TPM-01/Morphine is a non-invasive, patient-friendly gel that delivers morphine through the skin into the bloodstream. Its developers, Australia-based Phosphagenics announced the completion and...
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What: 11th Biotech & Finance ForumWhen: 8 May 2006Where: Hilton Hotel, Munich, Germany ... the leading pan-European Forum aims at selecting the most innovative and promising biotech, life...
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Almost three weeks into the new year, and company data from the last quarter of 2005 being made public, experts anticipate that 2006 will be a big year for biotechnology. In the new year,...
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The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy will collaborate to study plant and microbial genomics. "Both agencies will leverage their expertise and synergize activities involving agricultural-...
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It's again that time of the week: the latest issues of Medical Blogging Grand Rounds and Tangled Bank are up at The Grunt Doc and The Grey Thumb Blog, respectively. From The Grand Rounds, here...
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Ten years ago, a compound called dicaffeoylquinic acid has been shown to effectively inhibit HIV in vitro, and are therefore important lead compounds which may be used in AIDS therapy. However,...
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Myocardial infarction, more commonly known as heart attack, is a heart ailment that results when an area of heart muscle is damaged because of an inadequate supply of oxygen to that area. It is...
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Last month, scientists were able to make headway in producing anthrax vaccine in the choloroplasts of the tobacco plant. But apparently, tobacco can also serve as a production facility for a vaccine...
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The Consortium for Functional Glycomics has developed a technique for detecting changes in flu viruses that could serve as an early warning system for detecting deadly flu strains. In a study...
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Proteins that belong to the hedgehog signaling pathway (named for SEGA's video game character Sonic the Hedgehog because of the appearance of mutant phenotype which causes a Drosophila embryo to...
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The chemical company Bayer AG said Wednesday it has acquired Icon genetics AG, a biotech company working on methods for the development and use of engineered plants for producing pharmaceuticals and...
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Based from in vitro experiments, researchers from University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) may have discovered a potential candidate for Hepatitis-C...
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Filed in archive Stem Cells
by ruth on January 11, 2006
I've resisted posting about Korean stem-cell and cloning expert, Woo Suk Hwang, in this weblog, amidst the controversy that erupted towards the end of 2005. Until now, the extent of the supposed...
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After much speculations, Novartis finally decides not to bid for Berna Biotech AG, leaving it up for Dutch biotechnology start-up firm, Crucell, to take-over. "After completion of due diligence...
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Tsetse flies, common is Sub-Saharan africa, are carriers of trypanosomes, which cause African trypanosomiasis, a fatal disease also called human sleeping sickness, as well as considerable economoc...
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The Medical Blogs Grand Rounds is up at the Clinical Cases and Images Blog, compiling links to more than 40 blog entries of medical background. It is through this blog carnival that I found another...
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Researchers from the University of Alberta launches the DrugBank, a free-access online database of detailed chemical, pharmaceutical, medical and molecular biological information on more than 3000...
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According to the CDC, Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among children, resulting in the hospitalization of approximately 55,000 children each year in the United States and the...
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Thanks to a $4.2 million grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), RheoGene Inc. and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will be able to carry out...
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It's the start of the new year and naturally, everyone wants to know: How do the prospects for biotechnology look like for the year 2006? According to CNN Money, biotech will remain to be good...
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In a previous entry, it has been illustrated how endocannabioids, substances produced in the body that works similarly as those found in cannabis, may be a drug target in treating depression. New...
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That the biotech industry will soon be outsourced to Asia is a trend that almost everyone expected. In 2006, we'll be likely to see more of that, as science parks and facilities that match those...
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