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Tags: Northeast, Utah, gene patenting, genome research, Southwest, Massachusetts, Genomics, Lecture
No more coolers for hearts on their way from donor to recipient. UCLA Medical has recently successfully transplanted a warm, beating heart into 61-year-old man with cardiomyopathy. The surgery was part of a clinical trial program that UCLA and other research hospitals in the United States are enrolled in to study the benefits of a new transport system for warm organs from Massachusetts company TransMedics. The warm box technology is known as their Organ Care System (OCS), and it keeps the heart beating and operational throughout transport, rather than freezing it. Specifically, the TransMedics system has these key functions, according to company specs:
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Tags: University of California Los Angeles, Medical Device Technology, Biomedical Equipment, California, transplant success story
San Antonio is about to celebrate the opening of a major new science research building: the STRF, or South Texas Research Facility on the campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center. The 190,000sf state-of-the-art research facility is stretched over only three floors, so the building is low and long: 1000 feet long. If you tipped over the Eiffel Tower...well, you get the idea. UTHSCSA started planning the new lab and office space three years ago when it became clear that their research faculty was growing at a healthy rate, but their facilities were not keeping up. When it is fully occupied, the STRF will house 350 faculty and staff members. Plans are to fill 60% of the building with current faculty and their research teams and to use the remaining space for new recruits, specifically 15 to 20 top scientists and their associates to be brought on board.
The four core programs moving to the STRF are:
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Tags: Stem cell research, cancer research, New research facilities, Texas, Southwest, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, Neuroscience
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Pulling material from technical science publications that is directly applicable to the business of science marketplace is sometimes a challenge, however, here is a thought provoking publication by Greirson et al. that addresses something most of us rarely think about.
"Plants are fundamental to all life on Earth. They provide us with food, fuel, fiber, industrial feed stocks, and medicines. They render our atmosphere breathable. They buffer us against extremes of weather and provide food and shelter for much of the life on our planet. However, we take plants and the benefits they confer for granted."
Of the one hundred or so plant research questions posted, the critical 10 appear to revolve around human societies need for survival.
Including:
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Tags: women in science, Life Science Funding, Plant science, Funding, Research Funding, industry news, Biomedical Research Funding
This story not only amazed us but brought home how important the work of researchers and medical equipment technology developers is in real time, right now, for saving the lives of actual people. Read the update below, too. -- 12/23/2011
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Tags: Harvard University, Northeast, Stem cell research, Translational Research, 2012, Massachusetts, Boston, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Event, MA, Harvard, Laboratory Equipment Supplier, Research equipment, transplant success story, 2011
When the information superhighway bypassed the local library and newsstand to bring electronic content directly to our laptops, we were told it was a great day for the environment. Think of all those trees that would no longer need to be cut down for paper! What we didn't think about (right away, at least, in all the giddiness of the moment), was that those massive computer servers had to exist somewhere in real space, and boy were they ever going to use a lot of energy. And all those computers downloading information were going to be a drain on some city's power supply too.
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Tags: Washington, Northwest, Washington State University, Energy, green design
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have discovered a new stem cell that assists in repairing lung airways. The discovery is significant because the airways are vital in protecting the body from airborne toxins. The airways contain glands that defend the body by producing and then removing mucus, a process which cleanses the lungs of infectious agents and environmental toxins. The study's findings have major potential for advancement in the field of lung regeneration.
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Tags: Stem cell research, California, UCLA, Stem Cell, Southwest Region
Emory University continues to expand its capacity for medical research and care as it begins construction on a new building dedicated primarily to pediatric care. The new facility is envisioned as a partnership between Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory as well as other Atlanta-area institutions such as the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Morehouse College School of Medicine.
Speaking about the new facility, S. Wright Caughman, M.D. and CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, argued "This partnership will lead to continued medical advances that will benefit pediatric and adult patients in Georgia and throughout the world and will help Emory and Children's reach the top ranks of pediatric research institutions."
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Recognizing a strong opportunity for productive public-private partnership in bioscience research to benefit public health, NIH has awarded a 5-year, $5.2M grant to Boulder, Colorado-based diagnostics firm MBio to produce a reasonably-priced, no-lab-required assay system for accurate identification of the influenza virus. Their winning project proposal includes this description:
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Tags: Photonics, Translational Research, Southwest, 2011 Research Funding, NIH, Colorado, new research grants, Boulder, Science Suppliers