Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible
Foreveryone doing or reading a paper about microarray-based experiments,reproductibility, especially inter-lab, is the #1 concern. Can I trustthese results? If I redo the same experiment in one month, will I beable to compare both? The NIH recently demonstrated that microarrays experiments performed in d...TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas
The genes TEL2 and MYC cooperate with each other to promote pediatric cases of the immune system cancer B-cell lymphoma. This finding, from investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is published in the current issue of Molecular Cell Biology (MCB). B-cell lymphoma is a cancer in which the antibody-producing cells (B lymphocytes) multiply uncontrollably and crowd out other blo...Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting
Study holds hope for next generation hemophilia treatment Researchers have doubled the potency of a protein that drives blood to clot, according to research to be published in the July 26 edition of Biochemistry. The study results may have profound implications for the treatment of hemophilia, the inherited blood disorder that causes easy or excessive bleeding in 30,000 Americans. In...High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions found high rates of herpes simplex virus 2 and syphilis among young drug users in Baltimore, Md. The study found that women had significantly higher rates compared to their male counterparts, but did not find significant differences between injection drug users and non-injection drug users. Few of the infect...Microreactor efficiently regenerates cofactors for biocatalysis
One of the longstanding challenges in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food additives is the continuous regeneration of molecules called cofactors that permit the synthesis through inexpensive and environmentally friendly biocatalytic processes. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France...New Kit Generates Exceptionally Pure Total RNA for RT-PCR
RT-PCR miniprep kit Stratagene Stratagene has determined that standard RNA purification kits are not satisfactory for reverse transcribed PCR (RT-PCR) applications. We...High-Throughput System Generates Ultra-Pure PCR Products Suitable for All Applications
Simultaneous purification of 96 PCR products Stratagene Phenogenex 96 PCR purification kit is a newmember of the StrataPrep product line. This kit offers a high-throughput formatfor purifying ultra-pure PCR product DNA from la...Outstanding transfection rates using the Multiporator
Using eukaryotic cells, extremely high transfection rates can be achieved due to a hypoosmolar buffer system and short pulses in the s-range. High reproducibility is ensured by an electronically controlled pulse, independent of sample resistance (patent pending)....Outstanding transfection rates using the Multiporator
Using eukaryotic cells, extremely high transfection rates can be achieved due to a hypoosmolar buffer system and short pulses in the s-range. High reproducibility is ensured by an electronically controlled pulse, independent of sample resistance (patent pending)....Tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease
In comparison to coffee, tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease and cancer, although few clinical studies have been done. Doctors are carrying out research into the effect of green tea in men with prostate cancer. They hope it will be just one of the many studies that will be done on the benefits of tea.// Generally tea drinkers are less likely to have heart disease or cancer, although t...Less sleep increases mortality rates
According to sleep researchers people who sleep for more or less than seven hours a night have increased mortality rates. A study of over one million adults conducted over a six year time period// shows that the old advice that you need eight hours sleep a night might need modifying. Looking at the length of time people sleep and its relationship to life expectancy, researchers at the University...Medication recuperates fat distribution in diabetes
According to a new study, treatment with medications can reduce abdominal fat in people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Texas have been looking into the effect that the drug Pioglitazone has on people with type 2 diabetes.// They studied 10 people with the condition, who took the drug for 16 weeks. After this time body weight had, on the whole, increased. But mea...Apollo Hospitals Collaborates With Histostem For Stem Cell Therapy
Apollo Hospital to set up Stem cell therapy centers through out India with collaboration from Histostem Inc.,// Histostem is an American Company Delaware Corporation. It has one of the largest public blood banks in the world with 55,000 umbilical cord blood stem cells, which is being used for various genetic treatments. The Apollo group of hospitals will train doctors and nurses with...Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain
Apollo Hospitals recently launched a one crore documentation based care (DBC) centre project in Chennai for back and neck pain management, claimed to be the first of its kind in the country. Dr Pratap Reddy, //chairman of Apollo Hospitals told the press that DBC, a revolutionary concept resulting from over 25 years of international research, is patented by the noted specialist Dr Simo Taimela of...Drugs of Abuse Array Evidence Barbiturates Assay
Description:Drugs of Abuse (DoA) Array is used for in-vitro diagnostic tests for the qualitative determination of the parent molecule and metabolites of drugs in human urine....Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)
is a practice of cryo...