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Comparison of Cocaine, Methamphetamine ‘Highs?Finds Differences

Don't call them the Dirt Doctors, or Sultans of Soil, they're just clever Lab guys. A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory has a paper in this week's Science Magazine with a new way to count bugs in dirt. Bacteria, that is, in the highly complex world beneath our feet. "Computational Improvements Reveal Great Bacterial Diversity and High Metal Toxicity in Soil," by Jason Gans, Murray W...

Multi-species genome comparison sheds new light on evolutionary processes, cancer mutations

An international team that includes researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has discovered that mammalian chromosomes have evolved by breaking at specific sites rather than randomly as long thought ?and that many of the breakage hotspots are also involved in human cancer. In a study published in the July 22 iss...

Heparin prepared synthetically could replace animal-derived drug

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered an alternative way to produce heparin, a drug commonly used to stop or prevent blood from clotting. The findings could enable the current supply of the drug ?now extracted from animal tissue ?to be replaced or supplemented by the synthetic version. The new process also can be applied as...

Wild vs. lab rodent comparison supports hygiene hypothesis

In a study comparing wild rodents with their laboratory counterparts, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found evidence that may help to explain why people in industrialized societies that greatly stress hygiene have higher rates of allergy and autoimmune diseases than do people in less developed societies in which hygiene is harder to achieve or considered less critical. T...

Blood-compatible nanoscale materials possible using heparin

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have engineered nanoscale materials that are blood compatible using heparin, an anticoagulant. The heparin biomaterials have potential for use as medical devices and in medical treatments such as kidney dialysis. The researchers prepared several materials with heparin composites or coatings, including carbon nanotubes, nanofibers, and membr...

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Heparin Clotting Assay Kit, HEPTEST from AMERICAN DIAGNOSTICA

Description:The HEPTEST assays provide a sensitive, simple, rapid, and convenient in vitro quantitation of heparin, low molecular weight heparins, and heparinoids in plasma and whole blood. Sample Type: whole blood, plasma. Assay Range: 0.015-100 U/ml...
Company:AMERICAN DIAGNOSTICA

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New Microarray Labeling Kit for Preparing cDNA Probes

A more reliable and reproducible way to create fluorescently orradioactively labeled cDNA David T. Wong Heidi Davis Darryl Garrison TerryPayette Matt Lundy Kim Kuplent Mary A. Buchanan Joseph A. Sorge Rebecca L. Mullinax Stratagene Phenogenex Nucleic acid micro...

Comparing Fidelity and Performance of Proofreading PCR Enzymes

DNA polymerase is superior toPlatinum Stratagene Pfx DNA polymerase, a competitors new PCR enzyme formulationcon...

PCR Performance Comparisons Between pfuturbo and Taq DNA Polymerases

pfuturbo DNA polymerase is the superior choice for robusthigh-fidelity PCR amplification Stratagene In this update, we compare the PCR performances of pfuturbo DNApolymerase * ,</...

Performance Comparisons of Commercial RT-PCR Systems

Stratagene We compared Stratagenes prostar RT-PCR systems to othercommercially available RNA amplification kits to see how well they performed.The ProSTAR HF single-tube RT-PCR system, featurin...

A Comparison Study of Lipid Tranfection Reagents in A549, NIH 3T3 and COS-7 Cell Lines

Genetic Applications LLC transfection reagent canbe used for simple and reproducible delivery of foreign DNA into mammaliancells. In this study, we used varying amounts of LipoTAXI transf...

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Heparin does not protect from recurrent heart attacks

Professor Mahaffey and his team from Duke Clinical Research Institute have found that either form of heparin (both low molecular weight and unfractionated)gives emergency// protection to heart attack patients by breaking the clots in blood flow to the heart reducing the risk of heart attacks for 24 hours. Though both the forms of heparin gives emergency treatment they are not found to avo...

Comparison between warfarin and aspirin

According to a new study, it shows that warfarin and aspirin are equally effective in stroke prevention in the majority of patients at risk. Aspirin prevents blood clotting by stopping platelets from clumping together, while warfarin acts on the levels of blood clotting proteins. So both are known to help prevent blood clots in the brain that lead to strokes. Till date, it has been though...

Comparing Breast surgery techniques

After a long period of study, it shows little difference in outcome between radical and more conservative breast surgery. The radical mastectomy - total removal of the breast and the nodes under the armpit// - is far less often done nowadays as a treatment for breast cancer. Surgeons are more likely to opt for a simple mastectomy or even a lumpectomy, which just removes the lump and conse...

Comparing heart disease treatments

Researchers in their recent study compare between bypass surgery and stenting for treatment of heart disease. There are two treatment options for blocked coronary arteries. //Bypass surgery involves grafting a new vessel in place of the blocked section. Stenting involves introducing a metal device into the artery to keep it opened up. Researchers in Germany assigned a group of 200 patient...

