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Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

Implanted devices intended to optimize the cardiac function of patients with heart failure have provided new insights into which patients might be at higher risk of dying suddenly from their disease, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Besides maintaining optimal electrical stimulation to the heart, these CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation)...

Applied Biosystems Introduces Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program

Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced the introduction of the Applied Biosystems Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program, a new program for service providers who are interested in accessing Applied Biosystems comprehensive solution for gene expression analysis, including the highly sensitive Expression Array System for whole genome analysis and...

Columbia study shows widely used artery clearing device does not help patients during heart attack

Interventional cardiologists from Columbia University Medical Center have shown that a commonly used procedure to remove fatty debris from blocked arteries during a heart attack does not improve patient outcomes. The procedure, called distal microcirculatory protection, is commonly and successfully used during angioplasty in vein grafts and stenting in carotid arteries. The study, publish...

Team Invents Device For Weighing Individual Molecules

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology have created the first nanodevices capable of weighing individual biological molecules. This technology may lead to new forms of molecular identification that are cheaper and faster than existing methods, as well as revolutionary new instruments for proteomics. According to Michael Roukes, professor of physics, applied physics, and bioen...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

Loyola first in U.S. to implant new FDA-approved device In a major advance for heart patients, Loyola University Health System is the first hospital in the U.S. to implant into a patient a new FDA-approved defibrillator which automatically signals the doctor via wireless satellite transmission if the patient's heart beats abnormally or if the device malfunctions, e.g., battery failure.</p...

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DNA/RNA Aptamer Microarray - Comprehensive Service from LC Sciences

Description:LC Sciences provides unique aptamer microarray services using a novel Paraflo technology, aptamer sequence databases, and sequence design software to suit your needs for basic research and screening of aptamers as drug candidates. This comprehensive service includes assistance with sequence design, synthesis of standard or custom DNA/RNA (2-OMe) microarrays, binding assays using proteins, nucleic...
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Histology Services - Special Stains from Mass Histology Service

Description:Basically, most ``special`` dye stains are $6.00 and ``silver`` (along with a few other non-routine) stains are $9.00. This price includes microtomy of a paraffin block, staining, coverslipping and labeling of the slide. Bielschowsky Stain (for senile plaques) Bodian`s Stain Copper Stain Fontana-Masson Stain for melanin Gridley`s Stain for ameba Grimelius Argyrophil Stain (Pascual...
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Peptide Design and Custom Synthesis from Global Peptide Services, LLC.

Description:Best pricing for 100mg-1.0g scales. Phosphopeptides are our specialty....
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Protein Kinase Substrate (PKS) Peptide Microarray - Comprehensive Service from LC Sciences

Description:LC Sciences provides a comprehensive kinase analysis service utilizing high density protein kinase substrate (PKS) peptide microarrays synthesized on Paraflo microfluidic chips for proteomic scale kinase profiling, quantitative measurement of kinase kinetic activities, and drug discovery research. This comprehensive service includes preparation of your kinase sample, single or dual color enzymati...
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Small Non-coding RNA Discovery Microarray - Comprehensive Service from LC Sciences

Description:LC Sciences provides a comprehensive microarray service for systematic discovery of small regulatory/functional RNA embedded within non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) using a novel Paraflo technology and proprietary probe design, which enables highly sensitive and specific direct detection of small RNAs (1). This comprehensive service includes custom probe design (according to submitted target RNA sequence...
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QIAGEN Instrument Service insist on the best in service and support

QIAGEN Instrument Service applies molecular biology and engineering expertise to guarantee you optimal performance in your molecular biology applications. QIAGEN Instrument Service provides customized agreements to fit your application requirements from small-scale research and general liquid-handling applications, to...

Custom siRNA Oligo Synthesis Service

QIAGEN offers a custom siRNA oligonucleotide synthesis service, which includes a range of available modifications. All custom siRNA is synthesized using patented TOM-Amidite chemistry. Two grades of custom siRNA are available: Ultrapure siRNA purified by io...

QIAGEN Instrument Service - insist on the best in service and support

QIAGEN Instrument Service applies molecular biology and engineering expertise to guarantee you optimal performance in your molecular biology applications. QIAGEN Instrument Service provides customized agreements to fit your application requirements from small-scale research and general liquid-handling applications, to fully in...

Measurement of proteasome inhibition in live cells in Molecular Devices microplate fluorometers

Proteins inside eukaryotic cells exist in a dynamic state, in a highly-regulated balance between synthesis and degradation. Whereas prot...

Tushaus Computer acquires managed service business

The transaction will enable Tushaus Computer, a Milwaukee-based provider of information technology services, to establish a physical presence in the Green Bay market. The c...

