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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...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

A large, multisite trial designed to examine the safety and preliminary effectiveness of two candidate topical microbicides to prevent HIV infection has opened to volunteer enrollment. The trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, represents a partnership among various research institutions in Africa and the U...

New Mixing Method for Microchip-Sized Labs

"Because up to 75 percent of breast cancerpatients have an abnormality in a specific cell signaling pathway,drugs that target different molecules along that pathway may beespecially effective for treating the disease, says a researcher fromThe University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center." A clearer picture is now emergingabout the importance of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

Ophthalmologists at Rush University Medical Center implanted Artificial Silicon Retina (ASR) microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The implant is a silicon microchip 2mm in diameter and one-thousandth of an inch thick, less than the thickness of a human hair. Four patients had surgery Tuesday, January 25. The fifth patient is sch...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

Ophthalmologists at Rush University Medical Center implanted Artificial Silicon Retina (ASR) microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The implant is a silicon microchip 2mm in diameter and one-thousandth of an inch thick, less than the thickness of a human hair. Four patients had surgery Tuesday, January 25. The fifth patient is sch...

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S. pombe Whole Genome ChIP-on-chip from Agilent Technologies

Description:The S. pombe Whole Genome ChIP-on-chip Microarray is specifically designed for location analysis of yeast (S. pombe) DNA binding proteins by pairing chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with Agilent DNA microarrays. This set delivers robust hybridization and reliable binding data with greater true binding events and fewer false positives. In addition, Agilent provides flexibility by offering both...
Company:Agilent Technologies

ProteinChip beta-amyloid multipeptide detection Kit from Ciphergen

Description:The ProteinChip beta-amyloid Multipeptide Kit, designed for use with Ciphergens ProteinChip Systems, makes detecting a variety of amyloid peptides more straightforward and faster than ever before. - Clinical neuroscience proteomics applications - Monitor beta-amyloid expression after drug treatment - Correlate beta-amyloid peptide levels with disease progression - Evaluate mechanisms of Alzheimer...
Company:Ciphergen

ProteinChip Antibody Capture Kit from Ciphergen

Description:The ProteinChip Antibody Capture Kit eliminates laborious assay development and optimization steps typically required to evaluate antibody-antigen interactions. This kit enables the capture and differentiation of multiple antigens based on molecular weight using Ciphergens ProteinChip Systems....
Company:Ciphergen

NanoMate ™ 100 with ESI Chip Technology from Advion Biosciences, Inc.

Description:Advion's NanoMate 100 robotic system and disposable ESI Chip allow users to take full advantage of the capabilities of electrospray mass spectrometers for life science applications. Integrating the NanoMate with MS allows users to either speed analysis for increased throughput for small molecule and peptide mapping applications, or long acquisition times for proteomics and metabolism applications...
Company:Advion Biosciences, Inc.

Serum Biomarker Chip from Whatman, Inc

Description:The first high-density serum biomarker chip to profile the relative abundance of cancer serum proteins. An antibody chip containing 120 human cancer serum biomarker-specific antibodies. A research tool that enables biomarker discovery scientists to study panels of biomarkers related to early detection, benefits of therapy and the likelihood of recurrence of cancer. Familiar gene expression chip f...
Company:Whatman, Inc

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GeneChip Sample Cleanup Module for cleanup of cDNA and in vitro transcribed cRNA

A crucial step in gene expression analysis is target labeling. To improve the critical steps in the target-labeling process, QIAGEN has developed the GeneChip Sample Cleanup Module specifically for use with Affymetrix GeneChip expression arrays. The GeneChip Sample Cleanup Module was developed as part of an on...

LiquiChip Kits for bead-based cytokine and kinase assays

The LiquiChip Human and Mouse 10-Cytokine Kits and Ser/Thr Kinase Kit provide fast and accurate quantification of a range of cytokines and serine/threonine kinases. LiquiChip 10-Cytokine Kits enable simultaneous multiplex assay of 10 different cytokines using bead-based xMAP technology. The LiquiChip Ser/Thr Kinase Kit...

Calcium Flux Assays using the LabChip 3000

The LabChip microfluidic assay accesses test compounds from a micropl...

