Image: Eyetech OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby OSI has agreed to acquire Eyetech, a biopharmaceutical company that...
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Nutra Pharma Corp, a biotechnology holding company that owns rights to intellectual property related to the development of drugs for Multiple Sclerosis and HIV, has announced that they have entered...
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ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced last week that AP23573, its novel mTOR inhibitor, has been designated an orphan drug by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of...
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The ethical issues surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells could be circumvented, afterall. bone marrow cells have been shown to have the potential to develop into muscle cells, albeit with...
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Filed in archive Microbiology
by ruth on August 22, 2005
In the last decades, more and more bacteria have acquired resistance to currently available antibiotics. In attempt to cope with increasing number of drug-resistant microbes, scientists are...
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Image: Alea Mills, CSHL In a recent advanced online publication of Genes and Development, scientists from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, US, found out that p63, a gene which appears to be a...
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In the August 11 issue of Nature, scientists comprising the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP) announced that the full genome of the world's number 1 food crop is now sequenced....
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The patent offices of the United States of America and Canada have granted patents for Peakadilly's core technology, COFRADIC�. COFRADIC� allows the identification and quantification of...
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The UN Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as: any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or...
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Filed in archive Microbiology
by ruth on August 18, 2005
In a previous entry, I have written about the possibility of having probiotic toothpastes out on the market shelves not too long now. It was just an extrapolation, with not just a drop of skepticism....
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The race is still on for the drug which will cure Alzheimer�s disease, a disease that afflicts an approximated 4.5 million Americans. While some drugs are prescribed to alleviate some of the...
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How about a pharmaceutical think-tank that will combine the intellectual resources of the academia and the marketing know-how of both the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to speed up the drug...
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Image: Hebrew Uni Jerusalem The structure of the membrane protein NhaA has been elucidated using x-ray diffraction techniques on three-dimensional crystals of the protein. The findings are published...
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Tengion, Inc., a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, announced completion of a $39 million Series A financing to bring its lead product into clinical trials. The Company's plan is to...
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This is the first of a series of posts I'm planning to do covering the different -omics. As bioinformatics-aided technologies continue to emerge, it's getting harder and harder to keep up...
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Not all discoveries from basic research can be used to fuel a start-up biotech venture. Often, it makes better (financial) sense to simply license the intellectual property. Last week, for example,...
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Before a potential drug candidate reaches the market, lead molecules undergo a battery of tests under rigid regulations. With the launching of Lab21, pharma and biotech companies can now...
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Image: Qatar Foundation Aside from the Nasdaq reports, if there's one thing that indicates what a booming field Biotech has become in the recent years, it's the deluge of investment on...
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In the July issue of Cell Metabolism, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Insitute report having identified a gene present in mouse cells that suppresses senescence, a stage when aging cells...
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