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Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

A comprehensive system of vaccine development in the U.S. resulted in a reduction of 87 to more than 99 percent in illness from ten vaccine-preventable diseases during the twentieth century. These dramatic successes should not be taken for granted, however, as the vaccine system now faces numerous challenges in manufacturing and development, according to a review article in the May/June issue of...

Slipping past the blood brain barrier: Research shows potential treatment for brain cancer

A compound that kills cancer can sneak past the blood brain barrier, which protects the brain from foreign substances, to do its work in fighting a particularly invasive brain cancer, according to a new Saint Louis University animal study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of Aug. 22. "The bottom line is, if you can get drugs into...

Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data

When it's dry, it's dry all over, according to a new analysis of more than 400 years of annual streamflow in the Upper Colorado and Salt and Verde river basins. By using data from tree rings, University of Arizona researchers conclude that water supply for those western rivers fluctuated in synchrony during periods of severe drought. The study goes back almost 800 years in the Salt-Verde b...

Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection

Research in a rural province of central China has documented that illegal blood donation practices led to high hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection rates in blood and plasma donors during the 1980s and early 1990s, and that failure to screen for HCV in transfusion recipients increased their risk of infection as well, according to an article in the November 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Disea...

Past experience of pheromones induces dominant courtship behavior in fruit flies

By investigating the interplay between pheromone signaling and behavior in fruit flies, researchers have begun to understand how an adult fly's earlier experience as a young individual can influence its behavior towards other flies as an adult. In particular, the researchers found that pheromone signals in the context of experience with adult flies can influence how young flies will behave once t...

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Bacterial Cell Paste Production Services from ARVYS Proteins, Inc.

Description:Cells are grown to a specified density and induced, when necessary. Protein expression samples are collected at 3 growth points and analyzed by SDS-PAGE/Coomassie....
Company:ARVYS Proteins, Inc.

Mouse Anti-Human Spastin Monoclonal Antibody, Unconjugated, Clone Sp 3G11/1 from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

Description:Spastin (Sp 3G11/1)...
Company:Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

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Off-the-grid networking can help you cut past chit-chat

When Midwest tech people talked about networking a decade ago, they were mostly talking about reaching out to their friends and colleagues for job opportunities and business development leads. In other words, to most Midwest tech networkers, "networking" meant "using your existing net...

P. pastoris Fermentation using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Fermentor

Introduction This Application Report is part of a series documentingculture growth in the BioFlo 110. With appropriatevessels and control modules, the BioFlo 110 can efficientlygrow yeast and bacteria, as well as mammalian,plant cells and insect cells. Pichia pastoris:...

High Yield Protein Production from Pichia pastoris Yeast: A Protocol for Benchtop Fermentation

Over the last several decades, geneticists have learned how to manipulate DNA to identify,excise, move and place genes into a variety of organisms that are quite different genetically fromthe source organism. A major use for many of these recombinant organisms is to produceprot...

New Silicon Pastures director envisions more home cooking for Wisconsin angels

While others are talking about brain drain and t...

NimbleGen names CFO with capital-raising past

David Snyder brings more than 15 years of experience in capital raising, finance, and general management in a range of industries, including t...

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Black Actor Confesses Sex Cult Past

London: Comic actor Jack Black has revealed he grew up in a weird sex cult after his parents tried to save their marriage by becoming its members//. According to contactmusic.com, Black told GQ magazine that he experienced naturist Family Synergy gatherings when he was a child, where everyone was encouraged to bare all in front of each other. He said his home life was deeply affected b...

Toxin injections support stroke associated spasticity

Researchers have found that injections of botulinum toxin eases hand spasticity among stroke survivors. Spasticity in the limbs is a common after effect of stroke, and it causes much disability,// because it interferes with activities like getting dressed and eating. Previous research has shown that botulinum toxin - a substance that relieves muscle tightness - may help with this problem....

Pasta sauces recalled in cancer scare

European stores are removing thousands of jars of pasta sauces because they contain a cancer-causing dye normally used in gasoline and shoe polish.// Sky News said consumers are being warned to avoid the affected brands, including Bertolli, as well as private-label sauces made for supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Safeway. The alert follows the discovery of a red dye cal...

New Tooth Paste Is Here To Fill In Dental Cavities

A Japanese team had invented a synthetic paste that will make dental treatment painless. The paste is made of modified hydroxyapatite // that is almost similar to natural tooth enamel, and can be applied on dental cavities to fill in the gap. Conventionally, when dental caries affects a tooth, the affected part is removed and the gap is filled with a metal alloy or resin. At times such...

Shrinking bladder with age is a thing of past

Scientists from University of Pittsburgh had said in a new study that there’s adequate proof that bladder// does not shrink in size with age, in spite of the elderly frequenting the bathroom more. Researchers had compiled data on bladder capacity and stability, urethral closure pressure, voiding flow rate and detrusor contraction strength from 95 females of ages 22 to 90. The results w...

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Comfy™ Elbow and Hand Spasticity Orthosis

Description:Comfy™ Elbow and Hand Spasticity Orthosis decreases the effects of flexion synergy on the upper extremity post-stroke. Treat elbow, forearm, wrist simultaneously. First, apply elbow component to the patient and adjust to meet available passive ROM. Next, attach pronation/supination bar to elbow component. Then apply hand cone to the bar. Use included Allen wrench to lock into desired positi...
Company:AliMed, Inc.

Pastorex® Staph Plus Kit

Description:A growing percentage of Staphylococcus aureus (mainly methicillin-resistant strains) possess a capsule which can mask cell wall antigens (clumping factor and protein A) typically detected by agglutination tests. The Bio-Rad Pastorex® Staph Plus Kit however, simultaneously detects both cell wall antigens and capsular antigens in culture media isolates. Pastorex® Staph Plus is a rapid ag...
Company:Bio-Rad Laboratories

Nuprep Paste for Skin Preparation

Description:We offer small and large pre-gelled Surface Electrodes suitable for EGG or EMG recordings. Surface Electrodes, Skin Preparation and Conductive Cream complete the setup for a EGG study and are essential for a good EGG tracing....
Company:Medtronic Gastroenterology

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The Past, Present and Future of HLA Typing

The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) region, located on the short arm of chromosome 6 (6p21.3), is a highly polymorphic region containing about 200 genes. The HLA region is the human equivalent of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), and as such contains a set of genes that serve as the backbone of antigen presentation. The Class I proteins, classically involved in presenting endogenous...

Study Supports Cost-Effectiveness of Medtronic's Spasticity Treatment for Children with Cerebral Palsy

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2007 - A new study publishedin the current issue of the Journal of Child Neurology indicatesthat a treatment from Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), for spasticity inchildren with cerebral palsy improves their quality of life and iscost-effective compared to other established cost-effectivetreatments. The findings of this Medtronic-sponsored study shouldexpand...

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