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Novel antiviral technology inhibits RSV infection in mice

A novel antiviral treatment combiningnanoparticle and gene silencing technologies thwarts attacks ofrespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- a virus associated with severebronchitis and asthma, an animal study by University of South Floridaresearchers found. The study was reported in the January 2005 issue ofthe journal Nature Medicine.RSV infects lung cells and can be life-threatening in very...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Home-Use Diagnostic Kits Marketed by Globus Media

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to use unapproved home-use diagnostic test kits that have been marketed nationwide via the Internet by Globus Media, Montreal, Canada. The use of these products could result in false results that could lead to significant adverse health consequences. The illegal kits are labeled as: Rapid HIV Test Kit. * Rapid Syphilis Te...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

First-of-its-kind analysis published in the Feb. 8 PNAS supports the concept of a basic wiring diagram for all eukaryotes. Researchers in California, Israel, and Germany have compared three distantly related species ?baker's yeast, a worm, and the fruit fly ?and reported that protein "wiring" connections in one species are often conserved in all three. This first-of-its-kind analysis of t...

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...

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Agilent Microarray hybridization Chamber Kits from Agilent Technologies

Description:Contents include: plastic tweezersChambers are stainless steel and are intended to be cleaned and reused. The chamber is designed for use with Agilents Catalog Oligo Microarray kits and all custom oligo microarrays, in conjunction wit...
Company:Agilent Technologies

RTS AviTag E. coli Biotinylation Kit, Plasmid; Cloning vector and in vitro protein mono-biotinylation system for use with RTS 100 and RTS 500 E. coli HY Kits from Roche Applied Science

Description:Roches RTS AviTag E. coli Biotinylation Kit, Plasmid is designed for use with high-yield RTS 100 and 500 E. coli expression kits. (Cat. No. 3 186 148, 3 186 156, 3 335 461). This kit provides vectors for the easy introduction of a C- or N-terminal AviTag peptide sequence. The expressed protein can be enzymatically mono-biotinylated by E. coli biotin protein ligase (BirA, E.C. 6.3.4.15). The vecto...
Company:Roche Applied Science

AmpliTaq DNA Polymerase, 1,000 units with Buffer I from Applied Biosystems

Description:AmpliTaq DNA Polymerase is a 94 kDa ultra-pure, gelatin-free, thermostable, rec...
Company:Applied Biosystems

Kit for BASE20/50 units from Wave Biotech now part of GE Healthcare

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Company:Wave Biotech now part of GE Healthcare

Analog thermal printer, Mitsubishi (115V) for all UVP imaging systems except BioDoc-It and VisiDoc-It from UVP

Description:Conveniently document gels, films and membranes with a high quality thermal printer....
Company:UVP

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Detect Single Nucleotide Sequence Changes with Mx4000 Molecular Beacon Allelic Discrimination Kits

Allelic discrimination kits with excellent specificity, sensitivity, andassay throughput Stratagene Because of their unique hairpin conformation, molecular beacon probes canrecognize single base differences, making them ideal for mutation detection andallelic discrimination. Base...

Brilliant Core Reagent Kits for QPCR and QRT-PCR

Economical quantitative PCR (QPCR) reagent kits for use with all types offluorescent probes Stratagene Stratagenes Brilliant quantitative PCR and RT-PCR corereagent kits are compatible with many fluorescent detectiontechnologies. Sever...

Gene-Specific Primers for NMDA Receptor Subunits

Robert Buchner Peter L. Pingerelli Michael D. Browning Mary Ellen Simcox Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene is now offering gene-specific primer sets for the rat and humanNMDA receptor. In this article, we describe using these primers in reversetran...

Easy Cosmid DNA Purification with StrataPrep Kits

Stratagene plasmid miniprep and midiprep kits aredesigned to isolate up to 20 and 350 g, respectively, of high-purity plasmidDNA from a single spin cup. These kits can also easily purify verylarge plasmids, inc...

Eppendorf Perfectprep Plasmid DNA Isolation Kits

Plasmid DNA Isolation Kits Eppendorf Perfectprep Plasmid DNA Isolation Kits are designed to generate high yields of highly pure plasmid DNA suitable for automated fluorescent sequencing, transfection, PCR, and other extremely sensitive downstream applications....

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Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

Medical officials in Russia have reported to have said that more than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second newborn discharged from a maternity clinic is suffering health problems. The number of normal births declined from 45.3 percent in 1992 to just 30 percent last year, said Olga Frolova, head of the statistics department of Russia's Academy o...

