Beacons

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute to study new radiation technology for head, neck cancer

...ws for greater accuracy in delivering radiation therapy and limits exposure to surrounding healthy tissue. In this new Phase II clinical trial, the beacons will be implanted into a customized mouth guard fitted to the participant's upper teeth/jaw. With the mouth guard in place, the research team will tes...

Nanoparticles May Help Attack Cancer More Directly

...-treat cancers, such as breast, pancreatic and liver cancer," senior author Shiladitya Sengupta said in the news release. "The potential to add homing beacons on the surface of the nanoparticles can increase the efficiency of selectively targeting specific tumors and abolish off-target side effects." Mor...

Brigham and Women's Hospital Researchers Demonstrate a More Direct Delivery of Cancer Drugs to Tumors

...ic and liver cancer," noted senior study author Shiladitya Sengupta, PhD, of the Department of Medicine at BWH. "The potential to add homing beacons on the surface of the nanoparticles can increase the efficiency of selectively targeting specific tumors and abolish off target side-effects". ...

BioTime, Inc. and Embryome Sciences, Inc. Launch Embryome.com and the International Embryome Initiative

... has planned for future sale on Embryome.com include ESpyTM cell lines, which will be gene trapped and constitutive derivatives of hES cells that send beacons of light in response to the activation of particular genes. The progenitor ESpy™ cell lines will be produced and distributed in joint efforts wi...

A guided broncoscope achieves biopsy of 75 percent pulmonary nodules without puncture or surgery

...d although, given the complexity of the bronchial tree, with its multitude of bifurcations, intermediate reference points are marked that act as radio beacons during the navigation to the nodule in question, stated the pneumologist. The electromagnetic probe travels through the interior of the bronchial r...

New Scan 'Sees' Tumors Deep Inside Body

...s doctors view details 1,000 times smaller than previously possible. Raman spectroscopy uses tiny nanoparticles injected into the body to serve as beacons for lasers, according to a description the method published in this week's online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . W...

19 Hospital Units Receive AACN Beacon Award

...at these units are providing exceptional care and that their commitment to evidence-based practice is unwavering. They have set examples that serve as beacons for other hospitals and healthcare facilities to use in navigating the rough waters of acute and critical care nursing." Following are the units by ...

World Diabetes Day Lights Up the Skyline

...on (IDF), the organization that leads the World Diabetes Day campaign explained the significance of the lightings: "These buildings are lighting up as beacons of hope for the 246 million people living with diabetes worldwide. The illumination of so many landmarks is a prominent statement to governments every...

SWAN system for navigation

...r. "One of our challenges has been designing sound beacons easily understood by the user but that are not ann... out where the sound originated. The 3-D audio beacons for navigation are unique to SWAN. Other navigatio...s of two types of auditory displays – navigational beacons where the SWAN user walks directly toward the soun...

Beacons in Medical Technology

Stanford Researchers Track Human Stem Cells Transplanted Into Rat Brain

...ells successfully navigate toward areas damaged by stroke. The research group placed miniscule particles of iron inside stem cells to act as cellular beacons detected by magnetic resonance imaging. With the ability to monitor where the human stem cells go in real time, researchers will have an easier time l...

Beacons in Medical Products

SmartCycler 8000 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit the...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler® 8000 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler 9600 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler 6400 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit the...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler 3200 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit the...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler® 3200 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler 4800 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit the...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler® 6400 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

SmartCycler 1600 System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

Smart Cycler TD System

Description:...annels. The instrument's optics allow application to the rapidly evolving needs of a molecular biology lab using detection methods including Molecular beacons and TaqMan probes, Amplifluor and Scorpion primers, and intercalating dyes such as SYBR Green. Expandable Users can configure a system to suit...
Company:Cepheid

Beacons in Biological News

Pilot study shows effectiveness of new, low-cost method for monitoring hand hygiene compliance

...boration with computer scientists at Iowa. Ted Herman, the lead computer scientist on the project, designed badge construction and placement of small beacons inside patient rooms and other designated locations. "A novel part of our method is how data are recorded," Herman said, "data are recorded and proce...

New synthetic form of protein holds promise to stop cancer spread

...ate the movement of cells into tissues and recruit infection-fighting white blood cells to infected and injured sites. They essentially act as homing beacons for the immune system. New information on the structure of the protein was discovered in the lab of Brian Volkman, Ph.D., associate professor of bi...

Mobilizing white blood cells to the lung: New discovery could lead to an improved influenza vaccine

...udeau investigators have shown that lungs which have been infected with the influenza virus produce a series of chemicals, or chemokines, which act as beacons for specific types of white blood cells. While circulating in the bloodstream, these white blood cells recognize the chemical messages signaling the p...

Into the wild

...ontact and you are more likely to be injured falling out of a tree than through a bear attack. However, in case of emergency we will have GPS distress beacons and a rescue helicopter will be scrambled. The expedition has been approved and supported by the Royal Geographical Society and British Ecological ...

