Category Archives: health

Occupational health campaign to focus on building industry

The work done by people with occupational health jobs in the UK is hugely important and their influence extends across all sectors. One industry that is the focus of a new campaign for those with jobs in occupational health is the building industry.
Constructing Better Health (CBH), which aims to improve the health of workers in [...]

Hair Salon Worcester

Beauty Salon Worcester
From time to time we all need a bit of relaxation and pampering and one way to treat yourself could be to partake in some treatments from a hair salon. Worcester is home to many hair salons and hairdressers.

Listening With Clarity

The Zen Philosophy of constant improvement is applied in a very interesting manner everywhere. There is always a lot of scope for further development and creativity. It urges us to move forward and venture into the unknown and challenging world. The discovery and realization of something new is always a part of that distant horizon [...]

Breast Implants and Augmentation

It is fact and reason for which woman go for Breast implant surgery as it can improve the size and shape of your breast. All surgery and development related to surgical procedure and breast-implant technology has become more advanced, which provides better post-surgical results than years ago and make it safe too. Breast-implant procedures include [...]

Staying Safe

When you run a business, it is your responsibility to keep your staff safe. This means that a certain amount of money has to be put aside to make sure that processes can be structured in the safest way and that there are no unnecessary dangers facing people in the tasks they complete.
However, this can [...]

The ATG proteins

Antibody suppliers are constantly updating their databases to take account of the latest autophagy research. Central to this are the ATG (autophagy-related) proteins, which also have links to apoptosis pathways.
ATG 12 is a ubiquitin-like modifier which plays a central role in the formation of the autophagosome. Following ATG 7 activation, it conjugates with ATG 5. [...]

Hearing Aids: How do they work

The human civilization has been using hearing devices for hundreds of years now. Hearing Aids have been a part of the life of many people who have problems related to hearing for more than 200 years now. However, the production of hearing aids in large numbers started only in 1800s. With new technologies rolling out [...]

Has Our Litigious Society Made us Safer?

Our ‘No Win, No Fee’ culture has meant that a great many businesses have had to change their approach to health and safety. But has this litigious culture actually made us safer in the workplace or has it just served to drive up companies’ overheads needlessly?
The culture of no win, no fee proceedings is mostly [...]

The Bcl-2 antibody and other Early Apoptotic Marker reagents

We at Novus Biologicals have a large antibody catalog covering apoptosis research. The Bcl-2 antibody is one of a number of products suitable for Early Apoptotic Marker studies.
Apoptosis has a number of triggers: heat, radiation, chemical damage and hypoxia being just some of them. It is regulated by a complex series of extracellular and intracellular [...]

The magic of Merlin antibodies

Merlin is an imaginatively-named tumor suppressor encoded by the tumor suppressor gene NF2, a member of the Neurofibromin family. It is mainly expressed in nervous tissue. Merlin antibodies have shown NF2 mutations can cause Type 2 Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of tumors in the central nervous system. Although these are normally [...]