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Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer

Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd, a leading provider of bioinformatics solutions, today announced further details of its global OEM partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a leading provider of drug discovery, life science research and analytical solutions. As detailed in a press release issued last week, PerkinElmer will distribute Nonlinear's full range of 1D, 2D and array software. Howeve...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced that countries are on target to halve deaths from measles, a leading vaccine-preventable killer, by the end of this year. Global measles deaths have plummeted by 39%, from 873 000 in 1999 to an estimated 530 000 in 2003. The largest reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest...

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale

The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona throws a wrench into theories of how and where the dinosaurs arose more than 210 million years ago at the end of the Triassic Period. The animal, one of many creatures from the Late Triassic known only from their teeth, was thought to be an ancestor of the plant-eating or...

Number Of Babies Born Prematurely Nears Historic Half Million Mark In U.S.

Some 12.3 percent of all babies -- 499,008 infants -- were born prematurely (less than 37 weeks gestation) in 2003, according to the report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That's up from 12.1 percent (or about 480,000 babies) in 2002 -- and an increase of more than 30 percent since the government began tracking premature births in 1981. The prematurity rate was 9.4 i...

Plants reveal a secret and bring researchers nearer a cleaner future

Using sunlight to power our homes and offices is an unaccomplished dream due to the still inefficient technology for a better use of solar energy. The study of photosynthesis in plants could provide new clues by explaining how they absorb almost 100% of the sun-light reaching them, and how they transform it into other forms of energy. Researchers Michael Haumann and Holger Dau, from the Fr...

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LXQ High Throughput Linear Ion Trap from Thermo Scientific

Description:The LXQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer enables high-throughput solutions for todays fast paced analytical laboratory. The LXQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer is designed for drug discovery and proteomic applications, delivering the fast cycle time and increased sensitivity of a Thermo linear ion trap at an attractive price. The combination of fast cycle time and high MS n spectral qual...
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LTQ XL Linear Ion Trap from Thermo Scientific

Description:The LTQ XL extends the MSn performance of the LTQ linear ion trap with powerful new tools to generate extensive structural information for the most demanding proteomics and metabolism applications. Fast polarity switching for high-sensitivity analysis o...
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RTS AviTag E. coli Biotinylation Kit, Linear Template; Linear template generation and in vitro protein mono-biotinylation system for use with RTS 100 expression reactions from Roche Applied Science

Description:Roches RTS AviTag E. coli Biotinylation Kit, Linear Template is designed for use with high-yield RTS 100 E. coli expression kits. (Cat. No. 3 186 148, 3 186 156). The kit provides reagents to rapidly generate linear expression constructs by PCR containing and optimized control region for expression based on a combination of T7 RNA polymerase and prokaryotic cell lysate. Flexible positioning of Av...
Company:Roche Applied Science

AXIMA-LNR Linear MALDI TOF from Shimadzu Biotech

Description:Intended for users requiring mass detection but not structural information the AXIMA-LNR linear MALDI TOF Mass spectrometer is ideally suited for high throughput QA/QC applications and for high performance mass analysis. Typical applications include oligonucleotide QA/QC, SNP analysis, protein detection, micro-satellite DNA characterization and polymer analysis, with the ability to run up to 500...
Company:Shimadzu Biotech

Voice Coil Linear Scanning System from Physik Instrumente

Description:The V-106 voice-coil scanning and positioning system is designed for applications where small samples have to be positioned or scanned with high velocity and high resolution. It provides superior responsiveness compared to micropositioners with conventional leadscrew drives. The mechanics (X or XY stage) are driven by an integrated, non-contact, zero-friction, voice-coil actuator. Scan velocities...
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End of summer unearths new tech discoveries

because I begin to sort and organize and otherwise occupy my time with activities other than writing program notes and working on opening remarks. I like to think that my ideas are percolating during this flurry of activity, but all I really know for sure...

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...

Efficient and Reliable Linear Amplification of cRNA

Gene Expression Profiling Using Microarray Kits from Roche Applied Science The use of gene-expression profiling, a genomic applicationmeasuring mRNA transcript levels of many genes inparallel, has been growing rapidly...

Resolution of Linear DNA Fragments From 23 Kilobases to 6 Megabases Using Biphasic Linear Switch-Time Ramping

Contributed by Donald R. VanDevanter, Tumor Institute, SwedishHospital Medical Center, 409 Elkind Hall, 747 Summit Avenue,Seattle, WA 98104 Analyses of uncharacterized DNA fragments using CHEF electrophoresis often require preliminary studies to determine what size ranges DNA fragments of in...

Near IR capability of the FluoroLog

The SPEX configuration has an R928P photomultiplier tube in an L-format, and is sensitive out to ~ 850 nm. For near-IR fluores-cence measurements, an optional...

