axis in Biological Technology

Nikon Instruments Introduces NIS-Elements Software for Eclipse Ti-E Live-Cell Applications

... control of all Ti-E motorized components including the piezo Z axis fast focusing device, the Ti-E's standard internal closed loop, motorized Z axis focusing functions, Nikon's unique motorized stages, shutters, filter ...

DOR BioPharma Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for orBec(R) for the Treatment of Chronic Gastrointestinal GVHD

... include local and disseminated infections, Epstein-Barr virus associated lymphoproliferative disease, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis suppression, myopathy, glucose intolerance, neuropsychiatric disease and bone demineralization. About orBec ((R) ) Beclomethasone ...

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

... arranged in helical spirals. In the mutant bacteria, the chlorophyll molecules are positioned at a nearly 90-degree angle in relation to the long axis of the nanotubes, whereas the angle is less steep in the wild-type organism. "It's the orientation of the chlorophyll molecules that is the most ...

Preclinical Data From Amgen's Oncology Pipeline to be Presented at AACR

... glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) Overview: Examined the effect of combining a fully human neutralizing antibody targeting the HGF:c-Met axis (AMG 102), with a fully human antibody binding to the EGFR and EGFRvIII (panitumumab) to overcome resistance to HGF:c-Met based ...

Pharmos Corporation Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter Results

... and develops novel therapeutics to treat a range of indications including specific diseases of the nervous system such as disorders of the brain-gut axis (IBS), pain/inflammation, and autoimmune disorders. The Company's lead product in development, dextofisopam, is undergoing Phase 2b testing in IBS ...

Pharmos Announces Agreement to Sell Certain CB2 Selective Agonists

... and develops novel therapeutics to treat a range of indications including specific diseases of the nervous system such as disorders of the brain-gut axis (IBS), pain/inflammation, and autoimmune disorders. The Company's lead product in development, dextofisopam, is undergoing Phase 2b testing in IBS ...

Pharmos Corporation Announces That it Will Cease Operations in Israel

... and develops novel therapeutics to treat a range of indications including specific diseases of the nervous system such as disorders of the brain-gut axis (GI/IBS), pain/inflammation, and autoimmune disorders. The Company's lead product in development, dextofisopam, is undergoing Phase 2b testing in IBS ...

Pharmos Corporation Reports 2008 Second Quarter Results

... and develops novel therapeutics to treat a range of indications including specific diseases of the nervous system such as disorders of the brain-gut axis (GI/IBS), pain/inflammation, and autoimmune disorders. The Company's lead product in development, dextofisopam, is undergoing Phase 2b testing in IBS ...

Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development Unites Johnson & Johnson Biopharmaceutical Oncology R&D Assets

... drugs for the treatment of cancer. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery; 2002, 1, 287 - 299. (v) Lesko, E and Majka, M. The biological role of HGF-MET axis in tumor growth and developmentof metastasis. Fron Biooscie; 2008, 13: 1271-80. (vi) Sattler, M and Salgia R. c-Met and hepatocyte growth ...

'Two-Faced' Particles Act Like Tiny Submarines

... and one metal-coated hemisphere induced by uniform fields of frequency 100Hz-10kHz in NaCl solutions. The motion is perpendicular to the field axis and persists after particles are attracted to a glass wall. This phenomenon may find application in microactuators, microsensors and microfluidic ...

A new wide field-of-view confocal imaging system and its applications in drug discovery and pathology

... chief ray always emerges parallel to the optical axis during the scan, i.e., the chief ray of the ... with an angle Θ with respect to the optical axis at a distance F * Θ from the optical axis. ... the focal plane up and down along the optical axis of the scan lens, to bring thin specimens with ...

National Instruments DIAdem -- Complete Your Technical Data Management Framework with Powerful Off-line Analysis, Visualization, and Report Generation

... icon-based menu Use 2D, 3D, 4D, 6D axis systems, polar coordinates, graphics, tables, ... isoline projection, curves in space; multiple axis systems, also combinable with 2D axis 3D Math -- various conversions from ...

Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Pure Cell Populations from Frozen UterineTissue Using Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) and cDNA Microarrays

... by MA scatter plot (Figure. 3). The horizontal axis shows the A value representing the signal intensity and the vertical axis shows the M value representing the gene ... by MA scatter plot (Fig. 3). The horizontal axis of Figure 3 (Mean of A) represents the signal ...

Internet-enabled niche markets take center stage

... specifically to the segment of a demand curve that includes a vertical axis or head representing traditional products, and a horizontal axis (the long tail) representing niche products. Most new growth opportunities ...

Sub-Micron Gold Particles Are Superior to Larger Particles for Efficient Biolistic Transformation of Organelles and Some Cells

... of the diameter, and the aspect ratio (the ratio of the long axis of the particle to the short axis of the particle a measure of sphericity) is provided with every ...

Quantitation of DNA for Automated Sequencing Using the VersaFluor Fluorometer

... fluorescence units (RFUs) and were plotted on a graph with the x axis = DNA concentration (ng) and the y axis = RFU (Figure 2). The slope of the line was determined to be ...

Are siRNA Pools Smart?

... results using the various siRNA combinations. Zero on the y axis is set to 2 standard deviations below the average signal from ... of the three replicates is presented, where zero on the y axis is set to 2 standard deviations below the average signal from ...

Automated Fluorescent-Tag Cycle Sequencing

... point. By detecting the fluorescent-dye tags along the electrophoretic axis of the gel, the instrument can automatically determine the correct ... tag. As the excitation laser scans along the electrophoretic axis of the gel, it excites and detects the emission from each tag ...

With ethics guidelines, political consensus emerging on stem-cell research

... for reproductive treatments. Human embryos used for research should not be grown in culture longer than 14 days, the point at which the body axis and central nervous system begin to form. Each institution involved in stem cell research should create an advisory board to oversee the work. ...

The Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 New Advances in Scanner Design for Superior Performance, Reliability, and Dynamic Range

... internal optics bench, the other in the center of the scan-arm. This optical structure creates a periscope, whose optical path is co-axial with the axis of rotation of the galvanometer, and carries both excitation (forward path) and emission (return path) beams (Figure 2). As a result of this ...

A Microtiter-based Assay for the Determination of ID50s of b-lactamase Inhibitors Employing Reporter Substrates Detected at UV or Visible Wavelengths (MaxLine Application Note #20)

... plate. Step 11 Rapidly place the plate on the carriage of the SPECTRAmax 250 and click on the READ button. Step 12 The axis of the well graphs can be changed while reading by clicking the reduction button in the plate window. Reading can be stopped at any point before the ...

Development of a CRF1 neuropeptide receptor binding assay using LEADseeker Multimodality Imaging System

... CRF 1 receptors play an important role in stress responses and stress-related behaviors mediated through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and through extra-hypothalamic systems (3).

This application note describes a 384-well CRF 1 neuropeptide receptor binding assay developed ...

Detection, identification, and quantitation of an olive allergen using Ettan MDLC, MS/MS, and DeCyder MS

... are subtracted, and charge states are assigned. Furthermore, the LC-MS data is presented as two-dimensional intensity maps with m/z on the y axis and retention time (RT) on the x axis, as shown in Figure 3. The density of the grayscale pattern confined within the blue boxes is proportional to ...

Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun

... the worm forward or backward in a sweeping sinusoidal motion, will cause the nematode instead to roll over its longitudinal axis and to move in circles (Mello et al., 1991; Fire, 1986; Kramer et al., 1990). In the case of L. sigmodontis, no special selection mode is ...

Improving RNA Amplification

... from IVT reactions incubated at 4, 6, or 14 hours were plotted versus the Standard (4 hr IVT; 1000 ng RNA input). The X and Y axis represent the log2 of the expression values estimated using RMA. Expression Analysis at Lower RNA ...

Cells-to-cDNA II Applications

... control siRNA. Figure 1. Optimization of siRNA Transfection Using Cells-to-cDNA II Automated Protocol. The Y axis shows GAPDH expression after transfection with GAPDH siRNA as a percent of expression after transfection with the negative ...