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Micro heart muscle created from stem cells

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Micro heart muscle created from stem cells

Image/ Video Credit: A unique dog bone-shaped dish helped heart cells created from iPSCs self-organize into three-dimensional, beating micro heart muscle. Video: Nathaniel Huebsch

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have invented a new way to create three-dimensional human heart tissue from stem cells. The tissue can be used to model disease and test drugs, and it opens the door for a precision medicine approach to treating heart disease. Although there are existing techniques to make three-dimensional tissues from heart cells, the new method dramatically reduces the number of cells needed, making it an easier, cheaper, and more efficient system. Read More

(Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-micro-heart-muscle-stem-cells.html)

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University of Calgary Study: EagleBio’s ​Ultra-Sensitive Streptavidin Coated 96 Well Microplate

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Ultra-Sensitive Streptavidin Coated 96 Well Microplate is for Research Use Only.

EagleBio’s Ultra-Sensitive Streptavidin Coated 96 Well Microplate was recently used in a study by the University Calgary. See publication below:

Identification of protein-protein interactions between the TatB and TatC subunits of the twin-arginine translocase system and respiratory enzyme specific chaperones.

The Twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway serves for translocation of fully folded proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane in bacterial and chloroplast thylakoid membranes. The Escherichia coli Tat system consists of three core components: TatA, TatB, and TatC. The TatB and TatC subunits form the receptor complex for Tat dependent proteins. Read More

(Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26826271)

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Managing Microglia and Treating Neurodegenerative Disease

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The area of a brain lacking Mer and Axl that Salk scientists call the ‘trail of death

Image credit: Salk Institute


Even when the body has reached the peak of development, there are certain regions of the brain where neurons continue to grow. In order to keep these areas neat and clean, the brain recruits immune cells uniquely designed to clear out the dead and dying cells in the brain. Read More

(Source: https://www.labroots.com/trending/immunology/2833/managing-microglia-treating-neurodegenerative-disease)

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EagleBio’s Updated SDMA Assay- Faster results, Multiple species, Smaller Sample Size

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EagleBio's New SDMA Assay

 

SDMA (Symmetric Dimethylarginine) ELISA is for Research Use Only.

SDMA (Symmetric Dimethylarginine) ELISA is one of the unique assays in the this Oxidative Stress Assay Kit Line that offers a variety of advantages over competing kits such as excellent specificity, sensitivity, and excellent correlation to LC-MS/MS.  

EagleBio’s SDMA (Symmetric Dimethylarginine) ELISA NOW has some new enhancements to offer more benefits and further assist our customers in their kidney function research.

Assay Updates:

  • Updated Assay protocol
  • Results in 3 hours rather than overnight
  • Human, Canine, and Feline SDMA can be measured
  • Small Sample size required – just 20 µl
  • Strong Correlation with LC/MS

The new  SDMA Fast ELISA is now very fast and precise. This test delivers for the first time precise results in less than 3 hours!  Check out the product page for more details Here.

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Controlling Cell Turnover in the Intestinal Lining

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Image credit: www.chla.org

The lining of the intestine is the most rapidly-renewing tissue in the body. Routine shedding of epithelial cells from this lining is a key element of tissue turnover, and is thus essential to maintaining optimal health. Altered shedding is associated with multiple disorders, ranging from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to colorectal cancer. Read More

(Source: https://www.chla.org/press-release/controlling-cell-turnover-the-intestinal-lining)

 

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Gas in the gut isn’t just an embarrassment – it might be an important indication of your body’s health.

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I hate to say it, but doctors have something of a flatulence problem: at the moment, they know embarrassingly little about the bubbles brewing in your bowels.

“What comes out of the backside only tells us about the last 20cm of the gut,” says Peter Gibson at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. Gibson wants to know what’s happening in the previous 130cm of the digestive tract, leading up to that final explosion. Read More

(Source: https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160331-why-we-need-a-better-way-to-measure-farts)

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To diagnose autism, we should be watching the eyes

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image credit: www.sciencealert.com

Two separate groups of researchers have uncovered similar techniques for figuring out whether children have autism that’s quick, cheap, easy, and highly accurate: tracking the way their eyes move using a webcam and software. The new procedures could ultimately lead to an earlier and more accurate diagnosis for affected patients. Read More

(Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-eye-tracking-techniques-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-autism)

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Moorfields Acuity Chart: Novel Sight Test Detects Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Left: conventional chart. Right: Moorfields Acuity Chart. Image credit: Nilpa Shah et al.

 Image above from: www.sci-news.com 


An international team of scientists, led by Prof. Roger Anderson from the University of Ulster at Coleraine and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, has designed a test that can spot the first stages of sight loss in age-related macular degeneration. Read More

(Source: https://www.sci-news.com/medicine/moorfields-acuity-chart-early-age-related-macular-degeneration-03740.html)