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Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

The number of drugs being developed for the treatment of cancer has nearlydoubled during the past six years, according to a new survey of pharmaceuticalcompanies.Currently, 170 pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms various CancerInstitutes are investigating 402 compounds for the treatment of variouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardradiatio...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

A new survey says nearly all deaths due to asthma can be prevented if the patients and their doctors had better understanding of the disease. According to WHO, around 150 million people suffer from asthma worldwide and nearly 2 lakh people die due to the disease every year. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease, often linked with allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring atta...

Refreshing Assam Tea Now At The Nearest Post Office

Guwahati: The next time you can't control the urge to have your cup of the world-famous, rich and malty Assam Tea, just hop over to the nearest post office and get it over the counter//. Tea aficionados, at least those across India, who swear by the mesmerizing aroma of a blend produced in one of the most popular tea growing regions of the world, Assam, will now have access to their f...

First human clone is near

Human cloning could effectively create a replica of another living or dead person. Scientists could create the first cloned human before the end of the year. Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who along with his Italian colleague Dr. Severino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offspring. Countries like France and Germany have appealed to the United Nations to ge...

Rubella nearly wiped out

Rubella, or German measles, a disease that once infected tens of thousands of people a year and was responsible for numerous birth defects, is on the verge of being eliminated in the United States. Cases of rubella have fallen from almost 58,000 in 1969//, the year the vaccine was introduced, to 272 in 1999. Rubella, which typically causes a mild rash, was considered harmless until the...

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Near PT Test Card/Tumbling E

Description:Near PT test card/Tumbling E, tumbling hands 5 1/2" X 8"....
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Spanish Near Point Card

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Lebensohn Near Point Chart

Description:This two sided contemporary reading card was designed by James Lebensohn, MD and provides a full range of near point exercises including words, numbers and OX symbols. Optotypes include 20/80, 20/400, 20/260, 20/200, 20/100, 20/65, 20/50, 20/40, 20/30, 20/25, and 20/20. Notation equivalents include decimal reading in English and metric, Jaeger, point size and visual efficiency percentages. Card s...
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Contemporary Near Point Card

Description:This two sided contemporary reading card provides familiar reading exercises such as crossword puzzle, schedules for trains, flights, football and basketball, obituary, stock quotes, music bars, playing cards, recipes, want ads, instructions, telephone white page listings, and horse racing listings. Continuous format reading examples provided for 20/200, 20/100, 20/80, 20/50, 20/40 and 20/25. Not...
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Wormington Near Point Card

Description:The Wormington NP Card is specially designed to be a corrected Rosenbaum card. The known inaccuracies of the older Rosenbaum card (as noted by Horton and Jones in 1997 and others) have been corrected. The "J" notations are not used because of the lack of standards associated with this notation. Using the Wormington NP Card, the examiner can measure a patients single letter near acuity and reading...
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Near-Patient Testing: The Advantages of C-Reactive Protein in Hematological Testing

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase protein that has long been recognized as a marker of systemic inflammation. CRP measurement can complement a range of diagnostic markers to monitor infection and direct treatment. However, as economic rationalization...

Bio-Matrix Scientific's Dr. O'Neill Sees University of Pittsburgh's Published Study on Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue as Supporting Near Term Benefits of Banking Adipose (Fat) Derived Stem Cells

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - The University ofPittsburgh School of Health Sciences issued the following study andpress release, "Scientists Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells fromHuman Fat Tissue," June 15, 2007, Science Daily: "Researchers atthe University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfullyisolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, oradipose...

Lipitor Reduced the Risk of Coronary Events by Half and Stroke by Nearly One-Third in High-Risk Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Who Experienced a Recent Stroke

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 25, 2007 - Pfizer announced todaythat Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets 80 mg reduced the riskof stroke, coronary heart disease events and major coronary eventsin type 2 diabetes patients who had no known coronary heart diseasebut who had experienced a recent stroke or mini-stroke, comparedwith placebo. The results are from a new analysis of the landmarkSt...

Hyperthermia Plus Chemotherapy Nearly Doubles Disease-Free Survival Compared to Chemotherapy Alone for Sarcoma Cancer Patients

SALT LAKE CITY, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BSDMedical Corp. announced today that the results of a 340 patientrandomized Phase III clinical trial testing the benefit of addinghyperthermia therapy to chemotherapy were presented at the annualAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference underway inChicago, Illinois. According to the results of this clinical study,whic...

Nearly 1 in 10 Americans Has A Relative With Kidney Failure

African-Americans with Family History of ESRD Are at HighRisk WASHINGTON, March 9, 2007 - Approximately ten percent of U.S.adults have a family history of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), andthese individuals appear to be at increased risk of developingkidney disease themselves, reports a study in the April Journal ofthe American Society of Nephrology. "A family histo...

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