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FloCyte Regionals: A Gateway to the World of Flow |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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Sunny Davis, California was the site of the latest FloCyte Regional Intensive Short Course in Flow Cytometry. This course is designed to provide the background, theory and hands-on training necessary to put scientists from all walks in the driver's seat of their own flow experiements. These courses are ongoing and may be in your area soon. If you are thinking about signing up, and want a user's perspective of a week in the life of a FloCyte attendee, then read more...
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Calcium May be the Key to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with
familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within
neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2),
interact with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell
compartment.
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Rising AIDS Rates Has Isreali Officials Worried |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
HIV may be a relatively small problem in Israel, but the soaring rate
of new infections among vulnerable populations has forced health
officials to take action.
According to the Israel AIDS Task Force (IATF), a non-governmental
organisation (NGO) providing HIV and Aids education and support, among
men who have sex with men (MSM) the proportion who contracted HIV had
shot up by 67 percent between 2006 and 2007.
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Using the Net to Track Infectious Disease |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets
be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of
researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering
system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online
intelligence. They describe their project in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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