News and applications for life science research professionals
FDA panel favors easing safety limits on Avandia
June 6, 2013 6:35 pm | by MATTHEW PERRONE - AP Health Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsFederal health experts are recommending changes to safety restrictions on former blockbuster diabetes pill Avandia, in light of a new analysis suggesting that the drug may not increase the risk of heart attack as much as previously thought. A majority on a Food and Drug Administration advisory...
Judge's ruling challenges US transplant system
June 6, 2013 6:26 pm | by LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsIt's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge has allowed one dying child — and a day later another — to essentially jump the line in rulings that could have ramifications for thousands of...
Evaluating Disease Biomarker Reliability
June 6, 2013 5:59 pm | by Arizona State University | News | CommentsThis year some 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women. Some of these patients will succumb to the disease, while others survive. Part of the enormous disparity in outcome has to do with the differing ways diseases like cancer affect individuals based on various factors. According to new research, how we study an illness can also depend on a feature of the disease itself – one known as heterogeneity.
Regeneron and Bayer say Eylea meets new study goal
June 6, 2013 3:02 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Bayer HealthCare said Thursday that their eye drug Eylea met its main goal in a new late-stage clinical trial. The companies said Eylea was more effective than a sham injection in treating a condition called myopic choroidal neovascularization, a retina disease...
Laboratory Temperature Controllers with Ramp/Soak Capabilities
June 6, 2013 1:55 pm | Product Releases | CommentsOven Industries announces new laboratory temperature controllers with ramp/soak capabilities—the 5R6-900 benchtop controller. Contained all in one enclosure, the device can be plugged into the wall as a self-contained temperature control system, which has its own power supply.
High Sensitivity, Low Background Multiplex Immunohistochemical (IHC) Analysis
June 6, 2013 1:46 pm | Product Releases | CommentsEnzo Life Sciences offers a set of tools for single-color and multi-color immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis, featuring MultiView multiplexing kits, PolyView reagents, and a portfolio of HighDef Chromogens.
Patients seek to reopen KC drug settlement case
June 6, 2013 12:57 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsPlaintiffs who sued pharmaceutical companies soon after the 2001 arrest of a Kansas City pharmacist who diluted patients' drugs to enrich himself received much larger settlement payouts than those who waited, a new court filing shows. Attorneys for nearly two dozen of Robert Courtney's victims or...
33rd hepatitis C case confirmed in NH outbreak
June 6, 2013 12:55 pm | by HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsNew Hampshire health officials say the hepatitis C outbreak associated with a former hospital technician has spread beyond his patients to a person who is believed to have had sexual contact with one of them. David Kwiatkowski is accused of stealing drugs from Exeter Hospital and infecting...
20-year Heart Beat Mystery Solved
June 6, 2013 11:40 am | News | CommentsA 20-year puzzle as to how the heart regulates contraction appears to have been solved by researchers. Their findings, published in the journal Biophysics, pave the way to improving our understanding of what goes wrong when the heart fails.
Anesthesia Effects Depend on Age of Neurons, Not Patient
June 6, 2013 11:07 am | News | CommentsAs pediatric specialists become increasingly aware that surgical anesthesia may have lasting effects on the developing brains of young children, new research suggests the threat may also apply to adult brains. Researchers recently reported that testing in laboratory mice shows anesthesia’s neurotoxic effects depend on the age of brain neurons– not the age of the animal undergoing anesthesia.
Multi-Parametric Electrophysiological Imaging of the Mammalian Heart in vivo
June 6, 2013 11:05 am | by James Joubert, application scientist, Photometrics | Photometrics | Articles | CommentsCardiac arrhythmia is one of the most common diseases encountered in clinical cardiology. High-speed electrophysiological imaging using fluorescent probes has yielded tremendous insights into the basic mechanisms of arrhythmias and the effects of anti-arrhythmic drugs. However, optical mapping, as it is known to the cardiac research community, has remained relegated to the isolated (i.e. explanted) heart.
Flying Robot Controlled Using the Mind
June 6, 2013 10:25 am | News | CommentsResearchers have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind. The study goes far beyond fun and games and has the potential to help people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
Novel Compound Kills Cancer Cells, Stops Metastasis
June 6, 2013 9:51 am | News | CommentsScientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body.
Biological Clock Wiring Mapped
June 6, 2013 9:28 am | News | CommentsIn a recent issue of Neuron, researchers report the discovery of a crucial part of the biological clock: The wiring that sets its accuracy to within a few minutes out of the 1440 minutes per day. This wiring uses the neurotransmitter, GABA, to connect the individual cells of the biological clock in a fast network that changes strength with time of day.
Berries blamed for California man's Hepatitis A
June 6, 2013 5:25 am | by GREGORY BULL - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsGeoff Soza was celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary in Yellowstone National Park when the 64-year-old man learned the hard way that his seemingly healthy breakfast habit of mixing thawed berries with Greek yogurt had exposed him to a national outbreak of hepatitis A. Dozens of illnesses have...
