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New research at Tel Aviv University may lay groundwork for retinal implants in people

Television's Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic "vision" of bionics a reality.

23 Mar 2010

Researchers devise simple water test to check for herbicide clomazone

University of California, Davis, scientists are helping rice farmers in Uruguay stop polluting their waterways -- including drinking-water sources and a globally valuable nature reserve.

23 Mar 2010

AF Stat launch "AFib Educator" smartphone app and desktop widget

AF Stat- - a collaboration of healthcare leaders and organizations working to improve the health and well-being of people affected by atrial fibrillation (AFib) - today unveiled the "AFib Educator," a smartphone app and desktop widget to help healthcare practitioners better explain the risks and consequences of the disease to their patients.

23 Mar 2010

NPR's Car Talk guys team up with University of Utah to launch Driver Distraction Center

NPR's Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, may be a couple of motor mouths, but they always put a lid on using cell phones behind the wheel. The perennial jokesters confirm their serious commitment to addressing the issue of devices that take a driver's focus off the road by teaming with the University of Utah to launch the Driver Distraction Center at their web site: cartalk.com/distraction.

23 Mar 2010

Chest x-rays may help identify high-risk H1N1 patients

A new study published in the April issue of Radiology suggests that chest x-rays may play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of H1N1 influenza by predicting which patients are likely to become sicker.

23 Mar 2010

Abbott acquires STARLIMS Technologies for $123M

Abbott announced today that it has completed its $123 million acquisition of STARLIMS Technologies Ltd., a leader in laboratory information management systems.

23 Mar 2010

Nodality raises $15.5M to support launch of acute myelogenous leukemia test

Nodality, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development of next generation personalized medicine tests in cancer and autoimmune disease, today announced it completed financing in which the company raised $15.5 million.

23 Mar 2010

Meridian Bioscience seeks FDA marketing clearance for illumigene C. difficile molecular diagnostic test

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. announced today that it has submitted a 510(k) application to the United States Food and Drug Administration for marketing clearance of its new, simple molecular diagnostic test, illumigene™ C. difficile. illumigene is a simplified new technology platform, based upon loop amplification (LAMP) that makes molecular diagnostic testing possible for any size laboratory.

23 Mar 2010

Fulcrum Ventures invests $1.25M in Path-Tec

Fulcrum Ventures announced today that they invested $1.25 million in Path-Tec, LLC. Founded in 2005, Path-Tec provides clinical, pharmaceutical and research labs with a turnkey solution for kit design, production, client supply management and patient specimen tracking.

22 Mar 2010

Location Based Technologies receives order from Stephen Gould for medical equipment, asset tracking devices

Location Based Technologies, Inc., a leading-edge service provider of personal, pet, and asset location devices, today announced that they have received an order from Stephen Gould Corporation for specialized medical equipment and asset tracking devices that will be utilized by a Southern California medical company.

22 Mar 2010

Freeslate announces the launch of Core Module automation system

Today, Freeslate, Inc. announced the launch of its third generation Core Module automation system (CM3); designed to optimize workflow integration, it enables scientists to leverage a single automated platform to run a diverse array of laboratory applications.

22 Mar 2010

Two scientific poster presentations on InVision-Plus connectors featured at SHEA meeting

Two scientific poster presentations that demonstrate the infection prevention capabilities of InVision-Plus® with Neutral Advantage™ technology were featured at the annual conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

22 Mar 2010

CRi to distribute 3DHISTECH’s digital slide scanners and software applications in North America

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), a leader in pre-clinical and molecular imaging, announced today that it has signed exclusive agreements to distribute 3DHISTECH’s full suite of digital slide scanners and software applications in North America, and the development and distribution of next generation product offerings that address growing applications in digital pathology. These agreements expand CRi’s offerings in the rapidly growing digital pathology market.

22 Mar 2010

Lab on a Chip for research on oxygen impact on brain cells

A mini-laboratory that makes it possible, among other things, to study how brain cells in stroke patients are affected by lack of oxygen is being developed by a research team at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Lab on a Chip is what the scientists are calling their mini-lab, which is expected to facilitate studies of all sorts of biological cells and how they are affected by different medicines, chemical substances, etc.

22 Mar 2010

Nanotechnology weapons for cancer

US Researchers have come up with new nanoparticle robots that are essentially a tiny army that can travel in the blood till they reach the cancers and then tweak some important cancer causing genes that can cure the cancer.

22 Mar 2010

Mayo Clinic co-led research finds first gene linked to lung cancer in "never smokers"

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of "never smokers" diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers.

22 Mar 2010

Caltech-led trial demonstrates feasibility of nanoparticles and RNAi-based therapeutics for treating cancer

A California Institute of Technology -led team of researchers and clinicians has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle-used as an experimental therapeutic and injected directly into a patient's bloodstream-can traffic into tumors, deliver double-stranded small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and turn off an important cancer gene using a mechanism known as RNA interference (RNAi).

22 Mar 2010

Scientists identify new growth factor that stimulates expansion of hematopoietic stem cells

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified a new growth factor that stimulates the expansion and regeneration of hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells in culture and in laboratory animals. The discovery, appearing in the journal Nature Medicine, may help researchers overcome one of the most frustrating barriers to cellular therapy: the fact that stem cells are so few in number and so stubbornly resistant to expansion.

22 Mar 2010

'Dipstick' 3-in-1 test for detection of Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis and African trypanosomiasis

A new simple, inexpensive three-in-one test to diagnose a terrible trio of parasitic diseases that wreak havoc in the developing world is passing preliminary tests, scientists reported here today. Described during the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society the test is for Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis, and "sleeping sickness" or African trypanosomiasis.

22 Mar 2010

Inexpensive lab tests can help protect people from chronic kidney disease

No matter what Washington does on health reform, there's a lot you can do to reform your own health -- and two of the best places to start are your kidneys.

20 Mar 2010

Laboratory News and Research

New research at Tel Aviv University may lay groundwork for retinal implants in people

Researchers devise simple water test to check for herbicide clomazone

AF Stat launch "AFib Educator" smartphone app and desktop widget

NPR's Car Talk guys team up with University of Utah to launch Driver Distraction Center

Chest x-rays may help identify high-risk H1N1 patients

Abbott acquires STARLIMS Technologies for $123M

Nodality raises $15.5M to support launch of acute myelogenous leukemia test

Meridian Bioscience seeks FDA marketing clearance for illumigene C. difficile molecular diagnostic test

Fulcrum Ventures invests $1.25M in Path-Tec

Location Based Technologies receives order from Stephen Gould for medical equipment, asset tracking devices

Freeslate announces the launch of Core Module automation system

Two scientific poster presentations on InVision-Plus connectors featured at SHEA meeting

CRi to distribute 3DHISTECH’s digital slide scanners and software applications in North America

Lab on a Chip for research on oxygen impact on brain cells

Nanotechnology weapons for cancer

Mayo Clinic co-led research finds first gene linked to lung cancer in "never smokers"

Caltech-led trial demonstrates feasibility of nanoparticles and RNAi-based therapeutics for treating cancer

Scientists identify new growth factor that stimulates expansion of hematopoietic stem cells

'Dipstick' 3-in-1 test for detection of Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis and African trypanosomiasis

Inexpensive lab tests can help protect people from chronic kidney disease

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