching too much TV can worsen your genetic tendency towards obesity, but you can cut the effect in half by walking briskly for an hour a day, researchers report at... Read More »
A research team at Tufts University has identified epigenetic signatures of reprogrammed cells. These signatures are markers on DNA that can can control changes in... Read More »
Here’s your weekly collection of medical news making waves this week.
Robotic surgery: Improving patient outcomes and opening the door for telesurgery... Read More »
Researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism have found that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a... Read More »
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The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working on creating complex nanostructures by taking... Read More »
New DNA-reading technology could be used in the diagnosis of muscle-wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The DNA sequencing machine would allow for a more... Read More »
Yale researchers have discovered why a certain type of blood cell gets so big. This finding also gives clues as to how leukemia can occur when the process goes wrong. ... Read More »
Recently, long-held assumptions about the function of sperm have been challenged as different components of sperm cells have been implicated in fertilization. Now... Read More »
Researchers at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex mixture of ... Read More »
A research group at the University of Alberta is hoping its latest discovery could one day be used to develop new therapies that target certain types of cancers. The... Read More »
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition marked by chronic pelvic pain and... Read More »
In a recent study, researchers compared DNA of identical twins of different ages. They showed that structural modifications of DNA, where segments change direction... Read More »
