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Enzyme shown to help protect genomic stability

Genomes throughout the animal kingdom and beyond are characterized by extensive segments that are inactive, lengthy stretches of DNA containing multiple genes that are closed to gene transcription. Scientists believe one reason for this broad gene silencing is the vital need for genomic stability, for protection against unwanted recombinations of genetic material or other disruptions of the genom...

Jumping gene helps explain immune system's abilities

A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists hasfound the first clear evidence that the process behind the human immunesystem's remarkable ability to recognize and respond to a milliondifferent proteins might have originated from a family of genes whoseonly apparent function is to jump around in genetic material. essentially cut...

Circles Of DNA Might Help Predict Success Of Stem Cell Transplantation

Measuring the quantity of a certain type of immune cell DNA in the blood could help physicians predict whether a bone marrow stem cell transplant will successfully restore a population of infection-fighting cells called T lymphocytes in a child. This research, by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is published in the journal Blood. This finding could help physicians p...

UCSD discovery may help extend life of natural pesticide

A team led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a molecule in roundworms that makes them susceptible to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin, or Bt toxin--a pesticide produced by bacteria and widely used by organic farmers and in genetically engineered crops to ward off insect pests. Their findings should facilitate the design and use of Bt toxins to prevent ins...

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, which lives in symbiotic harmony within the light organ of the bobtail squid, has helped a Virginia Tech microbiologist advance her research on quorum sensing, or how cells communicate and function as a community. Researchers studying the newly sequenced genome of the marine bacterium V. fischeri, d...

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Ergonomics and Liquid Handling How can BrinkmannTM Help ?

How can Brinkmann As a laboratory technician, pipetting is a routine laboratory technique that is performed everyday, for a good portion of the day. Pipetting work demands concentration, accuracy and preci...

Off-the-grid networking can help you cut past chit-chat

When Midwest tech people talked about networking a decade ago, they were mostly talking about reaching out to their friends and colleagues for job opportunities and business development leads. In other words, to most Midwest tech networkers, "networking" meant "using your existing net...

Business Filings releases software to help small businesses

MADISON - Business Filings Inc., a provider of services that help small businesses incorporate, has announced its release of a web-based application that businesses can use to manage annual state requirements. sends e-mails to business owners reminding them of due dates for annual report, tax...

CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

Middleton, WI Combining database and personalized print technology, a physicians group in the Midwest is making a new kind of house call to retain patients. Instead of waiting for patients to come to their offices for treatment, these physicians are sending personalized messages by mail with reminders for important check-ups and screenings -- and seeing response rates of 10 to 21 percent. <b...

Technology helps but the best way to reduce Sarbox cost is with people

Investing in your people and culture, which is the essence of entity-wide controls, i...

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Amphetamines Help Recovery of Stroke Patients

A new study from Doctors at UT Southwestern in Dallas soon report that amphetamines may speed up the recovery of speech in stroke patients who have lost the function. This study was done on patients who had suffered from ischemic stroke, or a stroke due to loss of blood and oxygen to the brain. Amphetamines were given to 30 stroke patients who lost their ability to spea...

Antibiotics Helps Autism

There is new hope for children with autism. Antibiotcs seem to treat or prevent the symptoms of autism in some patients. One in every 150 children is affected by autism. Currently there are no treatments for this complex condition. Researchers from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago found that a subset of patients with autism who experience a colonization of bacteria in th...

Serum Progesterone Helps Stratify Ectopic Pregnancy Risk

Measurement of serum progesterone levels may be helpful in deciding which emergency department patients with no strong clinical signs are at low risk of ectopic pregnancy, according to a report in the August issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. They measured progesterone levels in 716 first-trimester patients who presented to an emergency department with abdominal pain or...

Cinnamon May Help Diabetics

People with type 2 diabetes may improve their ability to regulate their blood sugar by adding a little spice to their life.In preliminary findings, cinnamon helped fat cells recognize and respond to insulin, the hormone that removes excess glucose from the blood and deposits it into cells. In a test tube and in animal studies, the spice appeared to increase glucose metabolism by about 20...

Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

In some of the cancer patients the Tumors can't be easily deected. A new procedure being done at Mayo Clinic using vitamin B12 that helps doctors locate hard to find tumors. During the processes a patient is injected with radioactive vitamin B12. After three hours a gamma camera takes pictures of the body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stan...

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On-line Electronic Help (OLEH)

Description:On-line Electronic Help (OLEH), an interactive electronic textbook, provides real-time access to critical anesthesia-related information. OLEH brings clinical decision support information where anesthesiologists need it most right on the patient monitor screen while taking care of the patient and contributing to error reduction and greater efficiencies with practical and more comprehensive know...
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Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season

On October 5, Chiron Corporation notified the CDC that none of its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin) would be available for distribution in the United States for the current influenza season. In the wake of this sudden removal of nearly half of the anticipated American vaccine supply, medical officials and the general public have grown increasingly alarmed about the scarcity of vaccine and the ris...

Response Genetics Announces Publication of a Phase III Clinical Trial Demonstrating That Low Levels of ERCC-1 Help to Predict Likelihood of Response to Cisplatin-Based Therapy in Lung Cancer

- First prospective biomarker trial in non-small cell lung cancer - LOS ANGELES, July 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ResponseGenetics, Inc. today announced that positive Phase III clinicaldata published in the July 1 issue of the Journal of ClinicalOncology suggests that low expression of the biomarkerExcision-Repair Cross-Complementing 1 (ERCC-1) in patient biopsieswith advanced non-...

ApoCell's Cancer Predictive Index Helps Oncologists Select the Most Effective Targeted Drug Therapy

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 7, 2007 - ApoCell, Inc. presented theresults of a study conducted by researchers at the University ofChicago and ApoCell at the 2007 annual meeting of the AmericanSociety of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in Chicago in early June.The study showed that ApoCell's advanced pharmacodynamic biomarkerassay technology provides reliable predictive data of clinicalrespon...

Exforge Helps Vast Majority of Patients Effectively Control Their Blood Pressure After Failing on Other Medicines, According to New Clinical Data

Nine out of 10 non-diabetic patients treated withExforge achieved recommended blood pressure goals[1] Additional average decrease of 20 mmHg insystolic blood pressure observed in patients taking Exforge overreductions seen with previous monotherapy[1] Nearly 70% of those with high blood pressure notat treatme...

Lyrica Significantly Reduced Pain and Helped Patients Manage the Symptoms of Fibromyalgia, Data Show

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2007 - Significantly more patientstreated with Pfizer's Lyrica reduced their pain by 50 percent ormore compared with placebo, according to study results presentedtoday at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.Clinically, this outcome would equate to a patient with severe painreporting a reduction to mild to moderate pain. Fibromyalgia is one of t...

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