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Automated cDNA preparation system accelerates CAGE analysis on a single molecule sequence

January 31, 2012
Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have developed a robotic workflow for sample preparation on the HeliScope single molecule sequencer which drastically reduces sample preparation time to from 42 days to only 8 days. The workflow uses Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE), a unique method developed at ...

MtDNA tests trace all modern horses back to single ancestor 140,000 years ago

January 31, 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years archeologists and other scientists have debated the origins of the domesticated horse. Nailing down a time frame is important because many historians view the relationship between man and horse as one of the most important in the development of our species. Horses allowed early people ...

Single-payer bill fails in California Senate

January 30, 2012
A single-payer health plan failed by two votes in the California State Senate Thursday.

Breast Cancers And Leukemias Slowed By A Single Therapy

January 24, 2012
Targeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias, according to two reports published online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The single protein is HSP90, which acts as a chaperone to protect other proteins in the cell. A team led by Ute Moll at the University ...

Targeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias

January 24, 2012
Targeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias, according to two reports published online on January 23 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

A single therapy slows multiple cancers

January 23, 2012
Targeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias, according to two reports published online on January 23 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Single dose of antibiotic leaves mice highly vulnerable to intestinal infection

January 20, 2012
Yet another study adds to the growing evidence that antibiotics can disrupt the balance of the intestinal flora, with negative effects on health. A team of researchers from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, has shown in mouse models that a single dose of the commonly used ...

State roundup: Single-payer plans in Calif., Vt.; Calif. may regain state prison health care control; Abortion issues in Texas, Minn.

January 19, 2012
The California universal health care bill didn't make it past the Senate Appropriations Committee last year -- but Tuesday, more than 100 advocates plan to present it to the committee again, hoping for a better outcome. Under the single-payer bill, Californians would pay the state -- instead of private insurance ...

Reducing HPV Infection – Single-Sex Vaccination Has Best Effect

January 5, 2012
According to a study in PLoS Medicine, the most effective strategy to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) is single-sex vaccination. They also found that it was preferable to vaccinate females instead of men, given that females are the sex with the highest prevaccine prevalence of HPV infection. Johannes ...

Record $736k paid for single tuna fish in Japan

January 5, 2012
A deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for a single tuna, the most ever paid for the fish, at Japan's Tsukiji fish market on Thursday.

FDA approves Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as a single dose for adults

December 31, 2011
Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval of the Company's pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevnar 13 (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) as a single dose for use in adults.

Single shared REMS for TIRF products receives FDA approval

December 30, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a single shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) products. This new shared system will replace the individual REMS and allow prescribers and pharmacies to enroll into just one system, easing the burden on the health ...