Superior Sound Amplifies Quality of Life for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Autodesk Names Cochlear, Creator of the Baha Hearing System, as Inventor of the Month for February 2009 SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK ) has named Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions, a division of Cochlear Ltd (Cochlear) and a global leader in the...

Holiday Season Amplifies Hurt of Separation and Divorce: Economic Woes Add to Pressure

WAKE FOREST, N.C., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- People in the middle of separation or divorce often face Thanksgiving and Christmas with dread. Long-standing family traditions are shattered; the hope and joy that normally accompany the season are replaced by loneliness and depression. This year's econo...

Stemedica Discovers Significant Breakthrough in the Use of Stem Cells and Stem Cell Factors for the Treatment of Retinal Degeneration

...s very impressive is the immune privileged feature of all three kinds of human stem cells (RPE, CB, NSC) in xenotransplantation. This immune privilege amplifies the significant promise of allogeneic donor stem cells in the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases", stated Dr. Edwin Boldrey. The rese...

USAID Brings White House Service Initiative to Baltimore

... Visit with Local Officials and Community Leaders amplifies "United We Serve" WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amplifying the White House's efforts to kick off a summer of service, U.S. Agenc...

New accurate diagnostic test for swine H1N1 influenza using RT-PCR technology

...individuals will expedite appropriate antiviral therapy and enhance control and containment efforts. Furthermore, this new molecular test specifically amplifies and characterizes the viral genetic material, enabling rapid detection of new viral strains as they evolve. Using these genetic sequence data and maki...

Consumer Reports: Hearing Aid Shoppers Pay High Prices, Get Mediocre Fittings

...tween brands, they're not significant enough to identify "best brands." Consumer Reports recommends asking about these features: a telecoil, which amplifies sound from phones without picking up background noise; a directional microphone, which helps hearing-aid wearers converse in noisy settings; and feedb...

New Hope for Relief of Chronic Sciatica

...down the leg, is most often associated with a herniated disc in the lower back. Basic science research has suggested that excess TNF, a molecule which amplifies the inflammatory response, is centrally involved in sciatica and other forms of disc-related and neuropathic pain. The Walter Reed study, publishe...

A 'bionic nose' that knows

...f. Shabat, a bioorganic chemist, plans to develop the technology so that it amplifies signals millions and billions times stronger than they are. "We are developing a molecular system that amplifies certain events," says Prof. Shabat. "That way we'll be able to respond fast...

New Advances May Treat Stroke Faster, Better

...of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, said his team is working to refine the technique. "Ultrasound energy amplifies the energy of the tPA," Alexandrov explained. In his clinic, he is using ultrasound waves to push tiny, gas-filled fat microspheres containing a cont...

Biomarker predicts disease recurrence in colorectal cancer

...des for GUCY2C expression using a technique called reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This technique, according to Dr. Waldman, amplifies the sensitivity to detect cancer cells compared to histopathology. The majority of patients 87.5 percent had lymph nodes that were positive for G...

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Scientists Discover Why Teeth Form in a Single Row

...tudies in other labs had shown bone morphogenic protein 4 (BMP4) to be an important factor for the initiation of teeth, and that a protein called Msx1 amplifies the BMP4 tooth-generating signal. Jiang and colleagues suggested for the first time that some unknown factor was restricting the growth of teeth into ...

Data Reported at ICAAC Indicates Selzentry(TM) Phase III Treatment-Naive Trial Shows Increased Efficacy When Used With Enhanced Trofile(TM) Assay

...ptor, or a combination of CCR5 and CXCR4 to enter cells. The use of CCR5, CXCR4 or both coreceptors defines the "tropism" of the virus strain. Trofile amplifies the envelope gene from a patient's HIV genome (from their blood sample) and then uses it to make HIV particles containing the patient's virus envelope...

St. Jude Study Finds Treatment With New Drug Might Make Tumor Cells More Sensitive to Therapy

...r proteins by attaching a molecule called phosphate to them in a process called phosphorylation. This sets off a cascade of biochemical reactions that amplifies the initial ATM response leading to repair of the double-stranded break. "Our ability to rapidly and reversibly regulate ATM activity with CP466722 ...

DHHS Guidelines Support Use of Trofile(TM) Assay Prior to CCR5 Inhibitor Use

...ptor, or a combination of CCR5 and CXCR4 to enter cells. The use of CCR5, CXCR4 or both coreceptors defines the "tropism" of the virus strain. Trofile amplifies the envelope gene from a patient's HIV genome (from their blood sample) and then uses it to make HIV particles containing the patient's virus envelope...

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals Announces Successful Completion of Multiple Dose Safety Study of AEOL 10150

...as shown the ability to scavenge a broad range of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals. As a catalytic antioxidant, AEOL 10150 mimics and thereby amplifies the body's natural enzymatic systems for eliminating these damaging compounds. Because oxygen-derived free radicals are believed to have an important ...

