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Children''s Brain Tumor Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1988 by dedicated parents, physicians and friends. Our mission is to improve the treatment, quality of life and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research, support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors. Knowledge is critical for families to access expert care and ensure quality of life. Our free publication A Resource Guide for Parents of Children with Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors is now in its fourth edition, and is full of practical information to sort out the complexities of medical procedures, interruptions in school and social life, and uncertainty about the future. CBTF co-sponsors conferences for families, survivors and health care professionals, offering the latest information about research, treatments and strategies for living. Only scientific research will identify the causes and lead to effective treatments for brain tumors in children. CBTF funds cutting-edge research by scientists at top academic medical centers. Their discoveries hold the promise of improving the lives of affected children today and discovering the means of prevention for future generations. CBTF has awarded over $5 million in grants for basic and clinical research related to pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors. Also, over $625,000 has been given out in Quality of Life Grants.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF), an all-volunteer organization, was founded in 1994 by families, friends and physicians of children with brain tumors. Our mission is to raise funds for scientific research and heighten public awareness of this most devastating disease and to improve prognosis and quality of life for those that are affected. Founded and incorporated in Virginia, relocated to Maryland in 1998, the Foundation (a 501(c) (3), strives to meet the goals of our mission. Friends, families, and physicians brought CBTF together and are dedicated to serving the needs of families and children with brain tumors, in hopes of improving the quality of life and find cures for pediatric brain tumors. Annually, CBTF funds basic science or clinical research for pediatric brain tumors; conferences and other programs. We provide informational materials on our website and mail other information (nationally and internationally) upon request. The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) has funded state-of-the-art research and supported conferences for pediatric brain tumors over the past 17 years. Grants submissions are reviewed thoroughly by our dedicated renown team of scientific advisors to ensure that CBTF selects the highest quality research for pediatric brain tumors. Each year, we receive so many outstanding applications and it is through the support of private and public donations that this is all possible. With your support, together, we will strive to find a cure for children''s brain tumors.

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A java desktop application for visualising and exploring comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A biomaterial supply resource which stores and provides ovarian, breast, pancreatic, and cervical tissue samples and fluids to cancer researchers. The UAB Tissue Collection and Banking Facility collects tissue samples for the UAB Ovarian, Breast, Pancreatic, and Cervix SPORE banks. Samples from the former Ovarian SPORE bank are available to UAB Cancer Center members via the Tissue Procurement Shared Facility, and to other researchers via the Cooperative Human Tissue Network.

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Biospecimen banking (BSB) involves collecting, processing, storing and distributing of human or animal tissues and body fluids of molecular grade. Human tissues and body fluids are banked in compliance with IRB approved protocols without compromising the diagnostic process and maintaining donor confidentiality (HIPAA compliant). Investigator-driven biobanking initiatives are of paramount importance at the University. The BSB provides investigators with the infrastructure to establish organ-specific biobanks in a centralized location. This arrangement allows for minimal duplication of costs, as well as establishing a working template for all tissue collections. The BSB has grown exponentially, and has a strong team of experienced personnel banking tissues for clinical trials, investigator-driven projects, and future biospecimen-based research. In addition, the BSB now collects and stores saliva, urine, blood, plasma, serum, and derivatives. The BSB is a complex process, requiring multiple interacting systems to ensure the scientific quality of procured tissue, and body fluids, patient confidentiality, adherence to good clinical practices, and regulated disbursement of biospecimens to approved investigators. They are also aware that policies, HIPAA guidelines, and federal and state tissue procurement regulations may change, and will be fully compliant with all new regulations.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 27, 2012. The National Cancer Institute established centers in the United States and its territories for the collection and distribution of tissues, blood and secretions from patients with clinically-characterized AIDS related malignancies in 1994. The AIDS Malignancy Bank makes these tissues available to qualified investigators in the United States for research on AIDS malignancies. It is hoped that by providing access to these high-quality specimens, research in AIDS-related malignancies will be encouraged and expanded. The AMB contains formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues, fresh-frozen tissues, malignant-cell suspensions, fine-needle aspirates, and cell lines from AIDS-related malignancies. The bank also contains serum, plasma, urine, bone marrow, cervical secretions, anal swabs, saliva semen and multi-site autopsy tissues from patients with AIDS-related malignancies who have participated in clinical trials. The bank has an associated database that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained. Researchers pay for preparation and shipping of specimens.

