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Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens

The phenomenon of sexual conflict is a powerful driving force in the evolution of reproductive biology for many animal species. Males often try to manipulate their female mates during copulation--for example, by traumatic inseminations (as in the case of bed bugs) or by the transfer of toxic seminal fluids (as in the case of the fruitfly Drosophila). These manipulations are beneficial to males be...

Cooperation is key—a new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression

A group of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute is reporting a discovery that sheds light on an area of research fundamental to everything from the normal processes that govern the everyday life of human cells to the aberrant mechanisms that underlie many diseases, including cancer and septic shock. The discovery concerns tiny fragments of RNA known as microRNA and their relations...

Fishy cooperation

It is commonly thought that animals can be arranged along a ladder of intelligence—a sort of modern-day Scala Naturae—with humans inevitably at the top, followed by our close relatives, the primates, all the way down to fish and other slimy creatures. Over the past decade, this ladder has been challenged by claims of high intelligence and great social complexity in other animals. For example, spo...

Scientists perform 'tricky' operation

Trichomonas vaginalis colonises the urogenital tract and causes the infection also known as "trick", the most common non-viral STI. Ms Dunne said the results would allow resear...
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Laser microdissection and nucleic acid purification - a Leica - QIAGEN cooperation

Stefanie Schrer, Werner Wittke,* and Christian Kupfer QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden, Germany * Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany Laser microdissection (LMD) provides a powerful technology to isolate specific cells or cell groups for further analysis....

Rockwell Q2 operations net income soars, shares plunge

Income from continuing operations at Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $142.5 million, a 90 percent leap from the $74.9 million the company earned the same quarter of 2004. Profit for the second quarter of 2005, including discontinued operations, was an even $150 million, compared to $78.3 million a year ago. Despite that, Rockwell s...

Digital River Provides E-Commerce Operations for Metrowerks

MINNEAPOLIS-Digital River, Inc. a e-commerce outsource provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Metrowerks, aprovider of software development tools and services. Based on the agreement, Digital River built Metrowerks' e-commerce site, located at store.metrowerks.com, to support the online sales and marketing of Metrowerks' line of CodeWarrior(TM) software and hardware produc...

Sharon Ethanol appoints operations director

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Stratagem acquires the Milwaukee operations of BORN

The transaction, which took ef...

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MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

Medicine Shoppe India (MSI), the sole franchisee for US based Medicine Shoppe International, with operations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Baroda and Pune, has dropped Chennai from list of its target for operations in the country. According to informed sources, MSI, which recently drew up plans to expand its franchisee operations from the present 19 outlets to 50 by the end of the current financial yea...

New operation for swallowing problems

An ingenuous technique which reshape the throat area helps people who cannot swallow because of paralysis. Swallowing is a very complex operation, involving the co-ordinated action of various of the cranial nerves. One of these, the vagal nerve, controls the swallowing at the upper end of the digestive tract// - that is, above the esophagus, but below the mouth. When this nerve is paralysed, aspi...

New operation for kidney cancer

According to researchers, that three years on, a group of kidney cancer patients have had no recurrence of their disease, thanks to a new procedure. Researchers at the University of Mississippi have developed a new operation for kidney cancer, called interventional-MRI renal cryosurgery. //The procedure relies on magnetic resonance imaging to guide a surgical probe while removing cancerous tissue...

Memory deprivation after operations

Researchers in there study are trying to observe why surgery may trigger cognitive problems in some people but studies are ongoing. It's long been known that some older people develop problems with memory and other mental functions after an operation// - a condition known as Post Operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD).Often relatives will say that the person has 'never been the same' as they wer...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

Surgeons have come up with a new technique of removing cancerous kidneys through a small incision with the help of their hands and a special camera and instuments. This is the hand-assisted Laproscopic technique, which can be done in significantly less time than the standard laproscopic procedure. The research, being presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Associa...

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Binocular Operation Microscope

Description:Binocular operation microscope with innovative mechanism for smooth operation....
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Portable Operation Microscope

Description:Operating Microscope with excellent maneuverability. Konan made it compact and light weight maintaining high quality. Easy switchover from straight to oblique by simply changing the adapter. Konan's development in optical design has resulted in a sharp image from the compact microscope body....
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Operation Microscope

Description:Type 300 Oblique 45 Type 330 Straight Konan realized an ideal coaxial illumination by setting the illumination between lenses for observation. This illumination should be ideal for use in ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology Konan offers what no other conventional compact microscope can; an advanced zoom function (1:3) and a clear image at every possible magn...
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Melker Emergency Cricothyrotomy Catheter Set - Cuffed - Special Operations

Description:Used for emergency airway access when conventional endotracheal intubation cannot be performed....
Company:Cook Critical Care

Melker Emergency Cricothyrotomy Catheter Set - Special Operations

Description:Used for emergency airway access when endotracheal intubation cannot be performed....
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