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PFGE Analysis of Chromosomal DNA From a Single Hair Root

Contributed by Jacqueline Boultwood, Gail M. Abrahamson, and J.S. Wainscoat, Leukemia Research Fund, Molecular and CytogeneticHaematology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, OxfordOX3 9DU, United Kingdom Tumor diagnoses, DNA fingerprinting, and other genetic analysisoften require DNA obtained in a no...

Assessing UV damage of hair

The results of UV exposure of human hair can be quantified with fluorescence spectroscopy. This is of significant interest to cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies that manufacture hair creams, coloring, shampoos, and conditioners. For customers involved...

Kyron appoints former AMA chairman to board

Dr. Timothy Flaherty, former chairman of the , a comp...

Third Wave appoints new chairman

Thompson, 63, was the senior vice president and president of...

Midwest biotech stocks receive hefty haircut in first half of 2005

The message was that the major indices were substantially (as can be seen below) with the exception of the Amex Biotech index. In spite of this g...

Thompson To Chair MDVIP Committee On Preventive Healthcare

MDVIP is a provider of personalized healthcare made up of a network of 82 physicians in 14 states. Member physicians limit their practices...

This wheelchair will save lives

The help is badly needed. Spinal cord patients who are paralyzed from the neck or the waist down can...

Cisco Chairman donates $31 million for UW building renovation

The University of Wisconsin-Madisons Education Building, which originally housed the College of Mechanics and Engineering has been unfinished for 104 years, but thanks to a $31 million alumni gift the university will modernize and complete the building, one of Bascom Hills signature historic landmarks. John P. and Tashia F. Morgridge, both UW-Madison alumni, hope the Education Building c...

Bone Care Names New Chairman

Middleton, Wis. -- Bone Care International, Inc. announced Tuesday Herbert Conrad as chairman of the board of directors, replacing founder Richard Mazess. Mazess will remain on the board of directors. Conrad is former president of the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Division of Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. He served as the chairman of the board of directors of GenVec, Inc. from 1996 to 2003, and wa...

Cisco Chairman Praises University Research

The rapid development of Internet and intranet infrastructure helped - the company that developed the first multi-protocol router - achieve explosive growth in the late '80s ad early '90s. But subsequent growth, according to Cisco Chairman John Morgridge, has come from careful expansion of the company's product line. Morgridge spoke...