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Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...g simplifies the process, making it safer and more cost effective. Earlier this year, Hashsham was awarded $966,608 from the 21st Century Jobs Fund to develop and commercialize the device. Hashsham, James Tiedje, University Distinguished Professor of crop and soil sciences and director of the Cente...

Pesticides need sunscreen to beat the heat

...sult, thereby reducing the amount required and the cost to the farmer. It could also mean cleaner waters, as the risks of excess pesticide contamination will be lowered. "It can be used for many other pesticides. We are considering it as a platform carrier material for pesticides and have looked at sev...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...uding preventable death, and demonstrates that the cost of increased vaccination could be offset by the reduced demand on healthcare services. "This valuable model shows there is a lost opportunity in Europe right now to protect the health of people at risk across the EU. The real societal burden of in...

Boston University biomedical engineers win major grant for pursuit of the '$1,000 Genome'

...inue groundbreaking research aimed at reducing the cost of sequencing individual human genomes to about $1...ld produce an orders-of-magnitude reduction in the cost of sequencing individuals' DNA." According to NIH, sequencing the 3 billion base pairs on a human ...

Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack

...d further contain the spread of smallpox, but at a cost of many more people being vaccinated," said co-aut...zabeth (Betz) Halloran, M.D., D.Sc. "The financial cost and potential illness and death related to vaccination must be weighed against the potential benefit...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

...ng at McMaster. "This would address wait-time and cost issues associated with MRI, CT and other imaging facilities. It would also reduce the misdiagnosis and uncertainty associated with self-examinations." Research has shown that early detection of cancer improves cure and survival rates dramatically...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...d!" In the developing world it is not possible on cost grounds to give antibiotics to every child with diarrhoea, and in any case antibiotics would not work in every case. The Leicester test includes the facility to determine antibiotic resistance profiles quickly so that the correct antibiotics can be...

High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping

...uencing to look for mutations in a single gene can cost a couple thousand dollars," Dr. Garraway said. "We ran a whole panel of genes for about $60 each, and the price could drop below that with more updated methods." The method uses high-throughput mass spectrometry-based genotyping, which is a sensitiv...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...n to saving lives, such therapies could reduce the cost of treating heart failure by avoiding immune rejection and costly immunosuppressive regimens. The 3rd-ranked application: using engineered immune cells and novel vaccination strategies to improve immunity from infectious disease, would assist countl...

Columbia University licenses next-generation DNA sequencing technology

...eering expertise. We are poised to offer a simple, cost effective platform that will enable many researchers and clinicians to use this next-generation DNA sequencing technology in their own laboratories." Dr. Ju is a prolific inventor of new technologies for applications in genomics using chemistry and...

SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked

...2 2803 (fax) lseidlein@ivi.int Is DOTS plus a cost effective strategies for treating multidrug-resist...tients and showed that in this setting the average cost to the health system was US$3,355, and US$837 to the patients. The authors calculated that the mean ...

Stem cells found in adult hair follicles may provide alternative to embryonic stem cells

...ople today in the US and are estimated to annually cost more than $170 billion. ...

Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting

...le," says Boeke. The chips his team currently uses cost about $400 per experiment. If the amount of information can be quadrupled, "it would be four experiments for the price of one," he says. Standard chips contain one layer of DNA dots that read from left to right, like the across section of a crossw...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...uire annual surveys over a period of 39 years at a cost of approximately $29 million. Moreover, by that time (c. 45 years from now) only some 180 or so vaquitas would be left. Clearly, it is wiser to invest available funds in conservation actions, particularly in ones that offer viable socioeconomic alter...

Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction

... is estimated that whereas methadone treatment can cost almost £1,500 annually per patient, the cost of dihydrocodeine is £713. Dihydrocodeine has been used by GPs and specialists for many years to ...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

The current cost to determine the sequence of nucleotide bases in t...companies hope to use a federal grant to lower the cost to only $1,000 per human genome sequenced. Determining the genome sequence of individuals is conside...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

... "Our new ATRP processes significantly reduce the cost of recycling the catalyst and also decrease the release of hazardous reaction byproducts found in industrial waste," Matyjaszewski added. During ATRP, scientists produce a complex polymer structure using a special catalyst to add one or a few monom...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...es." Walsh contends that Ebola vaccination is a cost effective method of ape conservation. "People in the conservation community are intimidated by the up-front costs of vaccination and would prefer to instead spend the money on anti-poaching. What they are not factoring in is the fact that one year of...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...onsider the vaccine for their daughter if it would cost their family. ...

Archerfish tune their shots to universal properties of prey adhesion

...d to prey in a way that only doubles the energetic cost of the shot; doubling speed of the shot would require quadrupled energetic cost. ...

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