Successful islet isolation is crucial for islet transplantation and cell treatment for type 1 diabetes. Current isolation methods are able to obtain 500-1,000 islets per rat, which results in a waste of ≥50% of total islets. In the present study, a facile mechanical shaking method for improving islet yield (up to 1,500 per rat) was developed and summarized, which was demonstrated to be more eff...

Foreword The purpose of the Delta Risk Management Strategy (DRMS) Initial Technical Framework (ITF) is to guide the analysis of specific technical topics as they relate to assessing potential risks to Delta levees and assets resulting from various potential impacts (e.g., floods, earthquakes, subsidence, and climate change). These ITFs are considered " starting points " for the work that is to ...

BLOOD PIPETTE SHAKING MACHINE MARK II BY K. C. PARRY Fromn the Medical Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION JUNE 22, 1950) The blood pipette shaking machine previously reported (Parry and Simmonds, 1950) has been modified to incorporate various improvements. In the new machine (1) the pipettes lie in the same plane and there is greater ease of insert...

18 NOVEMBER 2016 • VOL 354 ISSUE 6314 817 I n 2010, a comparison between the genomes of a Neandertal and people today settled what anthropologists and geneticists had debated for decades: Our ancestors had indeed mated with their archaic cousins, producing hybrid children. They, in turn, had mated with other modern humans, leaving their distant descendants—us—with a permanent Neandertal legacy....