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ConvaTec Launches Hydrofiber(R) Technology Web Site

...idence and impact on hospital utilization and treatment costs. Am J Infect Control . 2009;37(5):387-397. Waring MJ, Parsons D. Physico-chemical characterisation of carboxymethylated spun cellulose fibres. Biomaterials. 2001;22:903-912. Walker M, Hobot JA, Newman GR, Bowler PG. Scanning electron microsco...

Australian team reveals world-first discovery in a 'floppy baby' syndrome

...search Council and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as well as the Centre for Microscopy, characterisation and Analysis at the University of Western Australia and Perth-based Proteomics International which have also assisted the team's work. Floppy Baby...

IK4 develops a portable device for detecting Salmonella in under an hour

...ipation in the project has focused on the adaptation of biochemical developments to the microfluid system of the chip, as well as the optimisation and characterisation of the device for its clinical application and its diagnosis for the presence of Salmonella spp. in persons with colitis.IKERLAN-IK4 has also worked...

Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'

... cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding of how metastasis develops is identification of the molecules, and characterisation of the mechanisms that regulate cell motility. Hitherto, these mechanisms have been poorly understood. Now, a team of researchers lead by Professor M...

Does probiotic intervention induce the serum global lipid profile change?

...F-αand CRP. The new analytical capacity of lipidomics as a branch of metabolomics can increase our understanding of lipid biology, improve the characterisation of global lipid profiles and result in the identification of previously unknown changes in lipid metabolism. Probiotics have been mostly studied in th...

World-first discovery could help treat life-threatening tumors

...e National Health and Medical Research Council and part of the work was achieved using facilities at The University of WA based Centre for Microscopy, characterisation and Analysis. Earlier this month, a second paper by Associate Professor Ganss and her team was published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation w...

Professor Suzanne Cory honored with national citation award

...ten nations in the world for influence in scientific papers, despite the nations relatively small population base. This is one of the key facts in the characterisation of Australia as a country that punches above its weight in the international science arena. Reflecting upon the citation award, Professor Cory sai...

Research discovers new compounds active against tuberculosis and malaria

... home city of Pamplona, the capital of Navarre, describes the synthesis and characterisation of 65 derivatives of quinoxaline, the structure of which is similar to a nu...the world that kill most people 3 million every year. The synthesis and characterisation of the new compounds was undertaken at the Centro de Investigacin de Farmac...

Beactica Announces Drug Discovery Collaboration With Arrow Therapeutics

...oday that it has entered into a drug discovery collaboration agreement with Arrow Therapeutics Ltd (London, UK) whereby Beactica will direct its novel characterisation technology at selected Arrow compounds against a confidential target. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071112/281137 ) "We are very pl...

Lobster Shells Have Great Healing and Antiseptic Properties

...tosan. The study starts at the extraction of these compounds from polluting waste of the Cuban fishing industry and it goes on to cover these products characterisation through traditional techniques and some more innovative ones, the study of their properties, the development of new by-products and the testing of the...

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Ipsogen Reports Incorporation of the Genomic Grade in the 2009 St. Gallen International Consensus Meeting on the Primary Treatment of Early Breast Cancer

...as histological grades 1 and 3. "The St Gallen Consensus Panel decision to identify the genomic grade as a valuable adjunct in the pathological characterisation of breast cancer legitimates Ipsogen strategy to provide pathologists and oncologists with state of the art molecular tests generating critical inform...

Insmed Initiates Clinical Study for Follow-on Biologic Version of Neulasta(R)

...dies demonstrated that INS-20 and FDA-approved Neulasta(R) are comparable in both their pharmacological and toxicological profile. Detailed analytical characterisation also demonstrated that the products have a high degree of similarity. Data from these initial evaluations have been used, in part, to support the Phas...

Insmed Announces First Human Bioequivalence Data for a Follow-on Biologic by a U.S. Company

...udies demonstrate that INS-19 and FDA-approved Neupogen(R) are comparable in both their pharmacological and toxicological profile. Detailed analytical characterisation also demonstrates that the products have a high degree of similarity. Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements ...

Insmed Provides Update on Follow-On Biologics and IPLEX(TM) Programs

...INS-19 and FDA-approved Neupogen(R) are comparable, and detailed analytical characterisation has also demonstrated that the products have a high degree of similarity. S...hat INS-20 and FDA-approved Neulasta(R) are comparable. Detailed analytical characterisation has also demonstrated that the products have a high degree of similarity. T...

Insmed Initiates Clinical Study for Follow-on Biologic Version of Neupogen(R)

...n both their pharmacological and toxicological profile. Detailed analytical characterisation also demonstrates that the products have a high degree of similarity. Data ...n both their pharmacological and toxicological profile. Detailed analytical characterisation also demonstrates that the products have a high degree of similarity. Abo...

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Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes

The oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), apart from reducing cholesterol and having anticancerogenic properties, is characterised for its capacity for breaking down cellulose. Finding out which genes are responsible for this activity ?the reason why the fungus is sometimes used as a decontaminati...

Pigs and dogs can bridge gap between mice and humans in developing new therapies

...discussed at a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which called for a European pig clinic to facilitate generation and characterisation of models of human disease that would be funded within the EU's Seventh Framework programme, the main source of EU funding for research projects. ...

