New light shed on the enigma of salt intake and hypertension

A high salt intake has been implicated in cardiovascular disease risk for 5000 years. But salt-sensitive hypertension still remains an enigma. Now, investigators from Germany at the University of Erlangen, the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Regensburg, collaboratin...

The Marketing Enigma

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- As the economy continues to present its myriad of challenges, SunStone Consulting has observed that hospitals are embracing numerous cost cutting measures including cutbacks in capital projects, employee layoffs, and other broad based actions. Departments w...

Mirrors An Enigma for Humans

A rather very interesting and thought provoking research was conducted by the psychologists at the University of Liverpool. The research was mainly based on the people’s difficulty in understanding how the mirror reflects images//. The research was headed by Dr Marco Bertamini working at the Un...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Signing of Patent Licenses With Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

... PORTON DOWN, England, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralized and point-o... The licenses signed on 15 July 2009, provide enigma full access under patents owned or licensed by RMS...ime PCR chemistry and melt analysis and will allow enigma to commercialize HybProbe PCR tests for human and ...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Patent On Real-Time Monitoring of Amplification Reactions Upheld In Entirety Following Opposition From BD at European Patent Office

... PORTON DOWN, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-o...o of intellectual property exclusively licensed to enigma Diagnostics by the Secretary of State for Defence....pid detection of viral and bacterial pathogens. enigma Diagnostics has developed products that completely...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces a Signed Term Sheet for Patent Licenses with Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

...England and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralized and point-o...ms, Inc. (RMS). The licenses will provide enigma full access under patents owned or licensed by RMS...ce HybProbe real-time PCR chemistry and will allow enigma to commercialize HybProbe diagnostic PCR tests for...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

... From the enigma of Easter Island to the famines that struck India in the 19th century, the past is throwing up vital pointers for scientists poring over how to combat...

Genetic Mutations - Key to Autism ?

... which is a milder version of autism. His sister on the other hand was autistic with the instance of SHANK 3 deletion. Autism still remains an enigma affecting little children before they turn 30 months old. Some of these children called Autistic Savants, exhibit exceptional artistic, mathematical o...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

... her infinite variety', wrote the famous Dramatist and Poet, William Shakespeare in his magnum opus 'Antony and Cleopatra' // A woman is quite an enigma and undoubtedly, there is more to her than what meets the eye. Popularly called the 'weaker sex' or the 'fair sex', they often find themselves at the ...

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White Nose Syndrome: Is Pennsylvania Next?

...idly, and why haven't American cave bats been through this before? Or have they? So much remains unclear, including how to rank the threat this deadly enigma poses to bats in the Northeast, or the tens of thousands of federally-endangered Virginia big-eared bats and gray bats in the huge limestone caves sou...

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Mystery E. coli genes essential for survival of many species

... Scientists have shown that E. coli one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer. The team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) an...

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading

... Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the firs...

Barrow scientists solve 200-year-old scientific debate involving visual illusions

...Jorge Otero-Millan; conducted a study based on the enigma painting, a visual illusion in which rotational mo...ormal vision. The team of scientists conducted the enigma study to see if microsaccades are also behind the ...d out. Participants in the study observed the enigma illusion while their eye movements were simultaneo...

Biologists discover gene behind 'plant sex mystery'

... An enigma unique to flowering plants has been solved by researchers from the University of Leicester (UK) and POSTECH, South Korea. The discovery is report...

July 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA Today media highlights

...ess. Why are 100 to 200 million-year-old marine sedimentary rocks now located up to 1.2 km above sea level? Medvedev et al. address this long-standing enigma by analyzing field data and using numerical models. This uplifted area is cut by some of the world's biggest fjords. Scoresbysund fjord alone is up to...

Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment

...known, but Hatfull and Jacobs' research reveals a possible biofilm origin, Jacobs said. "The nature of persisting M. tuberculosis cells has been an enigma for the entire field," Jacobs said. "Clearly M. tuberculosis cells in biofilms represent at least one class of persistent cells, and we are testing th...

Chloroform provides clue to 150 year old medical puzzle

...lly work. A discovery described as true serendipity made by Leeds University PhD student Dr Yahya Bahnasi, has provided a clue that may unravel the enigma of general anaesthesia and offer the opportunity to design new generations of anaesthetics without harmful side effects. We take general anaesthes...

Herpes virus link to complications in pregnancy

...oss of baby and mother. It is a common cause of maternal death in Third World countries. The cause of high blood pressure in pregnancy has been an enigma for decades and a holy grail for many researchers. The Adelaide research group has already demonstrated a link between viral infection in pregnancy...

Type 1 diabetes triggered by 'lazy' regulatory T-cells: McGill researchers

...s, heart attack and stroke. The genetic and cellular mechanisms by which the immune system goes out of control and destroys the islets has been an enigma and an area of great interest over the last few decades, said Dr. Piccirillo, Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Lymphocytes of the Immune System, an...

Researchers give name to ancient mystery creature

...he researchers, who could not positively identify it, and exactly where it fits into the evolutionary ladder is still unknown. Horolodectes remains an enigma to this day. "It's just too bizarre to place in any group that we've known about previously," said Scott. "It's an open question until we can find...

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Enigma Diagnostics Announces Successful Evaluation of the Enigma FL by the UK's Veterinary Laboratories Agency

PORTON DOWN, England, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today successful independent testing for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency to evaluate the performance of the Enig...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces the Opening of a United States Office

...England and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics, the decentralized and point-of-care m...instrument systems. Enigma's first product, the enigma Field Laboratory (FL), was launched in November, a... Chris Melancon will lead the new office and joins enigma with more than 16 years experience in life science...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Patent Licence With Applied Biosystems

... PORTON DOWN, England, Oct 22 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-o...nt with Applied Biosystems. The licence provides enigma with access to claims of US Patent No. 5,928,907 t...s were not disclosed. Contacts UK Contact: enigma Diagnostics Deborah Cordingley deborah.cordingl...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces an Award of GBP 1.8 Million From UK Government

...PORTON DOWN, England, September 18 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics, the decentralised and point-of-care m...RSA. The PRADA system development will be led by enigma Diagnostics and based upon its proprietary technol...ing healthcare costs. John McKinley, Chairman of enigma Diagnostics, said: "We are delighted to have recei...

Enigma Signs Real-Time PCR Licences With Applera

... PORTON DOWN, England, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics, the life sciences company developing ...on Kit License Agreement. These agreements provide enigma with access under patents owned or controlled by A... and applied markets. This agreement also provides enigma with an option for a license in clinical diagnosti...

Enigma Diagnostics to Develop Clinical Diagnostics Platform for UK National Chlamydia Screening Programme

... PORTON DOWN, England, November 9 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics, the life sciences company developing ...//www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071109/281128 ) enigma has developed a specific DNA test (assay), reagent...ve unreliable results. John McKinley, Chairman of enigma Diagnostics, said: "This successfully completed co...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces a European Commission Award of EUR3 Million to Fund the Development of a Point of Care Platform for the Rapid Diagnosis of Influenza Infections

... PORTON DOWN, England, October 3 /PRNewswire/ -- enigma Diagnostics, the life sciences company developing ...s. The RANGER consortium, which is coordinated by enigma Diagnostics, comprises leading technology companie...ctions and the surveillance of disease outbreaks. enigma is also separately developing real-time PCR-based ...

Eau Claire Manufacturer Drives Your PC

...-related companies, the 1990s were good to Hutchinson (see company timeline, http://www.htch.com/timeline.asp ). But the end of the decade brought an enigma -- huge leaps in areal density (number of bits of data that can be stored per inch per disk) made disk drives smaller and cheaper but reduced the numb...

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Cryptozoology

... Cryptozoology.com Open Directory Project's page for Cryptozoology Cryptozoology links The International Society of Cryptozoology enigma Cryptozoo, a website about cryptids Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Are Mermaids Real? (Mermaids on the Web) The Cryptozoologist ...