Angelman syndrome deficits rescued in mice
Children with Angelman syndrome are often seen laughing and smiling, but this cheerful demeanor masks serious neurological problems ?mental retardation, movement problems and seizures. ew research in mice, however, suggests that many of these deficits could be alleviated. Edwin Weeber, Ph.D., and colleagues reversed the neurological deficits in a mouse model of Angelman s...Start-ups, angels can connect on new state Web site
Wisconsin entrepreneurs can submit executive summaries of their businesses for angel investors' perusal to a new state Web site beginning May 9. The The WAN website, which is being ca...Where have all the angels gone?
Over the past month, I've seen a half dozen great products that may never see the light of the technology market. The products vary widely from unique hardware devices to much-needed vertical software applications to exciting new mobile services and beyond. Each concept is carefully conceived and well engineered. The market analysis has been done and each product meets a real and unfulfilled need...Investor warns of angel-venture funding gap
Payne, an entrepreneur-in-residence for the and a prominent angel investor, will be in Madison to address the June...Breaking down Wisconsin's angel capital numbers
The figures were outlined in a recent report titled Risk Capital in Wisconsin: A Progress Report for 2006, which was produced by NorthStar Economic...Medications Detected In Recycled Water In Los Angeles
The water officials detected prescription drugs in the filtered and recycled wastewater at Los Angeles aquifer. This has raised doubts about the dangerous effects this water might have in the future. // Though the amounts were minimal drugs such as antibiotics, antipsychotics, birth-control hormones, Viagra and Valium have been detected. The reason that such drugs end up in the wastewater is beca...Angelina Jolie Opts To Back For Global Education For Poor Children
Angelina Jolie, who was named as the world’s most beautiful woman by People magazine has voiced her interest to use her celebrity status to back a global education// campaign that will concentrate on educating poorest children. Appearing in an exclusive interview with NBC, Jolie, 30, urged the US and other first world countries to invest more in education to give children in the develo...Health Care Suffers at Los Angeles Jails: Report
LA County Jail Lacks to Meet Inmates' Basic Health Needs – a Report. A newspaper on Sunday reported// on the deaths of at least 14 inmates since 1999 in the nation's largest county jail system came after treatment errors and other breakdowns in their medical care. The volume of inmates, coupled with a shortage of doctors and nurses, has resulted in a backlog of hundreds of inmates waiting to be e...DDT Still Present In The Waters Of Los Angeles County
DDT or dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane is the best pesticide and also an established carcinogen. This is still found in the waters of Los Angles county at a very high// level even after many years of its ban. U.S. Environment Protection Agency released a report on this. The high level of DDT in the sea is due to the dumping of this substance by DDT manufacturing chemical plants into l...HIV Tests Offered to Los Angeles Hispanics Insufficient: Study
A new study has found that the primary care providers who treat Hispanics of Los Angeles County often fail to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to them//. Of late the number of HIV infected people among the Hispanics has risen considerably. The study, published in the March issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, found that only 41 percent of these primary...Thermal Angel® Blood and IV Fluid Infusion Warmer TA-200
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