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A dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens serving imagery for more than 750 specimens contributed by almost 150 collaborating researchers from the world''s premiere natural history museums and universities. Browse through the site and see spectacular imagery and animations and details on the morphology of many representatives of the Earth''s biota. Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of ''invertebrates.'' The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts. Digital Morphology visualizations are now in use in classrooms and research labs around the world and can be seen in a growing number of museum exhibition halls. The Digital Morphology site currently presents: * QuickTime animations of complete stacks of serial CT sections * Animated 3D volumetric movies of complete specimens * Stereolithography (STL) files of 3D objects that can be viewed interactively and rapidly prototyped into scalable physical 3D objects that can be handled and studied as if they were the original specimens * Informative introductions to the scanned organisms, often written by world authorities * Pertinent bibliographic information on each specimen * Useful links * A course resource for our ''Digital Methods for Paleontology'' course, in which students learn how to generate all of the types of imagery displayed on the Digital Morphology site

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Open source environment for sharing, processing and analyzing stem cell data bringing together stem cell data sets with tools for curation, dissemination and analysis. Standardization of the analytical approaches will enable researchers to directly compare and integrate their results with experiments and disease models in the Commons. Key features of the Stem Cell Commons * Contains stem cell related experiments * Includes microarray and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data from human, mouse, rat and zebrafish * Data from multiple cell types and disease models * Carefully curated experimental metadata using controlled vocabularies * Export in the Investigation-Study-Assay tabular format (ISA-Tab) that is used by over 30 organizations worldwide * A community oriented resource with public data sets and freely available code in public code repositories such as GitHub Currently in development * Development of Refinery, a novel analysis platform that links Commons data to the Galaxy analytical engine * ChIP-seq analysis pipeline (additional pipelines in development) * Integration of experimental metadata and data files with Galaxy to guide users to choose workflows, parameters, and data sources Stem Cell Commons is based on open source software and is available for download and development.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share summaries of academic papers online. There are currently over 600 Creative Commons licensed summaries of academic papers on AcaWiki. Browse summaries in economics, psychology, sociology, business, or computer science among other fields. AcaWiki enables you to easily post summaries and literature reviews of peer-reviewed research. Many summaries on AcaWiki come up high on Google results. If you want to find summaries or literature reviews of peer-reviewed research, you can either browse summaries or search.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software that finds global alignments of short DNA sequences against large DNA banks. It is able to perform fast gapped alignments and works well for both short and longer reads. It has been tested for reads up to 500bp.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A promoter database of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Users can explore the promoter regions of ~6000 genes and ORFs in yeast genome, annotate putative regulatory sites of all genes and ORFs, locate intergenic regions, and retrieve sequence of the promoter region. In regards to regulatory elements and transcription factors, users can provide information on transcriptionally related genes, browse matrix and consensus sequences, view the correlation between elements, observe binding affinity and expression, and look at genomewise distribution. SCPD also provides some simple but useful tools for promoter sequence analysis. Gene, consensus and matrix records may be submitted.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

PROCURE proposes to enable the collection and storage of standardized high volumes of prostatic tissues, blood, urine, clinical information and socio-demographic data from men undergoing prostate cancer screening and surgery across the province of Quebec and facilitate access to these resources. PROCURE will make the Biobank materials and information available to the global scientific community to facilitate the implementation of studies at an accelerated pace. Informed consent, upholding full confidentiality, will be sought from the thousands of men already undergoing prostate biopsies and radical prostatectomies in Quebec each year. Quebec is an ideal location to conduct this initiative with its diverse ethnic groups and low migration. The low migration will allow for repeated follow-up with individuals. This large collection of biospecimen and information will be used for biochemical and genetic analysis with great statistical power and will facilitate learning about the manifestation and progression of prostate cancer over time. Additional benefits include the acceleration of clinical trials, better prevention, earlier detection and diagnosis, the development of personalized medicine, more efficacious treatment, and follow-up care. The Biobank is a collaborative organization with long term partnerships established between PROCURE, the four Qu��������bec universities (McGill University, Universit�������� de Sherbrooke, Universit�������� Laval, Universit�������� de Montr��������al), with the Fonds de recherche en sant�������� du Qu��������bec and other key groups to be confirmed over time.

