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... health, they are employing a variety of treatment technologies to attempt to eradicate microbes from incoming wat... and disadvantages of each. "Despite the range of technologies being applied, the problem of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," e...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

... health, they are employing a variety of treatment technologies to attempt to eradicate microbes from incoming wat... and disadvantages of each. "Despite the range of technologies being applied, the problem of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," e...

Tendency to hair loss inherited from the mother

...Bonn University Clinic which uses state of the art technologies to carry out application-oriented aetiology. The original paper can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v77n1/42360/42360.web.pdf ...

Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer

...ntil recently with the advance of several emerging technologies including improved methods to identify, collect, preserve and amplify genetic material and proteins. In this study, the UCLA team found they could isolate messenger RNA from saliva and blood sera that might have diagnostic value for detecting early ...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...rion research and development program to apply its technologies to meet the specific requirements of each nation throughout Europe, followed by Canada and the US. The Company is also developing an ante mortem test to detect infectious prions in cattle prior to entering the food supply. ...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

..."fingerprint," suggests these different microarray technologies are more alike than once thought. Published in th...oard. The researchers also note that although the technologies show general agreement, the results are far from identical. Additional analyses need to be done to d...

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...h the challenges of changing fishing practices and technologies in a developing country. "While it's obvious how vital the ocean's been to me, we're all dependent on an ocean full of life and, in turn, it's dependent on our actions," said grand prize winner Steve Beverly, fisheries development officer for the Se...

Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper Life Sciences

... to broaden and accelerate the availability of new technologies and products for life science and diagnostics applications. "The potential for merging two technologies on the forefront of life science innovation represents an important option for us," said Alan Sherr,...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

... of it essentially inaccessible before now. Modern technologies allow us now to access these data in far more meaningful ways. This is a very big step toward understanding the diversity and distribution of life in the Gulf." Over the coming months, the website will be made even more dynamic by allowing users to ...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

...materials and processes can create new performance technologies and products." At the January 2005 Innovative Design Night, sponsored by the China State Intellectual Property Office and state-run CCTV, Sorona® was selected as the "Most Visionary Innovation" in the sports and health category. Fabrics made with So...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...CLA College. Each collaborator brings leading-edge technologies to the table: integrated microfluidics to aid in cell isolation, microarrays and shape encoded particle approaches for gene expression analysis, proteomics using advanced mass spectroscopy, large-scale computational facilities for bioinformatics, and...

Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa

...nlight," Agblevor said. "We have developed coating technologies to improve on the environmental persistence of the biopesticide, specifically a lignin coating for the spores, which increases their resistance to ultraviolet radiation." Research at Virginia Tech demonstrated UV resistance 15 times greater for coate...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...tet will have access to a number of new microarray technologies from Affymetrix, including the Mapping 100K. The 100K is the first in a family of products that will allow researchers at Karolinska Institutet to perform high-density genome scans and genome-wide association studies on the genetics of complex diseas...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

...ral ordering and range of pore sizes. Most current technologies can only produce 2-dimensional hexagonal structure with small pore diameter ( IBN’s simple wet-chemical technique uses two different types of surfactant (a soluble chemical compound that reduces the surface tension between liquids). One surfactant a...

Devising Nano Vision for an Optical Microscope

...mbination of illumination, detection and computing technologies can circumvent this limitation. Success would extend the technology’s 400-year-long record as an indispensable imaging and measurement tool well into the expanding realm of nanotechnology. Called phase-sensitive, scatter-field optical imaging, the c...

The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born

...d cost-effective innovation in life sciences. The technologies include TransBacter, a new method for transferring...the choice and development of the crop improvement technologies best suited to their own priorities", says Richard Jefferson, founder and CEO of CAMBIA and Adjunct ...

Scientists identify molecular events that drive cell senescence

...ith a "gene gun." Thegene gun and gene-vaccination technologies were invented by Dr. StephenAlbert Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipulatethe immune response," Dr. Johnston said. "This stud...

Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results

...ith a "gene gun." Thegene gun and gene-vaccination technologies were invented by Dr. StephenAlbert Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipulatethe immune response," Dr. Johnston said. "This stud...

Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system

...esearchers need further developments in microarray technologies and bioinformatic approaches to better understand the complex neurobiological mechanisms underlying alcohol addiction. "Future research will need to determine changes in gene expression in very discrete neuronal pathways that may be involved in media...

Development of portable infectious disease detector

...yses."I'm thrilled at how well the VIIBRE and PRIA technologies mesh," saysJohn P. Wikswo, professor of biomedical engineering, physiology andphysics at Vanderbilt and director of VIIBRE. "We are already makingrapid progress on prototyping portable instruments for clinicaldiagnosis and biodefense.""Today the trea...

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