Canonsburg Woman Undergoes Robot-Assisted Weight Loss Procedure at AGH
A Pittsburgh area woman has undergone a new, robot-assisted weight loss surgical procedure at Allegheny General Hospital. (Vocus) July 9, 2009 -- A Washington County woman is recovering well today after undergoing a new, robot-assisted weight loss surgical procedure at ...Canadian cold/flu breakthrough remedy undergoes NCI-sponsored trial in leukemia patients
Cancer patients with their weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable when the cold and flu season hits. To help, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is sponsoring a landmark trial to see whether a unique Canadian cold remedy COLD-FX can help. The trial will examine whether u...Cancer could return unless stored ovarian tissue undergoes adequate testing before re-implantation
Cancer patients who have been successfully treated for their disease face the prospect of its return if stored ovarian (or testicular) tissue is transplanted back into their bodies without adequate checks, according to researchers at two university hospitals in Israel. Writing in Europes leadin...Bush Senior Undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery
Washington: Former US president George Bush has undergone a hip replacement surgery and is resting comfortably//. The surgery, which took place Wednesday, went well, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota said on its website Thursday. Bush, 80, is the father of the current president. Hi...Woman Undergoes Double Hand Transplant
The first woman to undergo a double hand transplant was ecstatic as she got discharged from the hospital.// The woman, Alba Lucia C, exclaimed "I'm doing very well, I'm very happy. I'm taking steps towards a new world after going through a totally different life. When I saw the hands after the oper...Schwarzenegger Undergoes Surgery for Broken Leg
Actor and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has undergone surgery for his broken leg. Schwarzenegger broke his right femur while skiing in Sun Valley// in Idaho Dec 23. The surgery took place three days later and doctors used screws and cables to fix together broken fragments of bone. ...Vermillion Presents Critical Data From Its OVA1 Clinical Trial
...e OVA1 prospective clinical trial was its inclusion of patients seen at a variety of clinical settings where the intended patient population typically undergoes a gynecological examination with radiological and clinical testing prior to surgical intervention. The 27 sites were demographically mixed to include,...FDA Clears ExAblate Fertility Enhancement Study in Women With Uterine Fibroids
...yomectomy carries a risk of post operative adhesions, which may impair a woman's fertility and take time away from trying to become pregnant while she undergoes the procedure and lets her uterus heal. A non-invasive treatment could be a great benefit to women whose fertility issues may be caused by fibroids." ...Unconjugated Estriol, Ultra-Sensitive EIA Test
Description:...evels, reaching a late-gestational peak which is ~2-3 orders of magnitude greater than non-pregnant levels [1,2]. In the maternal circulation, estriol undergoes rapid conjugation in the liver followed by urinary excretion with a half-life of ~20 minutes [2]. Since normal estriol production depends on an intact...Unconjugated Estriol, Ultra-Sensitive RIA Test
Description:...evels, reaching a late-gestational peak which is ~2-3 orders of magnitude greater than non-pregnant levels [1,2]. In the maternal circulation, estriol undergoes rapid conjugation in the liver followed by urinary excretion with a half-life of ~20 minutes [2]. Since normal estriol production depends on an intact...ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping System
Description:... HIV-1 Genotyping: The genome of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) undergoes mutations in an infected patient, especially in response to anti-viral drug treatment. Some of the mutations have been shown to render the virus resis...New drug may reduce heart attack damage
...t times during a heart attack, Professor Khachigian said: "first when the initial blockage occurs causing the chest pain, and second, when the patient undergoes an intervention, such as angioplasty or stenting, to reopen the blocked artery". "At both these times a range of potentially damaging coordinated...Energy-saving method checks refrigerant level in air conditioners
...efrigerant vapor turns back into a liquid in another heat exchanger called a condenser. During these evaporation and condensing steps, the refrigerant undergoes dramatic temperature changes. Automotive air conditioning units equipped with the new refrigerant-charge system could activate a warning light on a...Research team finds important role for junk DNA
...nd other members of her team are researching the origin and evolution of genes and genome rearrangement, with particular focus on Oxytricha because it undergoes massive genome reorganization during development. In her lab, Landweber studies the evolutionary origin of novel genetic systems such as Oxytricha...Preclinical work shows how one gene causes severe mental retardation
...ildren are between one and two years old. It is during this time in humans that the cortex, the sheet of convoluted folds at the surface of the brain, undergoes profound rearrangements driven by sensory experiences the experience of seeing reorganizes the visual cortex, for example, during the same time perio...The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome
...ournal PLoS Biology . "In our manuscript, we demonstrate for the first time the flip side of the sex chromosome evolution puzzle: The X chromosome undergoes periods of intense adaptation in the evolutionary process of creating new sections of the genome that govern sexual differentiation in many species, i...Case Western Reserve University engineers hit pay dirt with clay mixture
...university's Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. When fired in a muffle furnace (a kiln) to 800 degrees centigrade, this material undergoes a chemical transformation. It can become a hard, lightweight ceramic. When mixed with latex, it becomes a bendable material like rubber. If magnetic...Tigris Pharmaceuticals Presents Results of Breast Cancer Research at AACR Annual Meeting
...right direction in the clinical development of this difficult to treat disease." About AFP-464 AFP-464, a Lysol prodrug of aminoflavone (AF), undergoes rapid conversion to AF by nonspecific plasma esterases. It has shown a unique pattern of growth inhibitory activity in the NCI's 60 tumor cell line s...Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality
...tor of the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Ordinarily, zirconium nitride is unstable in the presence of silicon, meaning it undergoes a chemical reaction that changes its properties. The Purdue researchers solved this problem by placing an insulating layer of aluminum nitride betw...Epitomics Announces the Creation of 1000th Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody
...igh specificity and affinity which provide excellent results in a variety of commonly used immunoassays. "Each one of our rabbit monoclonal antibodies undergoes stringent testing in five major immunoassays including Western blotting, Immunohistochemistry, Immunofluorescence, Immunopreciptation and Flow Cytomet...Cord Blood America CEO Matthew Schissler Interviewed by BIONOVA, Greece's Leading Biotech Magazine
...s, viruses and genetic disorders." "Umbilical cord stem cells are used to repopulate one's immune system. An example would be a leukemia patient who undergoes radiation therapy. The stem cells from the umbilical cord repopulate the patient's immune system with healthy cells to keep the body strong and to hel...IMPACT-CN System from New England Biolabs
Description:... C-terminus (pTYB1,2) or N-terminus (pTYB11,12) of the target protein. In the presence of thiols such as DTT, -mercaptoethanol or cysteine, the intein undergoes specific self-cleavage which releases the target protein from the chitin-bound intein tag. Both pTYB1 and pTYB11 contain a Sap I cloning site whi...