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Stopping smallpox in its tracks: A new anti-viral approach

Natural or deliberate exposure to smallpox poses a great health threat, especially since routine smallpox vaccinations have been discontinued and no clinically approved treatment currently exists. In the February 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ellis Reinherz and colleagues from Harvard Medical School propose a new antiviral therapy ?a low molecular weight inhibitor of signaling...

Small species back-up giant marsupial climate change extinction claim

Thinking small in a time when everything was big has helped Queensland researchers to unearth new evidence that climate change, instead of humans, was responsible for wiping out Australian giant marsupials or megafauna 40,000 years ago. Instead of only excavating 'trophy specimens' such as giant kangaroos and wombats, the researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Quee...

New World founders small in number

About 14,000 years ago - a few hundred thousand years after our putative modern forebears spread out from Africa - descendants of archaic humans crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America. Several lines of evidence support this model, but that's where the consensus ends and the details are hotly debated. In a paper published in the premier open-access journal PLoS Biology, Jody...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

In disease, as in war, offensive strategies can become weaknesses, if the defenders see the enemy coming and compensate for its weapons. By manipulating what is perhaps the most devastating trick in cellular weaponry of pox viruses like smallpox, Arizona State University virologist and Biodesign Institute researcher Bertram Jacobs believes that he can turn the biochemical machinery of the...

Circulating stem cells play small role in lung repair

Circulating stem cells play a minor role in repairing lung damage, according to a team of scientists who used male and female chromosomal differences to analyze the repair process in lung transplant patients. Reporting in today's edition of the journal Transplantation, lead author Dani Zander, M.D., of The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and colleagues at the University of F...

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Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Small Molecule Localization from Protein Discovery, Inc.

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Small Non-coding RNA Discovery Microarray - Comprehensive Service from LC Sciences

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Plasmid DNA Preparation (Small Scale) from Nature Technology Corporation

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CORNING CELL SCRAPER, SMALL ,STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich

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CORNING SPATULA, SMALL SPOON/SPOON, STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich

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Fast Isolation of Total RNA from Small Numbers of Cells

Extract total RNA from as few as 1 cell Stratagene total RNA microprep kit provides aconvenient method for isolating total RNA from small samples of cells. Forthe purification, RNA is bound to a solid support, which eliminates theneed for organic extraction and alcohol precipita...

Business Filings releases software to help small businesses

MADISON - Business Filings Inc., a provider of services that help small businesses incorporate, has announced its release of a web-based application that businesses can use to manage annual state requirements. sends e-mails to business owners reminding them of due dates for annual report, tax...

Detecting Attomole Amounts of Small RNA

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New Tools for Small RNA Analysis

Non-coding small RNAs such as transfer RNAs (tRNA), ribosomal RNAs (rRNA), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNA), and small nuclear RNAs (snRNA) play critical roles in a variety of cellular processes, from regulation of mRNA translation, pre-mRNA splicing or transcription to chromosome...

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Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

As biological weapons go, anthrax is nowhere as terrifying as several others, says Jim Matthews, an associate professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University. Smallpox would be a lot worse. The government now has about 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine on hand. Experiments are getting underway to see whether it can be diluted so it could be administered to more people, and still be effective....

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

Smallpox, a highly contagious virus that kills at least 30 percent of its victims and disfigures many who survive, was eradicated from the globe more than two decades ago. Scientists retained stocks of the variola virus, which causes the disease, and stored them in secure laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia, and Moscow, Russia. A smallpox attack is just one of many potential bioterrorism threats, bu...

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

A modified version of the smallpox vaccine is being tested against cervical cancer. Human papilloma virus (HPV) is associated with 95% of cervical cancer cases, but not everyone with the virus develops the cancer. Cervical cancer affects about 465,000 women worldwide each year and causes 300,000 deaths. If it is diagnosed and treated in its earliest stages there is a high survival rate. // <b...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

Smallpox was eradicated by 1979 and vaccination against the disease gradually ended around the world. But stockpiles of the smallpox virus remain in laboratories in the US, Russia and possibly other nations.// Recent fears of bioterrorism have ignited concerns that these stockpiles could be used to introduce the potentially deadly disease into the population, which is at present ill-prepared to d...

Problematic Use of smallpox vaccine

The USA is accumulating an abundant supply of smallpox vaccine, but health officials say they are not recommending that it be widely used- yet. The vaccine currently on hand, 16.8 million doses in a government stockpile// and more than 80 million doses that drug maker Aventis Pasteur says it will add to that, is safe and effective but can cause problems. Many people develop painful swelling aroun...

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Jameson Muscle Hook - Small

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Symblepharon Ring - Small

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Lambert Chalazion Forceps - Small

Description:Round solid 10 mm wide lower plate. Open upper plate with inside diameter 8 mm. Serrated handle with locking thumb screw and polished finish. Most popular size or model....
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Snellen Entropion Forceps - Small - Right

Description:Solid lower plate with outside width 28 mm. Open upper plate. Serrated handle with locking thumb screw and polished finish. Right....
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Fukasaku Small Pupil Irrigating Nucleus Chopper

Description:Small pupil irrigating nucleus chopper, wedge-shaped inferior edge with, blunt tip and front notch, for engaging the iris, 0.6 mm dual sideports, 20 gauge....
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New Advances in Gastric Diagnostics: Smaller is Better

In recent years, miniaturization has opened up exciting possibilities in the area of gastric diagnostics. New technology may make routine GI diagnostic procedures as simple as swallowing a vitamin pill-sized encapsulated unit in the not-too-far future, and the present reality is that these units are becoming valuable adjuncts to traditional diagnostics. Capsule endoscopy (enteroscopy...

Bench-Top Centrifuges--Basic Tools for the Small Lab

No matter how elementary or advanced, every clinical laboratory possesses one essential devicea centrifuge. It may be a bench-top or floor model, refrigerated or non-cooled, but this apparatus, because of its unique ability to fractionate liquid specimens by creating spin-induced high g-forces, has long been a standard tool for both diagnosis and research applications. For all this utility, t...

Prothrombin Time Comes in Small (CLIA-Waived) Packages

Determining prothombin levels is necessary to plan or evaluate anticoagulant therapy, to diagnose various inherited conditions, such as hyperhomocystinemia, elevated factor VIII levels, dysfibrinogenemia, factor XII deficiency and disorders of plasmin generation, and to assess acquired conditions, such as pregnancy, postoperative state, antiphospholipid syndrome, hyperhomocystinemia, among ot...

Pharmacyclics Announces Interim Results From Two Ongoing Phase 2 Trials Supporting Potential of Xcytrin Plus Chemotherapy to Treat Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

WAILEA, Hawaii and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announcedpreliminary results from two open-label, multi-center Phase 2clinical trials supporting the potential use of Xcytrin(R)(motexafin gadolinium) Injection, the company's lead productcandidate, in combination with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed) and incombination with Taxotere(R) (docetaxel...

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Nominates ANA598, a Small-Molecule, Non-Nucleoside Inhibitor of The NS5b Polymerase, as a Candidate for Clinical Development in Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AnadysPharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company committed tothe discovery, development and commercialization of novel medicinesfor the treatment of hepatitis and cancer, announced today that ithas nominated ANA598 as a candidate for clinical development as anorally-administered direct antiviral for the treatment of chronichepat...

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