tube in Biological Technology

Miniaturizing memory: Taking data storage to the molecular level

... inside another slightly larger one, the inner tube will 'float' within the outer, responding to ... power through the nanotubes allows the inner tube to be pushed in and out of the outer tube. This ... action can either connect or disconnect the inner tube to an electrode, creating the 'zero' or 'one' ...

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces 2008 First Quarter Results

... a Phase I/II ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube cancer trial. The trial is currently ... metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers using concurrent systemic and ... with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers. These cancer indications were selected ...

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Filing of Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial with REOLYSIN(R)

... with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers using concurrent systemic and ... with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers. These cancer indications were selected ... with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers, and the Company's belief as to the ...

Brooks Instrument Completes Acquisition of Celerity's Instrumentation Division

... MT3750). Today, Brooks Instrument's portfolio includes glass and metal tube variable area meters (rotameters), thermal mass flow controllers and ... precision machined acrylic flow meters, molded plastic flow meters, glass tube flow meters, electronic flow meters, and flow control valves. Brooks ...

Varian Medical Systems to Exhibit X-ray and CT Technologies for Non-Destructive Testing at the Upcoming ASNT 18th Annual Spring Conference

... performance on large volume data sets. A line of high KV X-ray tube sources for non-destructive inspection (NDI), including the new Beryllium ... and other industrial applications. The new Beryllium window NDI 451 tube can be used at energy levels ranging between 75kV and 450kV. The ...

Using living cells as nanotechnology factories

... all of the material from scratch. To date, it has strictly been a test tube science, where researchers have developed many toolboxes for making ... were also found to fold correctly, just like the previously built test tube structures. According to Yan, the results also proved the key existence of ...

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Start of Enrolment in Phase 1/2 Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trial with REOLYSIN(R)

... trial for patients with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube cancers using concurrent intravenous (IV) and intraperitoneal (IP) ... trial for patients with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube cancers, and the Company's belief as to the potential of REOLYSIN(R) as a ...

Millennium Biotechnologies Announces an Increased Annualized Purchase Commitment Totaling $5.8M from Provider Services, Inc.

... Long Term Care product line by launching additional products, including a tube feeding product as well as products designed and developed for the ... dollar marketing opportunity, we believe that these products and their tube feeding and diabetic line extensions will provide an exceptional revenue ...

Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world

... different temperatures at the two ends of the long nanotube. The shorter tube thus moves from the warmer to the colder area and is similar to how air ... to generate and control movements. The movements along the longer tube can be controlled with a precision of less than the diameter of an atom. ...

Biomatrica's RNAstable(TM) Stabilizes RNA at Room Temperature

... RNA, researchers simply need to pipette their samples directly into a tube or well of RNAstable and let dry. Sample recovery requires just adding ... samples with minimal effort on the bench top in a 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tube or 96-well plate containing RNAstable, greatly reducing reliance on costly ...

World's smallest radio fits in the palm of the hand...of an ant

... fiber of that material. Fixed between two electrodes, the vibrating tube successfully performed the four critical roles of a radio--antenna, ... a wave of photons that travels in a controlled manner--washes across the tube and causes it to resonate. This mechanical action is what amplifies and ...

World's smallest radio uses single nanotube to pick up good vibrations

... Nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of interlocked carbon atoms that form a tube so strong that some scientists have suggested using a nanotube wire to ... signal. This is similar to the field-emission amplification of old vacuum tube amplifiers used in early radios and televisions, Zettl said. The amplified ...

Of mice and men: new male contraceptives successful in rodents and humans

... no sperm. The Intra Vas Device blocks sperm in the vas deferens, the tube sperm swim through (the same tube that is cut in vasectomy). The set of plugs can be removed if a man ...

Video shows nanotube spins as it grows

... with new atoms attaching to twisting atomic threads. The new video appears to support the theory, indicating that atoms are added in pairs as the tube spins and grows. To create the images, Purcell's team at LPMCN (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matire Condense et Nanostructures) used a field ...

Biomodels Expands Efforts in Cancer Supportive Care, Pulmonary Fibrosis; Preclinical Research Organization Names Dr. Stephen T. Sonis as Partner

... patients, especially patients with great clinical need," Dr. Sonis said. "Biomodels' success in assisting industry to make the transition from test tube to the clinic as smoothly, quickly, safely and predictably as possible has been exciting for me. "I look forward to our continued ...

Fallopian tubes offer new stem cell source

... 35-53 years) who had not undergone hormonal treatment for at least three months prior to surgery. The Brazilian team found that human fallopian tube mesenchymal stem cells could be easily isolated and expanded in vitro, and are able to differentiate into muscle, fat, cartilage and bone cell lines. ...

BD and FIND Achieve Milestone in Global Battle Against MDR-TB

... shipping costs, tariffs, fees and other local costs that vary from country to country. The agreement provides for potential added discounts as test tube volume expands. BD and FIND said they were able to accelerate the program with the help of financial support from a consortium consisting of ...

