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Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

Sound science and ground-breaking research provide the foundation for World Wildlife Fund's conservation successes. But it is WWF's innovative application of everyday technology that is yielding results for tigers on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. WWF scientists are using camera traps to help conduct presence/absence surveys that will provide a range map for tigers in Sumatra's lowland rainfor...

FDA Clears the Way for Generic Versions of Transdermal Patches to Treat Chronic Pain

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Mylan Technologies, Inc., for the first generic version of Alza Corporation's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is s...

Mother birds increase progesterone to hatch females

In mammals, sperm from the male determines the sex of the offspring. In birds, however, it is the female's sex chromosome that determines offspring sex. Now, Cornell University researchers think they understand the mechanism that several bird species use to bias the sex ratios of their offspring toward female. By experimenting with domestic chickens, they have determined that the presence...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

Created as an alternate route of drug administration to improve patient compliance and reduce drug side effects, prescription skin patches are rapidly becoming an important healthcare product category. While quietly gaining market share for the treatment of chronic conditions such as angina, hypertension and HRT, the technology is set to make further inroads as transdermal patches for a host of n...

Ancient immune defense mechanism is no match for HIV-1

Researchers have discovered that mammalian cells infected with HIV-1 engage a primitive defense mechanism that was previously observed only in plants and invertebrates. The research also reveals exactly how HIV-1 successfully thwarts this rare form of immunity in vertebrate cells. However, elucidation of the mechanism HIV-1 uses to protect itself provides some critical insight into a potential vu...

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Qpatch HT from Sophion Bioscience

Description:Sophions newly introduced QPatch HT is taking automated patch clamping to a new and even more powerful level. With its ability to generate thousands of high quality data points daily, QPatch HT is enabling new screening paradigms in ion channel drug discovery and safety testing. Automated patch clamping with the same high quality afforded by conventional patch clamping can now be applied in all p...
Company:Sophion Bioscience

QPatch 16 from Sophion Bioscience

Description:The QPatch sports 16-independent channels for automated gigaseal patch clamping. The system is used for screening against voltage-gated ion channels, such as hERG and ligand-gated channels, such as GABA channels. The four pipette heads afford more efficient assays and faster throughput for ion channel drug discovery. The glass-coated tunnels of the QPlate electrode arrays provide confidence th...
Company:Sophion Bioscience

Catch & Release v2.0 High Throughput (HT) Immunoprecipitation Assay Kit- 96 well from Upstate

Description:This kit allows for quick and reproducible immunoprecipitation (IP) by using a 96 well filter plate. The system is more reproducible than regular IPs, which are problematic with regards to washing the protein A/G agarose without disrupting the agarose bed. The binding of the antibody/antigen complex in Catch and Release is reversible, and elution of the immune complex can occur with native or den...
Company:Upstate

His-Patch ThioFusion Expression System from Invitrogen

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BacterioMatch II Two-Hybrid System Vector Kit from Stratagene

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RT-PCR Primer Sets for Human and Mouse Mismatch Repair Genes

Stratagene Cloning Systems from the cDNAsequences of mismatch repair genes. These genes code for specialized proteinsthat participate in correcting areas of base mispairing in DNA. We have...

Optimizing pfuturbo DNA Polymerase Amplification Reactions with Perfect Match PCR Enhancer

Optimizing pfuturbo DNA Polymerase Amplification Reactions withPerfect Match Stratagene Certain PCR amplification systems produce multiple pro...

PatchMan - Test Report

The new Ependorf Micromanipulator for electro-physiology, PatchMan, was tested under practical conditions at the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen (Germany). Eppendorf received the following report: The Micromanipulator PatchMan w...

National stem-cell panel, including UW profs, urges close watch on research

Research institutions should create oversight committees to guide human embryonic stem-cell studies according to common guidelines, a panel of experts, including two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, said on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. "In the absence of federal guidelines broadly governing the generation and research use of human embryonic stem cells, the scientific community...

NameProtects watchdog tool keeps eye on search-engine ads

MADISON Digital brand-protection company NameProtects search tools allow companies to make sure names they want to use are not already taken, or that their trademarks are not being used impr...

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Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

Oncologists have warned that the common white patches found inside the mouth can lead to oral cancer in many cases. A simple genetic test can help pinpoint if the patches could become cancerous or not.Scientists at the University of Oslo spearheaded this research. If identified early and treated, leukoplakia, as the patches are known, can be cured and the occurrence of cancer prevented....

