India's smoking gun: Dino-killing eruptions
New discoveries about the timing and speed of gigantic, 6500-foot (2-km) thick lava flows that poured out of the ground 65 million years ago could shift the blame for killing the dinos. The Deccan Traps of India are one of Earth's largest lava flows ever, with the potential of having wreaked havoc with the climate of the Earth - if they erupted and released climate-changing gases quickly e...Turning green gunk to gold, anti-cancer gold
Combining synthetic chemistry techniques with a knowledge of the properties and actions of enzymes, scientists have been able to produce an exciting class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated from blue-green algae. In a study featured on the cover of the J...Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
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Description:The Helios gene gun system, 220-240 V, is used for biolistic particle delivery of biomaterials into cells. This handheld device employs an adjustable helium pulse to sweep DNA-, RNA-, and other biomaterial-coated gold microcarriers from the inner wall of a small plastic cartridge directly into target cells. This system has a 2 square-centimeter target area, and uses a pressure range of 100-600 ps...Helios Gene Gun Low-Pressure System, 220-240 V from Bio-Rad
Description:The Helios gene gun low-pressure system, 220-240 V, is used for biolistic particle delivery of biomaterials into cells. This handheld device employs an adjustable helium pulse to sweep DNA-, RNA-, and other biomaterial-coated gold microcarriers from the inner wall of a small plastic cartridge directly into target cells. This system can be used for in situ, in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo transform...Helios Gene Gun System, 100-120 V from Bio-Rad
Description:The Helios gene gun system, 100-120 V, is used for biolistic particle delivery of biomaterials into cells. This handheld device employs an adjustable helium pulse to sweep DNA-, RNA-, and other biomaterial-coated gold microcarriers from the inner wall of a small plastic cartridge directly into target cells. This system has a 2 square-centimeter target area, and uses a pressure range of 100-600 ps...Helios Gene Gun Kit from Bio-Rad
Description:Includes gene gun unit, 5 O-rings, 5 barrel liners, 5 white cartridge holders, cartridge extractor tool, 9 V battery The Helios gene gun is a convenient, hand-held device that provides rapid and direct gene transfer into a range of targets in vivo. The unit uses an adjustable low-pressure helium pulse to sweep DNA- or RNA-coated gold microcarriers from the inner wall of a small plastic cartri...Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing from Seqwright
Description:Shotgun library construction and high-throughput DNA sequencing of microbial genomes, BACs, adenoviruses, phosmids and cosmids. LIMS tracking utilizing Geospiza's Finch system....Inoculation of Viral RNA and cDNA to Potato and Tobacco Plants Using the Helios Gene Gun
Tuija Kekarainen and Jari P. T. Valkonen, Department of Plant Biology, SwedishUniversity of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 7080, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden Particle bombardment is a physical method widely used for gene transfer into plants, mammals, fungi and bacteria (Armaleo et al. 1990, Klein et...Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun
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First, health information technology has never been a hotter topic as the federal government tries to drive faster deplo...No Cure for the New Mosquito-Borne Disease, Chikungunya
This new crippling mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya has affected about 50 000 people on France's Indian Ocean island of Reunion. // This disease has no cure. Though not fatal this extremely painful disease results in a stooped posture. The prevalence of the disease has been recorded as 45 000 new cases since mid-December. Philippe Renault, a specialist with a re...'Chikungunya' Epidemic On French Island Claims 52 lives
The mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya has claimed the lives of at least 52 inhabitants of the French Reunion Island according to official reports of French National Health Agency (INVS). // The incurable crippling disease, called chikungunya, has affected more than 110,000 people since the epidemic broke out in the Indian Ocean Island in March 2005. As many as 22,000 have contracted...French Minister To Visit La Reunion Island To Monitor Chikungunya Epidemic
Chikungunya epidemic, a mosquito-borne disease for which there is no known cure or vaccine has claimed the lives of nearly 77 French inhabitants of La Reunion Island // on Indian Ocean. As Nearly 1 in 6 inhabitants are affected in the island, announced Xavier Bertrand, French Health Minister. More than 130, 000 people on the island have been affected. The 77 mortalities could be related...Chikungunya Fever: French Government struggling to Tackle the Mosquito Menace
Paris: The French government is bracing itself to tackle a crippling disease which is a very rare type of fever called the Chikungunya Fever, known to be spread by mosquitoes// . This fever has already hit La Reunion island and poses a risk of entering into France. According to the French Health Minister, Bertrand, Chikungunya fever, has already infected one fifth of La Reunion's popula...Threat from Chikungunya, No Longer a Fear
Indian Ocean region was suffering from a crippling mosquito-borne virus disease the Chikungunya fever. It had infected some 150,000 people living in and around this area//. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the tourists are safe when they are traveling to the Indian Ocean region. This disease has no cure or vaccine. It is spreading like wild fire throughout the Reunion, Mau...