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Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny

As tattoos have grown in popularity, so have complaints of adverse side effects associated with both their application and removal. A new study, done by chemistry students at Northern Arizona University, looked at the chemical composition of a variety of tattoo inks to better understand their potential health risks. The findings, presented today at the 229th national meeting of the Americ...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

A genetic tool with the potential to identify which trauma and burn patients are most likely to become seriously ill has worked consistently in a wide range of experimental clinical settings ?an important hurdle to overcome before the method is routinely used in emergency rooms and intensive care units. In a report published today (March 7) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc...

Researchers Closer To Helping Hearing-Impaired Using Stem Cells

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are several steps closer to the day when a profoundly deaf patient’s own bone marrow cells could be used to let him or her hear the world. The IU group, led by Eri Hashino, Ph.D., was able to transform, in the laboratory, stem cells taken from adult bone marrow into cells with many of the characteristics of sensory nerve cells -- neurons...

Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

A pink, bacterial scum on the floor of an abandoned mine seems an unlikely place to study community development, but a biological breakthrough is allowing University of California, Berkeley, researchers to probe the give and take in this microbial mat. Last year, the UC Berkeley team joined with the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute to pluck out the genomes of the five dominan...

Scientists observe how a close bond activates the immune system

The immune system is highly complex. The cast of characters alone required to marshal an immune response to a foreign invader can number in the millions as the body's soldiers, T cells, are called into action. What triggers this complex response begins when T cells and dendritic cells, another type of immune cell, form a kind of molecular embrace, or immunological synapse, to relay information ab...

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Wiper Dispenser, Enclosed from Terra Universal, Inc.

Description:These handy dispensers save space and organize gloves, safety glasses, wipers, hats, and other garb. They are the perfect benchtop storage bins for small parts used in labs, processing and manufacturing. Clear static-dissipative PVC eliminates static charges and the particles they attract. Many other sizes and custom configurations available....
Company:Terra Universal, Inc.

Wiper Dispenser, Enclosed from Terra Universal, Inc.

Description:These handy dispensers save space and organize gloves, safety glasses, wipers, hats, and other garb. They are the perfect benchtop storage bins for small parts used in labs, processing and manufacturing. Clear acrylic. Many other sizes and custom configurations available....
Company:Terra Universal, Inc.

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National stem-cell panel, including UW profs, urges close watch on research

Research institutions should create oversight committees to guide human embryonic stem-cell studies according to common guidelines, a panel of experts, including two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, said on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. "In the absence of federal guidelines broadly governing the generation and research use of human embryonic stem cells, the scientific community...

DEMO 2003 Closes with Focus on Collaboration and Communication

Scottsdale, AZ - DEMO 2003 continued to buzz with innovation and excitement on its closing day, focusing on a myriad of new technologies that included timely next-generation systems designed to protect and defend the national IT infrastructure as well as collaboration tools and evolving email services. In addition to an array of new product demonstrations, technology leaders discussed the possibi...

Biotech executive books a career flight that's closer to home

The Madison native has joined...

Wisconsin spaceport committee moves closer to formation

Mark Hanna, a city alderman, and Judy Schieble, co-director of an educational rocket program, will join s...

Sonic closer to turning profit corner

Chairman and CEO Rimas Buinevicius and CFO Ken Minor released upbeat re...

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A closer look at Vitamins

New research shows vitamins may not play a role in preventing death from cardiovascular disease. Past research has led investigators to believe vitamin intake could prevent cardiovascular disease, but results of these trials have not been conclusive.// Researchers from University Hospital in Switzerland and University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida conducted a study to determine i...

Asthma risk increases for children living close to busy roads

It may not be good news for parents of children who live beside busy roads. Scientists of University //of Southern California have found a link between increased risks of asthma with children living off busy roads. The researchers have studied over 5000 children between 5 and 6 years who reside near the major roads in cities. Over 50% of the children who lived with 75 meters of a busy ro...

Childhood leukemia linked to residence close to high voltage power lines

In a research done by researchers of University of Oxford, UK, incidence// of childhood leukemia had been linked to proximity of residence to high voltage power lines. Researchers had looked into the cases of 29081 children with cancer, of which 9700 children had leukemia. These medical records were matched for age, sex and place of residence for controls. The results of the...

Brain Cell Repair Loss disclosed

According to researchers at the University of Stanford, have discovered the point of no return stage at which adult brain cells lose the ability to repair themselves. The investigators said their work should help find new opportunities to reverse this regeneration loss and speed nerve cell growth. Researcher Ben Barres, a Stanford neurobiologist, felt that they can study any disease t...

