Manual dishwashing study digs up dirt on dish cleanliness
New research at Ohio State University answers an infectious question about eating at restaurants: How clean are manually washed dishes? Jaesung Lee and Melvin Pascall found that even when they washed dishes in cooler-than-recommended water, numbers of bacteria on the dishware dropped to levels accepted in the Food and Drug Administration's Food Code. They also found that certain foods—espe...Instruction manual for creating a molecular nose
An artificial nose could be a real benefit at times: this kind of biosensor could sniff out poisons, explosives or drugs, for instance. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry recently revealed a technique for integrating membrane proteins into artificial structures. Membrane proteins have several important functions in the cell, o...Thermo Sequenase Dye Primer Manual Cycle Sequencing Kit from USB Corp.
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Description:...New Automated Yeast Cell Counter Ends Tedium & Errors of Manual Counting
, an automated device for counting mammalian cells, the new NucleoCounter YC-100 for yeast combines a fluorescence microscope with CCD camera and integrated i...A know how and ready manual for diabetes!
Diabetes is a big problem and any respite from it is always welcome. Keeping the Indian context in mind a study on the causes and prevention of diabetes has been conducted. // The best part is that it is a first time study as previous ones were done on only on Western populations. Chennai-based M V Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre (a World Health Organisation...Manual vs. Automated Chest Compression After Cardiac Arrest
CHICAGO - Two studies comparing the use of manual chest compression vs. an automated chest compression device during resuscitation for out-of-hospital// cardiac arrest produce contrasting findings, according to the studies in the June 14 issue of JAMA. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest claims hundreds of thousands of lives annually in North America. Successful resuscitation depends on a co...‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd
Tony Clement Canadian Health minister released the revised version of the Canada Food Guide. The new guide described as a manual on healthy lifestyle choices does exactly that, according to the health minister. “Our new food gu...Cascade M Manual Coagulation Analyzer
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Description:Cascade M-4 is a manual hemostasis analyzer that is ideal for all routine clotting assays - PTs, aPTTs, thrombins, fibrinogens and factor assays. Designed for easy, inexpensive, low-volume testing, this analyzer is small in size but big on features, offering time and labor saving benefits. Operation is simple and economical....Microplate Washers - EL401 Manual Washer
Description:The EL401 Manual Plate/Strip Washer accommodates all 96-well microplates and microwell strips. The unique alignment mechanism allows quick and accurate positioning of the 8- or 12-channel manifold above the row to be washed. The EL401 aspirates the wells continuously. The entire washer and alignment mechanism can be readily cleaned or autoclaved, and the overflow protection guards against overfil...Microplate ELISA Washers - Manual Microplate Washer
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