Scientists design potent anthrax toxin inhibitor
...s to the cell's outer surface. PA can be seen as a bundle of seven cigar-shaped parts, a molecular arrangement referred to as "polyvalent," meaning it displays multiple binding sites. The inhibitor designed by Dr. Kane and his colleagues is also polyvalent. Just as a glove matches the shape of a hand more...New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women
...nvolved in cell division. The meiotic spindle is a bundle of microtubules, some of which become attached to chromosomes, providing the mechanism for chromosomal movement. "Before freezing we observed meiotic spindles in 62.5% of oocytes, but in only 43.4% after thawing. This is statistically significant a...The shape of life: research sheds light on how cells take shape
... 'wave' that fans create during a soccer game. One bundle buckles, then it sets off another bundle, then another bundle, until you get a sea of undulating stripes," Valles said. "What's exciting is that this finding may provide insight into how the shapes that make up the human body are created." Tang agr...Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, and may promote infection
... two to six flagella that can rotate together as a bundle and act as a propeller to drive the cell forward. Away from any boundaries, the cells swim in a straight line, but near a surface, opposing forces of flow and bacterial forward motion cause the bacteria to continuously swim to one side ?to the left."...Laser Capture Microdissection of muscle fiber populations and expression analysis by RT-PCR
...ageous to search for fibers on the edge of a fiber bundle as they prove to be easier to dissect without picking up undesired fiber populations. 13. To avoid cross-contamination by other cell types, every cap is scanned visually after the dissection by placing the cap on a...The business case for software applications
...uent, it must be positioned to evaluate a software bundle that matches its own architecture. The other side of that coin is skill sets, Cagigal indicated. Since the company has committed to products that require certain skill sets, it can save a good deal of money by making sure it doesn't have to hire ext...Milwaukee software developer gains bottom line, loses waistline
... manufacturers help by marketing the software they bundle on their devices. While O2 has committed to buying 50,000 copies of Agenda One to start with, and Developer One has sold more than one million copies of its software online or through reseller channels, Psuik believes the potential market for mobile ...How Intuit competes with Microsoft, IRS
...Schar said. The fact that the software giant can bundle its small business accounting product with Microsoft Office didn't ease his discomfort, but Intuit began to develop a winning mindset by convincing the public early on that QuickBooks already had won the battle. Protecting the ecosystem The com......i designed the bundled system so that parts of the bundle play a role in staff recruitment and retention, a key objective in an era of severe nursing shortages. Shift bidding, for example, has become a buzzword in the nursing industry, but it's also a key feature of the api system. Staffing agency workers...Left handed have better episodic memory
...and are connected by a larger corpus callosum (the bundle of mediating fibres) than the hemispheres of people with right-handed relatives.// The main difference is that people who ‘remember’ can also recall details about the time and place at which they first learned this fact.”Christman and Propper concl...Researchers developed world’s smallest toothbrus
... the nano tube growth in that end. The size of the bundle of nanotubes will typically be some micrometers in diameter. The brush can clean extremely well the very small particles using electrostatic interactions. The handle of the three pronged brush is attached with a small electric motor that can clean t...Women At A Greater Risk For Heart Failure
..., smoking, and two different heart disorders (left bundle branch block and left ventricular hypertrophy). However researchers say that further studies are needed to determine whether the high risk of heart failure in diabetic women can be reversed with glucose control, treatment to halt the progression of ...Adolescent Marijuana Smokers Face Risk Of Developing Schizophrenia
...patients and in marijuana users. It is formed by a bundle of fibers that connects the front of the brain to deeper regions. Surprisingly, this growth deficiency was only seen on the left side in teenagers with schizophrenia, while schizophrenia patients who also abuse marijuana showed problems on both sid...Webster Parahisian octapolar catheter
...imultaneous Parahisian pacing and recording of His bundle electrograms. The "two catheters in one" design en...ectrodes can be positioned along the His and right bundle branch when a differential diagnosis includes VT and bundle branch re-entry.......e femoral tunnels necessary in arthroscopic double bundle PCL reconstruction. The guides simplify guide pin placement for anterolateral and posteromedial femoral tunnel sockets drilled endoscopically from an anterolateral portal. During anterolateral tunnel placement a guide can be used either to reference...SlimLine Self-Dilating Autoclavable Operating Semi-Rigid Ureteroscope
...ortion-free optics and a large, high-density image bundle for an enhanced, clear image. The universal camera mount eyepiece is preset to "0" diopters. The direction of view is 5 in water for safe instrument passage. The straight access operating channel is ideal for virtually all intracorporeal lithotripsy ...FlexiGel Strands® Absorbent Wound Dressing
... Absorbent Wound Dressing is a sterile, single use bundle of absorbent matrix for use in moist wound dressing applications. The synthetic matrix absorbs excess exudate fluid, swells to conform to the wound contours, and entraps slough and necrotic debris within its strands to assist in debridement. The st......d design that hermetically encloses the fiberoptic bundle and halogen bulb within the blade....