A Closer Look into Vitamin D and Fractures

Osteoporosis (reduced bone mineral density) is most common in older adults, particularly women. It is a major risk factor for bone fractures that will become a bigger and more costly problem unless something is done to prevent it. While vitamin D has been shown to reduce the risk of fracture in the elderly // certain questions regarding how much of Vitamin D is needed has to be answered....

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Ascent Primary Knee System - Ascent posterior stabilized/constrainable closed box femoral components.

Description:Cruciate retaining, posterior stabilized and constrained components....
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

eNclose Anastomosis Assist Device

Description:The eNclose Anastomosis Assist Device was designed specifically to obviate the need for partial clamping of the aorta. The enclose device can provide the surgeon with a stable, bloodless field and improved hemodynamics as compared to partial occlusion clamps....
Company:CardioVations

The Closer

Description:The Closer vascular closure device is a suture mediated closure system. It has a sheath-like profile and easy positioning. It has an innovative design which involves the needles outside the artery and the suture is inside the sheath....
Company:Perclose, An Abbott Laboratories Company

Perclose A-T (Auto Tie)

Description:Features added to the Perclose A-T include a new suture trimmer and numbered procedure deployment steps printed on the device. The new trimmer facilitates both knot advancement and suture trimming, eliminating a potentially time-consuming step in the vess...
Company:Perclose, An Abbott Laboratories Company

eNcloseII™ Anastomosis Assist Device

Description:The eNcloseII proximal anastomosis assist device was designed specifically to obviate the need for partial clamping of the aorta. The eNcloseII device can provide the surgeon with a stable, bloodless field and dramatically better hemodynamics as compared to partial occlusion clamps. An increasing number of studies have suggested that complete or partial clamping of the aorta during coronary arter...
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Phase IIIb Clinical Data Validate the Overall and Cardiovascular Safety Profile of Cycloset (A Quick Release Formulation of Bromocriptine Mesylate) in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Data Also Support Drug's Efficacy at Improving Glycemic Control andReducing Diabetic Cardiovascular Complications CHICAGO, Ill., June 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- VeroScience, LLC,in conjunction with its commercialization partner S2 Therapeutics,Inc., reported today the results of its Phase IIIb clinical trialsupporting the overall and cardiovascular safety of Cycloset(TM) (Aquick release for...

VeroScience Late-Breaking Abstract on Cycloset (A Quick Release Formulation of Bromocriptine Mesylate) Accepted for Poster Presentation at American Diabetes Association 67th Scientific Sessions

TIVERTON, R.I., June 18, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- VeroScience, LLC,a privately held biotechnology and healthcare product developmentcompany, announced today that its late-breaking abstract has beenaccepted as a poster presentation at the 67th Scientific Sessionsof the American Diabetes Association in Chicago, Ill. The abstract,entitled, "Effects of Timed Cycloset(TM) (A Quick ReleaseFormulat...

AEterna Zentaris' Partner, Spectrum, Discloses Detailed Phase 2 Data for Ozarelix, in BPH at Annual AUA Meeting

Ozarelix improved LUTS symptoms and urine flow over 28-week period QUEBEC CITY, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - AEternaZentaris Inc. , a global biopharmaceutical company focused onendocrine therapy and oncology, today announced that its partnerSpectrum Pharmaceuticals presented an abstract outlining detailedPhase 2 results for AEterna Zentaris' fourth-generation luteinizinghormone-r...

terna Zentaris Discloses First In Vitro Data for its PI3K Inhibitors at the AACR Annual Meeting in Los Angeles

Second generationpyridopyrazine-urea derivative compound series show highlyselective PI3K-inhibition which could be valuable for cancertreatment QUBEC CITY, Canada, April16, 2007 terna Zentaris Inc. (TSX: AEZ; Nasdaq:AEZS), a global, pure play biopharmaceutical company...

AEterna Zentaris Discloses In Vivo Data for its GHRH Antagonist JMR-132 at the AACR Annual Meeting in Los Angeles

JMR-132 could provide a new therapeutic approach for the treatmentof early and metastatic breast cancer QUEBEC CITY, April 17, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - AEternaZentaris Inc. , a global, pure play biopharmaceutical companyfocused on endocrine therapy and oncology, today presented anabstract outlining in vivo data for its growth hormone-releasinghormone (GHRH) antagonist JMR-132 in brea...

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