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South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

South America's giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development ?problems expected to be compounded by climate change, United Nations University experts warn. Covering more than 165,000 square kilometers ?an area roughly equal to Florida ?in the heart of South America, the P...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialists who have spent more than two decades leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide are warning that limited international relief supplies of antiretroviral therapies currently being distributed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean will not get to those who can least afford to pay for them. In an article appearing in the American Journal of Publi...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

32% increase of African fish supply needed by 2020 just to maintain consumption levels Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish...

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

By absorbing half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, the oceans have a profound influence on climate. However, their ability to take up this carbon dioxide might be impaired as a result of climate change. To determine their response to global warming, ESA has backed two projects that provide systematic data on key oceanic variables ?color and temperature. The Medspiration p...

Experts discuss use of human stem cells in ape and monkey brains

Covering ship hulls with artificial shark skin could help ships sailing smoothly. The growth of marine organisms such as barnacles on ship hulls is a major cause of increased energy costs in the naval industry. Shark skin offers a structural design that prevents this so called 'bio-fouling'. Ralph Liedert from the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany, is presenting his work on t...

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Innovation expert speaks on the business-IT balancing act

. We asked him to share some of his insights into the ways business and information techno...

2100 expert software Powerful software for the analysis of RNA, DNA, proteins, and cells with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer

Powerful software for the analysis of RNA, DNA, proteins, and cells with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer The Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer is aunique, on-chip, electrophoresis andflow cytometry analysis tool for RNA,DNA proteins and cells....

Tired of the spin? ExpertVoter website makes candidate selection easier

This election cycle may be the most democratic in modern history, thanks to blogs and other con...

Brady appoints GE efficiency expert as CTO

Tatterson, who brings expertise in process and product innovation, materials development, and chemical engineeri...

Innovation expert says Milwaukee has all the tools

Tornatzky, who will present his ideas here during a July 10 luncheon program of the Wisconsin Innovation Ne...

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Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

A research backed by the British government says that smoking will turn out to be the biggest killer in the years to come, surpassing the threat of even HIV. The British broadcasting corporation reported on Monday that in the developing world smoking will kill more people than any other disease in the next 20 years. The report released from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, United K...

Europe Seeks Indian Expertise

Indian expertise is sought by European nations in the field of life sciences and biotechnology. Staf Van Reet, Managing Director of the Belgian// company Viziphar Biosciences, told a seminar that the country has tremendous potential for global sourcing in life sciences. "We are starting with an R&D project in tuberculosis, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Sciences in...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

Macaroni faster than spaghetti? A greenish banana faster than a freckled one? Yes, say some of the top-tier nutritional experts.They are convinced that carbohydrates should be labeled good or bad, just the way fats are.// The debate involves an idea called the glycemic index. It is a way of rating how quickly carbohydrates are digested and rush into the bloodstream as sugar. Fast, in t...

Serevent, to be examined by experts due to deaths associated with its use

Serevent, a powdered medication inhaled by asthma patients to keep their airways// open, will be a focus of an FDA Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee meeting today as it has been linked to 13 deaths related to asthmatic symptoms in patients who took the drug to avoid asthma attacks. FDA documents released yesterday indicate that about a year ago, the agency asked Glaxo to strengt...

Spread Of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Is A Probability, Say Experts

Researcher from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had said in a research finding to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine that the disease called Rocky Mountain spotted fever may spread faster// than people thought possible, to cause an outbreak. The research highlights the importance of the recent outbreak in Arizona, US, as the first confirmed cases that could...

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GeneXpert System

Description:The GeneXpert System utilizes real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify and detect target DNA. The system is the first to fully automate and integrate all the steps required for PCR-based DNA testing: sample preparation, DNA amplification and detection. Designed to simplify hands-on preparation, the system provides PCR test results from a raw sample in 30 minutes or less, enabling time...
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Description:Kubtec introduces a breakthrough in specimen radiography. The XPERT represents a research tool that can provide up to 65,536 shades of gray in every digital x-ray image, thus being able to capture the smallest changes in density that heretofore were lost to the human eye. With features including digital detectors from 2 x 2 to 8 x 8 in size, multi-color digital operator interface, and a 19 digita...
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Description:Kubtec introduces a breakthrough in specimen radiography. The XPERT represents a research tool that can provide up to 65,536 shades of gray in every digital x-ray image, thus being able to capture the smallest changes in density that heretofore were lost to the human eye. With features including digital detectors from 2 x 2 to 8 x 8 in size, multi-color digital operator interface, and a 19 digita...
Company:Kubtec

Siemens Webcast: Expert Insight - Key Elements for a Successful Electrophysiology Program

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Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease M

Description:The first book to translate key medical data into clear guidelines capturing the highest treatment standards for heart disease....
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Portola Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase II EXPERT Results and Additional Oral and Poster Presentations at the XXI Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH)

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, July 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- PortolaPharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it will present clinicaland preclinical data on its oral Factor Xa inhibitor and on itsintravenous and oral ADP receptor antagonist at the XXI Congress ofthe International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) inGeneva, Switzerland on July 6 through July 12, 2007. The EXPERT...

Expert Opinion Highlights Avigen's AV411 as Potential New Therapeutic for Neuropathic Pain and Opioid Withdrawal

Focus On AV411's Unique Mechanism of Action and Broad Potential forthe Treatment of Neurological Conditions ALAMEDA, Calif., June 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Avigen, Inc.(Nasdaq:AVGN), a biopharmaceutical company innovating therapeuticsfor the treatment of neurological conditions, announced today thatExpert Opinion on Investigational Drugs has published an articlefeaturing...

Neuroblastoma Expert Reviews Progress and Challenges in Fighting Difficult Pediatric Cancer

PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Childhoodcancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is aspecial case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers,but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as asolid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, andpelvis, developing in the network of the body's sympathetic nervoussyst...