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Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells

Researchers here have used a new microscopic, three-dimensional scaffolding to coax mouse stem cells to transform themselves into fat cells, and then to function identical to how fat cells naturally do in the body. While other studies have previously grown fat cells, or adipocytes, in the laboratory, those cells never completely functioned in the same way they do in normal tissue. They fai...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

South America's giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development ?problems expected to be compounded by climate change, United Nations University experts warn. Covering more than 165,000 square kilometers ?an area roughly equal to Florida ?in the heart of South America, the P...

Six million Africans face famine because of locusts, drought

With locusts and drought having destroyed crops and stripped grazing land for six million people across West Africa, small farmers have started selling livestock cheaply and eating the seed corn they should plant during next month's expected rains, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. "The combined effect of drought and locust attack, pa...

Making Sure Sacred Sheep Don't Become Extinct

Animal geneticist Harvey D. Blackburn is responsible for collecting and storing thousands of samples of animal germplasm -- mainly semen and embryos -- to make sure there's enough genetic material to reintroduce a species if necessary. Much of his collection deals with important livestock such as Holstein cattle and Yorkshire pigs. But one of the collections Blackburn, who is the coordinat...

Study: Well-known protein helps stem cells become secretory cells

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a single protein regulates secretion levels in the fruit fly's salivary gland and its skin-like outer layer. Th...

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CEQ 8800 Genetic Analysis System from Beckman Coulter

Description:The CEQ 8800 Genetic Analysis System, which processes two 96-well plates and tracks the samples. This automated system adds a higher level of throughput to the CEQ product line. The CEQ 8800, part of Beckman Coulters new GenomeLab family of products*, also offers a bar coding link with the Biomek series liquid handers, for increased automation. The CEQ 8800 automates and integrates the majo...
Company:Beckman Coulter

ProteomeLab PA 800 Protein Characterization System from Beckman Coulter

Description:The ProteomeLab PA 800 is an automated, high-resolution protein analysis system. Part of Beckman Coulters ProteomeLab family of products, the PA 800 offers a comprehensive range of automated protein characterization solutions including molecular weight determination, peptide mapping, isoelectric focusing, carbohydrate profiling and mechanisms to study protein/protein interactions in solution. B...
Company:Beckman Coulter

ProteomeLab PF 2D Protein Fractionation System from Beckman Coulter

Description:The ProteomeLab PF 2D is an automated, two-dimensional fractionation system for high-resolution analysis of complex protein mixtures. Part of Beckman Coulters ProteomeLab family of products, the PF 2D produces results in just hours. The system effectively resolves the thousands of proteins present in cell lysates, addressing a key challenge in todays proteomics research.In the first dimension,...
Company:Beckman Coulter

Dulbecco's Phosphate Buffered Saline (DPBS) from Sigma-Aldrich

Description:With 36 mg/L sodium pyruvate, 50 mg/L streptomycin sulfate, 100 mg/L kanamycin monosulfate, 1000 mg/L glucose, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The use of a balanced salt solution (BSS) in tissue culture is generally attributed to early workers in the field. In 1885, Sydney Ringer developed a solution of inorganic salts designed to maintain contractility of mammalian heart tissue. A le...
Company:Sigma-Aldrich

CEQ 8000 Genetic Analysis System from Beckman Coulter

Description:Simplify the process and you reduce the chance of error. Thats the safeguard built into the CEQ 8000. Developed using Beckman Coulters extensive experience in laboratory automation and leadership in capillary electrophoresis technology, the CEQ 8000 is a fully automated genetic analysis system. This system automatically fills the capillary array with a patented linear polyacrylamide (LPA) gel, de...
Company:Beckman Coulter

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Venture-backed firms could become eligible for federal SBIR grants

The will soon consider a proposal that would give small companies majority-owned by venture capital firms eligibility for Small Business In...

Denver prospered because of "dreaded" TABOR

- According to a recent article in Wisconsin Technology Network, regional cooperation is the cure all policy that will not only improve Wisconsin's business climate, but also put us on the path to economic recovery. After all, this strategy of mutual cooperation and regional planning is what saved Denver from becoming yet another d...

