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VA Research Project on NASA Space Shuttle

Peake: VA Research Will Benefit Veterans, Others WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research project, which may lead to development of a vaccine to prevent Salmonella poisoning, was aboard the NASA space shuttle that launched March 11. ...

Two Flight Surgeons Supporting Wyle's Bioastronautics Contract Selected for New Astronaut Class

... studied medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston . UTMB has supported Wyle by providing operational support for the shuttle program and International Space Station. UTMB and Wyle provide NASA approximately 10 physicians through Wyle's Bioastronautics Contract that, among ma...

Audi Teamed Up With Star Quarterback Tom Brady and Celebrities to Support People With Intellectual Disabilities

...rporate contributions and joined the rides. In an effort to reduce the event's carbon footprint, Audi provided a fleet of Q7 TDI clean diesel cars to shuttle celebrities and VIP guests. In addition to the picturesque bicycle tour from the John F. Kennedy Library to the Kennedy Compound at Craigville Beach a...

HDNet World Report Investigates an Alarming String of Murders Committed by Iraq War Veterans

...lusive high definition home to critically acclaimed and award winning documentaries as part of the InFocus series. "NASA on HDNet" presents all live shuttle launches through 2010. Only HDNet Movies ( www.hdnetmovies.com , twitter.com/hdnetmovies) delivers exclusive Sneak Previews of new movies bef...

Hubble Space Telescope Servicing In Orbit Monitored By Three Schneider Lenses

...Schneider Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses on the Space shuttle delivered high-resolution video ...e mission." During the rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope, and there...meras that delivered high resolution images to the shuttle and to engineers on earth. "We are especi...

National Federation of the Blind Congratulates NASA on Successful Mission

... Two Louis Braille Coins Return with Atlantis EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the space shuttle Atlantis landed today, it also returned from space two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars. This unique coin commemorates the birth of the inve...

NASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer

... 30, 2009 An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new possibilities f...

NASA Nanosatellite to Study Antifungal Drug Effectiveness in Space

...pand the number of opportunities available to conduct research in microgravity by providing an alternative to the International Space Station or space shuttle conducted investigations," said Elwood Agasid, PharmaSat project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The PharmaSat spacec...

Rice students win NASA national design award

..., and would autonomously navigate to a predefined landing coordinate. Both teams received cash prizes of $3,500 and an invitation to a future space shuttle launch. ...

HDNet's 'Dan Rather Reports' Investigates the Possibility of a Better Health Care System North of the Border

...lusive high definition home to critically acclaimed and award winning documentaries as part of the InFocus series. "NASA on HDNet" presents all live shuttle launches through 2010. Only HDNet Movies delivers exclusive Sneak Previews of new movies before they hit theaters. The HDNet Movies Sneak Prev...

Shuttle in Medical Technology

Karolinska Institutet to Test Vical's Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant With Preventive Vaccine against HIV Under Sponsorship of Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control

...arolinska Institutet in Sweden. The viral vector boost vaccine component uses a Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus (the virus that causes cowpox) to shuttle the same non-infectious gene sequences into the body. The boost vaccine component was developed by the NIH and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,...

Karolinska Institute to Test Vical's Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant with Preventive Vaccine against HIV Under Sponsorship of Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control

...Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The viral vector boost vaccine component uses a Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus (the virus that causes cowpox) to shuttle the same non-infectious gene sequences into the body. The boost vaccine component was developed by the NIH and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,...

Multiple NIH Phase 2 HIV Vaccine Trials Using Vical's Technology Produce Encouraging Results

...es in a pDNA ring, and cannot reconstitute into an infectious virus. The adenoviral vector component uses a replication-defective adenoviral vector to shuttle the same non-infectious gene sequences into the body. The pDNA vaccine used in the trials was developed by VRC scientists and was manufactured by Vica...

