Researchers develop the first climate-based model to predict Dengue fever outbreaks
...mate and infectious disease, which addresses increasing concerns that global warming, will exacerbate certain diseases like Dengue Fever and allow the vectors to spread to more temperate areas. The findings of this study were published earlier this year in the Institute of Physics journal Environmental Rese...Discovery in amber reveals ancient biology of termites
...by George Poinar, an Oregon State University researcher and international expert on life forms found in amber. It was just published in Parasites and vectors , a professional journal. This particular termite was probably flying around while mating in a wet, humid tropical forest in what is now Myanmar d...American Transplant Congress 2009: New Investigator Forum Presents Cutting Edge Research
...NK Cells Prevent the Development of Regulatory T Cells Novel Insights into the Pathogenesis Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy Novel Viral vectors as a Tool to Study Liver Physiology and Pathophysiology The American Transplant Congress 2009 (ATC), sponsored by the ASTS and the ...SecureWorks, Inc. Launches Managed Web Application Firewall Service
...es that organizations may have. Imperva is a market leading Web application firewall provider. "Web applications are one of the fastest growing vectors of Internet attacks," said Corey Merchant, vice president of product management at SecureWorks. "Analyzing the attack data from over 2,000 clients, w...Glybera(TM) Shows Long-Term Health Benefits
...roduction platform that circumvents the obstacles that have hindered development of gene therapy technologies into drugs. Using adeno-associated viral vectors as the delivery vehicle of choice for therapeutic genes, the company has designed and validated a stable, scalable, commercially attractive and GMP-co...AMT Intends to Incorporate Additional Data to its Marketing Authorization Dossier for Glybera(R)
...nt many if not all of the obstacles that have prevented gene therapy from becoming a mainstay of clinical medicine. Using adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors as the delivery vehicle of choice for therapeutic genes, the company has been able to design and validate what is probably the first stable and scalab...Protein analysis methods, viral vectors featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. Many proteins do not function by themselves as stand-alone units. Instead, multiple proteins associate to form larger structures called protein complexes. The May issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ( www.cshprotocols.org/TOCs/toc5_09.dtl ) features a set of metho...Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young
...he carbon on their bodies from one test tube into another and deposited some of the particles in the clean tube. That test showed how insects could be vectors for transporting nanomaterials, Rand said. While two generations of fruit fly larvae showed no ill effects from eating carbon nanoparticles, the Br...Methods for gene transfer in stem cells featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
... COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Wed., Aug. 5, 2009) vectors derived from retroviruses are useful tools for lon...s and propagation into daughter cells. Lentiviral vectors are preferred because they can transduce non-proliferating cellular targets. These vectors can be engineered to target specific tissues. In ...Amarna Therapeutics B.V. and TNO announce SVac research and development partnership
...al unmet needs. About SVac Our SVac viral gene delivery vector platform has a number of unique properties compared to other viral gene delivery vectors such as lentiviral, poxviral, alphaviral, adenoviral and adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector systems. SVac is non-immunogenic in humans, highly stable...NAU discovery could help feed millions
...s the method a cost-effective way to avoid surgical spaying, there's a global impact to canine management most people don't realize. "Dogs are huge vectors of disease throughout the world," she said. "In India, every two seconds someone is bitten by a dog. The tragedy is that every 30 minutes someone dies...siRNA Expression Vectors with Selectable Markers
For Long Term Studies in Mammalian Cells Six new p Silencer siRNA expression vectors are now available, each with an antibiotic resistance gene to facilitate selection in mammalian cultured cells. These ne...More siRNA Vectors for RNA Interference
Small Interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are short, double-stranded RNA molecules that can target complementary mRNAs for degradation via a cellular process termed RNA interference (RNAi) (Elbashir et al., 2001a). Recent publications have describ...pSilencer 4.1-CMV: Versatile Vectors for Expression of siRNA, miRNA, and mRNA
Ambion's p Silencer 4.1-CMV plasmid vectors are designed for long-term gene silencing experiments in a broad range of cell lines. The vectors carry an RNA polymerase II-type CMV promoter (human ...Mammalian Expression Vectors with Interchangeable Selectable Markers
Site-specific recombinase-based vector system Lisa Marsh Carsten Carstens Stratagene Stratagenes Exchanger system of eukaryotic expression vectors offers unparalleled convenience. The drug-resistance genes of these vectors can be exchanged without subcloning. Through s...Improved Vectors for PathDetect Trans-Reporting Systems
In vivo readout of signal transduction pathway activation Li Xu Tim Sanchez Mary Buchanan Chao-Feng Zheng Stratagene Stratagenes PathDetect in vivo signal transduction pathway reporting systems can be used to assess the in vivo activation of signal transduction pathways. To expan...High-Titer Retroviral Vectors for Gene Delivery
High transduction efficiency and predictable copy number High-Titer Retroviral Vectors for Gene Delivery Katherine Felts John C. Bauer Peter Vaillancourt Stratagene The high-titer retroviral vectors pFB and pFB-Neo can be used with any Moloney Murine Leukemia Viru...DUALhybrid kit from Dualsystems Biotech AG
Description:...complex interaction studies (yeast three-hybrid) Choice of two bait vectors for maximum flexibility and decreased chances of self-activating baits ... Complete set of controls: pLexA-p53, pLexA-lamin C and pACT-largeT control vectors Detailed manual and online help ...CopyRight pEZ BAC BamHI Cloning Kit (without cells) from Lucigen
Description:...y amplification for high yields and easy recombinant DNA purification. Available with blue-white screening (pEZ BAC) or transcription-free (pSMART VC) vectors for the highest insert stability. Kits include electrocompetent cells or no cells....CopyRight pEZ BAC Blunt Cloning Kit (without cells) from Lucigen
Description:...y amplification for high yields and easy recombinant DNA purification. Available with blue-white screening (pEZ BAC) or transcription-free (pSMART VC) vectors for the highest insert stability. Kits include electrocompetent cells or no cells....CopyRight pEZ BAC BamHI Cloning Kit (with electrocompetent cells) from Lucigen
Description:...y amplification for high yields and easy recombinant DNA purification. Available with blue-white screening (pEZ BAC) or transcription-free (pSMART VC) vectors for the highest insert stability. Kits include electrocompetent cells or no cells....CopyRight pEZ BAC Blunt Cloning Kit (with electrocompetent cells) from Lucigen
Description:...y amplification for high yields and easy recombinant DNA purification. Available with blue-white screening (pEZ BAC) or transcription-free (pSMART VC) vectors for the highest insert stability. Kits include electrocompetent cells or no cells....CopyControl Induction Solution from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:... 1000X solution used for inducing CopyControl based vectors to high copy numbers...