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Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

A unique rover-based life detection system developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientists has found signs of life in Chile's Atacama Desert, according to results being presented at the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference March 14-18 in Houston. This marks the first time a rover-based automated technology has been used to identify life in this harsh region, which serves as a test bed f...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

The first gene chip ever to be developed for detecting SCID (primary immunodeficiency) in newborns will be presented to researchers for the first time at the New York Academy of Sciences' and Jeffrey Modell Foundation's one-day conference, Primary Immunodeficiencies: Past, Present, Future. The meeting will take place on April 25 at Rockefeller University, Caspary Auditorium, 1230 York Avenue, NY...

A clue from macaques yields evidence for impaired retroviral defense genes in humans

Researchers Harmit Malik and Michael Emerman and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that a surprisingly large fraction of humans may be impaired in the function of a recently discovered arm of the body's defense against invading retroviruses such as HIV. One of the key components of this "intrinsic immunity" is encoded by the TRIM5 gene. This gene was disc...

Disappearing nest egg: Researcher studying declining numbers of macaws

One of the most colorful birds in the world may have a less-than-colorful future. Macaws, the largest members of the parrot family, have seen their numbers decline in recent decades, and that trend is continuing today. Dr. Don Brightsmith, a bird specialist at Texas A&M University's Schubot Exotic Bird Center, part of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, is s...

National Academies advisory: Invasive aquatic species in the Great Lakes

On May 7, a National Research Council committee will hold a meeting in Toronto to gather information on trade in the Great Lakes region and ways to eliminate further introductions of nonindigenous aquatic species into the lakes by vessels traveling the St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee's final report will comment on the strengths and weaknesses of various options and recommend those that seem mo...

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Feature Extraction Software; 2-year License for Not-For-Profit/Academic from Agilent Technologies

Description:Feature Extraction Software reads and processes raw microarray image files to prepare microarray data for analysis. Package contains: * one 2-year license for Feature Extraction valid for NFP/Academic accounts * one CD-ROM containing Feature Extraction software and electronic manual...
Company:Agilent Technologies

Feature Extraction Software; 1-year License for Not-For-Profit/Academic from Agilent Technologies

Description:Feature Extraction Software reads and processes raw microarray image files to prepare microarray data for analysis. Package contains: * one 1-year license for Feature Extraction valid for NFP/Academic accounts one CD-ROM containing Feature Extraction software and electronic manual...
Company:Agilent Technologies

Rabbit Anti-ACAT-1 (H-125) Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

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Company:Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

pAcAB4 Baculovirus Transfer Vector from BD Biosciences Pharmingen

Description:The pAcAB4 vector is a 10.0 kb Autographa californica (AcNPV) polyhedrin locus-based vector that contains twocopies of the AcNPV polyhedrin promoter and two AcNPV p10 promoters. Downstream of the first p10promoter is a Sma I cloning site, followed by polyhedrin locus-derived termination sequences. Upstream of this,an inverted polyhedrin promoter has been inserted containing Xba I and Stu I as...
Company:BD Biosciences Pharmingen

EcoRI-ACA AFLP Amplification Primers from Applied Biosystems

Description:ABI Plant AFLP Kits • EcoRI-ACA AFLP Amplification Primers...
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New biomedical institute aims to unite business and academia in SE Wisconsin

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High schoolers to graduate from UW's IT Academy

Fourteen Madison area high school students soon will graduate from an intensive information technology training program offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison's ITA is a four-year pre-college progr...

Wisconsin professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

Election to the academy is considered one of the most prestigious honors bestowed upon American scientists. Carroll, a professor of molecular biology...

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National Academies induct five UW researchers

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Avacado a day

Avocado may help to protect the liver from damage, according to new research from Japan. Researchers fed avocado and 22 other fruits to laboratory rats. The rats were then given D-galactosamine, a substance that causes liver damage by interfering with cell synthesis and results in cell death. The rats fed the avocado obtained the least amount of liver damage.// The Researchers discove...

Avacado protects from liver damage

Avocado may help to protect the liver from damage, according to new research from Japan. Researchers fed avocado and 22 other fruits to laboratory rats. //The rats were then given D-galactosamine, a substance that causes liver damage by interfering with cell synthesis and results in cell death. The rats fed the avocado obtained the least amount of liver damage. The Researchers discove...

Frequent Vacations Ease Mental Stress

A news study suggests that those who take vacations frequently are less likely to be affected by mental problems like tension, depression or tiredness and are more satisfied with their marriages.// Cathy McCarty and other researchers at Marshfield Clinic studied 1,500 women recruited from the Marshfield Epidemiological Study Area, a geographic area in central Wisconsin, US, reports sci...

Dealing With Stress Results In Better Academic Performance

Schools in the US have increasingly been paying lesser attention to programs with regard to the students' stress behavior, commitment to the school, and social development. The Social Development Research Group of the University // of Washington conducted a study of almost 600 students which revealed that tackling anti-social tendencies like violence, delinquency, and substance use among...

