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To control germs, scientists deploy tiny agents provocateurs

Aiming to thwart persistent bacterial infections and better control group behaviors of certain microorganisms, scientists are creating artificial chemicals that infiltrate and sabotage bacterial "mobs." Reporting the work here today (March 13) at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Helen Blackwell described the o...

UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak

As Yemen geared up for an end-of-month nationwide campaign to immunize all children under 5 against a fast-moving paralytic poliovirus outbreak, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it was shipping in 6 million doses of polio vaccine. In addition, 10 experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are working with national coordinators and helping to train vaccinators and sup...

Study: Predatory dinosaurs had bird-like pulmonary system

What could the fierce dinosaur T. rex and a modern songbird such as the sparrow possibly have in common? Their pulmonary systems may have been more similar than scientists previously thought, according to new research from Ohio University and Harvard University. Though some scientists have proposed that predatory dinosaurs had lungs similar to crocodiles and other reptiles, a new study pub...

Targeting a key enzyme with gene therapy reversed course of Alzheimer's disease in mouse models

Silencing Alzheimer's: targeting a key enzyme with gene therapy reversed course of disease in mouse modelsIn mice, that had been genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease, scientists were able to reverse the rodents' memory loss by reducing the amount of an enzyme that is crucial for the development of Alzheimer's disease. "What we are showing is a proof of principle that stopp...

New discovery blurs distinction between human cells and those of bacteria

UCLA biochemists reveal the first structural details of a family of mysterious objects called microcompartments that seem to be present in a variety of bacteria. The discovery was published Aug. 5 in the journal Science. "This is the first look at how microcompartments are built, and what the pieces look like," said Todd O. Yeates, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and a member...

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Cell Culture Training Courses from European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC)

Description:The European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC) has been offering training courses to those from industry, academia and government institutes for over seven years. We offer a Level I course designed to introduce candidates to cell culture and a Level II course which focuses on more specialist areas such as planning and management of a cell culture laboratory, primary cell culture, baculovirus an...
Company:European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC)

Rabbit Anti-Human Amyloid Precursor Protein (KP1 Domain) Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from AbD Serotec

Description:RABBIT ANTI HUMAN APP (KP1 DOMAIN) Immunogen: Synthetic peptide composed of amino acids 292-312 from the KPI domain of human APP....
Company:AbD Serotec

Phagocytosis Fluorometric (dichlorofluorescein) Assay Kit, OxyBURST from Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)

Description:Molecular Probes Fc OxyBURST Green reagent (F-2902) was developed in collaboration with Elizabeth Simons of Boston University to permit measurement of the kinetics of Fc receptor mediated internalization and the subsequent oxidative burst directly in the phagovacuole.2 The Fc OxyBURST Green assay reagent consists of bovine serum albumin (BSA) that has been covalently linked to dichlorodihydrofluo...
Company:Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)

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UW professors get grants to engage technology for course delivery

Cramer, professor Hussain Bahia, program assistant Carole Kraak and staff from Engineering M...

Many still distrust Web sites is yours credible enough?

Many Internet surfers often believe they know a good Web site when they see one. Their intuition is based on a number of surface-level factors. For example, surfers are more likely to trust a site when it a...

Inner-city entrepreneurship isn't 'Easy Street,' but some are walking the walk

At a meeting in the church last week, Alder Michael McGee Jr. wanted to discuss a different type of angel "angel investors." These angels...

IBM takes one direction, Milwaukee entrepreneurs the other

I spent the morning with Milwaukee entrepreneurs at eForum 2005, where one of the hot topics was the shift from selling services to selling products. The thinking was that it's easier to grow per-employee revenue selling products. Later that day, IBM announced that its year over year earnings were doing...

Technology spurs great service, full service, and self-service.

The phrase full service used to mean a gas station where attendants would fill your tank, check your fluids, and clean your windshield. Today, it means that a bank provides you with a wide range of alternatives to seeing a local teller things like Internet banking, ATM card cards, and telephone-driven interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Weve entered the decade of self-service. C...

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Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours

In the United States of America, a lawyer- Peter Angelos, who won millions of dollars as compensation from the tobacco industry in Maryland, has announced that he is dragging Vodafone to court in a billion dollar suit. He is claiming compensation to cell phone users who are said to have developed brain tumours after using the instruments made by Verizon wireless. This case has raised eyeb...

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

Health care major Apollo Hospitals announced on Thursday that plans are afoot to consider listing on US bourses in 2003. "We would consider listing on the US bourses after 2002," Pratap C Reddy, chairman of the Apollo Hospitals group said, adding it was a part of the business plan for the post-2002 period. Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans...

Mummy Is Always Right: Nurses Research Prove It Over Again

It has now been found that consumption of hot or cold beverages before recording the body temperature can lead to can lead to drastic fluctuations in temperature measurement. // Consuming a cold beverage or hot beverage was found to hamper the restoration of body temperature to baseline levels by 15 and 23 minutes respectively. Nurses at the University of Virginia Health System have...

Staff Nurses Contract Measles from the Patient

In UK outbreak of measles occurred among the kids which were later contracted by the staff nurses. The outbreak at the Central Middlesex Hospital in north-west London// began after two children were admitted with measles last week. Now hundreds of hospital staffs are being vaccinated against measles. The vaccination was given to all those who were exposed to the hospital scena...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

A new method of treating childhood brain tumours, aimed at reducing the risk of damage to normal tissue, is to be trialled at hospitals around the US. Researchers will enrol 50 children suffering from medulloblastoma – the most common malignant childhood brain tumour – who will be treated with lower radiation and increased chemotherapy doses than those currently used. // In the US, ab...

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