Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of large, intense dust storms plaguing many areas menace the health of people even continents away, international experts warn in a new report. Thick storms rising out of the Gobi Desert affect much of China, Korea and Japan and even reduce air q...Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Reef Check and World Conservation Union to examine damage to tsunami-affected coral reefs; mission set to start next week Three leading marine conservation organizations will complete an extensive survey next week along the west coast of Aceh Province, Indonesia, to determine the impact of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami on the re...Better assessment of transfusions could save blood
Nearly 95 percent of patients admitted to hospital intensive care units are affected by anemia. Consequently, these patients receive a large number of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in order to restore proper hemoglobin levels. New research shows that alternative treatments may lead to fewer transfusions, conserving critical blood supplies in hospitals. The report is published in Seminars in D...Reliable Assessment of Micronuclei for Genotoxicity Testing in Mice or Rats
Reliable Assessment of Micronuclei for Genotoxicity Testing in Mice orRats Precise and cost-effective micronucleus analysis made easy with theicroFlow Micronucleus Analysis Kit Litron Laboratories, Rochester, NY Mark J. Dycaico<br...An Assessment of the Eppendorf twin.tec plate performance in PCR* applications
M. Arun Kumar, PhD, and Vincent Prezioso, PhD, Brinkmann BioSystems Laboratory To evaluate the performances of Eppendorf 96-well twin.tec PCR plates, we carried out PCR reactions with twin.tec plates and PCR microplates from another commercial mi...Fast, Accurate Assessment of siRNA-induced Gene Silencing
Cells-to-Signal Kit: Small Sample Prep for qRT-PCR Real-time, quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) is the most sensitive way to detect and quantitate mRNA and is often used to validate techniques that monitor changes in gene expression, including array analyses and RNA...Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Plasmid DNA Isolation, Rev A
Audra Day, Colette Schneider, Lisa Ottmers, and Brandt L. SchneiderDepartment of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University HealthSciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA. Small-scale isolation and purification of plasmid DNA from E. coli bacterial strains is a widely used and essential techni...Is Z' factor the best assessment for the quality of cellular assays delivering higher content?
Amersham Biosciences UK Limited, Amersham Place, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire HP7 9NA England As high throughput imaging systems, analysis al...Assessment for hearing aid implants in the process
According to a new research, implants to aid hearing loss are going down well with those who use them. Hearing loss affects around a quarter of all adults aged over 60 in the United States. Traditionally there was one option for those with a hearing problem - an acoustic hearing aid. // Now, however, there's another choice - an implant into the middle ear which directly vibrates the su...Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments
According to a recent survey, researchers suggests that nurses and junior doctors can both carry out pre-surgery assessments of patients to the same degree of competence.There's a shortage of junior doctors in the UK// and it's been suggested that appropriately trained nurses might be able to take over some of their roles. Researchers in Ireland, UK, have compared the way in which junior doctor...Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population
A new scorecard to enable easy identification of diabetics has been developed as a joint venture by researchers in India, Britain and Australia. This venture has been materialized following the initiative of the International // Diabetes Federation, and the WHO centre for diabetes and the M.V. Hospital for Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Centre developed the Indian Diabetes Risk Score...Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population
A new scorecard to enable easy identification of diabetics has been developed as a joint venture by researchers in India, Britain and Australia. . This venture has been materialized following the initiative of the International // Diabetes Federation, and the WHO centre for diabetes and the M.V. Hospital for Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Centre developed the Indian Diabetes Risk Sco...AIDS Assessment Centres To Be Increased In The Country
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will increase the number of centres that assess the spread of HIV/AIDS virus// in the country. 'We are planning to add 400 sites (to the existing 750 sites) to create an accurate system to gauge the number of people affected by HIV/AIDS,' said K. Sujatha Rao, additional secretary and director general of NACO, at the end of a three-day nati...CASE 8000 Cardiac Assessment System for Exercise
Description:The CASE 8000 is one of the first, true point-of-care clinical information systems for the exercise environment. By combining the accuracy of our premiere exercise ECG system with the information accessibility of network connectivity, the CASE 8000 offers an advanced, integrated approach to high-efficiency, high-performance stress testing....SphygmoCor Px Central Blood Pressure Assessment and Management System
Description:The SphygmoCor Px Central Blood Pressure Assessment and Management System provides a quick and non-invasive method of obtaining central blood pressure and other key cardiovascular data, and is intended to enhance the treatment and management of patients. Using a validated generalized transfer function, the system derives the ascending aortic blood pressure waveform from the radial arteri...