Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG
Whether a bioartificial kidney containing billions of donor kidney cells will help intensive care patients with kidney failure survive is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG Medical Center has joined a study taking place in intensive care units across the country to evaluate the efficacy of the renal assist device, says Dr. Harold M. Szerlip, MCG nephrologist specializing i...Novel Asthma Study Shows Multiple Genetic Input Required; Single-gene Solution Shot Down
For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The British Columbia randomized radiation the...W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes
You could say that the Human Genome Project missed 99 percent of the genes in the adult body. That's because it didn't sequence genes belonging to the vast communities of bacteria that normally live on and in us. Now a $1.45 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to researchers at the School of Medicine will help fill this gap by funding a study to develop new approaches for isolatin...Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study
Microbes living in the brilliantly coloredhot springs of Yellowstone National Park use primarily hydrogen forfuel, a discovery University of Colorado at Boulder researchers saybodes well for life in extreme environments on other planets and couldadd to understanding of bacteria inside the human body.A team of CU-Boulder biologists led by Professor Norman Pace, one ofthe world's leading expe...Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs
Physicians at Emory University School ofMedicine are conducting a clinical trial using stem cells generatedwithin the bone marrow to grow new blood vessels that could improvecirculation in patients with blockages in the arteries of their legs --a condition called (PVD). Individuals with PVD...Pathway Studio Enterprise from Ariadne Genomics
Description:Pathway Studio Enterprise is integrated informatics solution for the research of cellular regulatory mechanisms and drug response modeling. This web-based software comes with ResNet, the worlds largest knowledge base of biological networks, and can be equipped with MedScan module capable of extracting pathway-related information from scientific literature. Identify relationships amo...Antibodies for Studying NMDA Receptor Protein Expression and Synapse-Specific Immunolabeling
Danny Q. Hoang Michael Browning Xinping Yang PeterPingerelli Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene introduces affinity purified antibodies for NMDA receptorsubunits that are useful for studying expression of the NR2A, NR2B and NR2Csubunit proteins...Big Blue Rodent Cell Cultures for Mutagenesis Studies
Rat and mouse embryonic cell lines are useful for in vitro mutagenesisstudies Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. The Big Blue rat cell line and the Big Blue transgenic mouse embryoniccell line are useful for in vitro mutagenesis studies. These cell lines are partof the Big Blue transgenic rodent mutagenesis assay system...Optimizing Transfection Conditions for Studying Signal Transduction Pathways
Optimizing Transfection Conditions for Studying Signal TransductionPathways in vivo reporting systems Stratagene Stratagenes PathDetect <font face="S...Enzyme Immunoassay for Studying Intracellular Levels of cAMP
Sensitive, nonradioactive cyclic-AMP detection kit and adenylate cyclase(AC) toxin Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. American Qualex Stratagenes EIA cAMP Kit is a highly sensitive and specificantibody-based assay kit for no...RT-PCR Primers for the Study of Apoptosis
Wei-ping Yang Danny Hoang Douglas McKenzie PeterPingerelli Stratagene The apoptotic response is a complex biological process that requires theregulation of a variety of genes that interact with and respond to intracellularand extracellular stimuli. Stratagene is introducing RT-PCR primer<sup...Old theory of adaptation confirmed by new study
The adaptation theory that came up in 1971 argued that people react to good and bad events in their life, but they eventually return to a stable level of well-being. Researchers from Michigan State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, France and England confirmed this theory based on a study conducted to evaluate the effects of marital transitions on life satisfaction....Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory
Contradicting the age-old conception that memory capacity is solely dependent on how much information you can cram into the brain, a recent research demonstrates that //filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important. The study, which appears in the Nov. 24 issue of the prestigious journal Nature, demonstrates that awarenes...Bacterial Photographs Created By Student Scientists!
Bacteria have been long regarded as something, only capable of giving rise to infections and diseases. The misconception might soon change.// Thanks to the fervent efforts of students from The University of Texas at Austin and UCSF who have created the first-ever bacterial photographs. An intercollegiate Genetically Engineering Machine (iGEM) competition aimed at promoting the constru...HIV kids helped by zinc -study
Supplementation of Zinc with Anti-retroviral drugs for children’s with AIDS was found to reduce deaths due to diarrhea in HIV infected children’s //and also found to enhance the immune system which helps to fight against the virus. The study was conducted by Physician Moss and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland and the study results published...Study Finds Low Socio-Economic Status Linked to Poor Dental Health
An article appearing in the American Journal of Public Health says that low income groups and those with little education are more prone to suffer from severe dental diseases//. The study arrived at these conclusions after analyzing data from 15,000 people residing in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota and Maryland. The researchers say that a person's income was intimately tied to t...Medical Student's PDA Reference
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Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...Data Available From Erbitux Phase III Study in First-Line Treatment of Advanced Lung Cancer
NEW YORK, July 12, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ImCloneSystems Incorporated and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company todayannounced results from an open-label Phase III study of ERBITUX(R)(Cetuximab) plus a taxane and carboplatin in the first-linetreatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thestudy did not meet its primary endpoint of progression-freesurvival (PFS) as assessed...