Laboratory - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Labs are the hub of much of modern medicine, either in the hospital setting processing patients blood tests and other samples, in research institutions at many universities or in the headquarters of biotech and pharma companies developing new therapies.
News Articles
Atossa Genetics to Exhibit Its ForeCYTE Breast Health Test at the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting
SEATTLE, WA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/23/13 -- Atossa Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS), The Breast Health Company, will display its ForeCYTE Breast Health Test at the 2013 American Society of Clinical O...
LABS, Inc. Announces Senior Management Promotion
Sara Dionne, Ph.D. Appointed Laboratory Director LABS, Inc., an FDA-registered laboratory nationally recognized for its expertise in providing donor eligibility testing...
RICHMOND, Va., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Thomas Dayspring, a Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. Medical Advisory Board member known as "Dr. Lipid" in lipidology and Twitter circles, will give a...
Roche presents new, fully automated lab solution at Europe's largest diagnostics conference
Roche announced today at the IFCC Euromedlab in Milan, Italy that it will soon introduce the cobas 8100 automated workflow series, a new solution for use in diagnostic laboratories. cobas 8100 automat...
Keating Dental Arts Prevails in Litigation over Use of the “KDZ Bruxer” Name
Judge’s Ruling Closes Door on Multi-Year Lawsuit, Allows Keating to Focus on Future Growth Keating Dental Arts (KDA), a full-service laboratory committed to providing...
Abaxis, Inc. to Present at the Stifel Annual Dental & Veterinary Conference
UNION CITY, Calif., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abaxis, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ABAX), a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, announced today that Martin Mulroy, chief...
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. Announces Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter 2013 Results
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (OTCQB: ILIU) announced today that it will host a conference call and Webcast on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. (EST) to provide a corporate...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Releases New Small Benchtop Centrifuge
Provides scientists with outstanding capacity in a compact design Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has launched the new Thermo Scientific sm...
SEATTLE, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Biomarkers and Clinigene International are set to unveil their collaborative laboratory solutions for developers of biosimilars at the 2013 AAPS/ Nat...
Vitamin D may help treat severe asthma
”Sunshine vitamin 'may treat asthma'”, BBC News informs us, as a new lab-based study suggests vitamin D could help control symptoms of severe asthma. Asthma is caused by inflammation of the airwa...
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Companies
LABS, Inc., founded in 1979 as Immunological Associates of Denver, was one of the first transplant laboratories established in the United States. Today, as a taxable, non-profit c...
Ambry Genetics is a CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified commercial clinical laboratory headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Since the company's inception in 2000, it has become a leader in provi...
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (OTCQB: ILIU) develops and markets a line of genetic tests under the Inherent Health® brand. The products empower individuals to prevent ce...
CSI Laboratories is a specialized cancer diagnostic laboratory focused specifically on meeting the unique needs and challenges of pathologists and community hospitals. The company...
Good Start Genetics provides the most clinically relevant genetic information to physicians. The Companyâs affordable pre-pregnancy test, which was developed by the Co...
BioRelix, Inc, is a drug discovery and development company focused on identifying new anti-infective drug treatments. BioRelix is building a portfolio of anti-infective products b...
Privately-held LabConnect (www.labconnectllc.com) provides global central laboratory testing services to the biopharmaceutical industry in support of their clinical trials....
Headquartered in Lewisville, Texas, med fusion is an integrated, advanced laboratory and clinical trials service organization providing support to healthcare providers, biotech an...
Atlas Medical delivers cost-effective outreach solutions for the healthcare enterprise that include integrated CPOE for Laboratory, Radiology, ePrescribing and other disciplines,...
One Lambda Inc. is a world leader in the manufacture of HLA medical diagnostic products based in Canoga Park, California. The company is committed to develop products that improve...
Clinical Trials
AFP464 in Treating Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of AFP464 in treating patients with advanced solid tumors. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as AFP464, work in different ways...
Selumetinib in Treating Young Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Low Grade Glioma
This phase I trial is studying the side effects and the best dose of selumetinib in treating young patients with recurrent or refractory low grade glioma. Selumetinib may stop the growth o...
Cohort Study for Patients Using Fuzeon (Enfuvirtide)
The Radata-Fuzeon cohort is an observational cohort study to gain a better understanding of Fuzeon (Enfuvirtide) in daily clinical practice. Patients planned to take this drug in a new ant...
This clinical research study is for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (in short AML) that did not respond to previous treatment or unable to receive chemotherapy. Arsenic has been...
