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Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced that countries are on target to halve deaths from measles, a leading vaccine-preventable killer, by the end of this year. Global measles deaths have plummeted by 39%, from 873 000 in 1999 to an estimated 530 000 in 2003. The largest reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest...

HIV mortality in India drops with introduction of generic antiretroviral therapy

The survival rate of HIV-infected patients in India has risen in response to a 20-fold drop in the price of antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to an article in the Nov. 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. The introduction of generic drugs into the country has encouraged people to seek HIV treatment because of the cheaper cost, the article states. Many of th...

Ring-like formations in drying DNA drops could affect hybridization studies

Coffee drinkers are familiar with the ring-shaped stains that result from spilled drops that have dried, in which the brown stain is not evenly distributed, but instead concentrated at the edge. Now, a team led by Gerard Wong, a professor of materials science and engineering, physics, and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found the same "coffee-ring" formation i...

Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold

March of the Penguins, the OscarĀ® winning documentary, showed how the emperor penguins endure their incubation and fast for four dark and bitterly cold months each year. The tight huddling among these South Pole penguins is a key energy-saving mechanism that allows them to endure their extremely harsh conditions. A team of scientists that had already shown that emperor penguins who are fr...

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Multidrop DW (Deep Well) (220-240 V) from Thermo Scientific

Description:Multidrop DW is a high-speed automated dispenser for Deep Well plates, 1.1 ml test tubes and 96-well plates. Designed for accuracy and precision, the Multidrop DW dispenses up to eight different reagents. It covers a volume range of 20-995 l....
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Multidrop Combi (100-2400 V) from Thermo Scientific

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Multidrop 384 (220-240 V) from Thermo Scientific

Description:Multidrop 384 offers lower consumption of reagents and increased throughput, particularly for screening applications. The Multidrop 384 is an automated dispenser designed for high-throughput screening and microvolume dispensing into 384- and 96-well plates.This new-generation dispenser offers outstanding flexibility. It can easily switch from 96- to 384- well plates and dispense up to 8 different...
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Multidrop Micro (220-240 V) from Thermo Scientific

Description:Multidrop Micro high speed 1 l bulk reagent dispenser rapidly, precisely and accurately dispenses microvolumes of 1-50 l into 384- and 96-well microplates....
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Multidrop Combi from Thermo Scientific

Description:Multidrop Combi is a new generation dispenser combining the most versatile features for bulk reagent dispensing with the proven performance of the existing Multidrop dispensers. It is designed to cover large volume area starting from 500 nl up to 2500 l with excellent precision throughout the range. It is optimized for multiple plate formats (96, 384, 1536) including lower pla...
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Separation of Peptides by Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography Using TSKgel Amide-80

Authors: T.J. Higley, Tosoh Bioscience LLC, Tatsunari Yoshida, Tosoh Corporation The TSKgel Amide-80 column provides excellent selectivity for separating peptides in hydrophilic interaction chromatography due to polar carbamoyl functionalities bonded to a silica base material....

IT worker shortage linked to tech enrollment drop

Pending baby-boomer retirements and a decline in IT enrollment could leave employers struggling to meet recruitment goals as university and technical college systems graduate fewer qualifi...

TDS restates years of revenues, shows slight profit drop

Phone and data company TDS, also the corporate parent of U.S. Cellular, said its revenues for the last quarter were $1 billion, an increase over results from last year that it had to restate due to accounting problems. Net income for the quarter was $41.5 million, down from $43.3 million in the same quarter a year ago. TDS said in November 2005 it would have to restate some resu...

Third Wave agrees to drop Chiron, Bayer patent lawsuits

Third Wave said that no licenses or payments were made and did not disclose other terms of the agreement. This leaves Third Wave with only one remaining open patent...

Wisconsin VC rank drops, but absolute numbers are on the rise

Wisconsin dropped to 35th place nationally in venture capital investment for 2005 from 26th in 2004, according to the yearly MoneyTree survey. Nationally, venture capital recorded by the survey remained steady at $21.7 billion, just a hair over 2004's total. According to MoneyTree, 10 Wisconsin companies received nearly $68 million in venture investments in 2005, while nine companies bro...

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Measles Resurges Due To Drop In Immunization With MMR

The fall in number of children getting the MMR (combined Measles, Mumps &Rubella) vaccine by their parents has been blamed for the resurgence of measles that has claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy. // In the first three months of 2006 alone it is found that there are more people infected than the whole of 2005. At least 30 children have caught measles in a single outbreak in South Y...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

A drug commonly used by anesthesiologists can cause fatal irregular heartbeats at lower doses than expected, prompting the government to urge doctors to try different medications. At issue is droperidol, a tranquilizer often used to treat the nausea many people feel after undergoing anesthesia. Droperidol has long carried a warning that it could cause sudden cardiac death at high dose...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

Lazy eye is a condition in which the brain favors one eye over the other. It is the most common cause of visual impairment in children, with symptoms including crossed eyes, farsightedness and nearsightedness.// Lazy eye affects as many as 3% of U.S. children and usually develops in infancy or early childhood. Eye drops are just as effective as eye patches for treating "lazy eye" and are...

Glaucoma may be delayed by eye drops

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness. The cause of eye damage in some otherwise healthy eyes is a raised pressure within the eye, (the intraocular pressure), that can damage the nerve over a period of time and this damage results in poor blood supply or weak end eye structure.// Its caused when raised pressure inside the eyeball damages the optic nerve leading to the brain....

Drop in global deaths from measles

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a global fall in the worldwide death toll from measles. Measeles is a contagious disease and is the fifth leading cause of death for children under the age of five.This has largely been possible due to improved vaccination programs in Latin America and southern Africa. Measles has been virtually wiped out in the industrializ...

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Renu Multiplus Lubricating and Rewetting Drops

Description:For use to rewet and lubricate lenses during wear. Soothes and moisturizes eyes while wearing soft contact lenses....
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Renu Preservative Free Lubricating and Rewetting Drops

Description:Renu Multiplus preservative free lubricating and rewetting drops soothe and moisturize your eyes while you're wearing soft contact lenses. The gentle preservative free formula is ideal for eyes that may be sensitive to preservatives and for frequent users of drops. Use with daily, overnight, and disposable lenses....
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Renu Rewetting Drops

Description:Renu rewetting drops soothe your eyes and moisturize soft contact lenses to minimize dryness....
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Sensitive Eyes Drops

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