Comparing Psoriasis Treatments

A new study shows two common treatments for psoriasis -- methotrexate and cyclosporine -- are equally effective in relieving symptoms of the disease.// Researchers in Amsterdam studied nearly 90 patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis. Half of the patients were given methotrexate, and the other half were treated with cyclosporine. Researchers evaluated the side effects and effective...

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Optetrak Cruciate Sparing Knee

Description:The Optetrak system includes a cruciate sparing version which provides the following: Patellar flange mates with both resurfacing and inset patellas. Precision machined condyles assure precise, repeatable kinematics and fit with tibial articular surface and patella to reduce wear. Constant cutting guide peg locations provide easy intraoperative change of sizes. Extended and deepened patellar groo...
Company:Exactech, Inc.

Caspari™ Suture Punch System

Description:Developed in conjunction with Richard Caspari, M.D., Arthrotek introduces the most innovative suture punch designed to date. The Caspari™ Suture Punches are available in a variety of styles: standard straight, mini straight, mini curved left, mini curved right, and mini 15° up. These suture punches can be used either with or without a cannula....
Company:Arthrotek (A Biomet Company)

SAFE-T-FILL Blood Gas Capillary Tubes Balanced Heparin

Description:RAM Scientifics SAFE-T-FILL Capillary Blood Collection Tubes are 100% plastic capillary blood collection systems. Available for a wide range of applications, the Capillary Collection Tubes are pre-assembled with a capillary tube, attached cap and a micro tube.The capillary tube uses capillary action to draw the blood into the micro tube thereby eliminating the tendency for scooping. Because the...
Company:RAM Scientific, Inc.

SAFE-T-FILL Blood Gas Capillary Tubes Sodium Heparin

Description:RAM Scientifics SAFE-T-FILL Capillary Blood Collection Tubes are 100% plastic capillary blood collection systems. Available for a wide range of applications, the Capillary Collection Tubes are pre-assembled with a capillary tube, attached cap and a micro tube.The capillary tube uses capillary action to draw the blood into the micro tube thereby eliminating the tendency for scooping. Because th...
Company:RAM Scientific, Inc.

SAFE-T-FILL Lithium Heparin & Lithium Heparin Gel

Description:RAM Scientifics SAFE-T-FILL Capillary Blood Collection Tubes are 100% plastic capillary blood collection systems. Available for a wide range of applications, the Capillary Collection Tubes are pre-assembled with a capillary tube, attached cap and a micro tube.The capillary tube uses capillary action to draw the blood into the micro tube thereby eliminating the tendency for scooping. Because...
Company:RAM Scientific, Inc.

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Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

Rivaroxaban, a New Oral, Once-Daily Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor,Shows a Significant Reduction in Deep Vein Thrombosis and PulmonaryEmbolism Compared with Enoxaparin with Similarly Low BleedingRates GENEVA, July 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase III clinical trialdata presented today at the XXI International Society on Thrombosisand Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstrate that once-daily...

New Study Shows That Extending Prophylaxis With Clexane / Lovenox (enoxaparin Sodium Injection) to 5 Weeks is More Effective Than 10 Days for Reducing the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Acutely ill Medical Patients With Reduced Mobility

EXCLAIM is the First International Study to Show That ExtendedThromboprophylaxis Reduces VTE Risk in Acutely-ill Medical PatientsWith a Statistically Significant 44% PARIS, July 8, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Sanofi-aventisannounced today the results of the EXCLAIM (EXtended CLinicalprophylaxis in Acutely Ill Medical patients) study, which showedthe benefit of extended prophylaxi...

Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase IIIclinical trial data presented today at the XXI InternationalSociety on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstratethat once-daily rivaroxaban achieved superior efficacy in theprevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoingknee replacement surgery in a head-to-head comparison withenoxaparin, the curren...

PARI Pharma Presents Study Results of Sinus Delivery and Inhaled Liposomal Ciclosporin A at European Cystic Fibrosis Conference

MUNICH, Germany, June 14, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- PARI Pharma willpresent in-vivo study results for their PARI SINUS pulsating drugdelivery system as well as lung deposition and pharmacokinetic dataof their proprietary inhaled liposomal Ciclosporin A formulation inlung transplant patients at the European Cystic Fibrosis Conference(ECFC) in Belek, Turkey this week. Continuing their tra...

Myriad Genetics Presents Mathematical Comparison of Disease Modification Trial Designs at Alzheimer's ConferenceCurrent Flurizan Phase 3 Study Design May Demonstrate Disease Modification

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, June 11, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX NewsNetwork) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.myriad.com/">www.myriad.com )announced today that it presented a mathematical comparison of a"Staggered Start" and a "Randomized Withdrawal" clinical trialdesign with a "Natural History Staggered Start" clinical trialdesign at the Alzheime...

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