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Simply put ganfyd is an evolving textbook of medicine: a free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. This collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge. Please join and help us to create a great source of information and experience! Ganfyd is the first of its type and relies on your contributions to make it a truly world-class resource. Contents: * Medical Specialties * Surgical Specialties * Primary Care * Public Health * Laboratory-based specialties * Imaging Specialties * Basic Medical Sciences * Miscellaneous * Women''s health * Survival Guides * How-tos & Practical Advice * Resources for Trainees * Computing * Medical Dictionary

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Golden State Donor Services (GSDS) is the nonprofit, federally designated transplant donor network serving two and a half million people in the greater Sacramento area. We are committed to saving and improving lives by connecting one life to another through donation and transplantation. We support potential donor families in their time of loss, provide care for them through the donation process and coordinate the recovery of organs and tissues for transplant. We also provide after-care support to donor families while at the same time working to inspire universal acceptance of donation to ensure every person in need receives the ����??Gift of Life.����?? GSDS'' designated service area includes 11 counties in Northern California, (Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba), as well as the communities of Santa Rosa and Reno. Currently GSDS has agreements with 30 hospitals. In Golden State Donor Services'' area, more than 1000 people now wait for an organ transplant, (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, intestine or pancreas).

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Established nearly 30 years ago, the New York Firefighters Skin Bank is the only comprehensive skin bank in New York State, providing allograft skin grafts to patients throughout the region. Allograft skin grafts enable burn victims to fight infection, maintain their fluids and body heat, and control pain. The Skin Bank also provides cryopreservation services so that patients can bank their own skin for future autologous transplantation.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Integrated structural variant prediction software that can detect deletions, tandem duplications, inversions and translocations at single-nucleotide resolution in short-read massively parallel sequencing data. It uses paired-ends and split-reads to sensitively and accurately delineate genomic rearrangements throughout genome.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

SI 622 is a Masters-level Human-Computer Interaction course taught in the School of Information at the University of Michigan on a yearly basis during the Winter semester. Students learn and apply a number of methods for assessing the usability and usefulness of interactive systems such as websites or software applications. The course is based around a semester-long group project in which groups of 3-4 students select a system to study and then proceed to conduct a series of evaluations and other analyses, generating reports and recommendations along the way. If you would like to obtain a free, high-quality assessment of your website or software product, you can submit a proposal for a course project. If a student group chooses your project, they will perform a series of evaluations of your product and give you detailed and actionable feedback on the usability problems they find.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Database listing of jobs where neuroscience students, neuroscience research professionals, neuroscience professors and anyone looking for a neuroscience job can use the interface to find jobs in their area or post neuroscience jobs needing to be filled. Neuroscience News members are encouraged to use the resources for neuroscience job information and also consider joining up to our Neuroscience Jobs Group. Members of the Neuroscience Jobs group are allowed to post jobs available and job positions sought. Neuroscience jobs offers, job listings, neuroscience resumes, networking and more can be found in the group.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Science website dedicated strictly to neuroscience research news including brain research news, neuroscience jobs, neuroscience forums, social network, student resources and events. They scour news sources every weekday and choose only neuroscience research related news headlines and links to post. They attempt to link to the original neuroscience research news release as much as possible to enable readers to bypass opinion and get straight to the news. In a few cases, the original neuroscience research article is not available without registration, so they will link to a secondary source to ensure that readers get the neuroscience news as soon as possible. Neuroscience News staff encourages visitors to submit neuroscience research articles, brain research news, neuroscience article reviews, breaking neuroscience news tips, original neuroscience blog posts, neuroscience book reviews and suggestions to be reviewed, implemented and possibly published on Neuroscience News.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A software for binning and annotating short paired-end reads.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