CIO Leadership Series: Ed Meachen, University of Wisconsin System

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Inner-city entrepreneurship isn't 'Easy Street,' but some are walking the walk

At a meeting in the church last week, Alder Michael McGee Jr. wanted to discuss a different type of angel "angel investors." These angels...

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Regular exercise prevents hip fractures

According to a report in the recent issue of the American Journal of Epidemology, moderate levels of physical activity can help protect against a hip fracture. According to Dr. Susanne Hoidrup from Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark, and colleagues, when people undergo the aging process, regular physical activity should become an essential part of everyone's life, in order to...

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

Keeping fit and in to be in shape is not only good for the individuals themselves but also for their siblings. Over weight, which is of course the predisposer of majority of the illness such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension etc., is now being studied in depth, the reason is to attain the destination of disease free environment, that are preventable.// Researchers from the US Cent...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

A major US study has found that women who have taken postmenopausal oestrogens for ten years or more are at substantially greater risk of fatal ovarian cancer. The risk persists for many years after therapy is discontinued, researchers from the American Cancer Society report// in the Journal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 t...

Whiplash injury causes persistent

Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, in a first of its kind study compared a group of whiplash patients with a group of ankle injury patients. They found that those who suffered a whiplash injury had pain in the neck, head, shoulder, arm and even lower back which persisted for up to a year. In the study of the two groups, pain in the ankle injury group declined rapidly, mor...

Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

A new publishing partnership has been announced between Elsevier and Diabetes India. The partnership would be marked by the launch of a new journal, named Diabetes Research & Metabolic Syndrome in June 2006. // The journal would focus on the importance of the relationship between diabetes and metabolic syndrome with special reference to the causes of vascular damage and a glucose centered...

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Implex Cemented Hip Stems

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Company:Zimmer, Inc.

The Protract Hip System - Protract Standard Hip Stem

Description:The Protract stem offers a press-fit option which will allow choice of standard or lateralized neck offsets while keeping a consistent leg length....
Company:StelKast Company

The Protract Hip System - Protract Lateralized Hip Stem

Description:The Protract stem offers a press-fit option which will allow choice of standard or lateralized neck offsets while keeping a consistent leg length....
Company:StelKast Company

The Progeny Hip System - Progeny Cemented Standard Stem

Description:The Progeny femoral stem offers a cemented option built upon a clinically proven design. Standard and lateralized offsets are available to allow interoperative soft tissue balancing without compromising leg length....
Company:StelKast Company

Shaw-SHIP Rod

Description:Sgarlato Lab's bring a new standard in the field of hammertoe implants with the Shaw-SHIP Rod by Sgarlato Labs. Made of medical grade silicone, these durable and lasting implants will leave your patient with a high level of flexibility while maintaining correct toe length and shape. The Shaw Rods are available in varying stiffnesses. Lengths are determined by the surgeon for each custom applicati...
Company:Sgarlato Labs

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Gene Chips to Detect CYP Variations: A New Step Toward Customized Medical Therapy.

The FDA approval of BiDil for heart failure in African American patients has underscored the concept that two patients can respond differently to the same medication. This concept holds true for a wide variety of everyday medications, and in many cases is due to individual gen...

GenoLogics Announces Bioinformatics Partnership with Illumina

GenoLogics Announces Bioinformatics Partnership withIllumina BEYOND GENOME CONFERENCE, San Francisco, CA, June 21, 2007-GenoLogics, a leading developer of lab and data managementsoftware solutions for life sciences research, today announced thatit has penned an agreement with Illumina, Inc. to become atechnology partner and participant in IlluminaConnect, abioinformatics software...

Palatin Technologies and King Pharmaceuticals Report Data Showing Improvements in Sexual Relationship and Self-Esteem in Patients with Erectile Dysfunction Treated with Bremelanotide

CRANBURY, N.J., and BRISTOL, Tenn., May 22, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Palatin Technologies, Inc. and KingPharmaceuticals, Inc. reported today that data from Study 16 andStudy 17 of the Phase 2B clinical trial program evaluatingbremelanotide in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) were presentedyesterday at the American Urological Association (AUA) AnnualMeeting (AUA 2007) held in Anahe...

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