On Air with Life Technologies

On Wednesday 12th September 2012 we hosted a live induced pluripotent stem cell event. The event was broadcast across Europe so scientists could watch it live. The speakers were Monika Madej (University of Cambridge), Leopoldo Laricchia-Robbio (CMRB Barcelona) and Marisa Jaconi (University of Geneva). Please visit www.lifetechnologies.com/LifeiPSC2012

Brenda Maribel Corado, a 32 year old mother was walking her 21 day old baby Angela to a doctor's appointment when a couple of women approached her on the street, taking Angela from her mother's arms. Angela had just been kidnapped! Listen to the story as Brenda explained it to Life Technologies employees today when she expressed a heartfelt thank you to the makers of the DNA analysis human identification product that reunited her with her daughter.  

Life Technologies has just released a free webinar. Ambion scientists Emily Zeringer and Marie Gonzalez present the background, methods and what to expect when extracting nucleic acids from FFPE tissue samples. Watch the FFPE webinar now.

A radio interview with Dr. Paul Billings with ABC New Radio at CES 2012 about DNA Sequencing.

Featuring - John Leamon, Ph.D. - Director of Molecular Biology at Ion Torrent Abstract - Dr. Leamon discusses one of the four Life Technologies Grand Challenges - the Ion Torrent Speed Challenge - where sample prep time is cut in half. John introduces a bit about DNA sample preparation, discusses automation, and offers some ideas to cut the time out of the DNA preparation process.