Parent

The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life

A novel high-tech microscope will be brought to the marketplace, giving laboratories everywhere fascinating new insights into living organisms. EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), the commercial entity of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), announced today that it has signed a licensing deal with technological leader Carl Zeiss to commercialize a new technology called SPIM (Se...

Divergent mating systems and parental conflict as a barrier to hybridization in flowering plants

Sexual reproduction can be thought of as a cooperative process in which two individuals come together to produce a new individual. It can also be viewed as a process in which two parties with differing interests, investment, and background interact to produce a new individual. From the former perspective, parental interests are unified (both wish to produce vigorous offspring), while the latter s...

Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters

London, UK: Parents of young girls may soon be offered the opportunity to have their daughters immunised against a sexually transmitted virus that is the major cause of cervical cancer, the 4th International Conference on Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Medicine heard today (Thursday 30 March). Professor Henry Kitchener told the conference, organised by the Teenage Cancer Trust charity, tha...

African amphibians make extreme parental sacrifice: The skin off their backs

Just as baby mammals depend on their mothers' milk, the young of the African amphibian Boulengerula taitanus nourish themselves by stripping off and eating the fat-rich outer layer of their mothers' skin, according to an international team of researchers that includes University of Michigan biologist Ronald Nussbaum. The findings are reported in today's issue (April 13) of the journal Natu...

Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision

Scientists at the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology's Schepens Eye Research Institute and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) are the first to learn why the cornea, the clear window of the eye, is free of blood vessels--a unique phenomenon that makes vision possible. The key, say the researchers, is the unexpected presence of large amounts of the protein VEGFR-3 (vascular endothelial gro...

More>>

Parent at Biology Products

Yeast Deletion Parental Strains S. cerevisiae Hansen BY4741 from Invitrogen

Description:The S. cerevisiae Hansen strains are the parental yeast strains from which the deletions were derived....
Company:Invitrogen

Yeast Deletion Parental Strains S. cerevisiae Hansen BY4742 from Invitrogen

Description:The S. cerevisiae Hansen strains are the parental yeast strains from which the deletions were derived....
Company:Invitrogen

Parent at Biology Technology

Bruker AXS parent buys affiliate company

Both firms are part of the Bruker family of comp...

Parental Control - Options Vary for Internet Restrictions

MADISON, WI - Its 4 p.m., and do you know where your 16-year-old daughter is? Sure, you say, shes at home from school, doing her homework. You wish. Chances are shes probably taking advantage of the time youre at work to visit all sorts of chat rooms, websites and to instant message her friends, including those she just saw an hour ago and those she has never met in person. Unfortunately...

Parent at Medicine News

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

A recent study conducted in the United States of America, says that children suffer the most when parents divorce. Further more when parents prolong an unhappy marriage and avoid a divorce for the sake of children, instead of doing the children good, it will only do more damage to the kids, the authors of the study say.Dr. Allan Booth and Dr. Paul R. Arnato of Pennsylvania State University in U...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

Contrary to the notion of the rebellious teenager who spurns parental guidance in favor of peer influence, new study findings suggest that adolescents who think their parents disapprove of smoking are less likely to pick up the habit. Teens are much less likely to smoke if they think their parents disapprove of the habit. Parental disapproval works even if the parents are smokers. Pa...

Love is blind and Seeing is not Believing – Parents Don’t Believe Their Children Are Overweight!!

Britain: Parents are blind to their children’s obesity, say some researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth. Obesity rates have gone up in recent times, and nearly half of Britons come under the overweight category.// Apart from alarming obesity rates, perhaps what is even more disturbing is the parents’ apathy to obesity amongst their children, which is akin to sitting on a tick...

Smoking may be influenced by Parents

According to a new study it is observed by researchers that children who light their parents' cigarette or clean out the ashtray are likely to become smokers themselves. In addition, asking children to bring the cigarettes,// buy them at the store or light a cigarette for the parent are all behaviors that encourage children to smoke. Rafael Laniado-Laborin, M.D., from San Diego State U...

Few Parents Help Kids Fight Acne

Even though most parents realize acne affects their teenagers' self-esteem, few take their children to a doctor to have the condition treated.So says a survey done for the American Counseling Association (ACA).// The online survey of 514 parents of children aged 13 to 19 found that only 35 percent of the parents had taken their teenager to a dermatologist for acne treatment. <BR...

More>>

Parent at Medicine Products

Oxford Unicomparental Knee

Description:...
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

Advance Uni-Comparental Knee Components - Uni Femoral Components.

Description:...
Company:Wright Medical Technology, Inc.

Advance Uni-Comparental Knee Components - Uni All-poly Tibial Component

Description:...
Company:Wright Medical Technology, Inc.

Advance Uni-Comparental Knee Components - Uni Metal-backed Tibial Component

Description:...
Company:Wright Medical Technology, Inc.

CenterPointLock Drainable Pouch, Transparent

Description:...
Company:Hollister Incorporated

More>>

Parent at Medicine Technology

Framingham Study Shows Parents Who Live Long Pass On Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

BETHESDA, Md., March 13, 2007--New evidence suggests that if youcould choose your parents, you could reduce your risk ofcardiovascular disease. Researchers from the long-standingFramingham Heart Study (FHS), a program of the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes ofHealth, report that people whose parents live longer were morelikely to avoid developing h...

Parent at Medicine Dictionary

Parenteral

<A href="http:/ / www.medterms.co...

Parenting

- Find out how par...