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...Zooming in on the protein-conducting channel
Researchers have gained the most detailed view yet of the heart of the translocon, a channel through which newly constructed proteins are inserted into the cell membrane. The process of transporting proteins across or into membranes is a critical function that occurs in every cell. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Joachim Frank at the Wadsworth Center and his colleagues reporte...Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research
One of the newest - and unequivocally the coolest - pieces of real estate on the Brandeis University campus is a facility containing a state-of-the-art superconducting magnet for use in researching biological macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, enzymes and other proteins. The installation of the gleaming 800 MHz German-made Bruker magnet was recently completed in a specially built facility o...Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship
The study is the first to compare electrical and behavioral displays in breeding and nonbreeding Brienomyrus brachyistius, a type of mormyrid electric fish, which emit weak electric fiel...Innovative smallpox vaccine research study to be conducted at Case Medical Center
The current FDA-approved vaccine, D...Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon
When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her UW-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According to established thinking, the feat should be impossible because her microscopy method required samples that conduct electricity. "After she did it, we realized, 'Hey, this silicon layer is...Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms
In a study published in the Aug. 1 issue of John Bo...NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad
National Board of Examinations has decided to conduct tests for any Indian doctor having graduated abroad avid of starting a practice in the country, to ensure a higher standards amongst doctors, the government has made it compulsory from //the 15th of next month official sources said today. The new regulations, which were published in the Indian Gazzette yesterday, specify that...Indian Surgeon Conducts 70 Surgeries During His Holidays In England
A doctor with dedication and diligence in Britain of Indian origin hit headlines after conducting 70 //operations during his holiday period. NHS in the UK is well known for its long waiting lists and sometimes patients have to wait for years before getting a routine operation. This has brought NHS under criticism. Satya Agarwal of the Worthing and Southlands Hospital in Sussex h...India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.
India to set up a registry database which will contain all datas and research results of all clinical trials which would be available in a public domain which will provide transparent results and information for patients.// The detail of the new registry database was announced by Drug Controller General of India Ashwani Kumar. He announced the details of the registry during a two day work...New Sexual Misconduct Rule Against Doctors In The US
The Medical Quality Assurance Commission has instituted a rule that doctors can no longer date their patients. This rule has been enforced despite protests from lawyers and several doctors' groups. //Since 1998, the board has received 160 complaints of sexual misconduct by doctors and physician assistants and says that almost 20 percent of the cases resulted in some disciplinary action being take...SPRING-GRIP™ (Single Use Non-conductive Anchoring Devices)
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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France, May 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --NicOx S.A. (Eurolist: COX) today provided an update on the phase 2astudy for NCX 1000, which is covered by its codevelopment agreementwith Axcan Pharma Inc. A preliminary analysis of 11 patientsfrom this proof-of-concept study in portal hypertension confirmedthe safety profile of NCX 1000 but did not demonstrate the efficacy...