The BioReliance Biorepository offers secure cell storage of eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral biological materials. Our vapor phase liquid nitrogen and -80����??C freezers offer complete flexibility and protection. Each bank is certified free from mycoplasma and tested for sterility prior to storage and then divided and stored in separate validated vessels. Our continuously monitored facilities in US and UK follow cGMP.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A provincial biobank resource to support translational cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency, across Canada and internationally. This biobank collects biospecimens (tissues and blood), and clinical information and processes these to create anonymous cases that can be studied by cancer researchers to understand how cancer develops, how it grows, how it spreads, and how it responds to treatment. These tissues and data are obtained from patients who undergo surgery to treat a tumor and who have generously provided their consent for the TTR to collect tissues that are unused after diagnosis has been completed. The TTR is a provincial program that currently comprises a core biobank at the Vancouver Island Center, Victoria, that offers participation in the program to patients in Victoria and Nanaimo. The TTR works with other banks and expert translational research groups in BC, to create expanded capacity for collection and opportunities for research access to tissue resources. The TTR operates under the management and oversight of the director, a scientific advisory board, and the UBC BCCA Research Ethics Board. The TTR operates within organizational policies and a commitment to protection of donor privacy that is embodied in all standard operating procedures and aspects of the repository. The TTR is also a founding member and contributor to the development of provincial (BC BioLibrary) and national (CTRNet) initiatives to promote biobanking.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The Institutional Tissue Bank (ITB) of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center was established in 2006 with the goal of serving as a central repository for human tissue samples for cancer research and possible personalized medicine for the institution. The Institutional Research Board oversees the fulfilling of informed consent of each patient whose samples are collected. The ITB''s collection procedures meet the global quality standards and provide high quality tissue samples. The quality control for morphology, RNA, DNA and protein has been set up to ensure the sample quality. Routine frozen section from tissue aliquot is made for every piece of sample to ensure the component of tumor tissue and the pathological feature is the same as the diagnosed tumor. Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer was used to provide RNA and DNA quality parameters. The Tissue Bank occupies 500 m2, with sufficient space for sample preparation and storage, data registration, data tracking/access, related equipments and monitor system. Variant samples including blood, tumor tissue, and body fluids are collected and serve as alternative permanent patient tissue records. Annotation of collected samples is captured through linking the medical record and pathological report system to tissue bank software. Frequent tumor types such as lung cancer, breast cancer, gastric cancer, urological tumors, gynecological tumors and esophageal cancers, head & neck cancers, as well as infrequent cancer types such as malignant soft tissue sarcomas, pancreatic cancer, gall bladder cancer, and other rare cancers are all collected and stored. Tumor tissues are stored with matched normal tissues. Serum and plasma are isolated from coagulation plus and coagulation minus blood samples. White blood cells are stored as well. Tissues are stored both in RNALater at -20 degrees C and -80 degrees C after snap frozen. Samples have been increased from 4,000 in 2008 to 10,783 in 2009. To the end of September 2010, over 30,000 samples has been processed and stored in our tissue bank. As planned, 50,000 samples will be stored dynamically. Over 50 funded projects have used the samples from our tissue bank. Productive papers have been published in the past years by using the samples. More and more projects will be approved to get research resources from tissue bank in the future. The tissue bank of FUSCC has been designated as the key subject and successful model by Shanghai municipal government.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

EyeWiki is an ophthalmic wiki where ophthalmologists, other physicians, patients and the public can view an eye encyclopedia of content written by ophthalmologists covering the vast spectrum of eye disease, diagnosis and treatment. Any qualified ophthalmologist, or ophthalmologist in training, is invited to contribute content to the wiki and post it immediately. Categories: *Cataract / Anterior Segment *Cornea / External Disease *Glaucoma *Miscellaneous *Neuro-ophthalmology / Orbit *Oculoplastics / Orbit *Oncology / Pathology *Pediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus *Refractive Management / Intervention *Retina / Vitreous *Uveitis

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

BIO - OPTIONS provides human tissues and biological materials to researchers and scientists for molecular and genomic research. These high quality, well characterized biological specimens are available for drug and biomarker discovery, validation of drug targets and development of diagnostic tests and devices. BIO - OPTIONS specializes in providing fresh tumor tissue, blood and other biological fluids delivered the same day or overnight for your studies. We collect specimens from virtually all disease states through our extensive network of physicians, hospitals, and clinical laboratories. All of our specimens are collected at facilities located in the United States in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations and ethical guidelines. Collection facilities are located on the East and West coasts and Midwest. The officers of BIO - OPTIONS consist of licensed physicians with extensive medical training and experience. This enables us to work directly with physicians and support staff to insure that collection protocols provide the high quality specimens needed for research without compromising patient care. Protocols are designed to work within the workflow of physician offices and hospital operating rooms so that specimens are timely processed and preserved and well characterized.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

