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Dysentery uses 'sword and shield' to cause infection

Scientists have found that the bacterium that causes dysentery uses a 'sword and shield' approach to cause infection. They found th...

Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

A team of Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists led by immunologist Dietmar J. Kappes, Ph.D., has identified the genetic mutation that keeps a mouse strain from developing white blood cells, or lymphocytes, called helper T cells. The report by Kappes and his colleagues appears in the Feb. 24 issue of Nature. Kappes' laboratory first discovered the mice with this naturally occurring defect in...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

Massey Cancer Center researcher helps to identify a piece of the cancer puzzle

A structural biologist from the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, in collaboration with researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has identified the crystal structure of a protein that plays a role in supplying nutrients to solid tumors. This identification may help researchers gain a greater understanding of the cell signaling that occurs when cancer cell...

$6.5 Million Grant for Microarray Center at Yale School of Medicine

In 1909, while harvesting a typical corn crop (Zea mays) in Illinois, a field worker noticed a plant so unusual that it was initially believed to be a new species. Its "peculiarly shaped ear" was "laid aside as a curiosity" and the specimen was designated Zea ramosa (from the Latin ramosus, "having many branches"). Due to the alteration of a single gene, later named ramosa1, both the ear and the...

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Pathway Studio Enterprise from Ariadne Genomics

Description:Pathway Studio Enterprise is integrated informatics solution for the research of cellular regulatory mechanisms and drug response modeling. This web-based software comes with ResNet, the worlds largest knowledge base of biological networks, and can be equipped with MedScan module capable of extracting pathway-related information from scientific literature. Identify relationships amo...
Company:Ariadne Genomics

Acuity Enterprise Microarray Informatics Software from Molecular Devices

Description:Acuity is the complete enterprise microarray informatics platform for microarray data storage, data filtering and data analysis. Buy Acuity once and use it forever without paying ongoing license fees. Acuity has all the analysis tools you need to get the most from your data, from quality control statistics and normalization, all the way through to the m...
Company:Molecular Devices

Pulsed Blue LED Excitation Source, 470 nm center wavelength from Ocean Optics

Description:Blue LED produces output at 470 nm; includes interface cable to S2000; can be mounted with an S2000 or installed into rack or desktop boxes The LS-450 Blue LED Pulsed Light Source is an LED that produces either pulsed or continuous output at 470 nm -- the blue region -- for fluorescence measurements. The source is designed for use with Ocean Optics spectrometers configured for fluorescen...
Company:Ocean Optics

Rabbit Anti-Staphylococcus Enterotoxin A Polyclonal Antibody, Horseradish Peroxidase Conjugated from Abcam

Description:Rabbit polyclonal to Staphylococcus Enterotoxin A (HRP) ( for all tested applications)....
Company:Abcam

Enterokinase EKMax from Invitrogen

Description:EKMax™ is a recombinant preparation of the catalytic subunit of bovine enterokinase (1). EKMax™ Enterokinase is expressed and isolated from the yeast Pichia pastoris to yield a highly purified enzyme preparation (2). It recognizes the sequence Asp-Asp-Asp-Asp-Lys and cleaves the peptide bond after the lysine residue. The enzyme can be used to cleave any fusion protein that carries thi...
Company:Invitrogen

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Doyle proposes $2M for venture capital center

Doyle said the allocation would go to the public-private sector partnership that will connect entrepreneurs with sources of capital, and serve as an entry point o...

Data centers: Blowing smoke and raising red flags

Last year, I wrote about PEAK 10 after doing some online research, and I figured I would have a chance to...

Berbee Data Centers complete audit, certification

The SAS 70 Type IIauditand the SysTrust Certification are industry-standard accounting benchmarks, formulated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, against w...

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

In its very low-technology manner, the whiteboard indicates the success of the facility, which is a...

Space Place opens new astronomy center

"We had pretty much outgrown our other place where we'd been for 15 yea...

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RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

The anti-AIDS drug market is currently dominated by the Mumbai based Cipla. Presently, Ranbaxy laboratories, the country's largest pharmaceutical company, is planning to enter the anti-AIDS drugs segment. According to Ranbaxy's regional director for India and west Asia, S D Kaul, the company is in a position to launch Lamivudine, Nevirapine, Aabacavir and Indinavir products in the Indian...

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

Medicis is the leading independent pharmaceutical company in the United States focusing primarily on the treatment of dermatological conditions. Based in Wilmington, Mass., Ascent is a pharmaceutical company primarily dedicated to the specialty of pediatrics. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation and Ascent Pediatrics, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agre...

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

Zydus Cadila Healthcare Limited, the Ahmedabad based pharmaceutical company has launched a revolutionary drug, Bonmax (raloxifene hydrochloride) consolidating its presence in the female healthcare segment. Bonmax is used in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO). The drug comes as third generation drug which not only safe but can also be used for long term. //...

Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound

Stanford Hospital in US is one of the first to implement a 3D cardiac ultrasound machine to see the workings of the heart without having to operate.// The machine is a computer designed to show all angles of the patient’s heart. The technology uses an “intelligent” echocardiography system. The artificial intelligence of the system can be used to quantify cardiac functions that can lead to...

Risk of allergy more to children staying in day care centers

A US based study had found that children are more exposed to indoor allergens// at their day care centers than anywhere else. Allergens that are commonly found indoor include bacteria, molds, mildew, viruses, animal dander and saliva, dust and dust mites, cockroaches and pollens. These may cause allergic reactions like allergic rhinitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma and various...

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Centerfield

Description:Centerfield automatically performs static and kinetic perimetry in a 36 visual field. Expands to 70 with a fixation shift. Offers white /white and blue /yellow color perimetry. Screening. Supra, fast, and normal threshold measurements. Popular 30-2, 24-2, and 10-2 grids. a compact 70 static/kinetic/color perimeter. Designed to the Goldmann standard, it is German engineering at its best. With a 30...
Company:Oculus, Inc.

Optizone Enterprise

Description:Optical retail software for opticians in a store environment. Optizone was specifically developed for the optical retail store industry by opticians. Optizone Enterprise is the new upgrade replacement for Optizone 2000. It is written on a user friendly windows platform. User friendly screen interfaces make learning Optizone quick and easy....
Company:EZ-Zone Software Ltd.

Distribution Center

Description:The inventory system designed for Wholesale Distributors and centralized distribution centers for Optical chains....
Company:C.C. Systems \ Computerized Optical Systems

Lens Center Rotary

Description:Our unique Lollipop lens handle lets them hold the lens closer without touching the lens itself. Lenses and tints are shown on alternating panels of black and white with literature holders on each panel. Available in various base/top color: black, red, or white marble, gray granite, light or medium oak....
Company:Ennco Display Systems, Inc.

EU-M60 Endoscopic Ultrasound Center

Description:At the heart of the innovative EUS EXERA system from Olympus is the EU-M60, delivering excellent imaging performance to meet all of your observation and diagnosis needs. Together with the new GF-UM160 ultrasonic gastrovideoscope, the EU-M60 allows for increased depth of penetration to view organs deeper in the body and greater resolution allowing you to focus on superficial areas in more detail....
Company:Olympus America Medical

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Genetic Analysis Systems Enter the Clinical Mainstream

Like many other diagnostic regimes that were previously restricted to large specialty laboratories, genetic analysis is entering the clinical mainstream. Smaller, simpler analyzer systems are now suitable and affordable for hospital or large physicians group labs, while some genetic test kits are becoming available for primary point of care locations such as clinics and physician offices.<...

Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Focuses on the Challenges of Care and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

WASHINGTON, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual meeting ofthe Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), the largestmeeting devoted to the comprehensive care and science of multiplesclerosis (MS), is underway in the nation's capital today. Multiplesclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that affects400,000 people in the United States, challenges patients, carepartne...

Breaking Multi-Center Study: Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Shown to Significantly Lower Instances of Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Study released at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual MeetingThis Month in Toronto Shows That Switching to Masimo SET PulseOximetry Technology Can Reduce the Risk Associated with ROP by 40% IRVINE, Calif., May 30, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo, theinventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and LowPerfusion pulse oximetry, reported that a new independent studypresented at the...

Nuvelo Announces Publication of NU206 Study Results in Gastroenterology

SAN CARLOS, Calif, April 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Nuvelo, Inc. today announced the publication of data from a studyof NU206 (R-Spondin1), a secreted protein currently in preclinicaldevelopment, showing that it acts as a specific and potentstimulator of gastrointestinal (GI) epithelial cells. Thisepithelial lining is damaged in patients with inflammatory bowelconditions, includin...

GSK and Adolor Announce Preliminary Results from Phase 3 Safety Study of Alvimopan (Entereg/Entrareg)

LONDON & EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 9, 2007 -GlaxoSmithKline (LSE and NYSE:GSK) and Adolor Corporation(Nasdaq:ADLR) today announced data from Study 767905/014 andprovided an update on the clinical development program foralvimopan (Entereg/Entrareg(R)). Study 014, a Phase 3, double blind, placebo-controlled (12month) study, was designed to evaluate the long-term safety andtolera...

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