Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world
Echoing the journey through the human body in Fantastic Voyage, doctors might soon be able to track individual donor cells after a transplant, or to find where and how much of a cancer treatment drug there is within a cell. New technology described in a study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology makes it possible to image and quantify molecules within individual mammalian...Caribbean frogs started with a single, ancient voyage on a raft from South America
Massif de la Selle. Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America about 30-to-50-million years ago, accord...New Wave UP Ablation Chamber w/200 mJ Nd:YAG laser from Ocean Optics
Description:The LIBS-ELITE houses Ocean Optics LIBS2000+ Spectrometers (sold separately) in the New Wave Research Universal Platform (UP) Ablation Chamber to offer numerous configuration options and precise sample position control. The systems features include a high-power 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser, sample mapping and targeting functions, precise X-Y sample positioning, laser spot diameter control from 20 m to 12...Mouse Paraffin Digestive Tissue Microarray from Zyagen Laboratories
Description:Zyagen tissue microarrays are derived from Paraffin embedded tissue blocks, which are subjected to rigorous quality control procedures to ensure the highest quality. Tissues of each array are manually assembled in one block, sectioned at a thickness of 5 microns and mounted on coated slides. Sections are large (3-5mm in diameter) in comparison to core sections made using Tissue Arrayer. Arrays en...Mouse Frozen Reproductive Tissue Microarray from Zyagen Laboratories
Description:Zyagen tissue microarrays are derived from frozen embedded tissue blocks, which are subjected to rigorous quality control procedures to ensure the highest quality. Tissues of each array are manually assembled in one block, sectioned at a thickness of 7microns and mounted on coated slides. Sections are large (3-5mm in diameter) in comparison to core sections made using Tissue Arrayer. Arrays enabl...Mouse Paraffin Mixed Tissue Microarray, Panel -3 from Zyagen Laboratories
Description:Zyagen tissue microarrays are derived from Paraffin embedded tissue blocks, which are subjected to rigorous quality control procedures to ensure the highest quality. Tissues of each array are manually assembled in one block, sectioned at a thickness of 5 microns and mounted on coated slides. Sections are large (3-5mm in diameter) in comparison to core sections made using Tissue Arrayer. Arrays en...Mouse Frozen Mixed Tissue Microarray, Panel -3 from Zyagen Laboratories
Description:Zyagen tissue microarrays are derived from frozen embedded tissue blocks, which are subjected to rigorous quality control procedures to ensure the highest quality. Tissues of each array are manually assembled in one block, sectioned at a thickness of 7microns and mounted on coated slides. Sections are large (3-5mm in diameter) in comparison to core sections made using Tissue Arrayer. Arrays enabl...West Bengal Performs 'Yagna' to Ward off Dengue, Malaria
A three-day yagna-fire worship-with 1,000 pyres began Friday here to ward off dengue and protect the ozone layer. // Amid chanting of Vedic hymns by Hindu priests from across the country and women carrying water pots on their heads, the ritual was performed with the lighting of a large number of kundas (pyres) at the premises of the Eastern Railway near here. The yagna, or...Meridian Microruptor V Nd YAG Laser
Description:The Meridian Microruptor V Nd: YAG laser system is indicated for posterior capsulotomy, peripheral iridotomy, and pupillary membranectomy procedures....DURECT Provides an Update to the Memryte Program Under Development by Voyager Pharmaceutical Corp
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 17, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DURECTCorporation announced today that Voyager Pharmaceutical hasprovided its shareholders with an update on its truncated Phase 3clinical trial for Memryte, an investigational drug for thetreatment of Alzheimer's disease. Voyager has informed itsshareholders that they have observed positive outcome trends amongwomen, but no posit...