Laboratory

Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

A test for fetal fibronectin can predict whether a pregnant woman is at risk for early labor and delivery. Those at high risk for pre-term births are women with previous pre-term deliveries, those with multiple gestation pregnancy, and those who suffer from diabetes and/or hypertension. The current approach for finding whether a woman will go into premature labor is the use of a clinical scoring...

Laboratory grown vegetarian meat

Meat grown in laboratories will soon be available for vegetarians. It is possible to produce processed meats such as burgers and sausages, from the cells taken from cow, chicken, pig, fish or other animals.// Growing meat without the animal would not only reduce the need for the animals, which often are kept in less than ideal conditions but also reduces the spread of disease from infected animal...

Child specific HIV drugs and laboratory tests should be developed

Global Health Charity has asked the pharmaceutical companies to develop cheap and effective anti-retroviral drugs with optimum drug concentration// for curing HIV in children’s living in African countries. The charity has also urged the scientists to develop more sensitive and affordable laboratory tests for detecting the virus antibodies in the blood of babies affected with AIDS. There...

Mexico and US border attain a new outlook due to BiNational Sustainability Laboratory

The vice president of Sandia National Laboratories, Gerry Yonas was the first to visualize a need for laboratories in the Mexican border. This led to the development of the BiNational Sustainability Laboratory (BNSL), which extends over an area of 4000 square feet at Santa Teresa. This will mainly augment the border security force and deal with terrorism // with the help from Canada &...

Laboratory Heart valve to study Heart diseases

Researcher Grande-Allen is developing a laboratory heart valve which could be used in testing the action of drugs on heart valves in an invitro model. // This new bioreactor heart valve would help in breaking the etiology behind the cause of heart valve disease. Research on the laboratory heart valve is funded with $750,000 from NIH and the researchers have found the difference in bio...

NCFAD Nominated As Reference Laboratory for Bird Flu and BSE

National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is nominated as a reference laboratory by the world organization //for animal health for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad-cow disease and bird flu. The Winnipeg lab can now provide scientific and technical training for scientific personnel around the world, develop new techniques for diagnosis...

British Laboratory Certifies Coke as 'Safe'

The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) of Britain, Monday questioned India's Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) report of pesticides// in several soft drink brands of Coca Cola and said they did not "detect any such residues". John Gilbert, the science director of CSL, said: "We detected no residues of the pesticides allegedly found in the products by CSE. We question the CSE concl...

India to Set Up Nicotine-Mapping Laboratory

India will soon set up a laboratory of international standards to test the percentage of nicotine in tobacco products made in the country //or coming from outside to help in the fight against tobacco-related diseases, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Tuesday. The tobacco-testing laboratory is to come up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in collaboration with the Atlanta-based Center for Dis...

A Laboratory Filtration System Kills 100 Percent Of Dangerous Microbes In Water

Engineers have developed a laboratory filtration system that uses a simple water purification technique and can eliminate 100 percent of the microbes// in New Orleans water samples left from Hurricane Katrina. The technique makes use of specialized resins, copper and hydrogen peroxide to purify tainted water. National Science Foundation-funded researchers Vishal Shah and Shre...

Erroneous Laboratory Operation May Lead To a Cancer Drug

An error in the laboratory may pave way to the discovery of a new drug for cancer. This was disclosed by Katherine Schaefer of Rochester University Medical Center. //This may be a foundation study for treatments associated with colon, skin, liver and oesophagal cancers. Schaefer was studying to locate therapeutic measures for swelling in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis which resu...

US Army Opens Laboratory to Research Injuries

As the US gets more and more deeply entangled in battlefields across the world, the countrys army is also getting increasingly worried. Apart from deaths and injuries under enemy fire, any number of soldiers are also hurt during training. They get sprained ankles, torn ligaments and stress fractures just like competitive athletes. So the army has opened a laboratory that a...

Taking Animals Out of Laboratory Research

Pioneering work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research and ultimately remove them from laboratories altogether has received a major boost at The University of Nottingham. A laboratory devoted to finding effective alternatives to animal testing has been expanded and completely remodelled in a 240,000 overhaul designed to hasten the development of effective non-animal...