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Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research

Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have constructed a computer simulation that allows them to study the relationship between biochemical fluctuations within a single cell and the cell's behavior as it interacts with other cells and its environment. The simulation, called AgentCell, has possible applications in cancer research, drug development and comb...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

As of 2006 more than 130 environmental journals from the scientific publisher Springer will be part of the initiative Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), a digital library for developing countries. Public and non-profit institutions in underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe will have free access to the peer-reviewed scientific lite...

Cholesterol gets 'thumbs up' for role in digit development

When a new mother counts her newborn's fingers and toes, she probably doesn't realize that cholesterol may be to thank for baby's complete set of 20 digits. Although cholesterol has a bad rap as the sticky, fatty substance responsible for clogging arteries, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers recently found that the attachment of cholesterol to an important developmental prot...

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DMWB3-223ASC Digital Compound DIN from Motic Instruments, Inc.

Description:Motic's B3 series of microscopes offer all of the features of a proficient microscope required for laboratory work. Equipped with Koehler illumination, a centerable condenser and Achromatic Super Contrast (ASC) objectives. The B3 is the workhorse of Motic's range of microscopes. The Siedentopf binocular tube eliminates the need for re-focusing following a change in the inter-pupillary distance, e...
Company:Motic Instruments, Inc.

DMWB1-223ASC Digital Compoud DIN from Motic Instruments, Inc.

Description:The B1 series embodies all aspects of classical microscopy in a solid but compact microscope. With powerful Achromatic Super Contrast (ASC) objectives coupled with a multi-output Sony integrated imaging chip, this microscope combines flexibility and professional microscopy into one unit. Based on Motic's popular B1 series, the DM-B1 steps into the 21st century featuring an internal analog/digital...
Company:Motic Instruments, Inc.

Digital Clamp One from myNeuroLab.com

Description:The Digital Clamp One can operate as a Voltage Clamp, as a Current Clamp or as a Conductance (Dynamic) Clamp in electrophysiology research applications. Performance in any one mode is as good as conventional analog equipment. This amazing instrument is made possible by very recent advances in the capabilities of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) integrated circuit chips. Until very recently, DSP...
Company:myNeuroLab.com

X-Valve Digital Solenoid Valve from Parker Hannifin Corporation

Description:X-Valve is a two-position, three-way universal digital valve, just 8 mm in width. The X-Valves unitized body incorporates its functional features in a single glass-reinforced, PBT (Polybutylene Terephthalate) molded body. Satisfies a 0.016 sccm leakage specific...
Company:Parker Hannifin Corporation

KODAK Image Station 4000MM Digital Imaging System from Molecular Imaging Systems, Carestream Health, Inc. (formerly Kodak Molecular Imaging Systems)

Description:Eastman Kodak Companys Molecular Imaging Systems group announces the availability of KODAK Image Station 4000 Digital Imaging Systems, featuring high resolution cooled CCD camera technology for comprehensive fluorescence, luminescence, radiographic and chromogenic imaging capability. The systems 4 million pixel CCD and 10x optical zoom lens provides spatial resolution of up to 10 microns/pixel. T...
Company:Molecular Imaging Systems, Carestream Health, Inc. (formerly Kodak Molecular Imaging Systems)

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Digital River Provides E-Commerce Operations for Metrowerks

MINNEAPOLIS-Digital River, Inc. a e-commerce outsource provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Metrowerks, aprovider of software development tools and services. Based on the agreement, Digital River built Metrowerks' e-commerce site, located at store.metrowerks.com, to support the online sales and marketing of Metrowerks' line of CodeWarrior(TM) software and hardware produc...

Childrens Medical Hospital of Wisconsin Goes Digital

MILWAUKEE, WI Its Saturday night. Your 4 year old has stomach pains, and you drive to the emergency room. You check in and provide all sorts of personal medical information including her medical history and your billing and insurance information. Meanwhile your child is in pain, and you try to remember if you told the person at the front desk everything. Then you wait; maybe an hour or two as th...

