Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering
Sacramento - Today, Affymetrix, Inc.announced plans to make eight new GeneChip(R) plant and animal genomearrays available in 2005 as part of its Consortia Program, includingcanine, Rhesus macaque, Medicago trancatula (legume), Brassica, tomato,citrus, poplar and sugar cane. More than 20 research presentations atthis week's Plant and Animal Genome Conference XIII in San Diego,Calif. feature...Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles
For all its promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised concerns about possible harmful effects of the miniscule materials. Scientists at the University of Michigan are addressing those concerns by investigating how certain kinds of nanoparticles damage cell membranes—enough to cause cell death in some cases—and how the damage can be pr...Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer
Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd, a leading provider of bioinformatics solutions, today announced further details of its global OEM partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a leading provider of drug discovery, life science research and analytical solutions. As detailed in a press release issued last week, PerkinElmer will distribute Nonlinear's full range of 1D, 2D and array software. Howeve...Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles
For all its promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised concerns about possible harmful effects of the miniscule materials. Scientists at the University of Michigan are addressing those concerns by investigating how certain kinds of nanoparticles damage cell membranes---enough to cause cell death in some cases---and how the damage can b...Oldest cranial, dental and postcranial fossils of early modern European humans confirmed
The human fossil evidence from the Mladec Caves in Moravia, Czech Republic, excavated more than 100 years ago, has been proven for the first time, through modern radiocarbon dating, to be the oldest cranial, dental and postcranial assemblage of early modern humans in Europe. A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum in Vienna, from the University of Vienna in Austria and from t...FailSafe PCR System w/choice of 8 PreMix Tubes from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
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The new systems were unveiled at the 2005 International Union of Crystallography m...Inducing RNAi with siRNA Cocktails Generated by RNase III
Ambion, Inc. Austin, TX 78744-1832 Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is an extremely...Dicer vs. RNase III for Preparation of siRNA Cocktails
Both recombinant human Dicer and RNase III can be used in vitro to cleave long dsRNA, producing siRNA cocktails that are effective mediators of gene silencing (1-6). Dicer is an endoribonuclease that contains RNase III domains and is the enzyme responsible...Merge unveils next-generation imaging-informatics product
Merge, a medical imaging software and services company, will market the product, which is called Fusion RIS/PACS, to im...Merge unveils updated medical imaging software
Merge, which has released several product upgrades this year as it attempts to recover from past financial reporting improprieties, said...The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live
HIV infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART regime) are forced to stop the treatment because of the toxic side effects of the treatment, which causes liver damage. According to a study led by Dr. Raymond T. Chung, who presented the findings at Digestive Disease Week in Atlanta last week, severe liver toxicity forced almost one in every four patients to stop the t...Role of fats and oils in vision care
The balance of fats and oils in your diet can affect your vision, according to a new study. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a currently untreatable disease of the eye causing fuzziness, shadows and severe visual impairment. As the name suggests, it gets worse with age and diet has been implicated in its development. // Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary c...Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses
The Food and Drug Administration approved naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism in 1994. At that time, the only other drug therapy available was disulfiram, or Antabuse, which provokes a sickening reaction to alcohol.// A new study casts sobering doubts on earlier claims that an alcoholism drug can truly treat the addiction. The government is sponsoring a large trial comparing na...Enduring anti-clotting treatment avails heart patients
According to a new study, researchers have observed that patients who took aspirin and anti-clotting drugs for a year after angioplasty had a decreased risk of problems. Angioplasty involves inserting a balloon and then a device called a stent into a blocked coronary artery.// It's often life-saving, for it opens up the artery again. However, one complication that often occurs when such p...Wilson Vitreous Foreign Body Forceps
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NEW ORLEANS, March 26, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinicresearchers today report that the drug torcetrapib, despite raisinghigh density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) or the "good"cholesterol by more than 60%, did not slow the progression ofplaque buildup in the coronary arteries as measured using anultrasound probe. Steven Nissen, M.D., Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine atCl...