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Title: Quantum Dot Thinks Big: Company to Watch

Author: Lawson, Stephen Article Type: Company
Source: Bio IT World, v3 n2 p30(1) Publication Date: Feb 2004
  ISSN: 1538-5728
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URL of Publication: http://www.bio-itworld.com

Quantum Dot, a provider of higher end, minute semiconductors sized at nanometers across, recently inked a deal with Matsushita Electric produce a device for study of samples treated with Qbead microspheres linked combinations of Qdot nanocrystals. Up to 200 one of a kind microspheres with attached probes can be built by combining nanocrystals process allows researchers to detect expression of 200 disparate gene sample. The system permits researchers to study hundreds of genes in of sample each day. Quantum Dot's Qdots for cell analysis, which are for gene expression, and medical diagnostics and other applications, allow crystals to bond with proteins. Researchers can track the proteins to about cells in a sample. Quantum Dot, which was founded in 1998, has licenses to discoveries of Moungi Bawendi of MIT and Paul Alivisatos of the University of California at Berkeley. Qdot manufacturing is done in a lab at headquarters. Such companies as Genentech have used Qdots to establish the concentrsubstances in a sample. Researchers are also attaching Qdots to singl to track molecule activity. The tiny size and Qdots permit scientists to track the activity of receptors in real time and in live cultured neurons.

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