Monitoring

Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs

The University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program, the world's longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.4 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand its sampling scope and sophistication. The Alaska-based program has applications for Pacific salmon all along the West Coast, providing insights into the fluctuating fortunes of s...

MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels

Daily multispectral observations from Envisat's MERIS sensor are being combined with a sophisticated processing algorithm and powerful Grid computing to reveal global photosynthesis activity on land. This permits researchers to trace the state of health of terrestrial plant cover, identifying areas under stress and assessing damage from drought or fires. An algorithm developed by the Europ...

Carnegie Mellon cyLab researchers work to develop new red tide monitoring

Carnegie Mellon CyLab computer scientist Yang Cai is working with NASA's Earth-Sun System Technology Office (ESTO), the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop new software for detecting and tracking toxic algae plaguing North American waters. "We are developing software that will monitor dangerous algae and various bioch...

Software might revolutionize glucose monitoring in critically ill patients

Researchers have developed a new computerized system to easilymonitor the levels of glucose in the blood of patients in intensivecare. A study published today in the open access journal BMC MedicalInformatics and Decision Making reports that GRIP, a computersoftware that assists in the monitoring of glucose levels incritically ill patients, saves nurses time and effort and is moreefficient...

Technology for monitoring fetal oxygen during labor offers no apparent benefit

A new technology for measuring blood oxygen levels of a baby during labor--expected to provide information useful for preventing birth complications--offers no apparent benefit, report researchers in a National Institutes of Health research network. The technology, known as fetal oxygen saturation monitoring, was designed for use along with electronic fetal monitoring, which tracks the fet...

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Complete 2 channel polarographic oxygen monitoring system from Instech Solomon

Description:The SYS203 is a complete, flexible system designed specifically for oxygen measurement in small samples, as is frequently required in biological research. The system is designed around Instechs miniature Clark-style polarographic electrode. Measuring only 1/8 of an inch in diameter (3.2 mm), it is ideal for metabolic studies of mitochondria, cell suspensions, and enzyme assays....
Company:Instech Solomon

Explorer Software Suite. Complete software and PC for datalogging, programming, control and monitoring for Explorer SpeedVac System [please inquire for latest PC configuration] from Thermo Scientific

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Company:Thermo Scientific

Complete 2 channel polarographic oxygen monitoring system from Instech Solomon

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Temperature Monitoring Probe from Invitrogen

Description:The PowerEase 500 Power Supply is designed specifically for mini-gel electrophoresis. It offers extensive programming capabilities including eight pre-set and four custom methods for you to set to your own preferences. The simple intuitive PowerEase interface is faster and easier to use than traditional "dial-in" power supplies....
Company:Invitrogen

PowerEase 500 Pre-Cast Gel System includes PowerEase Power Supply Temperature Monitoring Probe Xcell SureLock Mini-Cell and Xcell II Blot Module from Invitrogen

Description:The PowerEase 500 Power Supply is designed specifically for mini-gel electrophoresis. It offers extensive programming capabilities including eight pre-set and four custom methods for you to set to your own preferences. The simple intuitive PowerEase interface is faster and easier to use than traditional "dial-in" power supplies....
Company:Invitrogen

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Versatile Reporter Vectors for Monitoring Viral Transduction

Determine retroviral transduction efficiency and gene expression invirtually any target cell line Stratagene , pFB-Neo-LacZ <font...

Monitoring Receptor-Mediated Changes in [Ca2+]i Using Single-Wavelength and Dual-Wavelength Indicators on the FlexStation Workstation

Simon Lydford & Petra Averbeck, Molecular Devices Limited, U.K. The FlexStation scanning fluorometer integrates sensitive optics, fluid transfer and temperature control, making it ideal for kinetic, cell-based fluorometric assays, such as the measurement of intracellular calcium, membrane potential and intracellular pH. <...

Icon Interactive creates new Web monitoring tool

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Monitoring transfection efficiency by green fluorescent protein (GFP) detection with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer

This Application Note describes how the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer andthe Cell Fluorescence LabChip kit can be used to determine the efficiencyof transfection of mammalian cells using green fluorescent protein(GFP) as a reporter molecule. Transfection of CHO-K1 cells with...