Children should eat well to do well in academics say experts!

In a study done at Cornell University it has been found that students who are well fed do well in academics then those who are not.// The study was done at Cornell's Early Childhood Centre. The results said that inadequate eating reflects in impaired academic development especially in reading. This phenomenon is termed as food insecurity. This is the condition when children d...

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Pentacam

Description:The Pentacam images the anterior segment of the eye by a rotating Scheimpflug camera measurement. This rotating process supplies pictures in three dimensions. The center of the cornea is measured very precisely because of this rotational imaging process. The measurement process lasts less than two seconds and minute eye movements are captured and corrected simultaneously. By measuring 25,000 true...
Company:Oculus, Inc.

Hemacarotid Knitted

Description:InterVascular HemaCarotid Patch product line offers the vascular surgeon a complete range of knitted, collagen coated patches in a wide range of sizes for carotid endarterectomy and angioplasty without suture hole bleeding. With dimension 6 x 75 mm....
Company:Datascope Corp.

Hemacarotid Ultra thin

Description:Hemacarotid Ultra thin collagen coated highly compliant Hemacarotid UltraThin Patch with ultra thin wall construction offers optimal handling and suturing characteristics. The Hemacarotid UltraThin Patch provides superb handling, suturing, host vessel conformability, and healing, without suture hole bleeding. With dimension 6 x 75 mm....
Company:Datascope Corp.

LocaLisa Intracardiac Navigation System

Description:The LocaLisa system is a non-fluoroscopic navigation system that tracks multiple intracardiac electrodes. The system was invented by Fred Wittkampf, Ph.D., and is being developed by Surgical Navigation Technologies and EP Systems. The LocaLisa system uses three skin electrode pairs, positioned in x,y,z directions around the heart to track catheters. Using a reference electrode, thre...
Company:Medtronic Inc.

Avanta Trapezio-Metacarpal Prosthesis

Description:The SR™ Hand Implant System utilizes the same proven materials found in hip and knee joint replacements. The SR™ Hand Implant System provides advantages not currently available in other prostheses including minimal bone resection, surface replacement of the diseased and eroded cartilaginous articular surfaces, retention and/or repositioning of the ligamentous soft tissues, and the re...
Company:Small Bone Innovations, Inc.

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Pilot Phase 3 Results of NovaCardia's KW-3902 for Acute Congestive Heart Failure Presented at Late-Breaking Session of Heart Failure Congress 2007

HAMBURG, Germany, June 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaCardia, Inc.today presented preliminary results from a pilot Phase 3 trial ofKW-3902, an adenosine A1 receptor antagonist in development for thetreatment of patients with acute congestive heart failure (CHF),that indicate a strong trend toward efficacy for the 30 milligramdose. Patients treated with KW-3902 experienced a higher rate ofi...

CYT003-QbG10 to treat allergy to be presented at the Congress of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), June 9-13, 2007

Zurich, June 1, 2007-Cytos Biotechnology AG is delighted toinform you about the upcoming scientific presentations of its novelimmunotherapeutic CYT003-QbG10 to treat allergic diseases.Recently, positive clinical results for CYT003-QbG10 were obtainedand will be presented in different sessions at the XXVI Congress ofthe European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology(EAACI), takin...

GTx Announces Presentation of Ostarine and Acapodene Data at 2007 ASCO Annual Meeting

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2007 - GTx, Inc., (NASDAQ:GTXI) announced today that data from the recent Phase II proof ofconcept clinical trial of Ostarine(TM) and from the ongoing PhaseIII clinical trial evaluating ACAPODENE(R) (toremifene citrate) 80mg for the treatment of multiple side effects of androgendeprivation therapy (ADT) will be presented at the upcoming 2007Annual Me...

Discovery Labs Presents Surfaxin and Aerosurf Data At the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting

Surfaxin Phase 2 BPD Clinical Data Selected and Presented asPlatform Presentation Aerosurf Utilizing Chrysalis Aerosol-Generator TechnologyDemonstrates Optimal Functional Activity WARRINGTON, Pa., May 8, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DiscoveryLaboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:DSCO) announced that results from itspreviously completed Phase 2 clinical trial of Surfaxin(r)(lucinactant intr...

Medivation Announces Presentation of New Subset Analyses From Dimebon Phase 2 Alzheimer's Disease Trial at American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting

Company Conference Call Scheduled for Friday, May 4, at 9:00 a.m.Eastern Time to Discuss Data SAN FRANCISCO, May 03, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Medivation, Inc. today announced that new data from the mild andmoderate subgroups of Alzheimer's disease patients in the Company'ssix-month Phase 2 efficacy study of Dimebon showed that bothsubgroups were improved compared with placebo-treated...

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