Watch your weight when pregnant

Fat women are more likely for Cesarean delivery, says Dr.Bell from Duke University NC. Years ago, anesthesia had been one of the major causes of maternal mortality. Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined.// Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated e...

Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

People's lives are being put at risk because emergency call-takers are not adequately trained to deal with emotional callers, according to a recent study. Callers unable to communicate properly because of their emotional state caused the most difficulties but problems were also caused by people using mobile phones or pay-phones as opposed to land-lines. // The study, carried out by t...

FDA approves Watson Pharmaceuticals' Oxytrol patch

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new patch developed by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., for the treatment of an overactive bladder. The patch called Oxytrol (generic: oxybutynin transdermal system) reduces urinary urge incontinence, urinary urgency, and urinary frequency, according to the drug's maker. Oral forms of oxybutynin has been around for around 25 years but it has not...

Heart Is Better Off For Watching Comedy Films

The blood flow to the heart improves as one watches more comedy films, which makes a person laugh, according to a recent research. Researchers asked 20 healthy young adults to watch 15 to 30 minute segments of sad and humorous films, a minimum of 48 hours apart. // Participants were asked to abstain from drinking alcohol, using vitamins or herbs, or taking aerobic exercise the evenin...

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Neuro-Patch Synthetic Dura Substitute

Description:Neuro-Patch is a non-absorbable dura substitute, manufactured from highly purified polyesterurethane. Its microporous structure allows the proliferation of fibroblast, supporting tissue in-growth; the dense "weave" minimizes suture channels, resulting in decreased chance of cerebrospinal fluid leakage....
Company:AESCULAP

Ethisorb Dura Patch

Description:Ethisorb Dura Patch is a synthetic absorbable implant for the bridging of Dura Mater encephali and. spinalis defects. Ethisorb Dura Patch is pliable, regardless of being used dry or wet. Once cut to the desired shape, care must be taken, while implanting, to ensure that the smooth, violet dyed, PDS foil covered side is oriented towards the cortex or the spinal cord surface. Size given is applicab...
Company:Codman

BatCup - Revision Cup

Description:BatCup cotyloid implant, designed for use in revision surgery, is an hemispherical metal cup, with grooves on the edges that house locking flanges, which are attached to the iliac bone by cancellous screws, and to the cup by a small screw....
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

HRR Pediatric Matching Kit

Description:This kit consists of a Matching Card, three HRR symbol cards and instructions. Kit is intended to help prepare a child for subsequent HRR 4th Edition color testing. There are several ways to use the test. For the youngest patients, the parents can borrow the kit and help the child learn the concept of matching and become familiar with the HRR symbols. Once the child has mastered the matching conc...
Company:Richmond Products, Inc.

Penfield Watchmaker Forceps

Description:Penfield Watchmaker Forceps. Tip width 0.9 mm....
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Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch

BOSTON, May 29, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Evidence isaccumulating that depression is a risk factor for osteoporosis,reports the June 2007 issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch. Arecent study found that people ages 50 and over who regularly tookantidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors(SSRIs) had double the rate of fractures as people not using suchmedications....

FDA MedWatch: Avastin (bevacizumab) and Formation of Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Recent Clinical Study in Patients with Limited-stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 21, 2007-Genentech and FDA notifiedhealthcare professionals of important new safety informationregarding tracheoesophageal (TE) fistula formation in a recentclinical study in patients with limited-stage small cell lungcancer (SCLC). This multicenter, non-randomized, single-arm phaseII clinical trial study combined chemotherapy and radiation plusAvastin. There have b...

Iomai Dose-Ranging Trial Demonstrates Needle-Free Patch Vaccine for Travelers' Diarrhea Stimulates Immune Response Even at Low Doses

-- Data Gathered to Assist in Design of Future Trials, OtherPrograms -- GAITHERSBURG, Md. and LISBON, Portugal, April 26, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomai Corporation today announced resultsfrom a 400-patient, Phase 2 dose-ranging trial of its patch-basedvaccine for travelers' diarrhea. The trial was conducted to assessthe ability of a range of vaccine doses to generate an immunerespo...

Labtec’s Next Generation Pain Patch Successful in Clinical Studies

LANGENFELD, Germany, April 25, 2007-Labtec GmbH (Langenfeld,Germany), a specialty pharmaceutics company announces positiveresults from a multiple dose clinical study for their proprietarySufentanil transdermal patch. “Today, we are pleased to announce the successfulcompletion of the second clinical trial for our SufentanilTDS®. Our goal for this program was to complete th...

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