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Intentional environmental variations increase result validity in mouse testingIntentional environmental variations increase result validity in mouse testing

3/10/10 | News

For decades, the traditional practice in animal testing has been standardization, but a study involving Purdue Univ. has shown that adding as few as two controlled environmental variables to preclinical mice tests can greatly reduce costly false positives, the number of animals needed for testing and the cost of pharmaceutical trials.
Next wave of microelectronic biomedical devices

Next wave of microelectronic biomedical devices

Mar 9 | News

A team of  engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.

Ocean bacteria build internal factories to turn carbon into fuel

Ocean bacteria build internal factories to turn carbon into fuel

Mar 8 | News

The notion that bacteria are bags full of enzymes is being overturned by revelations from laboratory experiments that bacteria fixes, or digests, carbon by building miniature factories inside themselves. Called carboxysomes, these structures are able to convert carbon dioxide into sugar, which represents energy for a living organism.

The killing power of clay: Advancing antibacterial alternatives

The killing power of clay: Advancing antibacterial alternatives

Mar 4 | News

Researchers from the Arizona State Univ. have helped advance understanding about the antibacterial activity of clay minerals and their ability to kill what the best antibiotics on the market can't touch.  

Michelle Obama talks anti-obesity to food giants

7 hours ago | News

Michelle Obama has talked to schools and nutrition groups across the country in her effort to reduce childhood obesity. On Tuesday she will face the food companies that make the snacks and junk food that stuff grocery aisles and school vending machines.Not that the companies mind. The Grocery...

BECK for March 15, 2010 - Part 1

13 hours ago | News

xfdfx BECK-01GLENN BECK, HOST: Welcome to THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM.The attack-o-meter was off the charts this...

Pfizer: More Lipitor cuts heart complications more

16 hours ago | News

A reanalysis of research data found a high dose of popular cholesterol pill Lipitor lowers risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients with both heart disease and kidney disease, the drug's maker said Monday.Pfizer Inc. said the new analysis, which it funded, included patients with both...

Pfizer: Study finds high Lipitor dose cuts chances of heart complications over low dose

16 hours ago | News

A reanalysis of research data found a high dose of popular cholesterol pill Lipitor lowers risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients with both heart disease and kidney disease, the drug's maker said Monday.Pfizer Inc. said the new analysis, which it funded, included patients with both...

New teaching tools aid visually impaired students in learning math

17 hours ago | News

Mastering mathematics can be daunting for many children, but researchers have found that children with visual impairments face disproportionate challenges learning math, and by the time they reach the college level, they are significantly under-represented in science, technology, mathematics and...

Angiotech said new stent met goals in studies

17 hours ago | News

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday a stent it developed with Boston Scientific Corp. met its goals in a pair of clinical trials.Angiotech said the Taxus Element stent worked as well as an older Boston Scientific stent called Taxus Express at treating lesions in blood vessels, and worked...

Arteries improve after smokers quit, study finds

17 hours ago | News

Quitting smoking can turn back time.A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this.The improvement came even though smokers gained an average of 9 pounds after they...

GTx ends Merck partnership, regains muscle drug

17 hours ago | News

Drug developer GTx Inc. said Monday it ended a collaboration with German drug maker Merck and Co. on a drug candidate intended to treat muscle loss in cancer patients.GTx said the partnership ended by mutual agreement. The pact returns to GTx the rights to the drug candidate Ostarine and other...

Democrats Close to Passing Health Care Reform?; America's

18 hours ago | News

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Annie Lennox Speaks about HIV Pandemic - Part 2

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Lunar tires, space MRSA, and resonating microfluidics

Lunar tires, space MRSA, and resonating microfluidics

Mar 5 | RDBlog

I typically attend the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy each year in pursuit of specific coverage. This year, I sought out candidates for coverage in a vacuum technology article, and pulled together some instruments for a spectroscopy guide. But as busy as that kept me, it wasn’t all mass spectrometers and vacuum pumps on the show floor.  

Was Mendel Darwin’s Missed Opportunity?

Was Mendel Darwin’s Missed Opportunity?

Feb 8 | RDBlog

The editors at Wired Magazine have pointed out that today is the anniversary of Gregor Mendel's presentation of a painstakingly produced paper about his breeding experiments on some 28,000 pea plants. It's too bad that Charles Darwin, who was sent a copy in 1866, never bothered to read it.

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The Inner Life of a Cell

The Inner Life of a Cell

8/6/2009 | Videos

The Inner Life of the Cell is a short 3D computer graphics animation demonstrating various biological mechanisms that occur within a white blood cell in the human body.

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First commercial 3-D bio-printer makes human tissue and organs

12/10/2009 | New To Market

Invetech, a builder of custom automation for the biomedical, industrial and consumer markets, has delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer to Organovo, developers of the proprietary NovoGen bioprinting technology.

Rapidly deployable shelter to improve disaster response, battlefield support

9/2/2009 | New To Market

Today, developers of a new federal disaster response technology demonstrated how the Rapid Deployment Shelter System (RDSS) will shape the future of emergency preparedness and disaster relief. The compact, highly portable rigid wall shelter is easily transportable to domestic and global disaster sites, and may be deployed by one person in less than two minutes with the push of a button.

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Non-contact photoelectric level sensors

6/29/2009 | Tools And Technology

Baumer has introduced the FFDK 16 Photoelectric Level Sensors, compact sensors designed to be mounted onto transparent or half-transparent standpipes from 3-13 mm in diameter.

Workstation enables high-throughput cellular assays

6/22/2009 | Tools And Technology

Fluxion Biosciences introduced the BioFlux 1000 Workstation-a cell analysis system that integrates the company's Well Plate Microfluidic technology with automated microscopy for high-throughput shear flow assays.

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