Monitoring Microbial Populations Using Real-Time qPCR on the MJ Research Opticon 2 System

Hans-Peter Horz, Ph.D.1, Richard Kurtz, Ph.D.2, David Batey, Ph.D.2 and Brendan Bohannan, Ph.D.1 1Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2MJ Research, Incorporated, South San Francisco, CA The levels of the amoA gene were used to measure the a...

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Wearable Body Monitoring

"Unobtrusive wearable body monitoring will be to health care what the compound microscope was to the biology of disease." Unobtrusive wearable body monitoring,is a simple device worn on the body, such as a band around the arm, which measures a number of physiological levels.This includes time spent lying down or sleeping, time spent doing physical activity, body temperature, calories bur...

Monitoring Blood Pressure

A recent study shows that measuring ones blood pressure at home may lead to fewer blood pressure medications and slightly lower costs.// Researchers compared self-measurement at patients’ homes to conventional doctors’ office measurements of blood pressure for patients with high blood pressure. 400 patients with a diastolic blood pressure reading of 95 millimeters of mercury or more as measure...

Surgery For Obesity May Need Invasive Monitoring

Surgery in obese patients, especially in laproscopic surgery, may require the use of a pulmonary artery catheter and an // arterial line, says a study published in the new issue of Archives of Surgery. Morbid obesity is a condition that has a genetic component and often gets magnified by environmental, social and psychological factors. For such people, diet and exercise do not show m...

Monitoring Drug Safety

FDA has said that that it will promote a culture of openness and enhanced// oversight within the agency. As part of this vision, FDA will create a new independent Drug Safety Oversight Board to oversee the management of drug safety issues, and will provide emerging information to health providers and patients about the risks and benefits of medicines. Specific proposals for immediate a...

Increased Monitoring By Parents May Result In Lower BMI In Children

Excess weight in childhood is associated with many adverse health consequences. The rapid rise in childhood overweight in a stable genetic population emphasizes the importance of environmental factors on this issue//. Family influences, particularly parental influences, make up one environmental component that has been evaluated in relation to children’s weight. Parents influence the eat...

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ICP Express Monitoring System

Description:The CODMAN ICP Monitoring System provides highly accurate measurements of intracranial pressure at the source-subdural, parenchymal or intraventricular levels. The information is relayed electronically rather than through a hydrostatic column or fiberoptics....
Company:Codman

Ventrix™ NL950-100 Intercranial Pressure Monitoring System

Description:A rapid rise in intracranial pressure requires early recognition, intervention and continuous monitoring. Ventrix utilizes state-of-the-art fiberoptic technology that gets to the source of pressure. Its versatility makes it ideal for situations that require parenchymal placement as well....
Company:Integra LifeSciences Corporation

Spiegelberg ICP Monitoring - ICP-Monitor

Description:The ICP-Monitor for intraventricular, intraparenchymal and epidural measurement of intracranial pressure and for measuring cerebral perfusion pressure and compliance....
Company:B. Braun Medical Inc.

Monitorr ICP External CSF Drainage and Monitoring System

Description:Monitorr ICP external CSF drainage and monitoring system with patient line one way valve....
Company:Integra LifeSciences Corporation

Becker External Drainage and Monitoring System

Description:Medtronic neurosurgery external drainage and monitoring (EDM) products meet a variety of needs for CSF drainage and monitoring....
Company:Medtronic Inc.

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Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier

Monitoring patient glucose levels and determining the response to intervention is critical when working with diabetic clients. The benefit of doing so in improved outcomes for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes has been clearly established by clinical trials conducted in both the U.S. and the UK1. Self- monitoring by patients of glucose levels, and the data provided is especially important for p...

Monitoring Options Expand for Therapeutic Agents and Drugs of Abuse

In keeping with the recent proliferation of rapid, easy-to-use diagnostic tests, many assays and collection products have entered the marketplace to help clinicians assess dosage appropriateness of therapeutic drugs and to screen for the presence of drugs of abuse. Some of these products require laboratory support while many simple test kits are suitable for point of care use by medical profe...

Isotechnika's independent data monitoring committee conducts review of phase 2b kidney transplant trial

- Company Set to Host Evening Symposium at ATC - EDMONTON, March 27 /CNW/ - Isotechnika Inc. announced today thatan independent data monitoring committee (DMC) has met and reviewedthe interim data from the Phase 2b kidney transplant (PROMISE)trial. The review included 3 month data from approximately 1/3 ofthe anticipated 332 patients to be enrolled. The DMC hasrecommended that...