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New Technique Dissects Stem Cells' Picky Likes, Dislikes

Whether their goal is to create therapies or simply investigate how organisms develop, stem cell researchers face what is perhaps one of biological science's toughest assignments: keeping their tiny research subjects under control. Stem cells have notoriously finicky tastes, and despite a...

Thomson Reuters Releases 2009 Patent Focus Report

...VP Global Marketing Services at Thomson Reuters. "This highly anticipated report discusses the issues facing the world's major issuing authorities and dissects significant patent disputes and their outcomes." Key findings from the 2009 Patent Focus Report include: For the first time a Ch...

Stop Smoking in Three Sessions

...Praise for the book "Stop Smoking For Good." "This book is for smokers who are serious about kicking the habit forever. Dr. Prasad meticulously dissects the smoking habit and, most important, shows how to beat it. He did it for me and it changed my life and the lives of those around me." -Judge...

It's great! Oops, no it isn't

...icting results. A new book can help - It's Great! Oops, No It Isn't: Why Clinical Research Can't Guarantee The Right Medical Answers by Ronald Gauch dissects medical research methodology. Through a penetrating inquiry into its triumphs and tragedies, it explains why correct answers are so hard to achieve. W...

New Report Examines Pharmaceutical Sales Force Effectiveness

...e effectiveness are in fact the ones causing its decline. Focusing on the pharmaceutical industries in the United States, Europe and Japan, the report dissects these current metrics and their limitations, and then offers updated metrics that can help solve the declining effectiveness crisis. "A pharmaceutic...

Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS Exhibitions Welcome Specimens From World's First Living Body Donor for Plastination

...RLDS, the public anatomical exhibitions of donor bodies that have been touring the United States since 2004. As a medical professional who routinely dissects amputated limbs and excises tumors and other pathologies for analysis, Rohner was familiar with the disposal of surgically removed limbs. "They are ei...

Comprehensive diagnosis of heart disease with a single CT scan

...nner. The MUSC scanner was the first unit worldwide that was enabled to acquire images of the heart with the dual-energy technique. While the CT scan dissects the heart into thin layers, enabling doctors to detect diseased vessels and valves, it could not detect blood flow. The MUSC researchers added two x-...

New Report Examines Pharmaceutical Sales Force Effectiveness

...e effectiveness are in fact the ones causing its decline. Focusing on the pharmaceutical industries in the United States, Europe and Japan, the report dissects these current metrics and their limitations, and then offers updated metrics that can help solve the declining effectiveness crisis. "A pharmaceutic...

Cell Survival Depends on Chromosome Integrity

...s-driven research and to speed development of new hypotheses. The Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways of Lysine Modification at Hopkins dissects signaling networks and pathways by developing and applying genetic and computational approaches, proteomics technologies, mass spectrometry technologi...

Dissects in Medical Products

cusa selector™ Ultrasonic Aspirator

Description:...e of integrated circuitry and the small, ergonomic 24kHz microsurgical handpiece. Unlike other surgical techniques, ultrasonic surgery selectively dissects soft tissues leaving fibrous tissues such as nerves and blood vessels relatively unaffected. It therefore facilitates the ablation of unwanted tissue ...
Company:Integra LifeSciences Corporation

Vitreoretinal Viscodissector

Description:...tic materials. Flattened, angled tip of 30 gauge cannula facilitates placement between the retina and membranes for delivery of viscous material which dissects the abnormal membrane and its attachment away from the retina. 3 per box....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Dissects in Biological News

New book dissects statistics for doctors and medical students

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Oct. 21, 2008) The medical literature is chock full of risk ratios, P values, numbers needed to treat, life tables, regressions, survival analyses, and confidence intervals. But what do they mean? A second edition of the book Medical Statistics Made Easy , recen...

US science education organization updates analysis

...t's lucid and comprehensive look at this ongoing debate. Dr. Scott, one of the leading promoters and defenders of teaching evolution in the schools, dissects these ever-changing efforts to undermine science education. Praised for its balance and comprehensiveness, the book places the issues in today's he...

4 Stanford faculty named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

...nd pancreatic cancer. He works with stem and progenitor cells to replace pancreatic function, studies how insulin-producing beta cells proliferate and dissects the development of cells that control blood sugar in flies and mice. Julie Theriot, associate professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and im...

Life-threatening gene defect located by UT-Houston researchers

...st positive for the defective gene are encouraged to have routine imaging of their thoracic aortas in order to surgically repair an aneurysm before it dissects or ruptures. If caught early enough, when an aneurysm is 5 centimeters or less, a surgical procedure to replace the diseased portion with a Dacron gra...

Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound

...efficient, effective and concise in conveying a rich variety of natural sounds than anything else," Lewicki said. The approach by Smith and Lewicki dissects sound based only on the timing of compressed "spikes" associated with vowels (like cat vocalizations), consonants (like rocks hitting one another) and...

Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses

... "NS5 prevents interferon from doing its sentry job and allows the virus to take over cells," says Dr. Bloom. "This is the first definitive study that dissects where the failure occurs in the signaling pathway, and then identifies some of the interacting partners in the cell and virus." Prior to this work, Dr...