Scientists May Isolate Stem Cells From Rats, Other Mammals
Achievement would be a real advance since these cells more closely mimic those of humans WEDNESDAY, Dec. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've found a formula to capture indefinitely the basic embryonic stem cells of a mammal, including long-sought rat stem cells. If the f...Deep brain mapping to isolate evidence of Gulf War syndrome
DALLAS Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains affected by Gulf War Syndrome. Richard Gunst, Wayne Woodward and ...Scientists Isolate Organism That Causes Disfiguring Tropical Disease
Aquatic niches host Buruli ulcer bacterium that plagues African populations WEDNESDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of researchers has finally isolated from the environment the organism that causes devastating and disfiguring ulcers that primarily plague poorer po...Scientists Isolate Leukemia Stem Cells in Mouse Model
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues have isolated rare cancer stem cells that cause leukemia in a mouse model// of the human disease. The leukemia stem cells isolated proved to be surprisingly different from normal blood stem cells ...New System To Isolate People Affected By Bird Flu
Ahmedabad based company Online Infocomm, which helped SARS affected South-East Asia two years ago, by installing telemedicine-based thermal scanners are now under the process of designing a new system that could help early// diagnosis of the bird flu and isolate people affected by it. The com...Swiss Researchers Isolate Hair-Raising Stem Cells
Researchers at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) and the CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital) have discovered that some cells in the hair follicle belong to the true multipotent stem cell category and can // differentiate into many cell types needed for hair growth and follicle rep...Biocept Announces Study to Isolate Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Biocept, an emerging leader in biotechnology, is initiating a collaborative study with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to investigate the ability to isolate circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood. The study will use Biocept's proprietary C...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
...ts to gain new understanding of the molecular pathways and genetic mutations that contribute to the causes of many cancers; to apply nanotechnology to isolate and analyze circulating tumor cells; to explore imaging approaches that could lead to "starving" tumors; to leverage the growing understanding of epig...Discovery of Marker for Colon Stem Cells Could Shed Light on What Drives Tumor Growth
...-bin/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO ) To date, knowledge of a substance, often referred to as a marker, that enables doctors to identify, locate, and isolate normal and malignant colon stem cells, has been elusive. But the discovery by Dr. Boman and colleagues that aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) is a mark...UMMS researchers isolate first 'neuroprotective' gene in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
WORCESTER, Mass. A genetic variant that substantially improves survival of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been indentified by a consortium of researchers led by John Landers, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Robert Brown, MD...Researchers isolate protein domain linked to tumor progression
Troy, N.Y. When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Now, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Instit...Scientists isolate cancer stem cells
OKLAHOMA CITY After years of working toward this goal, scientists at the OU Cancer Institute have found a way to isolate cancer stem cells in tumors so they can target the cells and kill them, keeping cancer from returning. A research team at the University of Oklahoma led by Courtney Houche...OU researchers isolate microorganisms that convert hydrocarbons to natural gas
When a group of University of Oklahoma researchers began studying the environmental fate of spilt petroleum, a problem that has plagued the energy industry for decades, they did not expect to eventually isolate a community of microorganisms capable of converting hydrocarbons into natural gas. ...Licking your wounds: Scientists isolate compound in human saliva that speeds wound healing
A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal ( http://www.fasebj.org ) identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound healing. This research may offer hope to people suffering from chronic wounds related to diabetes and other disorders, as we...HIV isolate from Kenya provides clues for vaccine design
Two simple changes in its outer envelope protein could render the AIDS virus vulnerable to attack by the immune system, according to research from Kenya and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published in PLoS Medicine. The results could provide important clues for designing an effectiv...A Better Way to Isolate RNA AND Protein From the Same Sample
Isolate total RNA and protein from cultured cells or tissues Isolate nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA and protein from cultured cells No phenol extraction or alcohol precipitation Ambion's new PARIS Kit uses a fast, simple procedur...Webcast of QIAGEN N.V.'s (Nasdaq: QGEN) Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results Call Set for August 11
...5-4235 QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands holding company, is the leading provider of sample and assay technologies. Sample technologies are used to isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from biological samples such as blood or tissue. Assay technologies are used to make such isolated biomolecules visi...Aztech Controls Introduces Standardized Gas Sticks for Semiconductor Tool Hook Up
...eral purity / non-process (GP / NP) gas delivery. Gas sticks (pressure control manifolds) are used to control & indicate pressure, filter and isolate gases going to feed semiconductor process tools. The typical "custom build to order" model used by most semiconductor end users can prove t...NeoStem, Inc. Appoints Leading Chinese Medical Official to Its Advisory Board
...eed. The Company has also entered into research and development through the acquisition of a worldwide exclusive license to technology to identify and isolate VSELs (very small embryonic-like stem cells), which have been shown to have several physical characteristics that are generally found in embryonic ste...Sf9 Frozen Cells (Grace's Media) from Invitrogen
Description:... Sf9 cells derived from Spodoptera frugiperda ovarian cells (Sf21 cells) are commonly used to isolate and propagate recombinant AcMNPV viral stocks and to produce recombinant proteins....One•STrEP™ Protein Interaction Kit from Novagen
Description:...eraction Kit provides an extremely fast and efficient single step method to isolate intact protein complexes. Unlike other systems that require tedious optimiz...ons with low background. With the OneSTrEP Protein Interaction Kit, you can isolate even weakly and/or transiently associated protein complexes. This kit provi...CellSensor CRE-bla HEK 293T Cell Line from Invitrogen
Description:...e element (CRE). To obtain the cell line the CRE-bla construct was transduced into HEK 293T cells by lentivirus. Subsequent flow cytometry was used to isolate clones responsive to forskolin stimulation (Figure 1). The CellSensor CRE-bla HEK 293T cell line can be used to build specific G-protein coupled recep...Glycoprotein Isolation Kit WGA from Pierce Biotechnology, Inc.
Description:...nt or greater glycoprotein recovery versus competitor kits and lectin resins Fast Glycoprotein purification in less than an hour Versatile isolate glycoproteins from various sample types, e.g., human serum and cell lysate. Robust Lectin does not leach from resin when processing sample C...