Globus Medical Announces Launch of COALITION(TM) ACDF Spacer System

AUDUBON, Pa., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, today announced the launch of the COALITION(TM) ACDF Spacer System. COALITION(TM) is an integrated plate and spacer system designed to provide the biomechanical stre...

Globus Medical's SIGNATURE(TM) Spacer Designed for MILDER(TM) TLIF Procedures

AUDUBON, Pa., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, today announced the introduction of the PATRIOT SIGNATURE(TM) TLIF Spacer system designed for TLIF procedures. The SIGNATURE(TM) TLIF Spacer is the latest addition to Glo...

Globus Medical Launches NIKO(TM) Corpectomy Spacer System

New System Eliminates Assembly, Reduces Surgery Time AUDUBON, Pa., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, today announced the introduction of its NIKO(TM) Corpectomy Spacer System. The new system significant...

Small Bone Innovations Introduces the Artelon(R) STT Spacer to Increase Treatment Options for Thumb Arthritis

U.S. Food and Drug Administration clears new implant for marketing NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), a single-source provider of products, technology and education for the small bone and joint sector of the orthopedic industry, announced that its Artelon...

Orthofix International Acquires InSWing(TM) Interspinous Process Spacer

Technology acquisition announced at the opening of Eurospine conference in Brussels HUNTERSVILLE, N.C., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orthofix International N.V. (Nasdaq: OFIX ) (the Company) today announced it has acquired the rights to all of the intellectua...

Purdue researchers create prostate cancer 'homing device' for drug delivery

...us imaging or therapeutic agents to bring them along as cargo and created a spacer that would stretch the molecule so that its cargo would not keep it from properly fitting into the binding site. The spacer also was designed to improve binding of the targeting molecule to PSMA. ...

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Surgery at the Olympia Medical Center

...s act as a barrier and limit extension at symptomatic disc levels. This clinical trial aims to measure the effectiveness of inserting an interspinous spacer between the problematic discs and whether this procedure is effective at relieving the pressure on the spinal nerve and preserving mobility. If approv...

Revolutionary, Minimally Invasive Treatment Provides Long-lasting Chronic Sinusitis Relief

... days of the procedure, Minella was back to work and running again thanks to a new endoscopic balloon device called the Relieva Stratus(TM) Microflow spacer . The device is the first endoscopic instrument to release medication directly into the sinuses over a two- to three-week period. Saint Joseph H...

Cardiosolutions Names Dr. Lars Svensson Chief Surgical Officer

...er inserted into a vein in the patient's leg. This spacer provides a sealing surface for the valve leaflets ...lso exploring a surgical option for delivering its spacer technology. A surgical option will allow the Compa... population to benefit from Cardiosolution's novel spacer technology. Dr. Svensson will lead the com...

Atlas Spine Launches Stature(TM) Vertebral Body Replacement System

...its use multiplies in surgeries across the nation," says Bart Doedens, President and CEO of Atlas Spine. The STATURE VBR is an evolution in the PEEK spacer arena. Traditionally spacer products have been met with the tedious challenges of implanting an appropriately sized device through a small access. Oft...

Spacer in Medical Technology

First FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacer Surgeries for IDE Clinical Trial

AUDUBON, Pa., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, today announced that the first FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacers have been implanted under an Investigational Device Exemption ("IDE") recently granted to Globus by Dr...

Globus Medical Completes Enrollment Of SECURE(R)-C Cervical Artificial Disc Clinical Trial

...e United States): the TRIUMPH(TM) Posterolateral Disc, the TRANSITION(TM) Posterior Dynamic Stabilization System, and the FLEXUS(TM) Inspinous Process spacer System are among the numerous research posters and presentations concerning the Company's products at this week's Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS) mee...

Researchers Use Poliovirus to Destroy Neuroblastoma Tumors in Mice

...neering feat is like putting a double failsafe into the virus. “The engineered poliovirus cannot produce neurovirulent copies of itself if the spacer region remains interrupted,” said Cello. “And in the unlikely event that the regulatory gene element is deleted, the virus would not be ab...

Spacer in Medical Products

Arx™ Ceramic Spinal Spacer System™

Description: The Arx Ceramic Spinal Spacer System provides innovative, biocompatible implants based on Amedica's patented MC2 technology that offers physicians and patients an alternative to other synthetic and allograft bone implants used for the restoration of spinal anatomy....
Company:Amedica Corporation

EBI Ionic=® Spine Spacer System

Description: An innovative new system to help you meet the challenges of anterior spine surgery. The system's one-piece design creates a broad area for fusion to occur and enhances postoperative radiographic assessment. The slotted superior and inferior platforms facilitate bone growth around the central colum...
Company:Biomet, Inc.