Shuttle in Medical Products

FiberSnare™

Description:...nitinol wire, insert the stiff non-looped end retrograde through the tip of the Bio-Tenodesis Screwdriver. The FiberSnare can also be used as a suture shuttle for passage of traction sutures through bone tunnels....
Company:Arthrex

Spectrum® Tissue Repair System

Description:...cise suture placement in otherwise hard-to-reach areas. The Spectrum® Tissue Repair System is for use with #2/0 to #1 monofilament suture or with shuttle Relay™ Suture Passer....
Company:Linvatec Corporation (now ConMed)

Shuttle Relay™ Suture Passer

Description:... The shuttle Relay Suture Passer allows braided suture to be used in arthroscopic soft t... or screws (including suture pre-assembled to an anchor) Additionally, the shuttle Relay can be passed through any conventional arthroscopic suturepassing ins...
Company:Linvatec Corporation (now ConMed)

Easyfield

Description:... Easyfield is lightweight enough to shuttle easily between offices in its optional custom carrying case. Designed with a goldmann standard 30 cm radius bowl. Color LCD display, fixed-point grid ...
Company:Oculus, Inc.

Cellulean™ (aminophylline 2.0%) Cellulite Cream

Features:... Transdermal Delivery - Cellulean uses a pharmaceutical grade transdermal carrying agent called Transcutol to shuttle the clinically proven active ingredients deep into the layers of fat where they go to work at helping reduce the unwanted fat. Patented Technology - ...
Company:MWT, Inc.

Fidelity IAB Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter

Features:...lymer shaft construction of Fidelity blends strength and flexibility to insert and easily navigate within the vasculature. Uncompromised Gas shuttle Performance Fidelitys strong catheter construction coupled with co-lumen shaft design provides quicker inflation/deflation times when deployed in ...
Company:Datascope Corp.

Shuttle in Biological News

Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures

Albuquerque, N.M. -- Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures. The sample devices are riding on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, NASA and US Air Force) to tes...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

...rch facility; ATLAS, the Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System; and the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. The event will be held rain or shine. Free shuttle service will be provided and food and drink will be available for purchase. Advance reservations are not required, and visitors are welcome to take ph...

Public lecture at UC Riverside to discuss origin and fate of universe

...formation and evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic time. "The talk on May 28 is particularly timely, given the recent launch of the space shuttle to perform the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope and the launch of two other satellites in the same week to observe the beginning ...

Simulated gene therapy

...advantages in terms of cost, ease of production, and the ability to transport very long genes. If they can be designed to efficiently -- and safely -- shuttle genes into human cells, then they may be a more practical solution to gene therapy than viruses. So far, laboratory experiments with different type...

Former NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar to speak at NJIT's biomedical engineering seminar

... 5 space flights, Dr. Dunbar has logged more than 50 days in space. She has served as the Payload Commander on two flights, including the first Space shuttle docking mission to the Russian Space Station Mir. Dr. Dunbar holds BS and MS degrees in ceramic engineering from the University of Washington, and ...

UAB space freezers deemed a success

...gerator, made its NASA debut in late 2008 aboard a shuttle flight to the station. This month's flight of space shuttle Discovery marks another milestone for GLACIER as the first freezer is re-packed on the shuttle for return to Earth. It is filled with frozen bloo...

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

...the fractures, which enhance the permeability of these otherwise tight hydrocarbon source rocks, at present depths of 6000-7000 feet. An iron shuttle for deepwater silica in Late Archean and early Paleoproterozoic iron formation Woodward W. Fischer et al., Department of Earth and Planetary Scien...

NYU scientists discover dangerous new method for bacterial toxin transfer

...genes, which is already known to cause a potentially deadly form of food poisoning. This is the first time that phages have been observed to serve as shuttle vehicles for bacterial toxins between different species. The experiments were part of a general exploration of bacteriophages. Until now, scientists...