CombinatoRx Provides Topline Results from Phase 2 RA Study with CRx-139 and Very Low Dose Prednisolone

...onventionally low dose of the glucocorticoid steroid prednisolone. CRx-102 works through a novel mechanism of action in which dipyridamole selectively amplifies prednisolone's anti-inflammatory and immuno-modulatory activities without replicating its side effects. In phase 2 clinical trials, CRx-102 demonstrat...

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals' AEOL 10150 Highlighted in Nature Genetics Publication

...as shown the ability to scavenge a broad range of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals. As a catalytic antioxidant, AEOL 10150 mimics and thereby amplifies the body's natural enzymatic systems for eliminating these damaging compounds. Because oxygen-derived free radicals are believed to have an important ...

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals' AEOL 10113 Demonstrates Potential as a Protector of Healthy Normal Cells from Cancer Radiation Therapy

...as shown the ability to scavenge a broad range of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals. As a catalytic antioxidant, AEOL 10150 mimics and thereby amplifies the body's natural enzymatic systems for eliminating these damaging compounds. Because oxygen-derived free radicals are believed to have an important ...

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals' AEOL 10113 May Play an Important Role Regulating the Oxidative Damage Induced by Ionizing Radiation

...as shown the ability to scavenge a broad range of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals. As a catalytic antioxidant, AEOL 10150 mimics and thereby amplifies the body's natural enzymatic systems for eliminating these damaging compounds. Because oxygen-derived free radicals are believed to have an important ...

Study Demonstrating Aeolus Compound's Neuroprotection in Parkinson's Disease Published in the Journal of Neuroscience

...as shown the ability to scavenge a broad range of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals. As a catalytic antioxidant, AEOL 10150 mimics and thereby amplifies the body's natural enzymatic systems for eliminating these damaging compounds. Because oxygen-derived free radicals are believed to have an important ...

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Biomuse

Features:...s), the heart (EKG signals), and brain waves (EEG signals). These signals are acquired using standard non-invasive transdermal electrodes. The BioMuse amplifies and digitizes the biosignals, and then processes the signals using Biocontrol's library of proprietary DSP algorithms. For a given application, the ap...
Company:BioControl Systems

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Mayo Clinic collaboration discovers protein amplifies DNA injury signals

A Mayo Clinic-led research collaboration has discovered that the protein MDC1 amplifies weak DNA injury signals so genetic repair can begin. Once amplified, even low-level damage signals become strong enough to activate the cell's natural repair processes while the injury is most tractable to repai...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

By altering a molecule called Stat1, which is involved in cellular immune signaling, scientists have succeeded in making the molecule more responsive and thus more efficient. This old protein with a new twist may eventually be used to improve the body's defense against infection. Stat1 is involv...

Family planning a major environmental impact

... the power of exponential population growth," Murtaugh said. "Future growth amplifies the consequences of people's reproductive choices today, the same way that compound interest amplifies a bank balance." Murtaugh noted that their calculations are relevant to ...

Scientists discover why teeth form in a single row

...tudies in other labs had shown bone morphogenic protein 4 (BMP4) to be an important factor for the initiation of teeth, and that a protein called Msx1 amplifies the BMP4 tooth-generating signal. Jiang and colleagues suggested for the first time that some unknown factor was restricting the growth of teeth into ...

Uncultured bacteria found in amniotic fluids of women who experience preterm births

...iated early in this pathophysicological chain of events." In addition to the bacteria identified by cultures by using a new detection process which amplifies the 16SrRNA bacterial gene and clones it in order to identify its sequence, the researchers were able to identify a number of harmful bacteria not det...

Rare disease provides clues about enzyme role in arrhythmias

...ously affects the ability of the heart to keep a regular beat, Anderson said. "The defect causes the channel to close too slowly, and this in turn amplifies CaM kinase II, which in turn can cause disease," he said. "You can't completely block calcium channels because you need some function to initiate hear...

Research uncovers new steps on pathway to enlarged heart

... and the onset of cardiac hypertrophy." These studies reveal a role for AKAP-Lbc in which increased expression of the anchoring protein selectively amplifies a signaling pathway that drives cardiac muscle cells to a pathophysiological outcome. "It will be important to explore the role of the AKAP-Lbc/PKD/HD...

Biophysical Society announces winners of 2008 Student Travel Awards

...s a Probe of Interfacial Water in Biological Systems. Sepehr Dadsetan, University of California, Davis, Store-Operated Ca2+-Induced Ca2+ Release amplifies Cytosolic Ca2+ Signaling and Prevents Store Refilling in Jurkat T Cells. Angel M. Davey, The Pennsylvania State University, Dynamics Imaging of...

