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Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

There's aparadigm in life science and drug development : only "lucrative""markets" get exploited by R&D companies. In many occasions I'veseen very promising drugs candidates or related research get cannedbecause no money was to be made with it, even if millions would havebeen saved worldwide. The usual strategy to avoid this fate is to finda drug candid...

Color-blind method opens new doors in DNA sequencing

A "color-blind" method of fluorescence detection developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Rice University could open new doors that would take DNA sequencing to the patient's bedside, the doctor's office and even the scene of a crime or a battlefield. "We could eventually do direct detection of a DNA sequence from native DNA" without manipulation now performed in th...

Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery

Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been unableto explain the precise cause of this usually unwelcome transformation.In a report posted today on the Web site of the journal Science,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating th...

Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems

The labs of the future will be "labs-on-a-chip", i.e., integrated chemical and biochemical laboratories shrunk down to the size of a computer chip. An essential prerequisite for such labs are appropriate microcompartments for the confinement of very small amounts of liquids and chemical reagents. Directly accessible surface channels, which can be fabricated by available photolithographic methods,...

The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born

In a publication today in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, a team at CAMBIA in Canberra unveils the 'kernel' of the world's first 'explicit open source' biotechnolog...

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Open Frame DNAscope from Biomedical Photometrics Inc.

Description:The Open Frame DNAscope is an integrated confocal laser scanner designed to be flexible, customizable, and readily integrated into your specific application. GeneFocus can recommend a standard configuration, or we can tailor the system to your specifications. The Open Frame DNAscopes patented optical scanning design has been modularized and built onto an optical board to scan virtually any size...
Company:Biomedical Photometrics Inc.

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Venture Investors to open Michigan office

The Madison venture capital firm, which recently moved into a larger space in the MGE Innovation Center in <a href="http:/...

Space Place opens new astronomy center

"We had pretty much outgrown our other place where we'd been for 15 yea...

NanoRite Innovation Center opens with small science, big promise

NanoRite, part business incubator and...

TomoTherapy opens technical training center

The company, which recently raised $213 million in an initial public offering of stock, said engineers, physicists, and radiation technicians are among the professionals who will receive on-sit...

TeraMedica embraces open source project

is lending its expertise to developing an open source digital imaging and communicati...

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Stent shows promise in keeping arteries open

A new approach to keeping heart arteries flowing smoothly after angioplasty shows surprising success in early testing. Doctors released the longest follow-up with the new technique - the drug-coated stent. //In testing on 50 patients over 3 years, they found it to be 100 percent effective. More than 2 million Americans undergo angioplasty annually, and the new approach is likely to b...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is characterized by breathing difficulty due to partial blockage of the bronchial tubes. Asthma is a chronic lung disease caused by inflammation of the lower airways resulting in episodes of airflow obstruction, which has been found to be the fourth most common// cause of death and affects nearly 16...

Scientists open the book of life

A scientific achievement once thought impossible has been achieved. The human genetic instruction is complete to an accuracy of 99.99 percent. However it is now considered the foundation for a new era of medical advances. With the entire sequence in hand experts predicted it would lead to new drugs, better forecasts of people's health and new ways of treating or preventing many of the mos...

First global SARS meet opens

The first major conference on the deadly SARS epidemic has opened in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur today. More than 1,000 scientists and clinicians gathered to examine how hard-hit regions responded to the outbreak, review scientific findings and talk about control strategies for a disease that has so far killed 799 people and infected 8,460. The meeting in Kuala Lumpur will also...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

Each year about 400,000 Americans undergo balloon angioplasty to clear blocked arteries. In many cases, the arteries become blocked again.// Now, a cancer drug may change the outcome of the procedure. John Bailey can relax today, knowing he's doing everything he can to avoid a second open-heart surgery. Eight years ago, he had a quintuple bypass operation. . But earlier this y...

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Lieberman Open Wire Speculum

Description:Adjustable wire speculum with 17 mm open blades. Lid tension adjustable throughout procedure with thumb screw control. Available with shaft straight or angled 45 degrees....
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Lieberman Open Wire Speculum Angled 45 Degree

Description:Adjustable wire speculum with 17 mm open blades. Lid tension adjustable throughout procedure with thumb screw control. Angled 45 degrees....
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Thorton Open Wire Lid Speculum With Lifting Wings

Description:Open 15 mm blades allow intraocular manipulation without metal to metal contact. 16 mm lifting wings. Dull finish....
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Shepard Reversible Open Blade Speculum

Description:Open blade speculum designed for both temporal and superior approach ocular surgery. Thumb screw adjusting mechanism. Manufactured in titanium....
Company:Bausch & Lomb Storz

COULTER AcT 5diff OV (Open Vial)

Description:AcT 5diff OV enables low-volume labs to advance to 5-part differential analysis at an affordable price. This analyzer delivers accurate test results and a user-friendly software interface in a compact design....
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New Proof of Genistein's Efficacy and Safety for Osteopenia and Osteoporosis Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - Annals ofInternal Medicine has published the results of a two-year clinicalstudy on the impact of genistein on bone loss. The paper, "Effectsof the Phytoestrogen Genistein on Bone Metabolism in OsteopenicPostmenopausal Women-A Randomized Trial," appears in the currentissue (June 19, 2007) and details the safety and efficacy ofgenistein for...

CytRx Reports Promising Data from Its Open-Label Extension Clinical Trial of Arimoclomol in ALS

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - CytRx Corporation(NASDAQ:CYTR), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in thedevelopment and commercialization of human therapeutics, todayannounced promising data from the six-month, open-label extensionof its completed Phase IIa clinical trial with arimoclomol in ALSvolunteers. While the clinical trial was not placebo-controlled,arimoclomol at a 1...

Accera, Inc. Announces Open-Label Data from Phase II Study in Alzheimer's Disease at International Conference on Prevention of Dementia

BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Accera, Inc.today is presenting data from an open-label extension of its PhaseIIb clinical trial of AC-1202 (Ketasyn) in Alzheimer's disease (AD)at the Alzheimer's Association's International Conference onPrevention of Dementia in Washington, D.C. Consistent with thefindings of earlier clinical and preclinical studies, AC-1202 wasshown to...

DNA Therapeutics Reports a Novel Mechanism of Action and a Biomarker of its Lead Molecule Dbait That Open an Innovative Pathway-Targeting in Molecular Cancer Therapy

EVRY, France, April 12, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA TherapeuticsS.A. an emerging pharmaceutical company specialized in innovativecancer therapy announces today the elucidation of a new mechanismof action and the identification of a biomarker of itsfirst-in-class antitumoral lead molecule Dbait. It will bepresented at the forecoming American Association for CancerResearch annual meeting 2007...

JACC Publishes Long-Term Safety and Tolerability Data from Ranolazine Open Label Experience (ROLE) Program

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 14, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CVTherapeutics, Inc. announced today that the Journal of the ofCardiology (JACC) has published data from the Ranolazine Open LabelExperience (ROLE) program, which showed long-term therapy withRanexa(R) (ranolazine extended-release tablets) to be safe and welltolerated in patients with chronic stable angina who completed oneof tw...

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