Magnet Lab researchers make observing cell functions easier

...sity of Alberta to create two new fluorescent-protein biosensors, molecular beacons that can tell if there is activity within a cell. The biosensors can be use... can occur. In FRET, two molecules that are fluorescent act as molecular beacons under the microscope, transferring energy between each other if they intera...

Isotope analysis reveals foraging area dichotomy for Atlantic leatherback turtles

...ot them offshore in the North Atlantic. Some even swim to very high latitudes (Canada) in search of their favorite food (principally jellyfish). Argos beacons have recently revealed that some females were swimming in two principal directions: the north as would be expected, but also towards the African coast...

Beacons in Biological Technology

Measurement of Molecular Beacons in the SpectraMax Gemini Spectrofluorometer (MaxLine Application Note #36)

Evelyn McGown and Michael Su October 1999 Molecular beacons are fluorogenic oligonucleotide probes developed by Kramerand associates to detect specific nucleic acids in homogeneous solutions. 1 4 They are single-stranded oligonucleotides that exist in a hairpin shape becau...

Genotyping Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Molecular Beacons

Stratagenes custom molecular beacon synthesis assists in detecting SNPs quickly and easily Fei Bao University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado We used Stratagenes custom molecular beacons ff, to detect a single nucleotide polymor...

BioTime, Inc. and Embryome Sciences, Inc. Sign Agreement With International Stem Cell Corporation to Provide Unique Human Stem Cell Lines for Research Use

...nder the collaborative production and manufacturing agreement, the parties intend to manufacture ESpyTM cell lines (derivatives of hES cells that send beacons of light in response to the activation of particular genes), as well as a host of supplies scientists will utilize in the field of stem cell research....

Innovation prize-winner would help firefighters get out alive

... FireSite shows where beacons and other firefighters are with lights in a mask ... GPS, that lets firefighters drop a trail of radio beacons to mark their path through a burning building. ...ights inside the firefighter's mask show activated beacons and partners on a top-down view that moves as the ...

Drug-delivery patch wins at UW business-plan competition

...efighters navigate through thick smoke using radio beacons and an in-mask display. The four-student team impr...m that fits their needs. FireSite shows where beacons and other firefighters are with lights in a mask ...firefighters drop the tough, flame-resistant radio beacons behind them while entering a burning buildling, a ...

Chippewa Valley firms land more defense work

...would be targeted toward major metropolitan fire departments with the budgets to accommodate the high-tech devices, Guelzow said. RSI's hazard zone beacons will replace outdated devices - basically a lead weight with a rod - with an expandable marker with infrared lights and a global positioning relay. ...

The Gradient Feature: Use in Optimization of Allelic Discrimination Assays, Rev B

...cular beacon assays is based on the principle of ASO hybridization (Wallace et al. 1979). SNP detection with TaqMan or molecular beacons requires the synthesis of ASO probes that are labeled at the 5' end with a different reporter dye such as FAM, HEX, TET, Cy5, Te...

Quantitation of GAD67 Gene Expression in Prefrontal Cortex of Schizophrenia Patients Using the iCycler iQ Detection System and Molecular Beacons, Rev A

...on in the quantitation of DNA. Molecular beacons were used as fluorogenic probes in our real-time PCR experiments. Molecular beacons (Marras et al. 1999, Tyagi and Kramer 1996) ... iCycler iQ detection system. Molecular beacons that do not bind to the target return to the ...

HSVision Molecular Beacon Detection Module Rapidly Detects Herpes Simplex Virus DNA

... Molecular Beacon Technology Molecular beacons are single-stranded oligonucleotides that possess ... of the molecule. The ends of molecular beacons are labeled with a fluorophore and a quencher, ...DABCYL is attached to the 3 end both molecular beacons and is used to quench fluorescence. The HSV-TC and...

Fluorescence-Based Single-Tube Assays to Rapidly Detect Human Gene Mutations

...se of their unique hairpin conformation, molecular beacons can distinguish human DNA specimens that diffe...rcomes these limitations. 1,2 Molecular beacons are single-stranded oligonucleotides that possess ...rophores, two allele-specific molecular beacons can simultaneously discriminate the thr...

Beacons in Biological Products

Beacon Designer from PREMIER Biosoft International

Description:... to the Mfold server. Beacon Designer can be used to evaluate pre-designed assays and designing compatible oligos to extend the designs. It can design beacons and TaqMan for single tube multiplex experiments....
Company:PREMIER Biosoft International

TCSPC Confocal Microscope from HORIBA Jobin Yvon

Description:... (GFP, YFP, CFP, RFP, phycoerythrin) Conjugated fluorescence labels and quantum dots Fluorescent dyes (rhodamine, fluorescein) and molecular beacons Cell signaling, uptake, and binding Nanoparticles (quantum dots and carbon nanotubes) Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) ...
Company:HORIBA Jobin Yvon