Salk researchers develop novel glioblastoma mouse model

...isease in humans." Trying to mimic randomly occurring mutations that lie at the heart of all tumors, the Salk researchers used modified viruses to shuttle cancer-causing oncogenes into a handful of cells in adult mice. Their strategy, described in the Jan. 4, 2009 online issue of the journal Nature Medi...

Rice's James Tour wins Feynman Prize

...e Nobel Prize-winning Cal Tech professor's career were his work on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and his investigation of the space shuttle Challenger explosion, which he traced to a frozen O-ring. ...

Shuttle in Biological Technology

University of Texas 'Picosatellite' to be launched from space shuttle to begin milestone mission

AUSTIN, TexasIn an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month from S...

NASA Extends Bioastronautics Contract With Wyle for Total Value of $976 Million

...cine; flight hardware development and human research activities. Option 2 is a continuation of previous work with the exception that the space shuttle will be retired and no longer supported. The majority of the work is performed at Johnson Space Center. Work also is performed at launch and l...

Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease

...tructure has important biological functions," says Dr. Kritzer. It is found in a class of antioxidant proteins known as thioredoxins, in proteins that shuttle metals around a cell, and in proteins that regulate gene activity. The connection to antioxidants and to metals ties into other lines of research. NIN...

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

...e that consists of a crystalline iron nanoparticle shuttle enclosed within the hollow of a multiwalled carbon...measurement of electrical resistance, allowing the shuttle to function as a nonvolatile memory element with p...entially hundreds of binary memory states. "The shuttle memory has application for archival data storage w...

Hovione's TwinCaps(R) Inhaler in Phase III Clinical Trials for Influenza

...nd Europe) is a two-piece unit comprising body and shuttle components. The shuttle has two pre-filled dose chambers, left and right. In use, the shuttle is moved to one side by the patient to align one c...

alli(TM) Partners with Breast Cancer Network of Strength(TM) to Support Women Challenged by Breast Cancer, Weight Loss or Both

...e women's health with a limited edition pink package during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. alli's 90-count package features a pink shuttle (carrying case) along with special packaging highlighting Network of Strength's unique role in supporting breast cancer patients. "alli is proud to ...

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Features Green Buildings and Sustainable Operations Initiatives and Tour at 2008 BIO

... PASADENA, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE ) today will shuttle more than 100 life science executives from around the world on a tour of Green and LEED certified buildings and environmentally sustainable operations...

Shire plc: IFRS Results for the Year Ending December 31, 2007

..., 2007 Shire completed its acquisition of New River by way of a short-form merger, in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition was effected by merging shuttle Corporation, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Shire, with and into New River, with New River continuing as the surviving corporation. As conside...

Ex-Allergan Vice President Joins Kalologie Skincare Board of Directors

... Force where he worked as a Solid Rocket Motor Engineer and was a Project Manager for the U.S. Space Command on both the Titan IV Rocket and the Space shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Programs. Founded in 2003, Kalologie is a chain of comprehensive, one-stop skin care clinics offering effective medical and aesth...

IFRS Information - First Half of 2007

..., 2007 Shire completed its acquisition of New River by way of a short-form merger, in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition was effected by merging shuttle Corporation, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Shire, with and into New River, with New River continuing as the surviving corporation. As conside...

Shuttle in Biological Products

Chromo4 Real-Time PCR Detector from Bio-Rad

Description:...erchangeably on a DNA Engine or Dyad Disciple gradient-capable thermal cycler (purchased separately). The system includes a compact scanning photonics shuttle that contains four LEDs for fluorescence excitation (450-490 nm, 500-535 nm, 555-585 nm, 620-650 nm) and two filtered photodiodes for 4-color fluoresc...
Company:Bio-Rad

Shuttle in Biological Dictionary

Shuttle vector

... A shuttle vector is a vector constructed so that it can... host species . Therefore, DNA inserted into a shuttle vector can be tested or manipulated in two diff...m which is more difficult or slower to use . shuttle vector , a vector (usually a plasmid) con...