WSDbfetch is a webservice implementation of Dbfetch, a generic DB retrieval system that allows you to retrieve entries from various up-to-date biological databases using entry identifiers or accession numbers. It aims to provide programmatic access for sequence retrieval. This involves a service running on a SOAP server responding to remote client invocations. This is equivalent to the CGI based dbfetch service and like the CGI service a request can return a maximum of 200 entries.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The Genome Properties system consists of a suite of Properties which are carefully defined attributes of prokaryotic organisms whose status can be described by numerical values or controlled vocabulary terms for individual completely sequenced genomes. The system has been designed to capture the widest possible range of attributes and currently encompasses taxonomic terms, genometric calculations, metabolic pathways, systems of interacting macromolecular components and quantitative and descriptive experimental observations (phenotypes) from the literature. You may search the Genome Properties Database in 1 of 3 ways: * Search For Predicted Properties in the CMR: The Genome Property Search allows you to search the Genome Property database for state information for selected genomes and properties. * Perform a Keyword Search for a Specific Property: Lists all Genome Properties that match a specific text string. You can choose to search All Fields within a genome property or the Property Name. * Browse Top Level Genome Properties: Click on the properties to see the specific genome property report page. The Genome Properties system presents key aspects of prokaryotic biology using standardized computational methods and controlled vocabularies. Properties reflect gene content, phenotype, phylogeny and computational analyses. The results of searches using hidden Markov models allow many properties to be deduced automatically, especially for families of proteins (equivalogs) conserved in function since their last common ancestor. Additional properties are derived from curation, published reports and other forms of evidence. Genome Properties system was applied to 156 complete prokaryotic genomes, and is easily mined to find differences between species, correlations between metabolic features and families of uncharacterized proteins, or relationships among properties.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of medical history and genealogical data on over 6700 families who are affected by type 1 diabetes and a repository of DNA and immortalized cell lines collected from 500 families. This database and repository was originally created to help researchers uncover the genetic causes of type 1 diabetes but today, it is also used by researchers who study type 2 diabetes, diabetic complications, autoimmune diseases, kidney disease, and other disorders. The following resources and services are available to researchers through HBDI: * International Type 1 Diabetes Database: This database includes more than 6700 families with diabetes, related complications and other genetic diseases. There are extensive genealogical and medical histories for more than 90,000 individuals. NDRI conducts searches of the database for approved research requests. * HBDI Catalog: The catalog contains 503 family pedigrees with associated cell lines, DNA, and serum for research. Also available are HLA-typing and auto-antibody test results for diabetes families in the catalog. * HBDI Repository: The HBDI repository contains cell lines, DNA, and HLA typing information from 480 families, and frozen buffy coats from 23 families, all with Type 1 diabetes. They have recently expanded the repository to include specimens from individuals with rare diseases. * Customized Collections: NDRI will collect data from patients and physicians, conduct phone interviews and collect blood and other specimens for research on request., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• dkNET
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Research university in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Public institution that traces its roots back to 1911, when it was established in Beijing as Tsing Hua Academy.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Sapien Games is a blog at the intersection of Nicholas Saij Horton''s interests in Evolutionary Science and Political Theory. He is a graduate student in mathematics at Portland State University. His areas of study are Quantum Game theory and Mathematical Modeling in the Behavioral Sciences including Biological Evolution, Economics, and Political Science.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The baseline NCS, fielded from the fall of 1990 to the spring of 1992, was the first nationally representative mental health survey in the U.S. to use a fully structured research diagnostic interview to assess the prevalences and correlates of DSM-III-R disorders. The baseline NCS respondents were re-interviewed in 2001-02 (NCS-2) to study patterns and predictors of the course of mental and substance use disorders and to evaluate the effects of primary mental disorders in predicting the onset and course of secondary substance disorders. In conjunction with this, an NCS Replication survey (NCS-R) was carried out in a new national sample of 10,000 respondents. The goals of the NCS-R are to study trends in a wide range of variables assessed in the baseline NCS and to obtain more information about a number of topics either not covered in the baseline NCS or covered in less depth than we currently desire. A survey of 10,000 adolescents (NCS-A) was carried out in parallel with the NCS-R and NCS-2 surveys. The goal of NCS-A is to produce nationally representative data on the prevalences and correlates of mental disorders among youth. The NCS-R and NCS-A, finally, are being replicated in a number of countries around the world. Centralized cross-national analysis of these surveys is being carried out by the NCS data analysis team under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Survey Initiative. In order to provide an easily accessible database which can be updated and checked on a regular basis, we have created a public use file system containing all the documents from the NCS and NCS-R programs. These file systems can be accessed through the Internet and either downloaded onto a disk or printed. We will update the system on a regular basis to add newly completed paper abstracts and other documents. In addition, the NCS and NCS-R data can be accessed through ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research). Any updates to the data to correct coding or classification errors will be made available along with written documentation of the changes in ICPSR''s quarterly newsletter.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The Open-Source Robotic Biorepository & Informatics Technology is a platform that aims to make blood samples and health related information available to researchers. This resource is intended to help researchers understand human biology so they can develop treatments that are effective for each individual. In the simplest terms, ORBIT is a large library of blood specimens. Patient recruitment for ORBIT is being rolled out of Aurora''s 13 hospitals and 120 clinics in eastern Wisconsin, starting with its Milwaukee facilities. So far, more than 70 percent of patients have agreed to participate. If patients agree to participate, blood left over from their medical tests is sent to the ORBIT lab. Here a robot extracts the DNA from the blood, bar codes the sample and stores it in a freezer. The barcode allows the informatics technology to link each sample with the appropriate privacy-protected electronic medical record. The open source aspect of ORBIT is intended to expand scientific discovery. Researchers who use ORBIT specimens will return their research results to ORBIT to minimize study repetition and to allow researchers from around the world to build on previous results.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous