MedApps HealthPAL Connects to Microsoft HealthVault to Improve Patient Compliance and Lower Healthcare Costs

...caregivers have access to valuable health data delivered in a more timely and dependable manner. Physicians can dispense advice without collecting and deciphering hand-written patients' log books, parents can monitor their children at school remotely, and caregivers can monitor elder relatives' health conditions...

VISTAKON to Introduce ACUVUE(R) OASYS(TM) Brand Contact Lenses for PRESBYOPIA

... develop it by 2014. "Emerging or early presbyopes may begin to notice challenges with a multitude of near-point tasks such as looking at a menu, deciphering text from a cell phone or other handheld electronic device, or reading the GPS or satellite radio devices in their cars," explains Susan Resnick, O.D....

2 NYU scientists named Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Early Career Scientists

...lls that transform into leukemic T cells. Such insights may provide even more ways to combat deadly blood cancers. Dr. Dasen's research focuses on deciphering the molecular code that helps developing motor neurons in the spinal cord connect with the muscles they control. Understanding this code, which relies...

Two NYU Scientists Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute's early career scientists

...lls that transform into leukemic T cells. Such insights may provide even more ways to combat deadly blood cancers. Dr. Dasen's research focuses on deciphering the molecular code that helps developing motor neurons in the spinal cord connect with the muscles they control. Understanding this code, which relies...

Intensive summer program helps physicians build clinical research careers

...ic scientific discoveries into clinical treatments is more important than ever. "The scientific knowledge gained through unraveling the genome and deciphering cellular mechanisms in great detail has not led to commensurate improvement in disease prevention and treatment," says study co-author Daniel E. Singe...

Jennifer & Gigi: A Story of Love and Compassion with a Hollywood Twist -- In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, CarePages.com celebrates "Grandma Gene" and gives a voice to the community of caregivers around the world

... CHICAGO (Business Wire EON) November 3, 2008 -- "As a single 32-year-old, I never expected to spend this part of my life deciphering medical bills, tracking down lost prescriptions, and scheduling doctor appointments every week," said Jennifer Rincon, who lives next door to her...

Personalized therapy for asthma and COPD could soon be here

...d to each type of response so that physicians can deliver a treatment that is tailored to the specific type of asthma or COPD found in that patient." deciphering these unique immune pathways also can identify new targets for drugs that could block the harmful immune responses, according to Holtzman. He says the...

Brain scientist shedding light on learning, memory

...scientific pieces of how the brain works and finding optimal ways to repair human disease when it doesnt. Joe Tsiens work has brought us closer to deciphering the underlying code of memory, echoes Mike Cassidy, president of the Georgia Research Alliance. His groundbreaking research is already being applied t...

Researchers sharpen search for new marine medicines with novel techniques

... an imaging technique that can uniquely probe the inner workings of marine organisms. In the case of marine sponges, researchers often have trouble deciphering whether the therapeutic compounds they produce are being manufactured by the sponge, bacteria within the sponge, or a combination of the two in a symb...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 23, 2008

...d leaf. For almost a century, scientists have sought the full chemical recipe for the pitcher plant's fluid. Japanese scientists now report completely deciphering this complex cocktail of digestive and antibacterial enzymes. Their study is scheduled for the February issue of ACS Journal of Proteome Research, a m...

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Beating Blood Clots after Joint Replacement

...for the best interest of the individual patient. Note: This topic will be the focus of a Media Briefing entitled: "Beating Blood Clots and deciphering DVT Prophylaxis: What the Patient Needs to Know" on Thursday, February 26, in the Sands Expo Center, Venetian Hotel, Level One, Room 904 at 9:00 AM. ...

Edison Pharma Hits Milestone as A0001 Enters Phase 1 Clinical Development

...inically present with many conditions commonly associated with aging. Edison believes that inherited mitochondrial diseases may be genetic roadmaps to deciphering the biochemical basis of metabolic control and aging. Given CoQ10's known role in mitochondrial disease and aging, as well as its redox activity, Edis...

DNA Therapeutics Reports a Novel Mechanism of Action and a Biomarker of its Lead Molecule Dbait That Open an Innovative Pathway-Targeting in Molecular Cancer Therapy

...nd cytology analysis of tumors shows that Dbait strongly enhances irradiation-induced necrosis and apoptosis. New finding: The present study aims at deciphering the underlying mechanism of action of Dbait at molecular and cellular levels, and in particular its impact on DSB repair foci organization at chromati...

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GEN reports on novel tools for deciphering biological networks

New Rochelle, NY, October 17, 2008Systems biology scientists from diverse areas of research are developing a range of methods to model pathways, interpret data, and derive therapeutic targets from biological networks, reports Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN). A major focal point of...

P(acman) takes a bite out of deciphering Drosophila DNA

P(acman) ?a new method of introducing DNA into the genome of fruit flies or Drosophila ?promises to transform the ability of scientists to study the structure and function of virtually all the fly’s genes, and the method may be applicable to other frequently studied organisms such as mice, said its...

A Canada-wide technology platform for mapping the human interactome

...s and bioinformatics, but also bring together integrated infrastructure for deciphering the human interactome an expertise that, until now, has been spread in 12 u...searcher. "Canadian scientists are at the forefront of research aimed at deciphering how proteins inside the cell interact, and how errors in this process under...

