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IPv6 guide provides path to secure deployment of next-generation Internet protocol
As the day draws nearer for the world to run out of the unique addresses that allow us to use the Internet — now predicted to happen by the end of 2012 — researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a guide …
Transcriptome analysis, organ culture methods featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Mon., Jan. 3, 2011) — New technologies and methods are spurring a renaissance in the study of organogenesis. Organogenesis, essentially the process through which a group of cells becomes a functioning organ, has important…
New protocol reduces children’s radiation exposure during cardiac procedures
A protocol that uses continuous real-time radiation monitoring, low-dose imaging programs and requires physician awareness of radiation dose, significantly reduced radiation exposure during electrophysiology procedures and catheter ablations to diag…
Overcoming the IVF baby blues
Between 20 and 30 percent of women who undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures suffer from significant symptoms of depression. Many practitioners believe that the hormone therapy involved in IVF procedures is primarily responsible for this. …
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features chromosomal rearrangement, gene copy number methods
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Wed., Sept. 1, 2010) — A cell devotes a significant amount of effort to maintaining the stability of its genome, preventing the sorts of chromosomal rearrangements characteristic of many cancers. Assays that measure the r…
Pittsburgh approach has lung transplant patients taking fewer drugs
Surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) have instituted a new clinical protocol that has the potential to redefine the standard of care for lung transplant patients. Bucking conventional thought that successful lung transplantation can only be achieved with a three-punch assault on the immune system, the new protocol is a departure from the triple-drug therapy in place at nearly every other transplant center.