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UPDATE 2-Sony, Sharp in turnaround battle; Panasonic battered

* Panasonic shares dive 19 pct, $3 bln wiped off mkt value

WRAPUP 1-Sony, Sharp in turnaround battle; Panasonic battered

* Panasonic shares dive 19 pct, $3 bln wiped off mkt value

Panasonic Upgrades Toughbook H2 Rugged Tablet PC for Healthcare Professionals

Panasonic has announced upgrades to the Panasonic Toughbook® H2, the industry’s most rugged handheld tablet PC. With a Healthcare Specific design, the MIL-STD-810G1 and IP651 certified device inclu...

UPDATE 1-Panasonic says no plan now to invest in Olympus

* Comments follow report that Panasonic to invest $630 mln

UPDATE 2-Panasonic says no plan to invest in Olympus

* Comments follow report that Panasonic to invest $630 mln

Panasonic Develops One-Hour Gene Test Of Targeted-Drug Effectiveness

Japan's Panasonic said it has developed a microchip capable of scanning genetic information to determine the effectiveness of a drug for a particular patient, all in one hour.

Sony, Panasonic top candidates for Olympus tie-Asahi

TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp are the leading contenders to take an equity stake in Olympus Corp as the scandal-hit medical equipment maker moves to shore up its finances, the...

Panasonic ULT freezers ensure sample security for LifeLines healthy aging study in Groningen

Panasonic Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) freezers are making a real impact on sample security at the LifeLines project, a large-scale genetic study of healthy aging being run in the Dutch provinces of Gr...

Bio-templated CdSe nanoparticle synthesis in a cage shaped protein, Listeria-Dps, and their two dimensional ordered array self-assembly.

We report here, for the first time, a biotemplated synthesis of uniform CdSe nanoparticle (4.1 ± 0.5 nm) and a fabrication of two-dimensional CdSe nanoparticles (over one micrometre) with nanometric...

Phthalocyanines: a new class of G-quadruplex-ligands with many potential applications.

A G-quadruplex is a four-stranded DNA structure featuring stacked guanine tetrads, G-quartets. Formation of a G-quadruplex in telomere DNA can inhibit telomerase activity; therefore, development of G-...

GATA-2 anomaly and clinical phenotype of a sporadic case of lymphedema, dendritic cell, monocyte, B- and NK-cell (DCML) deficiency, and myelodysplasia.

A Japanese patient presented with lymphedema, severe Varicella zoster, and Salmonella infection, recurrent respiratory infections, panniculitis, monocytopenia, B- and NK-cell lymphopenia, and myelodys...

Correlation of Aβ deposition in the nasal cavity with the formation of senile plaques in the brain of a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

The deposition of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) is commonly reported in the nasal cavity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, although the pathological significance of this finding is unknown. This study...

Urinary volatile compounds as biomarkers for lung cancer.

Lung cancer is a leading cause of deaths in cancer. Hence, developing early-stage diagnostic tests that are non-invasive, highly sensitive, and specific is crucial. In this study, we investigated to d...