Plasmid Land: The Plasmid Cloning Game

When the average person asks, “What is a plasmid?” we sometimes struggle to give them a basic answer. Plasmids are circular fragments of double-stranded DNA that can replicate independen...

Xofigo (radium-223 dichloride)

New treatment for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients with bone metastases. Xofigo shown in a pivotal phase III trial to significantly improve overall survival. Xofigo® with...

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is a massive market for biotechnology companies with its collection of tropical diseases, large populations and agricultural importance. It is not only a customer in this industry...

Tumor Necrosis Factor TNF Products

Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) and TNF receptor antagonists and agonists used to treat TNF-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or to treat cancer. TNF blockers are the commerc...

Cytokine Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF)

TNF is a compound that is classified as a cytokine which plays a central role in the cellular mechanisms of apoptosis or cell death. However, there are a number of different kinds of TNF, just under...

MacCase Launches Premium Leather iPad Mini Folio

Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2013 MacCase, the creators of the Apple specific case market, has released a version of their much lauded Premium Leather Folio specifically for the iPad Mini. â...

The Cognitive Impact Of Mini-Strokes

A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience details for the first time how "mini-strokes" cause prolonged periods of brain damage and result in cognitive impairment. These strokes, which are often impe...

Ansaton USA Announces New Advanced RIC Hearing Instrument

HANSATON USA has introduced the redesigned X-Mini RIC hearing instrument, offering the excellent sound quality and comfort of HANSATON's new XearA technology. The X-Mini provides substantially improve...

'Mini' Strokes Can Lead to Major Disability, Study Finds

Roughly 1 in 8 Disabled by Mini Strokes Experience Warning Symptoms Only Once

Measuring the exertion of mini-basketball players

(Elhuyar Fundazioa) The main aim of the thesis produced by Maite Fuentes was to find out what the perception of exertion is of young mini-basketball players, girls and boys, while they are competing....

Mini quesadillas, pizza slices recalled over E. coli fears

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Rich Products Corp. has announced a voluntary recall of 192,222 pounds of its Farm Rich Mini Quesadillas and other Farm Rich products because of a possible E. coli contamination....

'Mini-Strokes' May Be More Damaging Than Thought

THURSDAY, Sept. 13 -- Many people who have "mini-strokes" struggle with serious, lingering disabilities, even though the condition typically is considered too mild to treat, Canadian researchers repor...

Women have a poorer quality of life after a stroke or mini stroke than men

(Wiley) Having a stroke or mini stroke has a much more profound effect on women than men when it comes to their quality of life. Swedish researchers asked patients attending an out-patient clinic to c...

Epicanthoplasty with double eyelidplasty incorporating modified Z-plasty for Chinese patients.

BACKGROUND: Blepharoplasty, without correction of the epicanthal folds, weakens the aesthetic appearance of the results. Hence, a modified Z-plasty procedure with double eyelidplasty was carried out f...

A new crease fixation technique for double eyelidplasty using mini-flaps derived from pretarsal levator tissues.

BACKGROUND:: Most double eyelid operations focus on using a levator insertion into the upper eyelid skin that induces adhesion. Although incision method provides a significant supratarsal fold, it has...

SSB proteins unwind the newly synthesized double-stranded DNA of model mini-forks.

Single stranded DNA binding (SSB) proteins are essential proteins of DNA metabolism. We characterized the binding of the bacteriophage T4 SSB, Escherichia coli SSB, human replication protein A (hRPA)...

Mini-midvastus vs standard medial parapatellar approach: a prospective, randomized, double-blinded study in patients undergoing bilateral total knee arthroplasty.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the mini-midvastus approach to total knee arthroplasty (TKA) results in differences in quadriceps muscle strength as well as previously cited advanta...

Mini-CEX as a workplace-based assessment tool for interns in an emergency department - Does cost outweigh value?

Background: The mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX) has been proposed as a method to address the deficiencies of in-training assessment for junior doctors. Aim: Our study aimed to determine t...