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New research questions basic tenet of neuron function

New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center challenge one of the established views of how nerve cells communicate with one another. Every time we move, feel emotions, think or remember, the nerve cells, or neurons, in our body transmit messages to one another via chemical signals called neurotransmitters. Within neurons are tiny organelles called synaptic vesicles that s...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes that may contribute to many of these life-threateni...

Scientists discover basic defect in cystic fibrosis airway glands

Scientists at Stanford University have determined that the buildup of sticky mucus found in cystic fibrosis is caused by a loss in the epithelial cell's ability to secrete fluid. This research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the March 17 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal. Cystic fibrosis is the most commo...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

Cancer researcher Professor Axel Ullrich, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, already showed at the beginning of the 1990s that blocking blood vessel development in a tumour slows down its growth, and shrinks its tissue. This fundamental principle led to the development of SUTENT®, whose active ingredient is Sunitinib. SUTENT® was recently approved for...

Lack of basic research putting patients at risk

Patients are suffering because not enough basic clinical research is being done, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. He believes that medical academia is failing patients and clinicians by neglecting this vital area of research. Basic observational research provides the information that doctors need to diagnose and treat patients appropriately, writes neurologist Professor Peter Roth...

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ProXPRESS™ 2D Proteomic Imaging System, Basic Package from PerkinElmer

Description:ProXPRESS 2D Proteomic Imaging System, Basic Package The ProXPRESS 2D Proteomic Imaging System is a highly sensitive in imaging system for both proteomic and general life science research applications. ProXPRESS 2D provides unparalleled flexibility, enabling the use of all dyes in the UV and VIS spectrum range with i...
Company:PerkinElmer

HeavyPeptide Basic Kit from Thermo Scientific

Description:For relative and/or absolute quantification with standard accuracy requirements using MS or NMR instruments...
Company:Thermo Scientific

SPD101B Basic SpeedVac Concentrator from Thermo Scientific

Description:The SPD101B is a no-frills, basic SpeedVac concentrator designed for the price-conscious educational institution. Although economically priced, this unit still features a standard Teflon coated chamber along with a digitial display of time and heat. It is designed for use with aqueous samples and accepts a wide variety of different rotors for maximum sample flexibility. Comes Standard...
Company:Thermo Scientific

Micropipette Beveler Basic System from AutoMate Scientific, Inc

Description:The BV-10 offers precision beveling of micropipette tips between 0.1 and 50m. The unique abrasive plate drive system is vibration free for greater control of the beveling process. Beveling can be accomplished very rapidly and produces consistent tip diameters. Microscope and impedance meter available....
Company:AutoMate Scientific, Inc

Wide Mini ReadySub-Cell GT Cell and PowerPac Basic Power Supply from Bio-Rad

Description:The wide mini ReadySub-Cell GT cell and PowerPac basic power supply are used for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis of nucleic acids in agarose gels. The wide mini format cell includes a buffer tank, lid with cables and electrodes, and leveling bubble. The PowerPac basic power supply, 100-120 and 220-240 V, provides output of 10-300 V, 4-400 mA, and 75 W. Power cord and instructions are pro...
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Basic Plasmid DNA Isolation Protocol

PLG can be used in small and large scale protocols based on alkaline lysis procedure.(1,2,3) The basic protocol given here works with E. coli cultures grown for 1214 hours in up to 500 ml of amplified or non-amplified LB or DYT, or in 250 ml Terrific Broth....

Basic Plasmid DNA Isolation Protocol

PLG can be used in small and large scale protocols based on alkaline lysis procedure.(1,2,3) The basic protocol given here works with E. coli cultures grown for 1214 hours in up to 500 ml of amplified or non-amplified LB or DYT, or in 250 ml Terrific Broth....

Array Analysis: The Basics

Gene arrays are solid supports upon which a collection of gene-specific nucleic acids have been placed at defined locations, either by spotting or direct synthesis. In array analysis, a nucleic acid-containing sample is labeled and then allowed to hybridize with the gene-specific targets...

Northern Analysis: The Basics

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Nuclease Protection Assays: The Basics

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Getting Basic Science to Work For Medicine

The UC Davis School of Medicine is at the forefront of the mission to translate discoveries in basic sciences into pioneering medical treatments. // It is one among 13 schools to have been chosen to receive a collective grant of $10 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "The gap between basic biology and medical practice is growing," said Ann Bonham, executive associate dean...

Understanding Basic Motor Skills

Johns Hopkins researchers have induced mutations in mice to understand the various steps involved in learning basic motor skills. // The study mainly aims at following the behavior of two proteins and the specific steps they take to control a neuron's ability to learn by adapting to signals from other nerve cells. The findings were published in the journal Neuron. The study shows how the two pro...

Basic Medical Services Back On Rail In Delhi

The government hospitals in Delhi were once again buzzing with activity today following resumption of duties by resident doctors // , who called off their nearly three-week-long anti-quota strike late last night. The battered basic health services were showing signs of normalcy with patients thronging the OPD wings in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Safdarjung, Maulana Azad M...

Basic Instinct drives wannabe moms

A Fertility expert has tried to analyze the many reasons why some teen girls get pregnant and women who chase motherhood after sixty with IVF treatments //. In his reading, they are just going by the call of instinct and therefore should not be ridiculed. Laurence Shaw, the deputy medical director of the Bridge Centre fertility clinic in London is of the opinion that, it is the intern...

Lack of Basics Health Awareness Results in Escalating Hospital Expenditure

According to a study done by Ian Sheerin, lecturer at the Christchurch School of Medicine about one third of the patients were categorized as avoidable admissions//. The researcher said that 94,462 bed days and $96.6 million could be saved if the condition of the patients were detected earlier. This study was published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The largest proportion of avoidable admiss...

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Basic TCD

Description:One channel transcranial Doppler...
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cardiofax GEM Basic-level interpretive resting ECG

Description:Basic-level interpretive resting ECG...
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Hand Surgery Basic Set (round handle)

Description:Hand surgery basic instrument set with round handled instruments...
Company:S&T AG

Hand Surgery Basic Set (flat handle)

Description:Hand surgery basic instrument set...
Company:S&T AG

DHS® Basic Implant Set

Description:The DHS Basic Set is available with either self-tapping or non-self-tapping screws. Either instrument set provides complete instrumentation in one graphic case for use with the Universal Implant Set,for most Dynamic Hip Scr ew (DHS®) procedures....
Company:Synthes, Inc.

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Bench-Top Centrifuges--Basic Tools for the Small Lab

No matter how elementary or advanced, every clinical laboratory possesses one essential devicea centrifuge. It may be a bench-top or floor model, refrigerated or non-cooled, but this apparatus, because of its unique ability to fractionate liquid specimens by creating spin-induced high g-forces, has long been a standard tool for both diagnosis and research applications. For all this utility, t...