Cornea transplants can be improved
...ndardizing the procedures used by the nation's eye banks to assess corneal cells may help to select corneas...re performing the same type of assessment that eye banks perform to ascertain whether a cornea is healthy enough for a transplant. "Our results found that, o...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...lated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the opti... Fisk and Roberts also say that private cord blood banks target parents at a vulnerable time. "Such banks have been said to raise hopes of utopia and to use...News tips for Monday, November 8, 2004
...ggest the potential benefit of creating human cell banks for use in pediatric patients diagnosed before birth with congenital heart defects. Also see Abstract 2481 (4:15 p.m.) for another report showing the feasibility of growing tissue-engineered "living heart" valves using cells taken from umbilical cor...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
...udan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and prone to burst its banks once every five years. Major changes that have occurred in wetland environments in Senegal, Chad and Liberia during the last few decades are identified using satellite data in order to establish recommendations for their sustainable management. And ...Techniques for making Barbie dolls can improve health care
...anagement techniques to improve the way that blood banks collect blood from donors and deliver units to hospitals. An increasing number of hospitals adopting capacity planning techniques used in assembly lines. The use of scheduling systems used by service providers like Sears to reduce the delay in ph...Whole blood may do more harm than good in pediatric heart surgeries
...p reduce some of the inventory problems that blood banks grapple with." The study involved 200 children under age 1 who required heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine, which adds oxygen to blood and maintains circulation while the heart is stopped for surgery. The research team compared two dif...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...omes. This is important for patients and for blood banks potentially saving lots of money and preserving component inventory." During heart surgery, babies must be placed on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine, which does the work of the heart and lungs while surgeons make repairs. The machine must be pri...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
...line, and coasts are always changing: sand and mud banks have been known to shift hundreds of metres during a single year. Aerial surveying can cover hundreds of kilometres in a day, but is costly and can only be performed if weather conditions are right. Both tropical and polar coasts may stay enshrouded ...Screening removes West Nile from bood supply
...ng of blood donations for West Nile virus by blood banks has likely prevented more than 1,000 transfusion-r...k of transfusion transmission in the future, blood banks in the United States began screening donations for West Nile virus in July 2003. Over a six-month p...Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...ing biological access and the structure of ES cell banks for research and therapy. In addition, HLA experts Xiao-jiang Gao, of the National Cancer Institute, and John Hansen, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, were authors of that report but not members of the Working Group. Brock is Professor ...A little blue and purple helps body fend off deadly parasites
...tries, the rate of T. cruzi contamination in blood banks often ranges higher than similar rates for the viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis. While Chagas may be endemic to South and Central America, the problem of contaminated blood is of worldwide concern. Reports have surfaced of infections with AIDS, ...Larger blood reserves needed for ageing population
...its of red blood cells from all NHS hospital blood banks in the north of England. More than half (52%) of all units were given to medical patients, 41% to surgical patients, and 6% to obstetric and gynaecology patients. Demand for blood transfusion increases with age. The average age of a patient receivin...Drug developed at Duke appears effective in treating respiratory failure in newborns
...s within the lungs. The team searched through data banks of known molecules and found that ENO had the ideal chemical characteristics and in test tubes produced SNOs. Through a complex and novel preparatory process, the group turned the ENO into gas. "This drug was designed in the laboratory to replenish S...UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
...h cash since they did not trust or know how to use banks and were especially vulnerable on weekends. - felt unsafe in their neighborhoods and homes, particularly in urban areas. - tended to live in substandard housing easy to break into in poorer areas. - were victims of fraud by being overcharged for serv...Should banks be liable for pollution caused by companies that borrow from them?
...ing to the team's survey of the UK banking sector, banks are a little concerned that they could still be held liable. There is no consensus among UK banks whether they would respond to environmental liability legislation by raising or lowering their margi......d personnel then screen all the compounds in their banks against our assays and their own," Brennan said. "Once we have a match we come back to Ian, who tests it in his lab, looking for efficacy and then making sure there's no toxicity associated with it." Orme's team will screen the most promising drugs...