Kidney Stones - Interesting New Research implicates bacteria as its cause

In India Kidney Stones are not uncommon problem due to the hot and often humid weather. Most of these stones are made up of Calcium, Oxalate and phosphates. The cause of stone disease is debatable, however it is well known that drinking less water is a risk factor for stone disease. New research by the National Kidney foundation suggests that the culprit is a tiny bacteria called N...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

GlaxoSmithKline's smoking cessation drug Zyban, which is being taken by over 5 million people world wide, is held responsilble for a raise in the suspected adverse reactions due to drug intake in UK. Pharmacovigilance statistics of MCA has shown a raise of about 37% more adverse reactions so called "yellow cards" during the period of January to April 2001 compared to that of last years....

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

A review of numerous research studies focusing on smoking cessation has concluded that while women may suffer greater relative risks of smoking-related diseases than do men, they tend to have less success than men in quitting smoking. Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who conducted the review offers several reasons for this disparity in a paper pu...

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

Researchers have found that chemotherapy improves survival and reduces the risk of recurrence in women with stage I ovarian cancer // (cancer that has not spread beyond the ovary). About one quarter of all ovarian cancers are caught while confined to the ovaries, when five-year survival is 85 percent. Most doctors may prefer not to offer chemotherapy for their patients, since eight in 10...

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Grooved Segmental Buckle and Oval Sponge Kits

Description:Size: 3.0 x 7.5 x 80 mm. Grooved buckle. Size: 2.3 x 4.0 x 100 mm. Oval sponge. Storz offers the original Scleral Sponge II line designed by Harvey A. Lincoff, M.D. The material is a closed cell sponge which is non-toxic and non-antigenic. Implants are soft with rounded edges to minimize scleral intrusion. These implants are packaged sterile and sold five implants per box....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

Carbide Drill Bits

Description:Carbide drill bits, cutters, side cutting. Available in various sizes....
Company:Kelleher Medical, Inc.

Surgical Drill Bits

Description:Surgical drill bits, twist drills, HSS. Available in various sizes....
Company:Kelleher Medical, Inc.

Adjustable Troutman Trephine Handle, Fits 7mm - 9mm trephines

Description:Medtronic Ophthalmics offers a comprehensive selection of corneal trephineblades and handles. Handcrafted, sharp, uniform blade edges promote asymetrical and vertical cut of all corneal layers....
Company:Medtronic

Adjustable Troutman Trephine Handle, Fits 5mm - 7mm trephines

Description:Medtronic Ophthalmics offers a comprehensive selection of corneal trephineblades and handles. Handcrafted, sharp, uniform blade edges promote asymetrical and vertical cut of all corneal layers....
Company:Medtronic

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Portola Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Data from a Phase II Study of its Factor Xa Inhibitor at the XXI Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- PortolaPharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive Phase II data on its leadcompound, PRT054021, an oral Factor Xa inhibitor, today at the XXICongress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis(ISTH) in Geneva, Switzerland. The EXPERT trial showed thatPRT054021 was safe, effective, and well tolerated for theprevention of venous th...

DOR BioPharma Announces Issuance of European Patent for Its Oral Multivalent Botulinum Toxin Vaccine BT-VACC

MIAMI, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 06, 2007 -- DOR BioPharma,Inc. (OTCBB: <a target="_blank" href='http://studio.financialcontent.com/Engine?Account=iwire&PageName=QUOTE&Ticker=DORB"%3EDORB'>http://studio.financialcontent.com/Engine?Account=iwire&PageName=QUOTE&Ticker=DORB">DORB )("DOR" or the "Company") announced today that the European PatentOffice has granted a paten...

Peer Reviewed Journal Article Indicates Repros' Proellex Exhibits Potential for New Approach to the Treatment and Prevention of Breast Cancer

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 5, 2007 - ReprosTherapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGM:RPRX) today announced that an articlehas been published in the July 1, 2007 issue of Oncology Reportsindicating a potential for a new approach to the treatment ofbreast cancer using Proellex. The article reviews the findings froma study conducted in an accepted in vivo rat model of breastcancer. The study...

DOR BioPharma Announces Publication Describing Results of Its Multivalent Botulinum Toxin Vaccine BT-VACC

MIAMI--(MARKET WIRE) -- July 02, 2007 -- DOR BioPharma, Inc.(OTCBB: DORB) ("DOR" or the "Company") announced today that thefirst results from testing of a multivalent form of its botulinumtoxin vaccine, BT-VACC™, have been published in the journalInfection and Immunity (Ravichandran et al., 2007, Infection andImmunity, v. 75, p. 3043 ). These results are the first thatdescribe the...

Accentia Biopharmaceuticals Announces Favorable Interim Blinded Data on SinuNase in Its Fast-Tracked Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Chronic Sinusitis

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 28, 2007 - AccentiaBiopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABPI) announced on Wednesday,June 27 at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference that its interimanalysis of the blinded data on the first fifty patients in theFast-Tracked Phase 3 clinical study of SinuNase(TM), at 8 weekspost-randomization, has demonstrated substantial improvement inresolution of one or both...

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