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Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents

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Diamond Film May Enable Critical New Sensors For Bioterror

MADISON - In this time of the chronic threat of terrorism and the possibility of war with an adversary who may be armed with biological weapons, high on the wish list of security agencies and battlefield commanders is a quick and easy way to detect the presence of dangerous biological agents. Now, with the help of a novel diamond film developed by chemists at the University of Wisconsin-...

Reduce Errors and Save Time When Setting Up PCRs

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) setup typically requiresthawing of the various reagents, setting up a master mix,then distributing the mix to the individual reaction tubes. The various handling steps can cause pipetting mistakes and experimental erro...

Novel MicroRNA Array Technology for Sensitive miRNA Profiling

The miRNA gene family contains hundreds of translation regulators, yet their presence and function has only recently been reported in the literature (see <A...

MicroRNA Profiling by Array Analysis Reveals Critical BioMarkers

Jaclyn Shingara, Kerri Keiger, Ila Wolf, Jeffrey Shelton, Emmanuel Labourier, and David Brown R&D Division, Ambion, Inc. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, siRNA-like molecules, encoded in the genomes of plants and animals,...

Highly Sensitive microRNA Array Performance

Vana miRNA Labeling Kit MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are extremely small RNA species that represent approximately 0.01% of the total mass of RNA in a sample (10 g total RNA contains ~1 ng miRNA). Due...

Getting Started with MicroRNA Research

Illumination of a Critical Regulation Pathway of Protein Expression MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently identified class of cellular RNAs that regulate protein expression at the translational level. The active, mature miRNAs are 1724 base, single-stranded RNA molecules...

The let-7 microRNA Family Regulates RAS: Implications for Development and Oncogenesis

Drs. Frank Slack, Steven Johnson, and Helge Grosshans, and Ms. Kristy Reinert at Yale University, in collaboration with Ambion scientists, discovered that the microRNA (miRNA) family regulates the expression of C. elegans...

Performance of Ad-A-Gene Cyclic AMP Response Element-Nitroreductase (CRE-NTR): an adenoviral vector gene delivery system

adenoviral vector ● viral transduction ● NTR ● IN Cell Analyzer ● gene delivery Biological assays developed in cultured and primary cells can greatly aid secondary screening as well as lead and target validation, but their development presents several challenges. Establishing stable cell systems to expre...

New Automated Yeast Cell Counter Ends Tedium & Errors of Manual Counting

, an automated device for counting mammalian cells, the new NucleoCounter YC-100 for yeast combines a fluorescence microscope with CCD camera and integrated i...

CIO Leadership Series: Phil Loftus, Aurora Health Care

He's in charge of defining and implementing the information services component of Aurora's strategic goal - to provide an integrated approach to the delivery of care. <div class="MugShot...

Aurora to install TeraMedica's Evercore technology

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Aurora team implants Wisconsin's first total artificial heart

"We are very proud to have been among the first to introduce this new technology to our patients," said Tector, the medical d...

Aurora ranks among most wired systems

- Consumers seeking increased connectivity with their healthcare providers hope that digital and Internet-based tools will help reduce medical errors and make services easier to access. Although the streamlining of clinical practices with secure, transferable medical data is evolving piecemeal, a group of Wisconsin hospitals appears to be among the leaders of this technolog...

WTN Interview: HHS Secretary calls for $550 million health care fund to reduce deaths caused by medical errors

: SAN FRANCISCO Wisconsins consummate cheerleader, former governor and current Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, was the featured lunch keynote speaker Monday at the BIO 2004 Conference, talking place this week in San Francisco. Thompson took the podium after San Franciscos new mayor,...

UW Hospital completes deployment of error-reducing technology

MADISON The has completed its hospital-wide deployment of a point-of-care bar code scanning application, with the final system being implemented in the hospital's pediatric units. The system, deve...

Aurora Health to provide eICU care

MILWAUKEE - , based in Milwaukee, will become the first health system in Wisconsin to offer life-saving eICU technology to its critical-care patients. The eICU solution uses high-fidelity telemedicine, early warning software and electronic monitoring to connect and provide off-site critical care physicians and nurses...

OpGen Database Helps to Reduce Bioterrorist Threat

MADISON, Wis. - The need to rapidly identify biological agents that could be used for bioterrorist attacks has led to the creation of a genome database map by One of the most inf...

Aurora Selects New Imaging Technology

MILWAUKEE,WI -- Aurora Health Care is planning to open a new state-of-art healthcare facility in October, 2003. This all new digital hospital will include the latest in digital imaging technology from technology vendor Emageon. Both patients and physicians will benefit from enterprise storage and distribution of digital medical images across its integrated delivery network (IDN). Aurora...

Wisconsin to Receive $25 Million for Bioterrorism

WASHINGTON - HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has made available an additional $1.4 billion to increase the capacity of states, territories and metro areas to respond to terrorism and other public health emergencies. Wisconsin is scheduled to...