Mouse brain cells rapidly recover after Alzheimer's plaques are cleared
Brain cells in a mouse model of Alzheimer'sdisease have surprised scientists with their ability to recuperateafter the disorder's characteristic brain plaques are removed.Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louisinjected mice with an antibody for a key component of brain plaques,the amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide. In areas of the brain whereantibodies cleared plaque...NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention
New York City's Public Health Department today issued a public health advisory after reporting the first documented case of an alarming, new, rapidly-progressing and highly drug resistant strain of HIV in a New York man who progressed from his initial HIV infection, thought to have occurred in mid-October 2004, to a largely untreatable strain of AIDS in just three months. According to City...Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Genome Center have designed and developed a sensitive new diagnostic technology platform, called “Mass Tag PCR,?that can simultaneously screen for multiple infectious agents. The new technology is addressed in a paper published in the February issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Emerg...AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV
State Health Commissioner Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., today announced the expansion of New York State's HIV/AIDS Public Awareness and Education campaign to help combat the potential spread of HIV and further protect New Yorkers from the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Novello said, "In light of recent reports of a drug-resistant, rapidly progressive strain of HIV in New York Ci...Variation in HIV's ability to disable host defenses contributes to rapid evolution
One of the reasons HIV is so difficult to contain and treat is its rapid evolution. Understanding how host defenses and viral countermeasures contribute to that evolution is vital. Vif is full o...Rapid-Screen Arrayed cDNA Library Panels Master Plates -Human Placenta from OriGene Technologies
Description:The Rapid-Screen cDNA Library Panels were designed for full-length gene cloning and require just three sets of PCRs to identify the desired cDNA clone. The first PCR analysis is performed in a 96-well "Master Plate," where each well contains plasmid DNA from 5,000 clones. Having identified the positive well(s) by gel electrophoresis of the reaction products, the second PCR analysis is carried out...Rapid-Screen Arrayed cDNA Library Panels Master Plates -Human Heart from OriGene Technologies
Description:The Rapid-Screen cDNA Library Panels were designed for full-length gene cloning and require just three sets of PCRs to identify the desired cDNA clone. The first PCR analysis is performed in a 96-well "Master Plate," where each well contains plasmid DNA from 5,000 clones. Having identified the positive well(s) by gel electrophoresis of the reaction products, the second PCR analysis is carried out...Rapid-Screen Arrayed cDNA Library Panels Master Plates -Mouse Testis from OriGene Technologies
Description:The Rapid-Screen cDNA Library Panels were designed for full-length gene cloning and require just three sets of PCRs to identify the desired cDNA clone. The first PCR analysis is performed in a 96-well "Master Plate," where each well contains plasmid DNA from 5,000 clones. Having identified the positive well(s) by gel electrophoresis of the reaction products, the second PCR analysis is carried out...Simple, Sensitive, and Rapid Detection of FLAG -Tagged Fusion Proteins
-TaggedFusion Proteins Qiyi Xie Quinn Lu Tanya Hosfield Peter Pingerelli Weiping Yang Stratagene...A Simple and Rapid Technique to Purify High-Quality Midiprep DNA
Stratagene A new technique is now available to quickly, easily, and reliably isolatehigh-purity plasmid DNA. The convenient spin-format eliminates the need forresin suspensions, gravity flow columns, and alcohol precipit...CastAway Precast Gels for Rapid Automated DNA Sequence Analysis
Stephen Roemer Mary Jensen Harry Osterman MarkVanek LI-COR Biotechnology Division LI-COR and Stratagene release the first commercially available precastgels for automated DNA sequencing and genetic analysis. Stratagenes CastAway gels* for...Fluorescence-Based Single-Tube Assays to Rapidly Detect Human Gene Mutations
Xiuyuan Hu Beti Belachew Lingyu Chen HaoqiangHuang Jason Zhang Stratagene can distinguish human DNA specimens that differ by a few nucleotides or only asingle nucl...HSVision Molecular Beacon Detection Module Rapidly Detects Herpes Simplex Virus DNA
Single-tube amplification method for high-throughput screening of HSV Cindy Walker-Peach Beti Belachew Peter Pingerelli Melanie Palmer Dwight DuBois Stratagene Stratagene introduces the HSVision molecular beacon detectionmodule,...Alzheimer's Disease Progresses Rapidly In Highly Educated
A recent study has now found that educated people could face increased risk from Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common cause of dementia in old people. // Although Alzheimer's tends to be associated with a later age of onset among the educated, it progresses more rapidly. In other words, in highly educated people, a rapid decline is noted following onset of Alzheimer's manifes...With More Appearance Conscious Consumers The Need For Slimming Products Is Rapidly Rising
With the increase in concern of ones appearance, their a large demand for slimming products among consumers shows a latest survey conducted in Belgium.// The survey also shows that slimming products in Belgium grew by 14 per cent in value over 2004 to reach a retail value of €29 million. Despite the drive by both doctors and government authorities to increase awareness of...Evoprinter, a multigenomic comparative tool for rapid identification of functionally important DNA
Deciphering the regulatory mechanisms that control coordinate gene expression is a long-standing goal of biology. The comparison of orthologous DNA sequences from multiple vertebrate or invertebrate // species holds promise in identifying the cis-regulatory elements central to the dynamic interplay between a gene and its transcriptional regulators. This cross-species comparison, termed phylogenet...RapidLoc Meniscal Repair System
Description:The RapidLoc Meniscal Repair System is a second-generation "all-inside" system that offers several advantages over current systems including "inside-out" suture repair techniques and current "all-inside" rigid implants. This system is quick, simple, reproducible, reliable, and flexible in many ways, all while decreasing iatrogenic morbidity....RapidLab 248 Blood Gas Analyzer
Description:248 is fully automated blood gas systems offering a cost-effective solution for critical care testing in settings with low to medium workloads....Rapidlab 348 Blood Gas Analyzer
Description:348 is fully automated blood gas systems offering a cost-effective solution for critical care testing in settings with low to medium workloads....Rapid Whole Blood Testing for Infectious Mononucleosis Antibodies
The Epstein Barr virus (EBV), which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM), is one of the most common human viruses. EBV occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95 percent of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. In most developed countries, including the U.S., infection with EBV most often occu...Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season
On October 5, Chiron Corporation notified the CDC that none of its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin) would be available for distribution in the United States for the current influenza season. In the wake of this sudden removal of nearly half of the anticipated American vaccine supply, medical officials and the general public have grown increasingly alarmed about the scarcity of vaccine and the ris...Point of Care Cardiac Analyzers Yield Rapid Cardiac Marker Results
Clinical guidelines from the disciplines of cardiology and laboratory and emergency medicine have all emphasized the importance of cardiac markers in diagnosing or ruling out acute myocardial infarction. The measurement of cardiac troponins is especially useful in the large fraction of patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who have...Avian (Bird) Flu: Is There a Role for Rapid Tests?
With human infections of bird flu (avian influenza) reported in Asia and Eastern Europe, public health officials have moved swiftly to develop policies on surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment. The virus in question is the H5N1 subtype of influenza A, which has become epidemic...Rapid HIV Testing Increases Possibility of Treatment
According to a November, 2005 joint press release from UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) and the World Health Organization, the number of people living with HIV globally reached an estimated high of 40.3 million people in 2005, with over 3 million deaths caused by AIDS. The latest data from...