Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections
Food of animal origin, contaminated with E.coli, can lead to urinary tract infections in women, according to a team of bacteriologists. Senior author, Dr. Lee W. Riley, Uni...New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection
Effective control of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an article in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Men with...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
The world's three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases [100,000,000,000 bases; the 'letters' of the genetic code] of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types of biological information, the three members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration [INSDC,...Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection
In the storerooms of a Venice, Italy, museum, a University of California, Berkeley, scholar and Italian experts are at work on a rare collection, but the objects aren't Renaissance paintings or the art of ancient glassblowers. Instead, the team is collecting samples from the largest and best preserved collection of fungi in Italy to create an unprecedented DNA database. These 28,000 sample...Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?
CABI houses one of the world’s largest genetic resource collections of fungi, numbered at over 28,000 strains, including Fleming’s original penicillin produ...Yeast-GFP Collection from Invitrogen
Description:Each Yeast-GFP clone represents an individual S. cerevisiae strain containing an open reading frame with a C-terminal Aequorea Victoria GFP (S65T) fusion tag....CnC (Cn402-05) from European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC)
Description:Canine Chondrocytes (CnC) (500,000 cells)...CAOSMC (C354-05) from European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC)
Description:Chicken Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells (CAOSMC) (>500,000 cells)...CnAOSMC (Cn354-05) from European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC)
Description:Canine Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells (CnAOSMC) (>500,000 cells)...India Has The Oldest And Largest Collection Of Preserved Mosquitoes – Mosquito Museu
'Mosquito museum' is one of the oldest and largest museum in India situated in National Institute of Communicable diseases.// The museum has a huge collection of 100,000 mosquitoes, plague-hit rats, guinea worms and wild birds infected with Japanese Encephalitis. The museum is the oldest and largest such collection in South and Southeast Asia, formally set up in 1938 and still used in fig...China Bans Illegal Stem Cell Collection, Transplantation
Close on the heels of banning illegal organ transplants, China has forbidden unauthorised stem cell collection and transplantation//, a panacea for a range of blood disorders. Two sets of the regulations issued by the Chinese Ministry of Health said that the sources of peripheral blood stem cells or stem cells, must be legal, registered sources that can be traced. The regulat...American Red Cross Fined by FDA over Blood Collection Practices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has charged the American Red Cross yet again with a whopping fine because they did not adhere to the stipulation of safe blood collection techniques.// The Red Cross (ARC), which is responsible for nearly 45 percent of the nation's requirement of blood, has been under the vigilance of the government since 1993, to adopt adequate measures to make the b...BD Visitec Fluid Collection Products
Description:...Merocel Eye Wicks (8") with 80cc Collection Bag
Description:Merocel Ophthalmic Products provide the surgeon with superior fiber free products for unparalleled fluid control and safe cleaning of fine microsurgical instruments. The exclusive Merocel material is highly absorbent, fast wicking, lint free, polyvinyl acetal....Merocel Eye Wicks (8") with 400cc Collection Bag
Description:Merocel Ophthalmic Products provide the surgeon with superior fiber free products for unparalleled fluid control and safe cleaning of fine microsurgical instruments. The exclusive Merocel material is highly absorbent, fast wicking, lint free, polyvinyl acetal....OraSure HIV-1 Oral Specimen Collection Device
Description:Testing with an OraSure HIV-1 Oral Specimen Collection Device is a safe, easy, and reliable way to test for HIV-1 antibodies. Testing with the OraSure HIV-1 Oral Specimen Collection Device requires no blood or needles and has been shown to be more than 99% accurate. OraSure HIV-1 uses a specially treated cotton fiber pad attached to a nylon stick which is placed between the lower cheek and gu...Seditainer Blood Collection Tube For Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Determination
Description:The SEDITAINER Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) System is for collection of blood specimens for the measurement of ESR within the blood collection tube, using the SEDITAINER ESR Stand....