NIAID media availability: New strategy proposed for designing antibody-based HIV vaccine
WHAT: Most vaccines that protect against viruses generate infection-fighting proteins called antibodies that either block infection or help eliminate the virus before it can cause disease. Attempts to create a vaccine that induces antibodies that prevent HIV infection or disease, however, have so...Design Firm Taps Into Veterans' Subconscious to Aid in Designing First-of-its- Kind Recovery Center
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Astorino, an architecture, engineering, interior design and construction services firm, along with their affiliate company, fathom, applied innovative research techniques, never before used on a VA campus, for the design of the new Veterans Recovery Center. The ...Best Practices in Designing Effective Brand Teams
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A brand leader notes, "We make decisions for the right reasons and then we do things the right way." Brand decisions must be made at the right time, by the right people, and at the right level to maximize the value of a brand. Brand Management has now...Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies
Scientists have discovered that adult neural stem cells, which exist in the brain throughout life, are not a single, homogeneous group . Instead, they are a diverse group of cells, each capable of giving rise to specific types of neurons. The finding, the team says, significantly shifts the perspec...Cleveland Joins Navvis & Company
.... Prior to joining Navvis & Company, she worked as the national accounts manager for Biotronik, Inc., a European medical device company designing cardiac and electrophysiology products. She previously held account management and consulting positions with St. Jude Medical, Austin, TX; VHA Consul...UC design research points the way so you won't get lost at the hospital
... Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, R.I. "These four facilities are currently designing wayfinding systems which will incorporate signage using symbols from our original set of 28 as well as those symbols, designed by the students, which ...New Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Join TI Pharma by Signing Two New Projects
...get of nearly 6 million euros. The new consortium, formed by Syncom, Synvolux Therapeutics, and University Medical Center Groningen, focuses on designing a versatile drug delivery system for inflammatory diseases and cancer. Another new consortium is formed by InteRNA Technologies, Utrecht University an...ADHD Genes Found; Known to Play Roles in Neurodevelopment
...ecause the gene alterations we found are involved in the development of the nervous system, they may eventually guide researchers to better targets in designing early intervention for children with ADHD," said lead author Josephine Elia, M.D., a psychiatrist and ADHD expert at The Children's Hospital of Philad...NUVO Surgical Light - Double Light Head
Description:... ranging from minimally invasive through trauma to cardiovascular the dual light delivers the intensity and pattern size to meet all your needs. When designing heart and orthopedic rooms you might also consider pairing a single light head with a dual light head mounted at the head and foot of the table....Deltatrac II Metabolic Monitor
Description:...ual nutritional needs of critically ill patients vary extremely; both overfeeding and negative energy balance are harmful. The only reliable method of designing and maintaining optimal nutrition in these patients is to measure their true energy expenditure. This is exactly what the Deltatrac II indirect cal...ENDOPATH Xcel Bladeless Trocars
Description:...e that the trocar should be a seamless part of any procedure, facilitating instrument precision and speeding the process. So we spent over three years designing a trocar that meets the needs of the most demanding surgeons. Introducing the ENDOPATH Xcel - The only trocar that affords the surgeon unencumb...ENDOPATH® Xcel™ Blunt Tip Trocars
Description:...e that the trocar should be a seamless part of any procedure, facilitating instrument precision and speeding the process. So we spent over three years designing a trocar that meets the needs of the most demanding surgeons. Introducing the ENDOPATH® Xcel™ - The only trocar that affords the surgeon ...StealthStation TREON plus Surgical Navigation Technology
Description:...intelligent surgical navigation systems ever invented. So adaptable, you'll wonder how you ever got by without it. Not a detail was overlooked in designing the TREON plus System to be as versatile as possible. With the TREON plus System, clinical teams have a system that takes full advantage of current ...Computers in Medicine and Health Care
...in medicine fields. The influence of computers is universal. Computers are used in applications ranging from running a farm, diagnosing a disease, and designing to constructing and launching a space vehicle. Because the development of computers has been largely the work of scientists, it is natural that a larg...Bioterrorism and disaster preparedness explored in special issue of Medical Decision Making
...te a set of best practice guidelines. They made several recommendations, including striking the appropriate balance between simplicity and complexity, designing a plan to evaluate the many uncertainties inherent in disaster response, and good model reporting of the disaster response. "Evaluating the Capabi...Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system
...ng hard to help alleviate the state's water deficit with their new mini-mobile-modular (M3) "smart" water desalination and filtration system. In designing and constructing new desalination plants, creating and testing pilot facilities is one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps. Traditionally, ...DuoCort: New chronotherapy for adrenal insufficiency
...sired ones. Chronotherapy for the most part is not about new drug substances but about using medicines in new ways, better attuned to the bodys needs. designing a drug so its release into the bloodstream has a particular release pattern or using pumps that deliver medicine at specified intervals are some of th...Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use
...uts, modifications to livestock diets and the preservation or restoration of riparian vegetation strips--can be implemented now," they wrote. designing sustainable solutions also will require a lot more scientific data, they added. "Our lack of effective policies can be attributed, in part, to a lack ...Design input accelerates new technologies' route to market
... to market." Innovate for Universities is based on a successful Design Council support service for high-tech start-ups that is part of its national designing Demand business programme. It has proved that when designers are involved at the early stages of science and technology-based product development, com...Equity concerns raised by congestion pricing can be addressed to make approach viable
...t from the Environmental Defense Fund, a national environmental group. "The research shows that equity issues can and must be addressed early on when designing a congestion pricing project," said Kathryn Phillips, who directs transportation advocacy in California for the Environmental Defense Fund. "A well-de...Human factors and IT: Designing for patient safety
MADISON In the medical profession, one of the greatest obstacles in taking care of a patient is the overflow of information that naturally accompanies treatment. Patient histories and care instructions are often long and full of irrelevant information, and if multiple hospitals are involved, more ...Ratcliff Adds Architect John Sealander to Healthcare Practice Group
...cts-California Council. The third-generation architectural, planning and interiors firm employs a staff of 83 design professionals and is dedicated to designing sustainable structures in healthy balance with time, purpose and place. Ratcliff's list of representative health care clients includes John Muir Medic...New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
...but getting hydrogen out of a molecule requires a catalyst. Now, researchers reveal new details about one such catalyst. The results are a step toward designing catalysts for use in hydrogen energy applications such as fuel cells. Scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laborat...Beacon Designer from PREMIER Biosoft International
Description:...y avoiding template secondary structures identified by connecting 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....