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WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...es are being restored including provision of rapid diagnostic kits, medical supplies and equipment, and training...00 insecticide-treated mosquito nets, 20,000 rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and 150,000 treatment courses of artemisinin-based combination therapy - the most ...

Products containing specific probes for detecting alternative splice forms protected

...ets in multiple arenas, including the therapeutic, diagnostic and research tool markets ?areas in which these claims will further increase our market share." ...

Scientists identify molecule that regulates well-known tumor suppressor

... has also been recently identified as a predictive diagnostic for early-onset, autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease. The other members of the research team include Raymond H. Kim, YingJu Jang, and Tak W. Mak of Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto; Malte Peters, Carmela DeLuca, Jennifer Liepa,...

Same-Sex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

...better positioned we are to develop cost-effective diagnostic or therapeutic interventions." The fungal strategy may also contribute to scientists' general understanding of the conditions that favor evolutionary transitions between self-fertilization and sexual reproduction among unrelated individuals, known t...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...called Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) were used as diagnostic fingerprints for human tissues to determine their unique features and disease status. These information-rich data allowed researchers to forge ahead with studying genes important in disease processes, long before the completion of the entire human ge...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

... Health Diagnostic Center, the official regulatory diagnostic laboratory for equine diseases in New York state. ...professor of virology and director of the virology diagnostic laboratory at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell. He says that Cornell only administers ...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

...d vessels and heart tissue. TEE is a safe and fast diagnostic technique. However, current TEE systems can quickly generate only two-dimensional cross-sectional images. This limitation makes it impractical for use in guiding therapeutic treatment devices such as ablation probes that burn off damaged cells that ...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...ach also avoids the ethical issues associated with diagnostic testing, such as alerting a blood donor that he or... fatal disease. Regardless, there are no available diagnostic tests sensitive enough to identify asymptomatic vCJD infected people. Measures to Safeguard the Blo...

Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer

...ger RNA from saliva and blood sera that might have diagnostic value for detecting early cancer. In the cell, messenger RNA or mRNA carries a copy of the genetic code or DNA, housed in the cell's nucleus, to other parts of the cell for protein manufacture. The process by which genes are copied to mRNA, via an en...

Norovirus found to cause traveler's diarrhea

...ea is warranted. The simple, inexpensive molecular diagnostic techniques used in this study to identify Norovirus-positive stool samples could serve to facilitate future Norovirus-related research in developing countries. "Prevalence of Norovirus among U.S. Visitors to Mexico and Guatemala Experiencing Travele...

Unchecked DNA replication drives earliest steps toward cancer

... and DNA breaks could also be used as an effective diagnostic tool to identify precancerous cells. "The presence of DNA breaks in precancerous and cancer cells may turn out to be the Achilles heel of cancer," Halazonetis says. "It might be possible to inhibit repair of these DNA breaks, in which case the cance...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...ation of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) for molecular diagnostic testing. The first product from PreAnalytiX, the P...hnology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies as well as leading academic, government and not-for-profit research inst...

Microscopes at microscopic size

...es. Our next step will be to develop simple, small diagnostic devices. Future generations may be able to use the...for hand-held systems that will be able to perform diagnostic functions in the field that currently require a laboratory test." Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief...

Characterizing Skin Cancer by Microarrays

... will provide a basis for developing new molecular diagnostic techniques and, eventually, targeted therapies for patients with skin cancer. PNAS is the multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1914, PNAS publishes daily online and weekly in print. The preceding ...

Comprehensive biodefense text published

...threats and future preparation, and development of diagnostic tests for identifying biological warfare pathogens. Intended for researchers, physicians, and policy makers, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism offers a detailed look at the ongoing efforts to detect and identify t...

TrueBlue Archive Will Store Raw Life Sciences Data for Proteomics and Drug Testing

...threats and future preparation, and development of diagnostic tests for identifying biological warfare pathogens. Intended for researchers, physicians, and policy makers, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism offers a detailed look at the ongoing efforts to detect and identify t...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...treatment. Health costs included physician visits, diagnostic tests and complications of chronic liver disease. Investigators based the model on average 40-year old patients with the most common type of chronic hepatitis B -- with elevated liver enzymes but no liver cirrhosis. Investigators also took into cons...

Affymetrix and bioMerieux Extend Their Agreement on GeneChip(R) Technology to Breast Cancer Diagnostics

...eChip(R) technology to develop and market in vitro diagnostic tests for breast cancer, as well as an option to e...Diagnostics. "bioMerieux is at the cutting edge of diagnostic technology and we are pleased that they have chosen the Affymetrix platform for this project." Unde...

A probe, not an echo

...is a novel and potentially very useful approach to diagnostic ultrasound," said Dr. Phillip W. Ralls, a professor and vice chair in the USC Keck School of Medicine department of radiology. "The potential clinical benefits of the superb images obtained by this completely safe, non-invasive technique are very exc...

Research Reveals Functions Of Harmful Shellfish Pathogens

...nated shellfish. This research may provide better diagnostic capabilities and treatment strategies to further reduce shellfish-related illnesses. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency. ...

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