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Protein discovery could unlock the secret to better TB treatment

UCL scientists have found a protein that could unlock the secret to quicker, more effective treatment of TB by waking TB bacteria in the body. Once the TB bacteria are active again, the disease becomes treatable using common drugs like antibiotics. Scientists believe that uncovering the molecular structure of this protein will lead the way to designing drugs which enable treatment of dormant and...

Antarctic ice shelf retreats happened before

The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves is not new according to research published this week (24 Feb) in the journal Geology by scientists from Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and British Antarctic Survey (BAS). A study of George VI Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is the first to show that this currently 'healthy' ice shelf experienced an extensive retreat about 9500 years ago, more t...

UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins

University of Washington TechTransferrecently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantagein the fight against disease.The software, known as Rosetta, predicts how proteins fold, informationthat is highly valuable to biological and biomedical researchers.UW Tech Transfer's Digital Ventures licensed Rosetta software withoutcharge to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a...

The secret to longevity in tubeworms

With an incredible lifespan of up to 250 years the deep sea tube worm, Lamellibrachia luymesi is among the longest-lived of all animals, but how it obtains sufficient nutrient ?in the form of sulfide - to keep going for this long has been a mystery. In a paper just published in the premier open-access online journal PLoS Biology, Erik Cordes and colleagues now provide a solution: by releasing its...

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...

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TNT SP6 Coupled Reticulocyte Lysate System, Trial Size from Promega

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Shimadzu Phoretix Pro upgrade from Shimadzu Biotech

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A - 20 cell line slides ( mouse: B lymphocyte; reticulum cell sarcoma ) from GeneTex

Description:Mouse A-20 cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 with 2 mM L-glutamine and harvested at the log phase of growth. In order to keep the antigens in their native forms, cells were fixed in acetone-methanol. The cells are arrayed on a 12-well (5 mm) adhesive coated slide, with each wells surface specifically treated to enhance cellular attachment and to minimize background staining. Each well is loaded...
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gamma-Secretase Inhibitor IV, Unconjugated from Calbiochem

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Shimadzu Phoretix 2D from Shimadzu Biotech

Description:The integration of 2D polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) with biological mass spectrometry is widely regarded as a core technology platform for proteomic analysis. 2D-PAGE gels offer unparalleled resolving power for complex samples limited only in the dynamic range and ability to resolve small and large proteins. Quantitative image based analysis of separated proteins has been a major d...
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Safe Production of High-Titer Retrovirus

Stratagene We describe a set of vectors that can be used with any MMLV-basedretroviral vector to produce viral supernatants that have titers that areconsistently greater than or equal to 10 cfu/ml...

Functional Cloning Using ViraPort Retroviral cDNA Expression Libraries

Retroviral libraries with high-titer efficiency and larger insertpotential ViraPort Retroviral cDNA Expression Libraries Katherine Felts Kim Zaharee Latha Sundar JamieLimjoco Anna Waesche Peter Vaillancourt Stratagene We introduce a set of human cDNA expression li...

Sex Steroid Regulation of Vasopressin Levels Secreted by hNT Neurons*

N.Y. Zachariah Department of BiomedicalSciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center This article...

pFB-ERV: Retroviral Delivery of the Ecdysone Receptor Proteins

Faster, easier screening for difficult transfections when using thecomplete control kit Stratagene We describe the vector pFB-ERV, an MMLV-based replication-defectiveretroviral vector for delivery of the ecdysone receptor proteins RXR and VgEcR.In stable cell lines infected with an estima...

High-Titer Retroviral Vectors for Gene Delivery

High-TiterRetroviral Vectors for Gene Delivery Stratagene The high-titer retroviral vectors pFB and pFB-Neo can be used with anyMoloney Murine L...

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Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants

Extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for neurologic function Based on their l...

Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

The risks of smoking are well known. Besides causing 160,000 deaths annually from lung, mouth, bladder and other cancers, smoking also increases the risk of death from cancer of the colon or rectum, according to results of a large new study from the American Cancer Society. As many as 12% of all colorectal cancer deaths in the US may be caused by tobacco smoking. "Colorecta...

Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

The January first issue of the Journal of clinical oncology has come out with a damning indictment of smoking. It says smokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report is based on a study conducted by Dr. Jan N. Bouwes Bavinck from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and colleagues. The authors found a significa...

Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba

Phytonutrients have been associated with cancer prevention and other health benefits. They are trace chemicals and taste bitter, acid or astringent. If phytonutrients have to be consumed then demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible. The bitter phytonutrients protect the plant against being eaten by harmful herbivores. The plants which contains phyto nutrients are...

Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of ‘Huntingtons’ Disase

Huntingtons disease is an inherited disease of the nervous system due to the progressive gradual deterioration of the same, initially causing symptoms such as involuntary movements and balance problems and later on leading to declination of functions of speech as well. All these days, until now, it was thought that this disease is due to a mutated form of the protein 'huntingtin' which i...

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Holladay Posterior Capsule Polisher and Curette

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Meyerhoeffer Chalazion Curette

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Skeele Curette

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Heath Chalazion Curette

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Foreign Body Curette

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From Clinical Cancer Research: Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007-- Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccinetrials have yet to show evidence of vaccines spurring apatient’s immune system to shrink tumors -- yet patients whoreceive these vaccines in trials tend to live longer and respondbetter to subsequent treatment. In the July 1 issue of ClinicalCancer Research, a journal of the American Association for CancerResearch, a te...

Common Preterm Labor Drug Has More Side Effects Than Alternative, Finds Study from Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 29, 2007 - The drug mostcommonly used to arrest preterm labor, magnesium sulfate, is morelikely than another common treatment to cause mild to serious sideeffects in pregnant women, according to a study from researchers atLucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University Schoolof Medicine. Their findings suggest that, since the effectivenessof...

New Study in Journal of Pediatrics Suggests Synagis (Palivizumab) May Reduce Subsequent Recurrent Wheezing in Preterm Infants

Prophylaxis with Synagis Decreases Incidence of Recurrent Wheeze byAlmost Half ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 29, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott and MedImmune today announcedresults of a new study, published in the July issue of Journal ofPediatrics, showing that treatment with Synagis(R) (palivizumab)may reduce recurrent wheezing in premature infants by almosthalf.<...

Next Safety, Inc.'s Innovative Drug Delivery System Will Replace Cigarettes and Significantly Advance Pulmonary Medication Delivery

WEST JEFFERSON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 15, 2007 - Next Safety,Inc. has identified basic scientific mechanisms that promise torevolutionize pulmonary drug delivery. This proprietary technologyuses a stream of purified air to deliver medications deep into thepulmonary system. It is considered superior to other drug deliverysystems because it rapidly administers aerosolized drugs to thelin...

Vion Pharmaceuticals Presents Clinical Data from a Phase II Trial of Cloretazine (VNP40101M) in Elderly AML Patients with Unfavorable Cytogenetics at EHA Meeting

NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VionPharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it presented clinical data ina poster session at the 12th Congress of the European HematologyAssociation (EHA) Meeting in Vienna, Austria on its lead anticanceragent Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) as a single agent in amulti-center international Phase II clinical trial in a subset ofelderly pat...

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