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Gene expands malaria's invasion options

The malaria parasite uses different pathways to invade red blood cells, evading the body's immune system and complicating efforts to create effective vaccines against the disease. A research team led by Australia's Alan F. Cowman, an international research scholar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has identified a gene that the parasite uses to switch back and...

Virtual animal shelters ?How the Internet is transforming the experience of pet adoptions

Across the United States, independent pet rescue organizations are growing in number, working to place abandoned animals in loving new homes. Although the majority of these organizations operate out of clusters of private foster homes, they're successfully winning high visibility for placing their pooches. In a presentation at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological Associati...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today's environment of worldwide connectivity. The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the University of Washington and the Fred Hu...

Prevention is the best option: fighting autoimmune diseases

Centenary scientist Associate Professor Barbara Fazekas de St. Groth, a leader in inflammatory bowel disease research, has demonstrated for the firsttime the important role of T cells in the prevention of autoimmune diseases in humans. In a study involving 38 patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and 43 healthy contr...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

Breast cancer survivors might one day avoid the prospect of invasive breast reconstruction surgery, opting instead for an approach that would involve using stem cells derived from their own fat, suggest University of Pittsburgh researchers who are studying the potential these cells may have for regenerating new breast tissue. In animal models, the researchers hope to prove that an injecti...

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6890N GC with special options from Agilent Technologies

Description:At the forefront of Agilent analytical solutions is the 6890N network gas chromatograph. Built-in local area networking (LAN) allows you to share business and scientific data across sites--for fast and informed decision making. Just as its 6890 GC predecessors, this GC has all the flexibility and performance needed for research and method development in any industry. It is also rugged and reliabl...
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Optional Fixed Lens, 105 mm from Bio-Rad

Description:The optional fixed lens, 105 mm, is for use with the VersaDoc imaging systems for imaging small samples at high resolution....
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Fingerprinting II Informatix, optional matrix types module from Bio-Rad

Description:Fingerprinting II Informatix optional matrix types module, is an optional module that adds external similarity and distance matrix functions to the Fingerprinting II Informatix software package....
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GIBCO Improved MEM Zn++ Option (Richter's Modification) liquid from Invitrogen

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A highly sensitive ATP-luminescence assay using VICTOR2 with the dispenser option

In high sensitivity flash type luminescence assays the measurement is done just after dispensing the activating reagent or after a short delay time. Over the past years luminescence substrates have been improved towards providing more stable signal. These so-called glow type substrates allow microplates to be counted without dispensors. Ho...

Precision Testing for the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler Z8 Option

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., Applications Laboratory, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA The Z8 liquid handling device is an optional accessory to the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler (ALH). This device is designed to permit individually and independently controlled access to single we...

Doyle seeks $30M for e-medical record adoption

But will that level of commitment be enough? Doyle, speaking at the east clinic of <a href="http://www.deancare....

Improved software makes direct mail an attractive option

EAU CLAIRE, WI - Many businesses, large and small, view direct mailing as a hit-or-miss attempt to reach potential customers and grab their attention. Postalsoft Business Edition 7.32c is a software system designed to give organizations more control over the direct mail process, and to make this form of marketing a more affordable option for mid to large-volume mailers. The newly-improv...

Technical Specifications Accelerating Your Research with the BD FACSCanto High Throughput Sampler Option

Accelerating Your Research with the BD FACSCanto High Throughput Sampler Option The new BD High Throughput Sampler (HTS) provides fully automated and rapid sample acquisition. It is designed to speed through a microtiter plate in 15 minutes* with sample carryover to...

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Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

Retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive eye disease targeting the light-collecting cells of the retina, affects one in 4,000 people worldwide and can cause // vision loss. Researchers say for patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, the addition of docosahexaenoic acid to vitamin A therapy may not provide long-term benefits, according to a recent study. Researchers followed 221 patients...

Another Treatment Option for Benign Tumors

A recent study shows treating benign tumors outside the brain using the CyberKnife frameless radiosurgery can successfully // control their growth and progression with minimal toxicity. CyberKnife is a non-invasive robotic radiosurgical device that can remove tumors and other lesions without open surgery. It uses a robotic arm, controlled by a computer, that sends multiple beams of high-d...

A New Option for Patients Suffering From QT Syndrome

Long QT syndrome is a disorder of the heart’s electrical system, which can be inherited or acquired. The syndrome’s name comes from // an elongated QT interval on an electrocardiogram. People with LQTS are prone to develop an extremely rapid heart rhythm, often brought on by exercise, emotion or loud noise. This improper rhythm interferes with blood flow to the brain and can result in fai...

Surprising Cystic Fibrosis Finding That Could Be A Helpful Treatment Option

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease where the patient has frequent respiratory infections, breathing difficulties and eventually permanent lung damage. // It’s believed that patients with CF have too much mucus in their airways. But new research shows patients actually have too little mucus. Researchers say that may studies have been done in the past , but it has never proven, that CF...

New Treatment Option for Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer causes about 10 percent of cancer deaths each year.Researchers say that doctors may soon have one more option // for patients who have colorectal cancer that resists standard chemotherapy treatment. New research shows the drug cetuximab, also known as Erbitux, may be a promising new therapy. The standard treatment for colorectal cancer patients is the drug irinotecan (C...

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Most Options System

Description:Severe revision options for the knee and hip. MOST Options is an anatomic and modular system for the knee and hip that provides the surgeon maximum intraoperative options that include surgical indication, implant selection, connection choice and fixation to match a patients individual needs. This system addresses the needs of patients with minimal to severe bone loss and joint instability due to...
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MOST Options Systems - Straight Smooth

Description:Severe revision options for the knee and hip...
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MOST Options Systems - Straight Fluted

Description:Severe revision options for the knee and hip...
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MOST Options Systems - Hex Stem

Description:Severe revision options for the knee and hip...
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MOST Options™ Limb Salvage Surgery System

Description:The MOST Options System is designed to enable patients facing severe bone loss of the knee or hip to regain use of their limbs and provides the potential for restoration of function. The system goes beyond the requirements of a rotating hinge and provides the surgeon intraoperative flexibility to address a patients individual situation....
Company:Zimmer Orthopedics

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Monitoring Options Expand for Therapeutic Agents and Drugs of Abuse

In keeping with the recent proliferation of rapid, easy-to-use diagnostic tests, many assays and collection products have entered the marketplace to help clinicians assess dosage appropriateness of therapeutic drugs and to screen for the presence of drugs of abuse. Some of these products require laboratory support while many simple test kits are suitable for point of care use by medical profe...

Infertile Voice Supports Stem Cell Research: RESOLVE Calls for Patient Options in Using Frozen Embryos

New survey shows more than half of infertile couples willing todonate unused embryos for stem cell research BETHESDA, Md., June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- RESOLVE: TheNational Infertility Association issued the following statementtoday, in anticipation of President Bush's veto of federallegislation that would loosen current limitations on stem cellresearch: "President Bush is choosin...

BioCryst Presents Phase I Peramivir Data at the Options for the Control of Influenza Conference

Pharmacokinetic and Safety Profile of the Intramuscular Formulationof Peramivir Supports Further Evaluation as Treatment for AcuteInfluenza BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. presented results from two Phase Iclinical studies of an intramuscular (i.m.) formulation ofperamivir at the Options for the Control of Influenza Conference inTor...

Merck at ASCO 2007: New Data Demonstrate the Value of UFT as an Important Treatment Option for Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

CHICAGO/DARMSTADT, Germany, June 4, 2007 – Data presentedtoday at this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO) meeting in Chicago show that a novel combination regimenbased on Merck KGaA’s oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) therapy UFT(tegafur–uracil) plus leucovorin (LV) has shown an excellentresponse rate in the first-line treatment of metastatic colorectalca...

Data Suggest that Pegasys May be an Option in Hepatitis C Patients Unable to Tolerate Peg-Intron

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2007 - Roche today announcedresults of a small study demonstrating that all patients whodiscontinued treatment with Peg-Intron(R) (peginterferon alfa-2b)and ribavirin due to adverse events within the first 12 weeks, wereable to complete 12 weeks of treatment with PEGASYS(R)(peginterferon alfa-2a) and ribavirin. Furthermore, 92 percent ofthese patients we...

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