Can Madison become a video game Mecca?

While the establishment of two successful game developers - - hardly represents a critical mass, the Capital City does host a nationally known Games, Learning, and Society Conf...

Daugherty becomes CTO of Great Lakes BioFuels

"We are very pleased to have a partner with Mark's research track record and technology start-up expertise," said H. Tony Hartmann, company CEO. "He is a perfect fit f...

Boston equity firm becomes majority owner of Cedarburg-based Mortgagebot

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Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

The idea that children who are overweight will grow up to be overweight adults isn't especially accurate. Many studies have found that body mass index in childhood is very often reflected in body mass index in adulthood. People who were thinnest as children and fattest as adults tended to have the highest adult risk of disease. The study looked at the health records of 1,142 children....

Computers may become surgeons

Brain surgery, endoscopies and other complicated medical procedures could be made safer and faster in the future by using computers. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles are examining the way people use vision// to interact with their environment and are attempting to design computer systems based on their findings. Currently, surgeons routinely use technology tha...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

The number of people suffering from spine problems is on the rise; the most common of them being a herniated disc and spinal canal stenosis. Herniated disc is more common in the age group of 25 to 35 years while spinal canal stenosis is common among// older people. Hitherto, both these disorders were treated through conventional spine surgeries which required an incision of about 12cms to...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

A new system has been developed to prevent mix-ups over identification of newborn babies. The system, which records the fingerprints of newborns as barcodes, has been introduced in the maternity ward of La Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid, Spain. As soon as babies are born, their fingerprints, and those of their// mothers, are stored in electronic barcodes which mother and baby wear on their...

Diabetes could become an epidemic

The Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation is predicting a 300pc rise in the number of people affected by Type 2 Diabetes, though other experts say this figure is possibly a little high. In a new report from the DRWF it is indicated that an epidemic of type two diabetes is to occur. If left untreated or mismanaged the condition can lead to heart disease, blindness and kidney failure. I...

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Bechert Nucleus Rotator

Description:Y shape rotator tip. Shaft angled 7 mm from tip to bend. Round knurled handle with polished finish. Most popular size or model....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Mackool-Bechert Nucleus Rotator

Description:The popular Bechert nucleus rotator has been modified to have the shaft angled 10 mm from tip to bend for ease of manipulation of the lens nucleus in the anterior chamber. Round knurled handle....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Trabecular Metal Modular Acetabular System

Description:The integration of Trabecular Metal material and modularity into a proven implant design results in a fusion of technology and versatility that not only meets surgeon demands for initial and long-term stability, but also provides a wide variety of shell and liner options to address specific patient needs....
Company:Zimmer, Inc.

Bechert-McPherson Angled Tying Forceps

Description:Angled 45 degree shafts 10 mm tying platform. Serrated handle with dull finish. Overall length 3.3 inches....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Bechert-McPherson Tying Forceps

Description:Bechert-McPherson tying forceps, angled, 10 mm tying platforms....
Company:Accutome, Inc.

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Over 10,000 UK Breast Cancer Patients Could Become Eligible Within the Next Year for a Breast Cancer Therapy Showing Increased Survival Rates, Reveals Synovate Healthcare’s European Oncology Monitor

LONDON, April 4, 2007--Treatment data fromSynovate Healthcare’s European Oncology Monitor reveals thatover 10,000 breast cancer patients in the UK could become eligiblefor a breast cancer treatment showing lower death rates inpatients. The treatment was the subject of a recent study detailedin the online edition of The Lancet (12 February 2007). Lowermortality rates we...

Weight Management is Not Enough for Cannabinoid Type 1 (CB1) Receptor Antagonists to Become a Commercial Success

Huge clinical development program of first-in-class CB1antagonist rimonabant to show benefits beyond weight reduction andavoid image as life-style drug BARCELONA, Spain | March 08, 2007 | The Business Intelligencefirm La Merie S.L. reported today that Sanofi-Aventis’first-in-class CB1 antagonist Acomplia (rimonabant) has at leastfive competitors in clinical stages up to phase...

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