Advanced Bag Design for Cryopreservation: The New CryoMACS(R) Freezing Bag
BERGISCH GLADBACH, Germany, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Miltenyi Biotec is proud to announce the new CryoMACS(R) Freezing Bags designed for freezing (down to -196 degreesC), storage, and thawing (at 37 degreesC) of human blood components. The CryoMACS Freezing Bags have been developed to meet cust...Pacific Fertility Center Announces Breakthrough in Egg Freezing Technology
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A Pacific Fertility Center (PFC) patient, who underwent an embryo transfer with embryos created from vitrified and warmed donor oocytes (eggs), successfully delivered a baby in late October 2007. A healthy baby boy was born at term. Three other pregnancie...Quick freezing technique of the human egg
Prague - Fertility specialists in Japan have conceived a new way of freezing human eggs which will be a blessing to many women, for instance the cancer patients //, to be able to have children. Women’s eggs are very delicate and can get easily damaged when they are thawed, in contrast to sper...New Technique Destroys Kidney Tumors By Freezing Them
A new study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN has found that a non-invasive technique called percutaneous cryoablation //can be of significance in killing kidney tumors by freezing them. This method is especially useful in patients who are not considered good candidates for surge...Studies shed light on preserving fertility among cancer patients
...chniques available to safeguard fertility, such as freezing eggs for later embryo development, have poor odds ... Viable Embryo Cryopreservation, the process of freezing eggs for later fertilization, has played a major r...s. Unfortunately, however, eggs rarely survive the freezing and thawing processes required to develop a viable...Bay Area Women Sought for Egg Freezing Study
Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay research seeks couples with male factor infertility SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area, in cooperation with ViaCell, Inc., has been awarded a research gran...Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good
...ment to each patient's disease. Instead of removing the entire prostate, or freezing the entire prostate or using radiation on the entire prostate, intervention...tate cancer (when that cancer has not spread to other parts of the body) by freezing it and that there is a better way to 'map' the disease," said Onik. He stud...Freezing Kidney Cancer: Hot Treatment Should Be New Gold Standard for Destroying Small Tumors
... SAN DIEGO, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- freezing kidney tumors -- using a safe minimally invasive i...tumors and probes to penetrate the skin to deliver freezing cold directly to a diseased tumor, works. This int...e argon with helium. The procedure consists of two freezing and one thawing cycle, seeking a frozen margin bey...NCI Funded Clinical Trial to Study Treatment of Breast Cancer Using Cryoablation
...ure, which usually takes less than 20 minutes, involves placing a small needle into the center of the tumor using ultrasound guidance and subsequently freezing and killing the tumor. The safety and efficacy of cryoablation have been well established in over 2,000 fibroadenomas that have been treated with the ...Focal Cryoablation Highlighted in Urology Times Best of AUA Orlando 2008
... focal cryoablation was highlighted as having "low morbidity" in the July issue of Urology Times. Focal cryoablation is a minimally-invasive method of freezing and destroying only the cancerous portion of the prostate gland while leaving the healthy tissue and the nerves intact, resulting in low overall morbi...New Research Just Released: Women Can Now Safely Postpone Motherhood Until Time Is Right
...ow shows an advanced egg-freezing technique known as vitrification, a quick freezing method, is a safe means of preserving human eggs. In what researchers are c...the fearful suggestions to the contrary made over the last decade since egg freezing started to take off." Recognized in his field as one of the world's top 1...Cryostage Freezing Stage, 110V
Description: The Cryostage freezing stage is a refrigerated design for use as a specimen freezer and object holder, primarily for use with the 8000 sledge microtome, however, it can be used with other sledge microtomes. The refrigerated stage gives a large working area of 130 x 90mm and the surface is ridged...Cryostage Freezing Stage, 220V
Description: The Cryostage freezing stage is a refrigerated design for use as a specimen freezer and object holder, primarily for use with the 8000 sledge microtome, however, it can be used with other sledge microtomes. The refrigerated stage gives a large working area of 130 x 90mm and the surface is ridged...Vapro Vapor Pressure Osmometer
Description:...ral equilibrium. What you don't get are cryoscopic artifacts due to high viscosity, suspended particles, or other conditions that interfere with freezing point determinations. The superbly accurate (1 percent in the clinical range) Vapro osmometer has a much broader range of error-free applications....Plasma Blast Chest Freezer -50C
Description:...sma Blast Chest Freezer -50C - 8098/8091 maintains a -50C (-58F) temperature to rapidly freeze single donor, apheresed, and fresh frozen plasma. Rapid freezing also preserves Factor VIII. Full load of single donor units freezes in 75 minutes....Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)
.... [1] [2] Living tissues cooled below the freezing point of water are damaged by the dehydration of t... ice is formed between the cells. The mechanism of freezing damage in living biological tissues has been eluci...he surrounding cells and as heat is removed at the freezing point of the solutions, the ice crystals grow betw...Inactivity of proteins behind longer shelf life when freezing
