Sentences with phrase «drug screening system»

With Intelligent Fingerprinting's new Drug Screening System, however, tests can be carried out within the mortuary from non-invasive fingertip sweat samples that are collected immediately as required outside a full post mortem examination.

Based on work initially funded by a Biomedical Catalyst grant from Innovate UK, the two - part Drug Screening System consists of single - use, tamper - evident Intelligent Fingerprinting Cartridges (for sample collection) and the portable Intelligent Fingerprinting Reader 1000 analysis unit.

UK - based Intelligent Fingerprinting recently announced the availability of its new fingertip - based drug screening system to support Coroner services.

Molecular and cell biology of retrovirus - host cell interactions — Development and application of retroviral gene transfer and drug screening systems

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Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

«By combining this work with our previously published high - throughput screening system, we are able to create a drug - discovery pipeline with efficiency we had never imagined before,» adds Tsung - Yao Chang, a recent MIT PhD recipient and one of the paper's lead authors.

This approach will allow in - depth study of these diseases and may serve as a valuable system for drug discovery and screening.

The system can yield dose - response curves for candidate drugs, screen the phenotypes of large numbers of gene mutations, or execute complex custom protocols for completely new experiments.

An exhaust vent leading from one of the facility's «clean rooms» to the roof lacked a filter or screen, for example, and flaws in the air handling system could expose sterile drugs to microbial contamination during processing.

With PhD student Carmen Lorenz at the MDC and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), he teamed up with other MDC researchers and scientists from France to come up with a new cell - based system to carry out drug screens.

A new meta - analysis published online in PLOS ONE by infectious disease and epidemiology specialists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania highlights significant gaps in hepatitis C care that will prove useful as the U.S. health care system continues to see an influx of patients with the disease because of improved screening efforts and new, promising drugs.

According to Monk and Ackerman, possible future work includes using the zebrafish model system as a drug - screening tool to search for small molecules that may flip that switch.

To test the potential of the system as a drug - screening tool, the researchers exposed the differentiating cells to thalidomide, a drug known to cause severe birth defects.

The drug - screening model system is especially ideal for labs on a tight budget, said Dr. Kuebler.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

The simplified platform eliminates the need for pumping and tubing connections and provides a novel, easy - to - use platform for studying drug metabolism, toxicity and interactions between multi-tissue systems, serving as a robust, valuable tool for screening drugs for toxic effects.

This advance offers scientists a fuller picture of their system under study and speeds the screening of compounds for drug discovery.

Researchers, however, can now screen drugs to find compounds that might activate cell death in senescent cells, he says, or that might turn the immune system against senescent cells.

Currently we are using this system for identification of novel therapeutic targets and for screening and characterization of the effects of anti-diabetic drugs.

It also offers a really nice system for drug screening.»

Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes, in collaboration with scientists at UC Berkeley, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

«We found the system was very predictable and very useful for screening drugs,» says Fiebig.

These results suggest that the optical biosensor system could be used to screen for compounds that block EGFR and many other receptors, potentially speeding up the hunt for drugs against several diseases.

In summary, by using this platform of routine depression and anxiety tests in conjunction with more sophisticated computer vision systems such as SmartCube ®, we hope to optimize drug screening using this CSDS model, which captures several important aspects of affect including depression, anxiety and also post-traumatic stress.

Weimin Li: Innovative 3D tissue matrix scaffold system for tumor modeling and drug screening

Fluorescent and luminescent materials, such as yttrium aluminum garnet doped with different metal ions (rare earths or transition metals), have found applicability in various fields, from optoelectronics (i.e.: lighting systems, LCDs, CRTs, lasers) to aerospace (i.e: thermal barriers) and biotechnological applications (i.e.: fluorescence marker, contrast agent in medical imaging, imaging screens, drug delivery etc).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

Dr. Holly and his colleagues uncovered several potential drug targets using a screening technique that has never before been applied to the cardiovascular system.

February 10, 2015 New screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs University of Chicago Medicine researchers have built a model system that uses multiple cell types from patients to rapidly test compounds that could block the early steps in ovarian cancer metastasis.

Towards that goal, the Foundation invested heavily in essential drug discovery assets like animal models and in vitro systems to screen existing drugs and compound libraries.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

He was also the bane of censors and blue noses, whose limits and «rules» he constantly tested and attacked: crossing the boundaries that held back candid screen portrayals of sex, drug addiction, politics and the legal system.

