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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...

New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers

People with a form of synesthesia in which they see colors when viewing letters and numbers really do see colors, researchers, led by Edward M. Hubbard of the University of California San Diego, have found. What's more, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of their brains reveals that they show activation of color-perception areas. The researchers said their findings lend support t...

New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

New insights by Duke University Medical Center researchers as to how HIV evades the human immune system may offer a new approach for developing HIV vaccines. The findings suggest some HIV vaccines may have failed because they induce a class of antibodies that a patient's own immune system is programmed to destroy. The Duke team discovered that certain broadly protective antibodies, which...

Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs

The University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program, the world's longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.4 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand its sampling scope and sophistication. The Alaska-based program has applications for Pacific salmon all along the West Coast, providing insights into the fluctuating fortunes of s...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

Using their novel bio-bar-code amplification (BCA) technology, researchers analyzing fluid from around the brain and spinal cord have detected a protein linked in recent studies to Alzheimer's disease. Gold nanoparticles and bio-bar codes bring sen...

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Fragment Library I: Large Volume with mixtures from ActiveSight

Description:Individual compounds are dissolved in DMSO at ca. 200 mM, mixtures of 4 are at ca. 50 mM. Supplied in 5 96-well trays. Dilute library with protein c...
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Fragment-based Screening Services from ActiveSight

Description:ActiveSight, the leading provider of X-ray crystallography services for structure-based drug design, offers fragment-based screening services to its pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. Fragment-based screening involves the binding of drug-like fragments to the active sites of crystallized protein drug targets, allowing scientists to develop novel, high-affinity inhibitors. Relying on state-...
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OLIGO from Molecular Biology Insights

Description:OLIGO is a multi-functional program that searches for and selects oligonucleotides from a sequence file for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing, site-directed mutagenesis, and various hybridization applications. It calculates hybridization temperature and secondary structure of oligonucleotides based on the nearest neighbor thermodynamic values....
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New Insights Into DNA Decontamination

Dr. Karl-Heinz Esser, multiBIND biotec GmbH, Dr. Wolfram H. Marx, AppliChem GmbH and Prof. Dr. Thomas Lisowsky, multiBIND biotec GmbH Advanced experiments in gene technology demonstratethat even small amounts of free DNA moleculesare sufficient to cause infections, r...

Technology audit rips poor planning and oversight

The audit report, which w...

Biotech firm has strokes, Alzheimer's in its sights

Quincy Bioscience is based in Madison's University Research Park, but it derives its research sup...

Business leaders can learn from historical insights

There are many quotes from leaders who had to shoulder huge responsibilities. They are worth applying to your position in management, education, or politics. Different perspectives may help bro...

Leadership insights from co-founder of Yesmail

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Eating disorder in Diabetic girls lead to eyesight damage.

Diabetic girls were more likely to have an eating disorder when compared with non-diabetic girls. Some reported binge eating and used to take less than their prescribed dose of insulin in order to lose weight. Under dosing of insulin lead to early onset of diabetes related complications and are associated with increased risk of permanent eyesight damage. Intensive treatment to diabetes could be t...

Blocked viens block eye sight

"Occlusions in the retinal vein could not only make you loose your sight but even your eye". The pressure due to blocked veins is so painful that the eye may have to be removed. Researchers at the Stanford University California have devised a new instrument that uses a plasma to shoot tiny bullets of blockage-dissolving drugs into a clogged vein.// The tiny blood vessels that s...

Gene therapy restores sight

US scientists report they have successfully used gene therapy to restore sight to animals with a rare inherited form of blindness. A team of scientists led by Jean Bennett, at the University of Pennsylvania, reported their success in this month's Nature Genetics.Their experiment involved dogs with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a form of blindness, that also affects human infants and for w...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

A research has found that if pregnant women whose jobs require too much exposure to solvents like kerosene, gasoline,glues etc may be more likely to have chilren with defective eyesight. Head researcher Dr. Gideon Koren and colleagues//, from Toronto published this in Jornal of Occupational health. They found that poor vision acuity (sharpness) were more common among children whose mo...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

A computer chip implanted near the eye’s retina is well on its way to offering some restored vision. People blinded by eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related degeneration of the eye will be benefitted by the new development. The implant works for eye diseases in which healthy retinal neurons remain intact after they lose use of the eye’s photoreceptors.// These recep...

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SureSight Autorefractor with Printer, Stand, and Case (English)

Description:Suresight is the child-friendly, portable autorefractor that tests patients including young children and adults. It can perform objective refraction from a non-threatening 14 inches (35 cm) away even through glasses and contact lenses. The unit's flashing lights and sounds engage the patient throughout the exam. No cycloplegic drops to contend with. Just fast, easy refractions....
Company:Welch Allyn Medical Products

Welch Allyn Suresight™ Vision Screener (English)

Description:A child-friendly vision test that's automatic, objective, and takes just seconds. Welch Allyn created Suresight™, the first objective, accurate vision test that ensures reliable early detection of refractive error, the primary vision disorder in children....
Company:Welch Allyn Medical Products

DS-5M-L1 Digital Sight Camera System

Description:The DS-5M-L1 consists of a 5-megapixel color matrix CCD for high resolution and breathtaking colors, camera control unit with a full range of features, including a crystal clear LCD display monitor. PC/Mac web browser support is also available for live image displays and camera control via 10/100 Base-TX network connection....
Company:Nikon

OmniSight Image Guided Surgery System

Description:Radionics' new OmniSight image guided surgery system offers full-featured image guidance while maintaining simplicity in design and use. It provides unparalleled three-dimensional visualization, allowing the neurosurgeon to localize critical anatomy and plan optimal surgical trajectories. This new system gives surgeons an easy-to-use, technologically advanced approach to surgical navigation....
Company:Integra Radionics, Inc.

Neurosight Cranial Module

Description:The Neurosight module offers a comprehensive platform for standard neurosurgical image-guided cranial procedures. Neurosight is used to plan the optimal surgical path and greatly reduce the incision size. Combined with unique features such as touch-free navigation and the virtual trajectory planning tool, Neurosight becomes a very powerful tool for cranial applications....
Company:Integra Radionics, Inc.

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Novel Mechanism Insights and Additional Data on CombinatoRx Drug Candidates to Be Presented at Upcoming EULAR Meeting

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 6, 2007 - CombinatoRx,Incorporated (NASDAQ: CRXX), today announced that data from itsrandomized, blinded, placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trials ofCRx-102 in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoidarthritis (RA) will be featured at the European League againstRheumatism (EULAR) Annual Congress of Rheumatology meeting, June13-16, 2007 in Bar...

Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Presents Preclinical Data on Molecular Imaging Pharmaceutical for Prostate Cancer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Researchers atMolecular Insight Pharmaceuticals today announced the presentationof preclinical data on MIP-1072, a radiolabeled, small moleculemolecular imaging pharmaceutical in development for diagnosis andstaging of prostate cancer at the 54th annual meeting of theSociety of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) in Washington, D.C. MIP-1072 isone of two...

Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Presents Preclinical Data at Society Of Nuclear Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Molecular InsightPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPI) announced today that thecompany will present the results of several preclinical studies atthe 54th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) inWashington, D.C. The presentations include data on Azedra(TM)(Ultratrace (131)I-MIBG), the company's clinical-stage, targetedradiothe...

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