U of M study finds new insight on therapy for a devastating parasitic disease

...asis for several decades, but surprisingly, scientists have never understood how this drug works to kill the parasitic worms that cause this disease. deciphering how this drug works is important because scientists could design new drugs that work in similar ways should the parasites develop resistance to praziq...

They are young and need the job: A second chance for dangerous T-cells

...keep other nearby errant T -cells under control. This is why the mechanisms for the creation of regulatory T-cells are of enormous practical interest. deciphering these processes could lead to new therapeutic approaches for autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatic arthritis and type-1 diabetes, ...

Protein that triggers plant cell division revealed by researchers

...BASL protein molecule could 'shuttle' between being at the nucleus and being at the periphery," said Bergmann. BASL is a valuable signpost for deciphering the workings of plant cell asymmetry, said Bergmann, adding, "Now that we can actually see a protein moved around to a very specific place in the cell...

Lehigh researcher awarded $1.8 million NIH grant

..., making this computation particularly challenging. "I am extremely impressed with the way Mike investigates fundamental cell-to-cell processes in deciphering how the brain detects the location of sounds," says Murray Itzkowitz, professor and chair of Lehigh's biological sciences department. "While the heari...

Genome sequencing of fungus with biotechnological applications

...explained: the problem is not so much obtaining these seven thousand pages, because there are tools that enable us to do this; but it is reading them, deciphering what they are saying, identifying the genes and finding out how they work. Fungi with white rot, fungi with brown rot Trees are rich in cellul...

Personalized medicine: Innovative online journal leads the way

... The recent surge of DNA sequence information resulting from deciphering the human genetic code has acted as a catalyst for innovative technological developments that have been vital in the identification of genes associate...

UI and ISU establish shared DNA sequencing instrumentation

... institutions' genetic research capabilities. The two institutions have each purchased a massively parallel DNA sequencer an instrument capable of deciphering DNA sequences at the rate of millions to billions of bases in a single run. The two machines each with unique advantages will be available on a fee-...

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Convey Computer™ Corporation Announces First Customer: University of California, San Diego at SC08 Conference

...ar, $4.94 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), to develop algorithms and software for deciphering all the proteins that are present in biological samples. This "proteomics" work promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine devel...

TIBCO Speeds Drug Discovery for Chemists

...hemist can use to quickly ask and answer their own questions of their data. "Spotfire Lead Discovery enhances a chemist's intuition and expertise in deciphering complex problems and driving faster, more efficient drug discovery, enabling them to work more flexibly with the disparate technologies and data sourc...

A New President at the Head of the Genethon Laboratory

.... As early as 1992 Genethon supplied the international scientific community with the first maps of the human genome. This considerably accelerated its deciphering and the discovery of the genes responsible for diseases. It is this progress which has led to innovative therapies based on knowledge of genes, therap...

Free shopping in a virtual bazaar of gene regulation data

...stomers can access data without any charge from any boutique or extract information from the 'superstores' that aggregate data of similar types. In deciphering the human genome sequence, researchers hope to understand the when and where of gene expression because this could speed development of novel cancer t...

Wisconsin Film Festival embraces new online ticket ordering system

...cial to the box office staff. Since all the orders are submitted electronically, each order is in a standardized format, thus eliminating confusion in deciphering handwritten or faxed orders. The process deliberately incorporates a more human touch, said Mary Carbine, festival director. [The new system enable...

UW compound counters Avian flu

...-Madison professor of medical microbiology and immunology, would like to quickly move the research into the preclinical phase. The road ahead includes deciphering the peptide's precise mechanism for frustrating the flu, and work to determine optimal dosage, efficacy, and safety before the drug can be tested in h...

New Tools for Small RNA Analysis

...es in a variety of experimental settings (see sidebar: Analysis of miRNA Recovery after Gel Purification ), deciphering miRNA expression patterns across tissues and species, or determining siRNA expression levels in cell lines a...

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Mass spectrometry

...international mass spectrometry resource ... Mass Spectrometry Unearths Mexico's Maize - Accelerator MS provides ... Mass Spectrometry : deciphering the Elements ... Links related to mass spectrometry : MIMS, Education, Societies, Companies ... South African Association for Mass Spectromet...

Human Genome Initiative

...ists involved in the human genome initiative as well ... One of the goals of the human genome initiative is to identify the tens of ... deciphering the sequence of the human genome is the molecular biology equivalent ... The human genome is composed of 22 linear pairs of chromosomes ...

Genome

...coverer of the structure of DNA, now has a copy of his very own genome . Will you be next? ... at Baylor collaborated on the genome project. ... deciphering the sequence of the human genome is the molecular biology equivalent of landing a man on the moon. The project was discussed as early as 1985 ...

Epitope

...r additional information on Epitope from Biology-Online.org dictionary. ... epitope , but I don't know if they would recognize MWRKRKRHHHHH, ... deciphering epitope specificities within polyserum using affinity selection of ... Generation, Characterization and Epitope Mapping of Two Neutralizing and ...