Frozen biological material, for example food, can be kept for a long time without perishing. A study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is close to providing answers as to why. A cell's proteins are programmed to carry out various biological functions. The protein's level o...Freeze! Scientists film proteins at work by freezing them at different states
It is difficult to find similarities between Grenoble and Hollywood or between the researchers at the ESRF and the Institut de Biologie Structural (IBS) and world-known filmmakers. However, scientists from these institutes based in Grenoble (France) have managed to produce a movie. The actors are n...Researchers report technique for freezing and preserving genetically enhanced pig embryos
Researchers led by a University of Missouri-Columbia professor of reproductive biotechnology have reported success in freezing and preserving swine embryos that were created by in vitro techniques and that carried modified genetic material. After thawing and transfer to a surrogate mother, some of ...New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women
A new and highly successful method of freezing human eggs will help to even out the current inequality between men and women whereby, until now, men have been able to use their previously frozen sperm for IVF treatment but women have not been able to do the same with their eggs. The research, pre...Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source
...cted from a microcrystal or even a single protein or virus in solution. The pulse is so brief that it comes and goes before any of the atoms can move, freezing their orientation like a strobe light. Just as important, a sufficiently brief pulse may terminate before radiation damage effects can start. In this ...Spring cold snap helps with stream ecosystem research
... relatively high." For this particular study, an Arctic air mass sent temperatures to below 28 degrees Fahrenheit for several nights in succession, freezing many of the newly emerged leaves and leaving the stream exposed to higher than normal levels of sunlight over the next several months. This early ...Breakthrough Technology Takes Egg Freezing from Myth to Dependable Reality
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The day of true reproductive freedom for women has arrived. A new scientific study confirms the efficacy of a revolutionary egg selection and freezing process that, at long last, offers women a viable and reliable fertility preservation option. Developed and...Advanced Instruments Introduces World's Fastest High Throughput Freezing Point Osmometer
NORWOOD, Mass., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Instruments, Inc. (http://www.aicompanies.com ) today introduced the world's fastest freezing point osmometer to the biotechnology industry. The revolutionary high throughput Multi-Sample 20G Osmometer measures 96 samples in about 35 minutes. D...EMD Serono Launches Landmark Patient Registry for Egg Freezing
The HOPE Registry is an observational study undertaken to evaluate the safety and efficacy of oocyte cryopreservation (egg freezing) techniques ROCKLAND, Mass., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/-- EMD Serono, Inc., an affiliate of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, announced the launch of the Human Oocyte...Endocare and Galil Medical Announce Settlement of Litigation
...al device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative products utilizing a proprietary cryoablation platform that incorporates powerful freezing technology and revolutionary 17-gauge cryoablation needle design. The company has offices in Yokneam, Israel; Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania; and Lond...The MedZilla Report: April 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health
...r any other industry -- and more layoffs were announced in April. Many hospital systems said they were planning to terminate some employees as well as freezing open positions. Moreover, one of the biggest -- New York City Health and Hospitals -- said their recent 400-deep layoff action was not enough, owing t...Under the Microscope: 'Micro IVF'
...mely topics (including Infertility Treatments & Ethics in the Wake of the Octuplets , The Controversy of "Designer Babies," Effectiveness of Egg freezing , Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnostic/embryo screening , and Benefits of Acupuncture & Herbal Medicines for Fertility ) will be discussed, can s...OSMETTE II from Precision Systems, Inc.
Description:... One-step High Sensitivity freezing Point Osmometer for 10 L sample. Ideal for small volume applications, including pediatric, neonatal, geriatric, general adult, veterinary and experim...OSMETTE III from Precision Systems, Inc.
Description:... One-step High Sensitivity freezing Point Osmometer for 10 L sample. Ideal for small volume applications, including pediatric, neonatal, geriatric, general adult, veterinary and experim...ESGRO Complete™ Derivation Kit from CHEMICON
Description:...nditions. Components: Clonal Grade Medium Basal Medium DBIM: Delayed Blastocyst Incubation Medium Trypsin Solution Gelatin Solution Complete freezing Medium ...OSMETTE XL from Precision Systems, Inc.
Description:... Automatic High Sensitivity Laboratory Osmometer for both 0.2 and 2.0 mL samples for freezing point determinations. Includes built-in printer, keypad, and software for statistical analysis and record keeping. Bar code reading capability with ...RAW 309 Cr.1 Cell Lysate from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
Description:...te; Abelson transformed macrophage cells whole cell lysate provided as Western blotting positive control should be stored at -20C and repeated freezing and thawing should be minimized sample vial should be boiled once prior to use ...Rabbit Anti-Mouse Junctophilin-1 (Mid) Monoclonal Antibody,, Clone ZMD.471 from Invitrogen
Description:...le tissues). Applications: Western blotting Immunohistochemistry(froz) ImmunofluorescenceStorage: Store at -20C for long-term storage. Avoid repeated freezing and thawing.Source: Zymed...