ACT - activated clotting time (bleeding disorders) ACTH - adrenocorticotropic hormone (adrenal gland function) Ag - antigen test for proteins specific to a disease causing organism or virus Alb - albumin (liver, kidney and intestinal disorders) Alk - Phos, ALP alkaline phosphatase (liver and adrenal disorders) Allergy Testing intradermal or blood antibody test for allergen hypersensitivity ALT - alanine aminotransferase (liver disorder) Amyl - amylase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) ANA - antinuclear antibody (systemic lupus erythematosus) Anaplasmosis Anaplasma spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) APTT - activated partial thromboplastin time (blood clotting ability) AST - aspartate aminotransferase (muscle and liver disorders) Band band cell — type of white blood cell Baso basophil — type of white blood cell Bile Acids digestive acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder (liver function) Bili bilirubin (bile pigment responsible for jaundice from liver disease or RBC destruction) BP - blood pressure measurement BUN - blood urea nitrogen (kidney and liver function) Bx biopsy C & S aerobic / anaerobic bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity test (infection, drug selection) Ca +2 calcium ion — unbound calcium (parathyroid gland function) CBC - complete blood count (all circulating cells) Chol cholesterol (liver, thyroid disorders) CK, CPK creatine [phospho] kinase (muscle disease, heart disease) Cl - chloride ion — unbound chloride (hydration, blood pH) CO2 - carbon dioxide (blood pH) Contrast Radiograph x-ray image using injected radiopaque contrast media Cortisol hormone produced by the adrenal glands (adrenal gland function) Coomb's anti- red blood cell antibody test (immune - mediated hemolytic anemia) Crea creatinine (kidney function) CRT - capillary refill time (blood pressure, tissue perfusion) DTM - dermatophyte test medium (ringworm — dermatophytosis) EEG - electroencephalogram (brain function, epilepsy) Ehrlichia Ehrlichia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) EKG, ECG - electrok [c] ardiogram (electrical heart activity, heart arryhthmia) Eos eosinophil — type of white blood cell Fecal, flotation, direct intestinal parasite exam FeLV Feline Leukemia Virus test FIA Feline Infectious Anemia: aka Feline Hemotrophic Mycoplasma, Haemobartonella felis test FIV Feline Immunodeficiency Virus test Fluorescein Stain fluorescein stain uptake of cornea (corneal ulceration) fT4, fT4ed, freeT4ed thyroxine hormone unbound by protein measured by equilibrium dialysis (thyroid function) GGT gamma - glutamyltranferase (liver disorders) Glob globulin (liver, immune system) Glu blood or urine glucose (diabetes mellitus) Gran granulocytes — subgroup of white blood cells Hb, Hgb hemoglobin — iron rich protein bound to red blood cells that carries oxygen (anemia, red cell mass) HCO3 - bicarbonate ion (blood pH) HCT, PCV, MHCT hematocrit, packed - cell volume, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) K + potassium ion — unbound potassium (kidney disorders, adrenal gland disorders) Lipa lipase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) LYME Borrelia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) Lymph lymphocyte — type of white blood cell MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (anemia, iron deficiency) MCV mean corpuscular volume — average red cell size (anemia, iron deficiency) Mg +2 magnesium ion — unbound magnesium (diabetes, parathyroid function, malnutrition) MHCT, HCT, PCV microhematocrit, hematocrit, packed - cell volume (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) MIC minimum inhibitory concentration — part of the C&S that determines antimicrobial selection Mono monocyte — type of white blood cell MRI magnetic resonance imaging (advanced tissue imaging) Na + sodium ion — unbound sodium (dehydration, adrenal gland disease) nRBC nucleated red blood cell — immature red blood cell (bone marrow damage, lead toxicity) PCV, HCT, MHCT packed - cell volume, hematocrit, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) PE physical examination pH urine pH (urinary tract infection, urolithiasis) Phos phosphorus (kidney disorders, ketoacidosis, parathyroid function) PLI pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (pancreatitis) PLT platelet — cells involved in clotting (bleeding disorders) PT prothrombin time (bleeding disorders) PTH parathyroid hormone, parathormone (parathyroid function) Radiograph x-ray image RBC red blood cell count (anemia) REL Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Ehrlichia / Lyme combination test Retic reticulocyte — immature red blood cell (regenerative vs. non-regenerative anemia) RMSF Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever SAP serum alkaline phosphatase (liver disorders) Schirmer Tear Test tear production test (keratoconjunctivitis sicca — dry eye,) Seg segmented neutrophil — type of white blood cell USG Urine specific gravity (urine concentration, kidney function) spec cPL specific canine pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test spec fPL specific feline pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test T4 thyroxine hormone — total (thyroid gland function) TLI trypsin - like immunoreactivity (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) TP total protein (hydration, liver disorders) TPR temperature / pulse / respirations (physical exam vital signs) Trig triglycerides (fat metabolism, liver disorders) TSH thyroid stimulating hormone (thyroid gland function) UA urinalysis (kidney function, urinary tract infection, diabetes) Urine Cortisol - Crea Ratio urine cortisol - creatine ratio (screening test for adrenal gland disease) Urine Protein - Crea Ratio urine protein - creatinine ratio (kidney disorders) VWF VonWillebrands factor (bleeding disorder) WBC white blood cell count (infection, inflammation, bone marrow suppression)

Sample collection takes just seconds and the system screens for multiple drugs of abuse in under 10 minutes.

Think about how you would feel if you came home from work and your flat - screen television and video game system were gone, taken by a miscreant to buy drugs.

With our web - based screening system you can easily order and obtain applicant consent for drug testing services (along with all other employment background screening services).

Drug screening is then performed through any one of our nationwide network of facilities and results are seamlessly integrated and reported through the same web - based screening system.

Our innovative online system streamlines drug screening and is power - packed with every tool you need to hire and maintain a healthy, drug - free workforce.

Accurate Information Systems — Accurate Information Systems offers a wide range of employee - screening services, including state, county and federal criminal history searches; drug testing; sex offender searches; civil searches; motor vehicle records searches; and employment and education verification.

1 - 2 years proven experience as an Administrative Assistant, virtual assistant or office admin assistant Knowledge of office management systems and procedures Working knowledge of office equipment: printers, fax machines, scanners Proficiency in English and in MS Office Suite Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize work and multi-task Great attention to detail and problem solving skills Excellent write and verbal communication skils High degree of accuracy and attention to detail SURGE associates are subject to the completion of a background check and drug screen High School Diploma or GED

HireSafe provides compliant Pre-Employment Background Screening, E-Verify, Drug Testing integrated with an Applicant Tracking System.

Process open requisitions utilizing Taleo Recruiting System software, and manage pre-employment process, offer letters, criminal background checks and drug screenings.

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This policy statement from the AAP advocates a public health response to the opioid epidemic and substance use during pregnancy, and recommends: a focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and improving access to contraception; universal screening for alcohol and other drug use in women of childbearing age; knowledge and informed consent of maternal drug testing and reporting practices; improved access to prenatal care, including opioid replacement therapy; gender - specific substance use treatment programs; and improved funding for social services and child welfare systems.