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National Cancer Institute Selects Zecotek’s Tunable Green Fiber Laser for Flow Cytometry Applications
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE — Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institutes…
FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for pacemakers patients
15th December 2009 : Courtesy BiomedCentral.com Web site The researchers at FDA have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient’s heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan…
Research on pigs discovers ‘jumping gene’
A partially EU-funded project carrying out research into muscle development in pigs has discovered the existence of a new gene called ZBED6 that is unique to placental mammals. The newly discovered gene…
Sensor Detects Good and Bad Heart Plaque
15th December 2009 California USA : A new tool may help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgical intervention from chronic problems that can be treated with diet and medication. Angiograms, images…
Easy access to cell therapy in Doha Qatar soon
DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will step into regenerative medicine, soon, with the Virgin health Bank –QSTP (VHB) becoming fully functional in Qatar. The long wait for various facilities needed for bone-marrow…
Private cord blood and stem cell banking in Qatar by January
DOHA: Local Newspaer Peninsula has reported that the much awaited national stem-cell banking system in Qatar will become a reality by the end of January 2010, when Virgin Health Bank QSTP (VHB)…
Tea and Coffee Can Prevent Diabetes
London, December 15 – Tea and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a large body of evidence shows. And the protection may not be down to caffeine…
Anti-depressants ‘up stroke risk’
Post menopausal women who take anti-depressants face a small – but statistically significant – increased risk of a stroke, research suggests. The US study was based on 136,293 women aged 50 to…
AIDS Prevention Gel Fails in Trial
In another setback for the fight against AIDS, a microbicide to protect women against infection has failed in the largest trial of its kind, researchers said Monday. That failure, several researchers said,…
CT Scans Linked to Cancer
The risk of cancer associated with popular CT scans appears to be greater than previously believed, according to two new studies published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The findings support…
Kuwait Scientific centre marks launching of the Aquarium upgrade
KUWAIT, Dec 14 (KUNA) — Scientific centre has marked Monday launching of the upgrading project of the Aquarium Centre through adding new interactive monitors under the sponsorship of Aquarium’s director Mujbal Al-Mutawah,…
19-20 people die in Saudi Roads daily
14th December 2009 Saudi Arabia : An average of 20 people are killed in Saudi traffic accidents daily, making the country’s roads among the most unsafe in the world, local newspaper Arab…
GE Healthcare launches FTA DMPK cards for storage of study samples
GE Healthcare announced the launch of FTA DMPK cards for the collection and storage of blood samples for use in pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic (PK/TK) studies. This methodology stores the samples as dried…
New Research Predicts Longer Life Expectancy for Americans
CHICAGO USA, Dec. 14 — Current US government projections may significantly underestimate the future life expectancy of Americans, according to new research from the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society published…