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Setting New Standards in Steroid Hormone Analysis

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• Oscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chip

  If you throw a ball underwater, you'll find that the smaller it is, the faster it moves: A larger cross-section greatly increases the water's resistance. Now, a team of MIT researchers has figured out a way to use this basic principle, on a microscopic scale, to carry out biomedical tests that could more

• MRI findings shed light on multiple sclerosis

  New magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research shows that changes in brain blood flow associated with vein abnormalities are not specific for multiple sclerosis (MS) and do not contribute to its severity, despite what some researchers have speculated. Results of the research are published in Radiolog more

• Carl Zeiss Licences Digital Pathology from Olympus

  Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH and Olympus America Inc. have signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement allowing Carl Zeiss to access an extensive portfolio of patents held by Olympus in the field of digital pathology and virtual microscopy. The patents included in the licensing deal cover meth more

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• Quantification of BRCA1 Expression Level Using Standard RT-PCR Reagents - a Sensitive Method for the Detection of Low Amounts of Transcripts
  

  Mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA1, occur in the majority of families with multiple members affected with breast or ovarian cancer. Women who inherit a BRCA1 mutation have 40%-80% risk of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer. However, up to 90% of breast cancers are sporadic, and mutations in BRCA1 seem to be a rare event in sporadic breast tumors. more

• MagNA Pure Compact RNA Isolation Kit: Isolation of High-Quality Total RNA from a Broad Range of Sample Material
  

  The MagNA Pure Compact Instrument together with the new MagNA Pure Compact RNA Isolation Kit can be used for automated isolation of total RNA from blood, blood cells, tissue, and cultured cells. The MagNA Pure Compact System perfectly fits into Roche Applied Science's integrated solution for real-time PCR: The MagNA Lyser Instrument, Universal ProbeLibrary, Transcriptor First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit and FastStart TaqMan® Probe Master. more

• Nature's Ingenuity Shows the Way
  

  Up to 80 percent of our experience of our visual environment takes place via our visual perception. Without spatial vision, we would hardly be able to stay oriented. In recent decades, the neurosciences have gained many insights into the complex processes by which our brain's visual cortex and cerebral cortex do the fascinating job of processing the signals originating from the eyes into an image. A study carried out jointly by Leica Microsystems and the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology showed how flexible and powerfull our brain joins visual signals to create an optimal spatial image. The results provided the basis for an innovation in stereomicroscopy which, in terms of resolution and focus depth, has broken through limits that were previously impossible to overcome. more

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