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The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) is the nation''s largest non-profit organization devoted exclusively to funding innovative lymphoma research and providing people with lymphoma and healthcare professionals with up-to-date information about this type of cancer. LRF''s mission is to eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease. LRF was formed in November 2001 by the merger of the Cure for Lymphoma Foundation (CLF) and the Lymphoma Research Foundation of America (LRFA). Both organizations were founded by lymphoma advocates who sought to use their personal experiences with lymphoma to benefit others with the disease. CLF was founded in 1994 in New York City by Jerry Freundlich, a non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, and his wife Barbara Freundlich. LRFA was founded in 1991 by Ellen Glesby Cohen, who lost her own battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in August 2000. Our goal is to change the future for everyone whose life has been affected by a lymphoma diagnosis. We are dedicated to funding biomedical research focused on the origins, treatment and identification of a cure for lymphoma; to raising public awareness of the disease; and providing support and services to people with lymphoma, their families and caregivers.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on April 23, 2014. Ontology that defines core relations used in all OBO ontologies. Obsolete. Replaced with RO.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. The Catalog of Fishes is the authoritative reference for taxonomic fish names, featuring a searchable on-line database. The Catalog of Fishes covers more than 53,000 species and subspecies, over 10,000 genera and subgenera, and includes in excess of 16,000 bibliographic references. The Catalog of Fishes consists of three hardbound volumes of 900-1000 pages each, along with a CD-ROM. The online database is updated about every 8 weeks and is now about twice the size of the published version. It is one of the oldest and most complete databases for any large animal group. References are over 30,000. Valid species are over 30,000. This work is an essential reference for taxonomists, scientific historians, and for any specialist dealing with fishes. Entries for species, for example, consist of species/subspecies name, genus, author, date, publication, pages, figures, type locality, location of type specimen(s), current status (with references), family/subfamily, and important publication, taxonomic, or nomenclatural notes. Nearly all original descriptions have been examined, and much effort has gone into determining the location of type specimens. The Genera are updated from Eschmeyer''s 1990 Genera of Recent Fishes. Both genera and species are listed in a classification using recent taxonomic schemes. Also included are a lengthy list of museum acronyms, an interpretation of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and Opinions of the International Commission involving fishes.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A collaboration in which the National Institute on Drug Abuse, treatment researchers, and community-based service providers cooperatively develop, validate, refine, and deliver new treatment options to patients in Community Treatment Programs (CTPs). The partnership between CTPs and academic research leaders aims to achieve the following objectives: * Conducting studies of behavioral, pharmacological, and integrated behavioral and pharmacological treatment interventions of therapeutic effect in rigorous, multisite clinical trials to determine effectiveness across a broad range of community-based treatment settings and diversified patient populations; and * Ensuring the transfer of research results to physicians, clinicians, providers, and patients. The CTN, with its core of CTPs engaging diverse populations, is also designed to provide a platform for other studies, which would be funded under separate research grants. Three important ways to use the CTN are: to conduct ancillary studies in connection with CTN protocols; to utilize CTN Node facilities as a platform for investigations; and for Nodes to serve as home bases for NIH Training Centers and individual researchers who have NIH fellowships or career development awards.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A central tissue repository at Moffitt specializing in protocol-driven human tissue collection, storage, processing and dissemination. Tissue Core provides investigators with access to high quality, well-annotated human specimens obtained from representative of the patient populations. The advent of powerful molecular technologies has opened the door to developing more effective treatments of patients with cancer. Access to high quality specimens with associated clinical, treatment, recurrence outcome data will be critical to developing and validating the tests needed for diagnosis and prediction of response to therapy. Since its commencement in 1993, the Tissue Core has collected more than 8,000 cases of human liquid cancers and solid primary and metastatic tumors both malignant and benign with adjacent normal, from variety of sites and diagnoses. Collected samples are mostly remnant tissues obtained from patients undergoing therapeutic surgical procedures at the Center. The core also ensures tissue release compliance with USF-IRB and Privacy Board recommendations. * Protocol driven sample collection, processing and distribution * Collection of sample and patient demographic information. * Nucleic acid extractions from tissue sections, FNA, core biopsies blood and bone marrow. * Histology services: H&E slides, staining, sectioning, paraffin blocks, OCT blocks, sample microdissection * WBC, plasma and serum isolation. * Project development and support: Facility staff provides advice and guidance to researchers.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. Web tool for an organized view of the transcriptome. Collection of the computationally identified transcripts from the same locus. Information on protein similarities, gene expression, cDNA clones, and genomic location. System for automatically partitioning GenBank sequences into a non redundant set of gene oriented clusters.

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Neuroscience Lab Equipment offers a few neuroscience lab products available for purchase including lab coats, oscilloscopes, neuroscience research software, electrophysiology equipment, micromanipulators, centrifuges, lab glassware, pipettes, neuroscience charts and much more. Take a look around and if you don''t find what you need, let us know and we will try to update our Neuroscience Lab Equipment area to sell it.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous