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Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer

A small sequence of DNA in the envelope (Env) protein of a mouse breast tumor virus (called MMTV) can transform breast cells into cancer cells, according to a study by Katz et al. in the February 7 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The ability of this motif to transform cells single-handedly suggests that viral infection may be an important and previously unrecognized trigger for bre...

New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

Activists hope this weekend's African Union (AU) summit will net commitments to boost government spending on public health, helping to curb the spread of AIDS, which killed 2.3 million Africans in 2004. "We are definitely optimistic that this time there will be some movement, that this time there will be not just talk about an HIV strategy for the AU but how to tackle an action-oriented p...

FDA Approves Human Hookworm Vaccine for Phase I Safety Trials

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UAB scientists discover the origin of a mysterious physical force

Ever since the 1970s, scientists have been trying to establish the cause of a repulsive force occurring between different electrostatically charged molecules, such as DNA and other biomolecules, when they are very close to each other in aqueous media. This force became know as hydration force. Jordi Faraudo, a researcher for the Department of Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelo...

Columbia research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer

Researchers at Columbia University MedicalCenter have discovered a way to overcome one of the major hurdles ingene therapy for cancer: its tendency to kill normal cells in theprocess of eradicating cancer cells.In a new study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers demonstrated thatthe technique works by incorporating it i...

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S. cerevisiae Direct Transformation Kit from Wako Chemicals USA, Inc.

Description:This kit is designed for easy transformation of the budding yeast, Saccharoyces sp.. The protocol allows for successful transformation simply by mixing a plasmid DNA and the kit reagents with cultured yeast cells. No complicated steps, such as centrifugation or cell washing, are required. The kit is particularly well suited for high-throughput transformation of a large number of yeast strains gro...
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New Microarray Labeling Kit for Preparing cDNA Probes

A more reliable and reproducible way to create fluorescently orradioactively labeled cDNA David T. Wong Heidi Davis Darryl Garrison TerryPayette Matt Lundy Kim Kuplent Mary A. Buchanan Joseph A. Sorge Rebecca L. Mullinax Stratagene Phenogenex Nucleic acid micro...

A New C-Terminal GST Vector for Protein Production in S. pombe

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A Positive Selection Assay for Mutation Analysis in Big Blue Animals

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New Kit Generates Exceptionally Pure Total RNA for RT-PCR

RT-PCR miniprep kit Stratagene Stratagene has determined that standard RNA purification kits are not satisfactory for reverse transcribed PCR (RT-PCR) applications. We...

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New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

Well, we thought that we had antibodies for just about everything well, we have an anti-IgE antibody now for bronchial asthma. This is particularly useful in bronchial asthma where an attack can be brought by a number of noxious and non-noxious stimuli. This has also been proven to induce symptomatic relief.How does that apply to the Indian context? Well, first we can try by ridding ourse...

Immunosupressants for Eczema

Here's to all of you who thought that one only uses corticosteroids for skin disease. Yet, the host of drugs that have come out in the recent years which are dermatocentric are astounding and here is another. Using Tacrolimus, the agent which was devised for liver transplantation, there has been found to vast symptomatic relief of patients. Eczema is a devastating disease because of its c...

Another ray of hope for Arthritis Sufferers

Arthritis causes inflammation of a joint or joints and the surrounding tissues and affects millions of people all over the world. Anti-arthritic drugs can cause side effects and surgery can be expensive, however there is hope from a natural product liquid glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates. Some excellent results with an approach based on a combination of the two supplements have been r...

Bad News for Short People

A report from June issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology reports that People of shorter stature face higher mortality rates than taller people from most causes except cancer. In a study of more than 30,000 men and women undertaken by Dr.Pekka Jousilahti and his colleagues from the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland, it was found that there was an association bet...

Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

A minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic epidural anesthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that patients who are operated in this way may not have to go t...

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Rapid Whole Blood Testing for Infectious Mononucleosis Antibodies

The Epstein Barr virus (EBV), which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM), is one of the most common human viruses. EBV occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95 percent of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. In most developed countries, including the U.S., infection with EBV most often occu...

Bench-Top Centrifuges--Basic Tools for the Small Lab

No matter how elementary or advanced, every clinical laboratory possesses one essential devicea centrifuge. It may be a bench-top or floor model, refrigerated or non-cooled, but this apparatus, because of its unique ability to fractionate liquid specimens by creating spin-induced high g-forces, has long been a standard tool for both diagnosis and research applications. For all this utility, t...

Monitoring Options Expand for Therapeutic Agents and Drugs of Abuse

In keeping with the recent proliferation of rapid, easy-to-use diagnostic tests, many assays and collection products have entered the marketplace to help clinicians assess dosage appropriateness of therapeutic drugs and to screen for the presence of drugs of abuse. Some of these products require laboratory support while many simple test kits are suitable for point of care use by medical profe...

Testing for Human Papillomavirus

Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are small, closed circle, double-stranded DNA viruses, which are classified by nucleic acid sequence homology rather than serologic reactivity. Genital HPVs are the most prevalent sexually transmitted pathogens. Of the approximately 50 anogenital HPVs, there are a limited number of high and intermediate risk types dete...

Breast Cancer and HER-2/neu: Diagnostic Tools for Targeted Therapy

Contributing Editor With over 200,000 new cases and 40,000 deaths per year, breast cancer undoubtedly qualifies as one of Americas most serious health problems. Recently, efforts to develop early detection methods and more effective therapy have made important progress. This is particularly...

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