RATIONALE: Cellular adoptive immunotherapy uses a person's white blood cells that are treated in the laboratory to stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop cancer cells from...
Study on the Relationship Between Physical Constitution and Diseases
Physical constitution is an important factor for the development and outcome of diseases according to the theory in traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of the study is to find the c...
Effect of Smoking Exposure on Smoking Relapse Following Brief Abstinence - 2
Recent research on the effects of nicotine on the brain and behavior presents an opportunity to advance medication development. The purpose of this study is to develop a laboratory model...
Analysis of Lyme Disease Lesions
This study will analyze cells from erythema migrans lesions, the "bull's eye" rash of Lyme disease. Little is known about what happens in the skin when it is infected with Borrelia burgdor...
Eculizumab to Treat Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the experimental drug eculizumab for treating paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a disorder that can cause premature destru...
Genistein in Patients Who Are Undergoing Surgery for Bladder Cancer
RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood, urine, and tissue from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that may occur in DNA and identify biomarkers...
PubMed Articles
Aim. The study aimed to collect information concerning the increasing use of new psychoactive substances, commonly sold through online shops as 'Internet drugs' or 'legal highs', or in terms of masked...
Pu(V) and Pu(IV) Sorption to Montmorillonite.
Plutonium (Pu) adsorption to and desorption from mineral phases plays a key role in controlling the environmental mobility of Pu. Here we assess whether the adsorption behavior of Pu at concentrations...
The leaves of Sapium sebiferum have long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the treatment of eczema, shingles, edema, swelling, ascites, scabs, and snakebites, among other maladies.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL EVIDENCE: Inflammation plays an important role in sepsis, and NF-κB is a key mediator of inflammation. Xuebijing (XBJ) injection is a traditional Chinese medicine injection that...
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) operates on the general principle that compatible components of different herbal decoction may work together to synergistically enhance therapeutic efficacy or reduc...
An immunochromatographic strip method, developed with the excretory-secretory antigens from muscle larvae (ML) of Trichinella spiralis labeled with colloidal gold, was used for the detection of anti-T...
This communication presents a novel kind of silicon nanomaterial: freestanding Si nanowire arrays (Si NWAs), which are synthesized facilely by one-step template-free electro-deoxidation of SiO2 in mol...
A G-quadruplex is identified which can exhibit two different motifs, respectively, corresponding to Na(+) and K(+). The relative amount of each motif is related to the Na(+)/K(+) ratio. Based on selec...
The life history of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is well understood, but fitness components are rarely measured by following single individuals over their lifetime, thereby limiting insight...
New fluorescent oligo(phenylene ethynylene)-DNA hydrogels have been prepared and used for the controllable biocidal activity driven by DNase. This study opens a new way of controllable drug release an...
Videos
Lab Week 2013: Mayo Clinic Laboratory Science Program
In celebration of National Laboratory Professionals Week, the Mayo Clinic Clinical Laboratory Science Program Class of 2013 produced a short video explaining...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Animal Care Committees
Institutional committees established to protect the welfare of animals used in research and education. The 1971 NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals introduced the policy that institutions using warm-blooded animals in projects supported by NIH grants either be accredited by a recognized professional laboratory animal accrediting body or establish its own committee to evaluate animal care; the Public Health Service adopted a policy in 1979 requiring such committees; and the 1985 amendments to the Animal Welfare Act mandate review and approval of federally funded research with animals by a formally designated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
Logical Observation Identifiers Names And Codes
A vocabulary database of universal identifiers for laboratory and clinical test results. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange and pooling of results for clinical care, outcomes management, and research. It is produced by the Regenstrief Institute. (LOINC and RELMA [Internet]. Indianapolis: The Regenstrief Institute; c1995-2001 [cited 2002 Apr 2]. Available from http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc)
Acinetobacter Baumannii
A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria, commonly found in the clinical laboratory, and frequently resistant to common antibiotics.
Citrobacter Rodentium
A species of gram-negative bacteria in the genus CITROBACTER, family ENTEROBACTERIACEAE. As an important pathogen of laboratory mice, it serves as a model for investigating epithelial hyperproliferation and tumor promotion. It was previously considered a strain of CITROBACTER FREUNDII.
Helicobacter Felis
A species of HELICOBACTER that colonizes in the STOMACH of laboratory MICE; CATS; and DOGS. It is associated with lymphoid follicular hyperplasia and mild GASTRITIS in CATS.
