Monthly Archives: July 2010

Winner Medical Group Inc. to Host Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Earnings Conference Call on Wednesday, August 11 …

SHENZHEN, China, July 30 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Winner Medical Group Inc. (Nasdaq: WWIN; “Winner Medical” or the “Company”), a leading manufacturer of medical dressings, medical disposables and non-woven PurCotton(R) materials for the medical and consumer products industries, today announced that it … Continue reading

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A study in longevity? She’ll drink to that

Agnes Fenton remembers Decatur Avenue in Englewood in the early 1950s, when she arrived as a young newlywed, ready to start fresh after several backbreaking years of running her own restaurant in Memphis.

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IVF ‘postcode lottery’ across Scotland revealed

Childless couples in some parts of Scotland are waiting up to three years for IVF treatment while those in other areas are seen in as little as three months, a new report has revealed.

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New Zealand’s tough IVF rules get more bouncing babies for their buck

AGE, weight and smoking restrictions applied to publicly funded in vitro fertilisation treatment in New Zealand have boosted the success rate of the procedure, with results now substantially higher than achieved in Australia.

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Genetics

Neurons in the hippocampus of a brainbow transgenic mouse. What do you come out with? BSc or MSCi in Scotland Why do it? Because we’ve sequenced the human genome and now you want to find out how this information can … Continue reading

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Research Illuminates How the Human Neck Developed

Using genetics, scientists discovered anatomical changes that helped the brain advance in people.

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NIH to Fund NeuroAIDS Genetics

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) The National Institutes of Health wants to uncover any genetics-based explanations for some neurocognitive disorders that are caused by HIV and which do not respond to a commonly-used therapy.

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Study links SNP, concentrations of serum creatinine for kidney function

Scientists at deCODE genetics and colleagues at Radboud University in the Netherlands today describe how the impact of a single letter variation in the sequence of the human genome (SNP) conferring risk of kidney disease varies with age and with … Continue reading

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Genetics research team discovers new recurrent translocations

A genetics research team based at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocationsplaces in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced chromosome translocations, which involve no loss or … Continue reading

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VitaPath Genetics launches VitaTrack Folate Tracker

VitaPath Genetics, the Spina Bifida Association and the National Council on Folic Acid today announced the launch of the free iPhone applicationthe VitaTrack Folate Tracker which allows women to track their daily intake of folate and folic acid. Maintaining an … Continue reading

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Study implicates Fritz’s role in human genetic disorders

Mutations in a gene known as “Fritz” may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, University of Texas at Austin developmental biologist John Wallingford and Duke University human geneticist and cell biologist Nicholas Katsanis have found.

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Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy may protect women against brain aneurysms

Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women. The findings from this first-of-its-kind study by a neurointerventional expert … Continue reading

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Q&A: EBI’s Maria Victoria Schneider on Bioinformatics Training for Life Science Researchers

Last November , a group of biologists, computational scientists, physicists, and chemists held a workshop to discuss the challenges of providing training for end-users of bioinformatics tools.

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N.C. A&T State hosts bioengineering workshop for high schoolers

Twenty high school students are attending a week-long series of workshops where they’re exploring their dreams of helping others through bioengineering.

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Spinning Some Silken Science

Spiders and silkworms make silk by the yard. Why cant we copy them? Silk is strong, light and flexible and is being examined for use in everything from medical sutures to advanced electronics. Silk researcher David Kaplan explains the challenges … Continue reading

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Tomorrow’s Monster Stock?

A list of promising companies chosen by investors who’ve already picked stocks that beat the market with huge gains.

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3 Top Stocks at Half-Price

Investors still think highly of these companies, despite their fire-sale prices.

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Anatomy of a smart credit cardholder

From your head to your feet, these are key attributes you can hone to help manage your credit wisely

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Shonda Rhimes: Grey’s Anatomy Docs All Grown Up in New Season

Normally, people who finish med school and save other peoples’ lives for a living are considered adults that is, unless they’re Doogie Houser. Or on Grey’s Anatomy . After six seasons, the show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes , says her characters … Continue reading

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Water Purification Using Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology refers to a broad range of tools, techniques and applications that simply involve particles on the approximate size scale of a few to hundreds of nanometers in diameter. Particles of this size have some unique physicochemical and surface properties … Continue reading

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