New discovery on role of vital protein that fights meningitis

...50 years with the first significant biochemical characterisations made in the USA, however, subsequently, the UK has contributed tremendously with the characterisation of the Properdin gene and structural modelling of the Properdin protein. ...

Ancient DNA: reconstruction of the biological history of Aldaieta necropolis

...e of genic flow between these human groups in ancient times. Besides the characterisation of the mitochondrial genome, they have carried out the characterisation of the chromosome Y, using techniques focused on ancient DNA, an have shown...

Biophysical Society announces 2008 International Travel Awards

...n in the Plasma Membrane and Activation Kinetics. Iffath A. Ghouri, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Spectroscopic, Confocal and 2-Photon characterisation of Intrinsic Fluorescence in Isolated Heart Cells for Metabolic Studies. Priscila V. Goliatt, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Pet...

DFG to establish 10 new collaborative research centers

...agdeburg, will investigate the production of oxide heterostructures and the characterisation of their structural, ferroelectric, magnetic and electronic properties usin...ementary areas of research: material science, modelling, and production and characterisation of components. This will allow theoreticians and experimental researchers t...

Another type of nanotube, a how-to guide to making bamboo-structured carbon nanotubes

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and application of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. The present work looked at bamboo-structured carbon nanotube...

A roadmap for calibration and validation

... to 4 October, was structured around four main sessions: Cal/Val site characterisation & classification Satellite and in situ Cal/Val data access Meth.... The guidelines will cover all aspects of the data quality from instrument characterisation to engineering calibration and geophysical validation. Participants iden...

Smiths Detection to launch a portable diagnostic system for foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu

...re discrimination between the pathogenic strain of H5N1 and more common forms of the disease, is vital. Dr. Donald King, Group Leader of Molecular characterisation and Diagnostics at the UK Institute for Animal Health (IAH), said: Smiths Detection is actively collaborating with the Institute for Animal Health's g...

Edible coatings will be the packaging of the future

...tein isolate or WPI), mesquite gum and starch - with the objective of evaluating their possible food applications. The PhD, entitled "Development, characterisation and applications for foodstuffs of edible coatings based on milk serum proteins, starch and mesquite gum". Mesquite gum, an efficacious and cheap...

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NPL and University of Surrey sign £10m deal

... Communications and Signal Processing - Including advances in mobile communications and internet connectivity. Next Generation Materials and characterisation - With applications in automotive, aerospace and the growing sector of space and satellite engineering. Nanotechnology and Photonics - Covering the ...

DFG establishes 14 new research training groups

...lecules with Unique Properties" of the Free University Berlin, in cooperation with the Humboldt University Berlin, plans to research the synthesis and characterisation of fluorinated compounds and their use in catalysts, in materials research and in pharmaceuticals and biochemistry. With this Research Training Group,...

Encouraging high-risk research: DFG approves funding for 2 new Reinhart Koselleck projects

...oping sufficiently in order for them to be usable in electronic components. The problems that need to be solved in relation to the preparation and the characterisation of the structures are extremely complex, in particular the realisation of doping profiles with well-defined and homogeneous transitions at the nanosca...

Micro and Nano Scale Characterization of Fibers

...Professor George Stylios, Heriot Watt University, UK Nanofabrication of fi bres and fabrics for technical textiles: the challenges in measurement and characterisation Professor Graham Leggett, University of Sheffield, UK Frictional force microscopy and the nano-analysis of fibres Chris Byrne, Mediatex Ltd, ...

Epistem plc and AstraZeneca Complete Plucked Hair Biomarker Study for Oncology Drug Development

... Through its discovery platform, Novel Therapies has identified 250 potential drug candidates, of which a subset are undergoing further evaluation and characterisation as stem cell regulators for the Group's emerging drug development pipeline. Biomarkers The emerging biomarker technology leverages the Company's k...

FED-TVs with carbon nanotube technology could supersede plasma and LCD flat screens

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and application of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. In their work, the conductive and field emission properties ...

Carbon nanotubes to be replaced by MoSIx nanowires in high-tech devices says new study

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and applications of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. The research team of D. Dvorsek, D. Vengust, V. Nicolosi, W...

Growing tiny carbon nanotube wires to connect computer chips of the future

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and application of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. The complete article is available to view on AZoJono at htt...

Dude, big screen TVs, flexible electronics and surfboards made from same new material!

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and application of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. The article is available to view in full at http://www.azon...

Improved wettability of carbon nanotubes opens the door to new possibilities

...tures a number of papers from DESYGN-IT, the project seeking to secure Europe as the international scientific leader in the design, synthesis, growth, characterisation and application of nanotubes, nanowires and nanotube arrays for industrial technology. The researchers found that plasma polymerisation of a carbof...

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Rhizobia

...www.yourdictionary.com/ rhizobi a . Comments: ... Mychorrhiza. Fungi. Rhizobia . Ants. Collembola. Nematodes. Earthworms. Termites ... Rhizobia . characterisation of Phaseolus vulgaris, Glycine max, and Macroptilium ... rhizobia ... Rhizobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Rhizobia bacteria, nitr...

Germplasm

...in Geneva, ... Germplasm , the product of millions of years of evolution and scarcely 100 years ... During the course of germplasm collection, characterisation and evaluation, ... Germplasm maintenance and conservation are useful only when they are utilised ... Today we know that only the germplasm —...