Douglas Stewart reaches distribution pact with digital video firm

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Bridging the digital divide is the wrong battle cry

Beating the drum for a socialistic platitude on the use of the country's network infrastructure may be considered noble in some circles, but it does not capture the true essence of the total importance of having an infrastructure that can support and sustain economic development. Forget the Digital Divide and view our lack of infrastructure providing true broadband...

Digital Healthcare Conference 2007: Mounting obstacles for health IT

The progress that has been made, and the issues still to address, will be the focus of the annual set for May 9 and 10 at t...

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Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

Oracle Corp. and Health South Corp. together will build the worlds first "all digital hospital", according to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospital will feature inpatient beds with display screens connected to the Internet, electronic medical records storage, digital imaging and a wireless communications network permitting doctors and o...

Digital mammography proves effective

A new trial will compare digital mammography with the standard technique to confirm if it can detect breast cancer earlier and with more accuracy. Standard film mammography has been around for nearly 40 years now, and radiographers are familiar with the scope and limitations of the technology.// Digital mammography might be able to detect cancers in women with dense breast tissue, beca...

Digital Mammogram For Detection Of Breast Cancer In Women With Dense Breasts

Mammography is used for early detection of breast cancer and the health officials recommend women to undergo mammogram tests every year and self examination of the breasts for lumps every month for early diagnosis // of breast cancer. Early detection of cancer is necessary to start an early treatment which will give better treatment. Recent research study reported in the New England Jo...

Research into Blindness Cure Goes Digital

Researchers from Glasgow University have used technology developed for digital cameras to develop electronic implants to cure two common forms of blindness//, age related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. According to Dr Keith Mathieson, from the Glasgow University's physics department, the objective of implanting such an electronic device is to act as a mechanical retina t...

Digitalis Could Be Safe In Diastolic Heart Failure

Digitalis is a drug that is widely used in heart failure. Some experts believe that prescribing it in diastolic heart failure is contraindicated. //However a new analysis shows that the drug could be safe even in this form of heart failure. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, digitalis did not have an overall detrimental effect. The study advances our understanding of both digitalis, th...

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KOWA nonmyd 7 / VK-2 Digital Imaging System

Description:The Kowa RC-XV3 camera is practical, compact and imaging ready. The automatic exposure system, the 22 steps manual flash sensitivity, the 2.5~300ws watt indication and the electronic (digital) images handling are the basic features to make a wider use of the New Kowa Fundus Camera....
Company:Kowa Optimed, Inc

Projection Digital Lensmeter LM-770

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Company:NIDEK, Inc.

Senographe 2000D Full Field Digital Mammography

Description:This digital technology offers the capability to acquire images in near-real time and to process them (variation of Brightness and Contrast levels, Auto-windowing, Image Manipulation, ....). Senographe 2000D leverages the tube's Rhodium spectrum which is best adapted to Digital Imaging and is equipped with the Revolution flat panel digital detector, which is the result of 11 years of GE'...
Company:GE Healthcare

SenoScan TrueView Digital Mammography

Description:SenoScan TrueView Digital Mammography has been FDA approved, and represents a breakthrough in early breast cancer detection. It is the first and only mammography system to offer 25-micron native diagnostic resolution - the highest available. SenoScan's larger field of view accommodates more patients. Its curved breast support is more comfortable and helps reduce motion during exposure. And its pa...
Company:Fischer Imaging

Flexible Digital Implant

Description:The Flexible Digital Implant offers surgeons an alternative to traditional arthroplasty or arthrodesis for the correction of a hammertoe deformity. The prosthesis is constructed of UltraSIL' medical grade silicone and is designed for the proximal interphalangeal joints of digits two through five. The Futura FDI features an anatomic hinge design similar to that used in digital hand implants and fe...
Company:Futura Biomedical

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Digital vs. Analog Mammography

Just as consumers today have to decide between analog and digital television sets, so, too, do physicians and radiology centers have to choose between analog and digital mammography units, with the latter rapidly gaining ground in imaging centers around the country. As of late 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared four digital mammography units for clinical use...

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