EBI Ionic® Spine Spacer System

Description: An Innovative New System to Help You Meet the Challenges of Anterior Spine Surgery...
Company:Biomet, Inc.

TPS-TL Spinal Spacer

Description: The patented telescoping plate design integrates the functions of an anterior plate and vertebral column spacer. This unique, integrated design eliminates the need for supplemental fixation while allowing a generous amount of bone graft to be delivered to the operative site....
Company:Biomet, Inc.

SB Charit Intervertebral Dynamic Disc Spacer

Description: The SB Charit is a prosthesis system consisting of two endplates made of high quality cobalt chromium alloy with an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene sliding core placed between them....
Company:DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.

IBS Interbody Spacer

Description: Investigational use spacer with Cantilever Transforminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion and instrumentation. For Investigational use only. 7 mm height....
Company:Ortho Development Corporation

Graftech Cervical Spacer

Description: 8 mm S Graftech cervical spacer....
Company:Osteotech, Inc.

PROTEAN Plus Dodeca Cell, 100-120 V

Description:...ting capabilities, along with its plate electrodes, allow consistent, high-resolution results. The handcasting system includes the PROTEAN Plus hinged spacer plates, PROTEAN Plus multi-casting chamber, and the Model 495 gradient former....
Company:Bio-Rad Lab Equipment

PROTEAN Plus Dodeca Cell, 220-240 V

Description:...ting capabilities, along with its plate electrodes, allow consistent, high-resolution results. The handcasting system includes the PROTEAN Plus hinged spacer plates, PROTEAN Plus multi-casting chamber, and the Model 495 gradient former....
Company:Bio-Rad Lab Equipment

SourceLink™ Delivery System

Description:...to performing stranded implants. It addresses the challenges associated with current stranded products as well as provides the flexibility of seed and spacer implant techniques.SourceLink™ Connectors and Seeds packaged per customers desired quantity and seed activity level (in vials). SourceLink&trad...
Company:C. R. Bard, Inc.

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Spacer in Biological News

Study finds DNA barcoding requires caution without closer examination

...nclude a section of the nuclear ribosomal DNA: the internal non-transcribed spacer region (ITS); and various plastid regions to include the trnH-psbA intergenic spacer and the plastid genes rpoC1, rpoB, and matK. Spooner tested the utility...

Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution

...ier sequencing work showed that the mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax is over twice the size of those found in most animals with genes, introns and spacer sequences like the most primitive organisms. However, size is not all that matters. DNA sequences that organisms share in common represents what wa...

DNA fingerprinting simplified

...cise has been completed successfully by middle school-level through graduate-level students and teachers. In this exercise, the internally transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal subunit for a fungus, plant, and insect are amplified and separated electrophoretically on agarose gels. A simple crime is sol...

Wisconsin researchers describe how digits grow

...d in Science, Fallon and graduate student Randall Dahn showed that the interdigit tissue was more important than previously thought. It was not just a spacer between developing digits; experimental manipulations showed that it controlled how the neighboring digit would develop. The team proposed that differ...

Small molecule dervived from Rb2/p130 could act as cancer therapeutic

... A small molecule derived from the spacer domain of the tumor-suppressor gene Rb2/p130 has d...findings, "A small molecule based on the pRb2/p130 spacer domain leads to inhibition of cdk2 activity, cell ... The researchers discovered that within Rb2/p130's spacer domain--a sequence of 212 amino acids located in t...

Spacer in Biological Technology

Globus Medical's INDEPENDENCE(TM) Spacer System: The MILDER(TM) ALIF Solution

AUDUBON, Pa., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world, today announced the full launch of its INDEPENDENCE(TM) Spacer System which is designed to provide a MILDER (TM) Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF). INDEPENDE...

Cardiosolutions Raises $7 Million for Spacer Technology to Mitigate Mitral Regurgitation

STOUGHTON, Mass., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiosolutions, Inc. ( http://www.cardiosolutionsinc.com ) has closed a $7 million Series A Convertible Preferred Stock financing led by BioVentures Investors, the company announced today. Cardiosolutions is developing a proprietary, minimally invasi...

Small Bone Innovations Introduces the Artelon(R) STT Spacer to Increase Treatment Options for Thumb Arthritis

U.S. Food and Drug Administration clears new implant for marketing NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), a single-source provider of products, technology and education for the small bone and joint sector of the orthopedic industry, announced that its Artelon...

Dynavax Issued Landmark Patent Covering Second-Generation TLR9 Agonists

...pany's proprietary second-generation TLR9 agonists. The claims cover a broad class of novel TLR9 agonists containing short DNA sequences separated by spacer molecules. These linear chimeric immunomodulatory compounds (CICs), are being developed at Dynavax for application across a wide range of therapeutic ...

