Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom
An upcoming expedition to study the Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers is not simply a research project for R. Max Holmes, an associate scientist at The Woods Hole Research Center. It is also a means to integrate education and outreach into his work. In June and July, Dr. Holmes, an ecosystem scientist with broad interests in the responses and feedbacks of ecosystems to environmental and global ch...Innovative coating could give medical implants a longer life
By mimicking an adhesive protein secreted by mussels and a polymer that repels cells and proteins, researchers at Northwestern University have designed a versatile new two-sided coating that could breathe life into medical implants. Currently the longevity of certain medical implants suffers because bacteria, cells and proteins in the body gradually accumulate on the devices (known as fou...Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined
Each year, about 40,000 children are born infected with human cytomegalovirus, or CMV, and about 8,000 of these children suffer permanent disabilities due to the virus ?almost one an hour. These disabilities can include hearing loss, vision loss, mental disability, a lack of coordination, and seizures. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is as common a cause of seriou...Study offers innovative profile of enzyme that aids tumor growth
"Using a combination of enzyme activity and metabolite profiling, we determined that this protein-whose function was previously unknown-serves as a key regulator of a lipid signaling network that contributes to cancer," said Benjamin F. Cravatt, a Scripps Research professor and a member of its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology who led the study. "The heightened expression of KIAA1363 in sever...Innovative movies show real-time immune-cell activity within tumors
Using advanced new microscopy techniques in concert with sophisticated transgenic technologies, scientists at The Wistar Institute have for the first time created three-dimensional, time-lapse movies showing immune cells targeting cancer cells in live tumor tissues. In recorded experiments, immune cells called T cells can be seen actively migrating though tissues, making direct contact with tumor...Normal Human Serum-Single Donor from Innovative Research
Description:Normal Human Serum-Single Donor • Human serum is obtained from normal human donors who are found to be negative by a test for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antigen (s) (HIV-1Ag), Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Anti-HIV 1/2), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Nonreactive for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HbsAg) and Non-reactive by a screening test for syphilis. Serum is collected from a...Normal Pooled Human Serum from Innovative Research
Description:Normal Pooled Human Serum • Human serum is obtained from normal human donors who are found to be negative by a test for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antigen (s) (HIV-1Ag), Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Anti-HIV 1/2), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Nonreactive for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HbsAg) and Non-reactive by a screening test for syphilis. Sera are pooled from multiple d...Bovine Serum from Innovative Research
Description:Bovine Serum...Dog Serum-Mixed Breed from Innovative Research
Description:Dog Serum-Mixed Breed • Dog serum is collected from fasted mixed breed, mixed sex dogs over one year of age </ul...Beagle Serum from Innovative Research
Description:Beagle Serum • Beagle serum is collected from fasted Beagle canines of mixed sex over one year of age...Innovative Tissue Array Technology for High-Throughput Screening of Gene Expression
Stratagene tissue arrayslides offer further refinement of tissue array technology through optimizedtissue fixation and processing procedures that preserve tissue morphology,antigenicity of pr...HotMasterAn innovative Hot Start/Cold Stop technology for better PCR* results
George Halley, Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA Vincent Prezioso, Brinkmann Instruments, BioSytems Application Lab, Westbury, NY Hot Start DNA polymerases have become very popular because of their conven...Innovative Health Strategies near Milwaukee set to profit from Medicare expansion
Terri Bernacchi knows how to survive. The Milwaukee-area entrepreneur "bootstrapped" So now that IHS has begun to thrive, it is well positioned to help its pharmaceutical industry customers survive the massive new demands that...Hewlett-Packard exec offers innovative counsel
does, but that didn't prevent a visiting HP executive from offering advice to privately held companies. Kristin Pugh, who is HP's director of software marketing for the Americas, advised small businesse...Cisco names Inacom most innovative partner
Inacom won based on its Extreme Wireless Makeover marketing campaign, which the company said drew 47 interested companies to apply and one, Dane Manufacturing, to be...Innovative device aids in advanced heart failure
A mesh jacket positioned around the heart improves function in patients with advanced heart failure. Researchers at the University of New York felt that in heart failure, the heart enlarges and is unable to effectively pump blood around the body.// Commonly, the heart valves are damaged too. Heart failure is a progressive condition, with no cure other than a transplant - although it can be manage...Innovative footwear may prevent fall in elderly
A new device may be able to stop the geriatric population from falling and hurting themselves from being //unable to maintain their balance. The device is called Yaktrax Walker. This is plastic netting like structure that conforms to the footwear and helps the people wearing them in maintaining a stable walk that will prevent falls. Researchers for the device had asked the...Innovative yeast genome may handle Cancer Clues
According to scientists mapping of have mapped all the genes in a second type of yeast that they hope will provide new insights into basic cell biology and the development of cancer.A team of international scientists led by Nobel medicine laureate Sir Paul Nurse of the charity Cancer Research UK has sequenced the genome of fission yeast, a cousin of the brewer's yeast whose genome// was mapped.<b...Innovative solution to help reduce the waiting times for kidney transplants
An innovative solution was found at the St. Michael's and Toronto General Hospital when the first Canadian kidney transplant paired exchange occurred. The scenario was that of two Toronto couples, both with one spouse dying //of kidney disease and the other unable to donate one of their own healthy kidneys because they weren't a compatible blood type. Tom McCabe in his early 60s, gave...Personalized Medicine and Innovative Pharmaceuticals
Personalized medicine is creating quite a revolution of sorts. A clue into what might be the norm, years from now, personalized medicines will aim at reducing// or totally obliterating the side-effects by evolving medicines that are tailor –made to a person’s genetic information. Indeed this will be a whole new story in the development of drugs. Amalia M. Issa, a pharmacologist and cli...Innovative Cancer Drug MabThera Again Shown To Improve Survival Rates In Patients With Lymphoma
Adding MabThera to first line chemotherapy significantlyincreases patients_ overall survival BASEL, Switzerland (21 May, 2007) _ In a study publishedyesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, MabThera (rituximab)plus chemotherapy (MCP*) was shown to significantly improvesurvival in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) compared tochemotherapy alone.1 Follicular lymphoma is the...