Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering
Sacramento - Today, Affymetrix, Inc.announced plans to make eight new GeneChip(R) plant and animal genomearrays available in 2005 as part of its Consortia Program, includingcanine, Rhesus macaque, Medicago trancatula (legume), Brassica, tomato,citrus, poplar and sugar cane. More than 20 research presentations atthis week's Plant and Animal Genome Conference XIII in San Diego,Calif. feature...Darkness unveils vital metabolic fuel switch between sugar and fat
Constant darkness throws a molecular switch in mammals that shifts the body's fuel consumption from glucose to fat and induces a state of torpor in mice, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston reports in the Jan. 19 edition of Nature. While their findings could provide new insight into mammalian hibernation, researchers note that the pivota...A new male-specific gene in algae unveils an origin of male and female
By studying the genetics of two closely related species of green algae that practice different forms of sexual reproduction, researchers have shed light on one route by which evolution gave rise to reproduction though the joining of distinct sperm and egg cells. The findings, which indicate that a gene underlying a more primitive system of reproduction was likely co-opted during evolution to part...Bruker AXS unveils new X-ray detector
The new systems were unveiled at the 2005 International Union of Crystallography m...Merge unveils next-generation imaging-informatics product
Merge, a medical imaging software and services company, will market the product, which is called Fusion RIS/PACS, to im...Merge unveils updated medical imaging software
Merge, which has released several product upgrades this year as it attempts to recover from past financial reporting improprieties, said...Merge Healthcare unveils diagnostic mammography tool
According to Merge, the vendor-neutral product, marketed as Merge Mammo(TM) version 7.0, will make possible simultaneous display and reading of images on d...Green unveils $25 million stem cell plan
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Pfizer's new drug was inspired by a natural remedy tested by doctors in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s. The Soviet doctors had tested a chemical called cytisine, derived from a weed sometimes called false tobacco, as a pill to help smokers kick the habit. They reported that cytisine partially activated the nicotine receptors in the brain without being addictive. Pfizer Inc. unveiled an...Study Unveils New Insight To The Madness Of King George III
Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had discovered a new molecular explanation for the episodic attacks of irrational and demented behavior in the disease called porphyria, the disease that was probably behind the // madness of king George III. The Dana-Farber scientists say in a report featured on the cover of the August 26 issue of the journal Cell that the nutritional com...Bush Unveils Latest Blueprint for Handling Bird Flu Pandemic
According to President George W. Bush's latest blueprint for handling a pandemic, state and local health officials would be responsible for coordinating// the battle against an outbreak of lethal influenza in the U.S. While the plans have been laid by the federal government to decrease the risk of a pandemic and its transmission, ``the center of gravity of the pandemic response, however...Rae unveils Health-care Strategy
According to the federal Liberal leadership hopeful Bob Rae, Canada needed a national catastrophic drug program, which would prevent patients from having to choose between// their health and their bank balances. As part of his effort to succeed Paul Martin as leader of the federal Liberal party, Rae unveiled a six-point health-care campaign platform, the center-piece of which makes the...Veils Banned to Muslim medicos in Birmingham Hospital
Adding fuel to the already raging controversy in Britain, Birmingham city hospitals have banned Muslim medicos from donning full-face veils//. Birmingham University School of Medicine has passed this ban on wearing of a full-face veil by Muslim women in an attempt to "help to aid good communications" between Muslim medical students, their colleagues and patients. The Unive...