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Doctors advice early anemia tests

An estimated 12 to 30% of young children are affected by iron deficiency anemia throughout the world. This is one of the common problems in childhood leading on to problems in simple developmental skills such as standing and walking. Eight-month-old infants with low levels of hemoglobin are significantly more likely to have deformities of the motor system, according to a study conducted b...

Alerts for safety of heart device

Heart devices may go wrong sometimes.There has been a rise in the number of safety warnings concerning devices that regulate the heart rhythm. Many depend on either a pacemaker or an implantable defibrillator to keep their heart beating rhythimically. However sophisticated and accurate devices they may be, sometimes they to do go wrong. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Ho...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

The government has approved a new method to treat women suffering excessive menstrual bleeding, a device that uses radio waves to zap the tissue at fault. Millions of women suffer menorrhagia, benign but troubling menstrual bleeding so excessive they can require more than 20 tampons in a single day. Thousands of women every year get hysterectomies to cure menorrhagia, while other women tr...

A new hearing device improves hearing

A new ray of hope for hearing impairment. A new hearing device that is implanted in the middle ear gives better sound quality than a more conventional aid. Doctors say that there's now a better option for those with hearing loss.//The usual kind of hearing aid transmits sound through the eardrum, and may produce feedback - distracting sounds and whistles - as well as giving the wearer the...

New device for detecting artery blockages

According to a recent study a device was found using new technology which helps prevent stroke. One important way of screening people for potential stroke involves looking, by ultrasound, at any blockages in the carotid arteries that serve the brain.// Researchers at Texas University in the US have pioneered the use of a portable device, based upon a technique called Power Doppler Imagi...

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TheraSeed devices

Description:Palladium-103 is the isotope used in Theraseed devices. It is about the size of an uncooked grain of rice, are implanted and emit low energy radiation. Within just three months it has given up 97% of its energy and has lost almost all of it by six months....
Company:Theragenics Corporation

Scoliosis Devices

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LT-Cage Lumbar Tapered Fusion Device

Description:The LT-Cage device restores lordosis and sagittal balance with significantly less reaming of the vertebral endplates. Medtronic Sofamor Danek's Tapered Laparoscopic Instruments are designed to easily and reproducibly place the LT-Cage Lumbar Tapered Fusion Device....
Company:Medtronic Neurological and Spinal

eNclose Anastomosis Assist Device

Description:The eNclose Anastomosis Assist Device was designed specifically to obviate the need for partial clamping of the aorta. The enclose device can provide the surgeon with a stable, bloodless field and improved hemodynamics as compared to partial occlusion clamps....
Company:CardioVations

Trak Back II Catheter Pull-Back Device

Description:The only solution for in-line digital measurement...
Company:Volcano Therapeutics, Inc.

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Urinalysis Analyzers: Large Capabilities in Every Size Device

Urine chemistry analysis, often conducted in a physicians office practice, can be instrumental in the detection of a wide array of ailments; UTIs, diabetes, several cancers, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular and kidney diseases. The estimated global market for urinalysis tests is well in excess of $600 million per year and is growing strongly. For such a fundamental, extensive and economic...

Inovio Biomedical Highlights Enhanced DNA Vaccine Potency with Electroporation DNA Delivery Technology and New Devices at Gene Therapy Meeting

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 6, 2007 - Inovio BiomedicalCorporation (AMEX:INO), focused on the development of DNA vaccinesfor cancers and infectious diseases and a novel alternative tosurgery to treat localized cancers, announced today the companydelivered multiple presentations on preclinical study results andnew device innovations relating to its electroporation-mediated DNAdelivery te...

Successful Human Clinical Trial of Chrono Therapeutic's Drug/Device Combination Product - ChronoDose

Trial Convincingly Proves Functionality in Humans of CTI'sProgrammable, Pulsatile, Passive Transdermal Drug Delivery Device -ChronoDose BASEL, Switzerland and TRENTON, N.J., May 03, 2007 /PRNewswire/-- Chrono Therapeutics Inc. (CTI) announced today the successfulcompletion of its first phase human clinical trial of itsprogrammable, pulsatile, passive transdermal drug/devicecombination pr...

Hollis-Eden Announces Cancellation of Acute Radiation Syndrome RFP by Department of Health and Human Services

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 8, 2007 - Hollis-EdenPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:HEPH) today announced that it wasinformed late Wednesday, March 07, 2007, by the Department ofHealth & Human Services (HHS) that NEUMUNE(R), the Company'sproduct candidate for the treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome(ARS) was found technically unacceptable and was no longer in thecompetitive range for th...

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