Metal foam has a good memory

...base alloy material was previously known, but it wasn't very effective for shape-memory applications," Dunand said. "The porous nature of the material amplifies the shape-change effect, making it a good candidate for tiny motion control devices or biomedical pumps without moving parts." NSF Program Director Ha...

Micro microwave does pinpoint cooking for miniaturized labs

... analytic techniques that could be built into microfluidic devices, including the high-efficiency polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process that rapidly amplifies tiny samples of DNA for forensic work, and and methods to break cells open to release their contents for study. The team embedded a thin-film micr...

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Sigma-Aldrich Releases WTA2, a Transplex Whole Transcriptome Amplification Technology for Degraded RNA Samples

...ers who work with limited quantity and quality of RNA samples." The TransPlex WTA technology creates a cDNA library from total RNA template and then amplifies the cDNA library in a single PCR reaction. The TransPlex reagents and protocols, optimized to ensure clonal and stochastic amplification of all expres...

Data Presented on Monogram HIV Tropism Tests at Retrovirus Conference sets New Standards of Assay Sensitivity

...ptor, or a combination of CCR5 and CXCR4 to enter cells. The use of CCR5, CXCR4 or both coreceptors defines the "tropism" of the virus strain. Trofile amplifies the envelope gene from a patient's HIV genome (from their blood sample) and then uses it to make HIV particles containing the patient's virus envelope...

Study Reaffirms Superiority of Trofile(TM) Assay

...ptor, or a combination of CCR5 and CXCR4 to enter cells. The use of CCR5, CXCR4 or both coreceptors defines the "tropism" of the virus strain. Trofile amplifies the envelope gene from a patient's HIV genome (from their blood sample) and then uses it to make HIV particles containing the patient's virus envelope...

World's smallest radio fits in the palm of the hand...of an ant

...mation--simply a wave of photons that travels in a controlled manner--washes across the tube and causes it to resonate. This mechanical action is what amplifies and demodulates, or decodes, the radio signal. Returning to Zettl's runner analogy, the vibrating nanotube is akin to a ditch with a constantly cha...

Truly sick or simply scared?

... response to an invading bacterium or other foreign substance to attract the biomarker. Lin found that labeling a second antibody with a nanoparticle amplifies the biomarkers signal. Greater amplification means more precise readings. Researchers at PNNL are developing a portable biomonitor to rapidly evalu...

Making the most of stem cells

... New storage method amplifies cells available for science ANAHEIM - Like many other kinds of cells used in biomedical research, human embryonic stem cells are stored and transp...

Simple Approaches for Optimization of RT-PCR

... Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) converts and amplifies a single-stranded RNA template to yield abundant double-stranded DNA product (1,2,3). RT-PCR is a powerful tool for analysis of gene expression and f...

Amplification of genome-representative DNA from limited sources with GenomePlex WGA technology for use in genetic alterations studies

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The data presented here demonstrate that the GenomePlex WGA kit amplifies limited amounts of DNA without bias, producing material that is suitable for use with the CMA assay, allowing for the identification of genome-wide co...

Automation of TempliPhi and GenomiPhi DNA Amplification Kits on the Genesis Freedom Robotic Sample Processor

...form quantities of DNA are amplified in all samples, eliminating the need for quantitation.

GenomiPhi DNA Amplification Kit representatively amplifies single- or double-stranded linear genomic DNA using Phi29 DNA polymerase to perform strand displacement amplification. Microgram quantities of represe...

MessageAmp II: Use Less RNA for Array Analysis

... amplifies as little as 100 ng RNA in a single round High Percent Present Calls and low 3'/5' ratios in Gen...

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GeneAmp High Fidelity PCR from Applied Biosystems

Description:... PCR System for increased fidelity, yield and length of PCR products. amplifies targets up to 10 kb from human genomic DNA....
Company:Applied Biosystems

Extensor Hi-Fidelity PCR Enzyme from ABgene

Description:...mostable proofreading enzyme) At least four times higher fidelity than standard Taq DNA polymerase Double the yields of standard Taq DNA polymerase amplifies DNA templates >20kb Concentration: 5U/ul Applications: high fidelity PCR, long PCR, PCR for cloning and mutagenesis We are part of Thermo Fisher Sci...
Company:ABgene

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Polymerase chain reaction

...a source such as blood, semen, saliva, hair, etc. Theoretically, just a single strand is needed. First, one breaks the DNA sample into fragments, then amplifies them using PCR. The amplified fragments are then separated using gel electrophoresis. The overall layout of the DNA fragments is called a DNA finger...

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Antisense strand

... computing dictionary. What is antisense strand ? Meaning of antisense strand medical term. What does ... antisense ... now on the market, amplifies the antisense strand of RNA. ... Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with ... Policy | Site Map. August 1, 2009. home > antisense - stra...