Detection of Reporter Gene Activity in Cell Cultures and Murine Epidermis After Helios Gene Gun-Mediated Particle Bombardment

...r 1.0 m gold microcarriers. The plastic spacer of the Helios gene gun was placed as close as poss...A-coated gold microcarriers by holding the plastic spacer of the Helios gene gun directly against...re of 400 psi and 1.0 m microcarriers. The plastic spacer of the Helios gene gun was held directl...

Use of the PROTEAN Plus Dodeca Cell for Second-Dimension SDS-PAGE, Rev A

...gels for the Dodeca cell were cast using the PROTEAN Plus hinged spacer plates, the PROTEAN Plus multi-casting chamber, and the Model 39...ctrophoresis, the gels were removed from the PROTEAN Plus hinged spacer plates. Care needs to be taken while removing 1.0 mm thick gels ...

Imaging and Analysis of DIGE Product Information Sheet, Rev B

...the standard glass sample tray. For gels between thick glass plates, the multi-sample tray II should be used with an appropriate spacer to bring the sample into the proper focal plane for imaging. Setting Up the Imaging Software The Molecular Imager F...

Inoculation of Viral RNA and cDNA to Potato and Tobacco Plants Using the Helios Gene Gun

...s recommended for starting conditions in the Helios gene gun instruction manual. Bombardments were done with 0 or 2 cm distance between the spacer and the target. The first experiments showed that bombardment at 250 and 300 psi damaged leaves extensively, so these pressures ...

Isolation of Low Molecular Weight Digestion Products of the Human Platelet Thromboxane A2 Receptor, Rev A

...red to a height of 6.67 cm and immediately followed by a 1.33 cm spacer gel. After these layers had polymerized sufficiently, a 2 cm stacking gel was cast over the spacer gel. Following complete polymerization, the gels were stored at ...

Detection of Platinum Species in Plant Material by Preparative Isotachophoresis Using the Model 491 Prep Cell, Rev A

...high resolution and highly concentrated zones. In order to resolve the isotachophoretically-separated zones it is necessary to add spacer ions, consisting of carrier ampholytes, to spatially separate sample zones. Running Conditions The conditions of the...

Spacer in Biological Products

PDS-1000 He System from Bio-Rad

Description:...nsfect cells, tissues, or organelles without dependence or interaction with the cell surface. The system includes helium pressure regulator, solenoid, spacer rods, microcarrier launch assembly, target shelf, 5 macrocarrier holders, tubing, and instructions....
Company:Bio-Rad

Spacer for Miniature FRENCH Pressure Cell from Thermo Scientific

Description:... This spacer is required to use the Miniature FRENCH Pressure Cell (FA-003) with the Laboratory Press....
Company:Thermo Scientific

Spacer in Biological Dictionary

Ribosomal DNA genes

... and transcription initiation and contain transcribed and nontranscribed spacer segments. The nucleolus consists of expanded chromosomal loops that carry...parating the individual ribosomal RNA genes , referred to as ribosomal spacer DNA . ... ... the small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA genes of...

Inverted repeat

...r sequence further downstream. inverted repeats. global inverted repeat . local inverted repeat . inverted repeat with spacer ... Retrotransposon (Long terminal repeat , SINEs, LINEs) · Genomic ... An inverted repeat , or biological palindrome, consists of two arms o...

Intergenic region

...ch and in scientific... Intergenic region summary with 2 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, ... Analysis of 16S-23S intergenic spacer regions of the rRNA operons ... The average length of the intergenic region is 688 nt but ranges widely from 57 ... Sample alignment of one ...

Intergenic DNA

...ed Sequence; DNA , Intergenic ; Gene Expression ... BioInfoBank Library :: DNA , Intergenic :: chemistry :: Ribosomal DNA ITS-1 intergenic spacer polymorphism in triatomines (Triatominae, Heteroptera). Streptococcus ... tial amounts of intergenic and in- tronic noncoding DNA in Dro- sop...

Intergenic

...s, summaries, ... Analysis of 16S-23S intergenic spacer regions of the rRNA operons ... This suggests t... for pairs of ... The 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer varies more significantly in size and ... Heteroge...d Required. As a comparison to the intergenic spacer locus and to assess linkage ... Two of the lin...

Direct Repeats

...ate deletions in spedally designed derivatives of plasmid pBR325 ... 17-18 bp and perfect 11 bp direct repeats at the ... The repartitions of spacer size for direct and inverted repeats (fig. ... Black boxes represent the direct repeats , and gray boxes represent the inverted ones. ... .....