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Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

A team of Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists led by immunologist Dietmar J. Kappes, Ph.D., has identified the genetic mutation that keeps a mouse strain from developing white blood cells, or lymphocytes, called helper T cells. The report by Kappes and his colleagues appears in the Feb. 24 issue of Nature. Kappes' laboratory first discovered the mice with this naturally occurring defect in...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

Massey Cancer Center researcher helps to identify a piece of the cancer puzzle

A structural biologist from the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, in collaboration with researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has identified the crystal structure of a protein that plays a role in supplying nutrients to solid tumors. This identification may help researchers gain a greater understanding of the cell signaling that occurs when cancer cell...

$6.5 Million Grant for Microarray Center at Yale School of Medicine

In 1909, while harvesting a typical corn crop (Zea mays) in Illinois, a field worker noticed a plant so unusual that it was initially believed to be a new species. Its "peculiarly shaped ear" was "laid aside as a curiosity" and the specimen was designated Zea ramosa (from the Latin ramosus, "having many branches"). Due to the alteration of a single gene, later named ramosa1, both the ear and the...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

Fire is an important agent of transformation in the Amazon landscape. Every year, low intensity fires burn thousands of square miles of Amazon forest. To study the effects of these fires on the forest, and the forests' ability to recover from repeated burning, Woods Hole Research Center scientists will burn two and a half square kilometers of forest in the transition forest of northern Mato Gross...

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Pulsed Blue LED Excitation Source, 470 nm center wavelength from Ocean Optics

Description:Blue LED produces output at 470 nm; includes interface cable to S2000; can be mounted with an S2000 or installed into rack or desktop boxes The LS-450 Blue LED Pulsed Light Source is an LED that produces either pulsed or continuous output at 470 nm -- the blue region -- for fluorescence measurements. The source is designed for use with Ocean Optics spectrometers configured for fluorescen...
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BioEditor from San Diego Super Computer Center - Bioeditor

Description:Overview: Once a macromolecular structure has been determined, the challenge is to communicate that information to a widely diverse audience of scientists, educators and students. Current options include the printed literature and dissemination over the Internet, either via online journals or directly on personal web pages. Printed literature has the advantage of wide acceptance and availability,...
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BD Falcon Center-well Organ Culture Dish, In Vitro Fertilization Dish from BD Biosciences - Discovery Labware

Description:BD Falcon Center-well 60 mm In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Dish, nonembryotoxic, noncytotoxic, tissue-culture treated polystyrene. (20/sp, 500/ca)...
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Doyle proposes $2M for venture capital center

Doyle said the allocation would go to the public-private sector partnership that will connect entrepreneurs with sources of capital, and serve as an entry point o...

Data centers: Blowing smoke and raising red flags

Last year, I wrote about PEAK 10 after doing some online research, and I figured I would have a chance to...

Berbee Data Centers complete audit, certification

The SAS 70 Type IIauditand the SysTrust Certification are industry-standard accounting benchmarks, formulated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, against w...

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

In its very low-technology manner, the whiteboard indicates the success of the facility, which is a...

Space Place opens new astronomy center

"We had pretty much outgrown our other place where we'd been for 15 yea...

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Centers of origin

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Turkey becoming epicenter for bird flu

Bird flu virus which has caused 76 deaths in Southeast Asia seems to have shifted its infection to Turkey which has infected 18 people in Turkey. The city of Van in eastern Turkey has experienced three deaths // due to bird flu and all of them got the virus from poultry. The people infected with the bird flu virus are treated using a combination of antibiotics, bird flu anti flu drug Tamiflu and...

Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound

Stanford Hospital in US is one of the first to implement a 3D cardiac ultrasound machine to see the workings of the heart without having to operate.// The machine is a computer designed to show all angles of the patient’s heart. The technology uses an “intelligent” echocardiography system. The artificial intelligence of the system can be used to quantify cardiac functions that can lead to more pr...

Risk of allergy more to children staying in day care centers

A US based study had found that children are more exposed to indoor allergens// at their day care centers than anywhere else. Allergens that are commonly found indoor include bacteria, molds, mildew, viruses, animal dander and saliva, dust and dust mites, cockroaches and pollens. These may cause allergic reactions like allergic rhinitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma and various...

Expose on eating disorders!! Scientists trace “brain’s eating control center pathway”

Treatment of obesity and other eating disorders may be round the corner as scientists have traced the pathway of these disorders in the eating center of the brain!! To start with they have experimented on the rat brain and they are very enthusiastic about the findings, as this is the first time that such advances have been made vis-à-vis eating disorders. Specific sets...

Apollo Hospital to collaborate with US cancer center to open new radiation therapy department

The Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad is to collaborate with The Bakersfield based Comprehensive Blood and Cancer center (CBCC), to start a new radiation therapy department. // In an other six months the CBCC of US is to supply new radiation therapy machines to Ahmedabad Apollo Hospital. Alexander Kuruvilla the CEO of Apollo Hospital said that, "It will be for the first time for us that we wi...

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Centerfield

Description:Centerfield automatically performs static and kinetic perimetry in a 36 visual field. Expands to 70 with a fixation shift. Offers white /white and blue /yellow color perimetry. Screening. Supra, fast, and normal threshold measurements. Popular 30-2, 24-2, and 10-2 grids. a compact 70 static/kinetic/color perimeter. Designed to the Goldmann standard, it is German engineering at its best. With a 30...
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Distribution Center

Description:The inventory system designed for Wholesale Distributors and centralized distribution centers for Optical chains....
Company:C.C. Systems \ Computerized Optical Systems

Lens Center Rotary

Description:Our unique Lollipop lens handle lets them hold the lens closer without touching the lens itself. Lenses and tints are shown on alternating panels of black and white with literature holders on each panel. Available in various base/top color: black, red, or white marble, gray granite, light or medium oak....
Company:Ennco Display Systems, Inc.

EU-M60 Endoscopic Ultrasound Center

Description:At the heart of the innovative EUS EXERA system from Olympus is the EU-M60, delivering excellent imaging performance to meet all of your observation and diagnosis needs. Together with the new GF-UM160 ultrasonic gastrovideoscope, the EU-M60 allows for increased depth of penetration to view organs deeper in the body and greater resolution allowing you to focus on superficial areas in more detail....
Company:Olympus America Medical

Manipulator/Chopper (Centered)

Description:8mm angled shaft with tip at 90 degree angle wtih rounded tear drop point; Tip available in left, right and center; (Right-SQT-225 and Left -SQT-227) In Titanium....
Company:Berson & Associates

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Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Focuses on the Challenges of Care and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

WASHINGTON, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual meeting ofthe Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), the largestmeeting devoted to the comprehensive care and science of multiplesclerosis (MS), is underway in the nation's capital today. Multiplesclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that affects400,000 people in the United States, challenges patients, carepartne...

Breaking Multi-Center Study: Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Shown to Significantly Lower Instances of Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Study released at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual MeetingThis Month in Toronto Shows That Switching to Masimo SET PulseOximetry Technology Can Reduce the Risk Associated with ROP by 40% IRVINE, Calif., May 30, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo, theinventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and LowPerfusion pulse oximetry, reported that a new independent studypresented at the...

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Researchers to Present CTCE-9908 Data at the AACR Annual Meeting

TSX: CTI OTCBB: CHKT VANCOUVER, April 02, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ChemokineTherapeutics Corp. (the "Company") , a biotechnology companydeveloping chemokine-based therapies to treat cancer, blooddisorders, and vascular diseases, today announced that theUniversity of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's abstract,"Inhibition of primary growth and distant metastasis with a CXCR4antagon...

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