Plasma

Cancerous tumors, infections or bad fractures can make it necessary to surgically remove bones and insert implants in their place. In collaboration with European partners, Fraunhofer researchers have now developed a technique with which bone implants that are precisely fitting, stable and variable i more

Proper cell division is a basic process critical to cell survival. A ring composed of actin filaments and myosin motor proteins pinches the cell apart, producing two daughter cells with equal amounts of cellular components. Kathleen Gould , Ph.D., and colleagues characterized how this powerful contr more

Physical plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, together with solid, liquid, and gas, and can be completely or partially ionized (thermal/hot or non-thermal/cold plasma, respectively). Non-thermal plasma has many industrial applications, but plasma medicine is a new field of therapy more

Platelet aggregation is a “gold standard” assay of platelet function in the research and clinical laboratory settings which is conventionally measured with aggregometers requiring large volumes of platelet suspensions and only in low throughput forma more

Blood and plasma contain proteins that can lead to foaming during pipetting. This makes it difficult to pipette accurately and without contamination more

The MagNA Pure 96 System is a brand-new system recently introduced to the market: it is a fully automated, ultra-fast system for high-throughput isolation of high- quality nucleic acids from various sample types that can handle sample volumes of up t more

Publication date: 15 September 2018 Source:European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Volume 122 Author(s): Nebojsa Mihajlica, Christer Betsholtz, Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes Pericytes are perivascular cells that play important roles in the regulation of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) more

Publication date: 15 September 2018 Source:European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Volume 122 Author(s): S.M.T. Cavalcanti, C. Nunes, S.A. Costa Lima, J.L. Soares-Sobrinho, S. Reis An adapted methodology for obtaining lipid nanoparticles that only uses the microwave reactor in t more

by Jason S. Rockel, Weidong Zhang, Konstantin Shestopaloff, Sergei Likhodii, Guang Sun, Andrew Furey, Edward Randell, Kala Sundararajan, Rajiv Gandhi, Guangju Zhai, Mohit Kapoor Multiple factors can help predict knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients from healthy individuals, including age, sex, and B more