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Products containing specific probes for detecting alternative splice forms protected

ExonHit Therapeutics, today announced the grant of a major patent, US # 6,881,571, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on microarray products allowing the specific detection of mRNAs produced by alternative splicing, covering microarrays optimised for the discovery of alternative RNA splicing events. The patent protects the probe configuration of a unique set of five oligonucleotides...

IBM Transforms the Art of Scientific Expeditions

Scientists have shown they can dramatically enhance radiation's cancer-killing effects by blocking a "master switch" in cancer cells that promotes cancer growth. Blocking a protein called HIF-1 after radiation therapy doubled the length of time it took for human cancers to begin growing again in mice, said the radiation biologists from the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Each therapy alo...

MIT researcher presents new view of how the cortex forms

A leading neuroscientist at MIT and one from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) report in the Nov. 4 special issue of Science dedicated to the brain that the controversy is over: The "protomap" and "protocortex" theories of brain development are dead. The cerebral cortex is a sheet of around 10 billion neurons divided into distinctly separate areas that process particular...

Carnegie Mellon U. transforms DNA microarrays with standard Internet communications tool

A standard Internet protocol that checks errors made during email transmissions has now inspired a revolutionary method to transform DNA microarray analysis, a common technology used to understand gene activation. The new method, which blends experiment and computation, strengthens DNA microarray analysis, according to its Carnegie Mellon University inventor, who is publishing his findings in the...

New study explores beetle species with two forms of females

A fascinating new study from the forthcoming issue of The American Naturalist attempts to explain the mysterious persistence of two forms of females in many diving beetle populations. Their findings have important implications for theories of sexual conflict, which arises when the costs and benefits of multiple matings differ for males and females. "The male versus female arms race (invo...

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Mouse Anti-Human FGF R2 (alpha isoforms) Monoclonal Antibody, Unconjugated, Clone 98706 from R&D Systems

Description:Human FGF R2 (alpha isoforms) MAb (Clone 98706)...
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Cell Proliferation Kit Outperforms the Competition in the Range of Cells Typically Counted

Quantitating cell number is more accurate using the Quantos cellproliferation assay kit Genetic Applications LLC cell proliferation assay kitprovides a simple, reproducible method to assess the number of cells present invarious tissue culture dish formats. In this st...

Purification of Two Isoforms of Pyruvate Kinase from Nordic Krill Using an UNO Q1 Column, Rev A

Pyruvate kinase (PK, E.C. 2.7.1.40) is one of the key regulatory enzymes of the glycolytic pathway in crustaceans. This enzyme catalyzes the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to pyruvate and the phosphorylation of ADP to ATP. In addition to the role of PK in aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism in...

Early Stage: Step 11 - Other forms of finance

- You've started your new company, named it, and perhaps raised some equity funds, perhaps through investors. If you still need additional funding, what other choices do you have? Before discussing...

Sony promises video editing on more platforms

However, new video editing equipment hitting the market next month could make the experience a little easier to swallow. With new transitions and effects in the hands of the right user, a video of a bi...

Metavante forms cash-management division

, has announced the formation of a new cash-management division and the appointment of its first president, <a href="http://www.fiserv...

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Patna To Receive Better Health Care Facility Informs Health Minister

The Health minister Mr. Chandra Mohan Rai spoke to the press about improvising the health care facilities at Patna in the near future. He said that the city needs more hospitals with ICUs// and ambulance facilities 24-hour health care services, which are easily accessible by the public. He put forth the idea about giving certain sectors in the health care department to the private a...

Reforms Required With Regard To Mental Health Facilities

The mental health care available at Northern Ireland jails have come in for sharp criticism, as six prisoners are reported to have committed suicide inside the premises of the prisons since 2002//. The mental health problems of the prisoners have to be addressed to prevent such incidences from recurring, according to Professor Roy McClelland of the Queen's University. Previous recomm...

An urgent need for prison reforms: California!

California Department of Corrections, which seems to run in rough weather, reveals the resistance to a badly needed overhaul of the nation's largest prison system.// This was revealed by a leading expert on prisons and the psychology of incarceration. "The governor took on this incendiary issue when his political capital was high, and the departure of his hand-picked champion of reform...

NHS Dentistry Would Worsen After the New Reforms

NHS doctors say that after the new reforms very few patients were expected to come in. the main reason being that there is a radical overhaul of dental charges to take effect next week. // This has angered the dentists who are threatening to leave the NHS. A survey showed that out of 45 local dentists in England 23 responded saying that this would be the net result. The survey was carri...

Doctors At The TMCH Performs Their First Open-heart Surgery

The three-hour open-heart surgery was performed on a 17 yr old boy successfully at the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital// (TMCH). An eight-member team led by cardio thoracic surgeon N Vasudevan performed the surgery on the boy who was suffering from an arterial septal, congenital defect on the 4th of August. Dr S Balakrishnan the dean of TMCH said that the patient, S.Ve...

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Malleable Tip Filiforms

Description:Used for traversing and exploring urethral strictures. The malleable tip can be shaped to desired configuration. The proximal end is threaded to attach to standard followers. Supplied sterile in peel-open packages. Intended for one-time use....
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Senate Passes Drug-Safety Reforms to Prevent Future Vioxx-type Disasters; House Urged to Act on Strong Drug Safety Bill

First significant drug safety measure in 45 years; focus moves toHouse WASHINGTON, May 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Senatetoday overwhelmingly passed significant prescription drug safetyreforms to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to dealwith unsafe medicines on the market, moving the issue of drugsafety to the House, where a strong bill has been introduced buth...