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

... electrical current can be shuttled back and forth inside a hollow carbon nanotube with remarkable precision. The shuttle's position inside the tube can be read out directly via a simple measurement of electrical resistance, allowing the shuttle to function as a nonvolatile memory element with ...

Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill

... could precisely travel along a certain path to a sensor for disease diagnostics. With such a tiny system, a nurse wouldn't need to draw a whole tube of blood for a test. A scratch on the skin might contain more than enough cells for a micro-analysis." Guo's team has also created metal that ...

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

... The pictures revealed that chlorophyll molecules inside chlorosomes have a nanotube shape. "They are like Russian dolls, with one concentric tube fitting inside the next," said Bryant. "The mutant bacterium's chlorosomes contain only one set of tubes, whereas the wild-type chlorosomes contain ...

MIT: New material could lead to faster chips

... carbon nanotubes, which also are made of one-atom-thick sheets of carbon. But in those materials, the carbon sheets are rolled up in the form of a tube or a ball. While physicists had long speculated that flat sheets of the material should be theoretically possible, some had doubted that it could ...

RainDance Technologies Reviews Opportunities for Growth at Cowen Health Care Conference

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

Veridiam Appoints Andrew Gale as Chief Executive Officer

... unique manufacturing processes, design for manufacturability, material selection/development, rapid prototyping, comprehensive component machining, tube drawing/forming and assembly. ...

Brooks Instrument's New Mass Flow Controller Series Is Immune to Pressure and Temperature Fluctuations

... PA USA, and manufacturing locations, regional sales, and service offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Brooks' products include glass and metal tube variable area meters (rotameters) , thermal mass flow meters and controllers , Coriolis mass flow meters, controllers and transmitters , pressure ...

Anti-cancer gene discovered: Perspective for therapy

... Humans with colon cancer frequently have an inactivated ATOH1 gene, the researchers observed. Treatment The researchers could in a test tube reactivate the gene in human colon cancer cells. The tumor cells stopped growing and committed suicide. Since they were able to switch the gene on ...

'Enrichment of Genomic Loci for Targeted Sequencing Application' Is Focus of 2009 AGBT Conference Workshop

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimize ...

'Biology in Pico-Liter Droplets' is Focus of Presentation at LabAutomation 2009

... tm technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Technologies and Harvard University to Share in First Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Cooperative Research Grants

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Technologies to Present Workshop on Sequence Enrichment Using Innovative Microdroplet-Based Solutions at ASHG 2008

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Technologies to Present 'Sequence Enrichment Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics' Workshop at ASHG 2008

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to JCVI

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

Genetic clock makers at UC San Diego publish their 'timepiece' in Nature

... Nature on 29 October, 2008. One next step is to synchronize the clocks within large numbers of E. coli cells so that all the cells in a test tube would blink in unison. "This would start to look a lot like the makings of a fascinating environmental sensor," said Jeff Hasty, a UC San Diego ...

Ferring Celebrates Winner of 2008 My Little Miracle Essay Contest During National Infertility Awareness Week

... (corticorelin ovine triflutate for injection) for the differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome; and DESMOPRESSIN ACETATE in injectable and rhinal tube forms for the treatment of diabetes insipidus and primary nocturnal enuresis. The Ferring Group specializes in the research, development ...

Dry adhesive based on carbon nanotubes gets stronger, with directional gripping ability

... as a real gecko. The resistance to shear increased with the length of the nanotubes, while the resistance to normal force was independent of tube length. Though the material might seem most appropriate for use by Spider-Man, the real applications may be less glamorous. Because carbon ...

RainDance Technologies Signs a Collaboration Agreement with sanofi-aventis and Louis Pasteur University to Launch dScreen Consortium within ALSACE BIOVALLEY cluster

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt proven assays for high-speed workflows with minimized ...

RainDance Dedicates New Headquarters, Manufacturing Facility

... technology produces picoliter-volume droplets at a rate of 10 million per hour. Each droplet is the functional equivalent of an individual test tube and can contain a single molecule, reaction, or cell. This versatile technology can adapt highly referenced assays for high-speed workflows with ...

Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT) Highlighted in Five Podium Presentations at the Fifth International Conference on High Pressure; PBI Introduces the Patent-pending 'PCT Shredder' at the Meeting

... of the sample preparation process. The PCT Shredder was designed to rapidly and safely process a wide range of such samples. It uses the same PULSE tube as the PCT Sample Preparation System (PCT SPS). This allows scientists to homogenize tough samples in the PCT Shredder followed directly by ...

Dr. Paul Korner Joins Ferring Pharmaceuticals as Vice President, Medical Affairs

... (corticorelin ovine triflutate for injection) for the differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome; DESMOPRESSIN ACETATE in injectable and rhinal tube forms for the treatment of diabetes insipidus and primary nocturnal enuresis; and PROSED(R) DS for the relief of discomfort of the lower urinary ...

33rd ESMO Congress in Stockholm, 12-16 September 2008

... Friedlander from Australia presenting the results of an international collaborative trial involving patients with recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal carcinoma. Late-breaking data: New treatment option for women with recurrent ovarian cancer (Embargoed until Monday, 15 ...