A new study indicates that aside from its therapeutic potential against diabetes, diabetic leg ulcers and ADHD, Pycnogenol®, an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine...
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Scientists are conducting pre-clinical experiments to explore the use of the Herpes virus, engineered to selectively replicate in cancer cells, to trigger an immune response against (breast) cancer...
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Iowa State engineers are exploring the use of lignin, a co-product in the production of biofuel from plant fibers, could be a good soil stabilizing agent. While stabilizing soils for road construction...
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University of Illinois researchers have found out that tropical maize, when grown in the US midwest, may be a far superior crop for biofuel production in comparison to corn. Early research results...
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An analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating the use of probiotics in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) indicates that only the study involving Bifantis®, Bifidobacterium...
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Georgia biotechnology company Inhibitex has licensed a series of HIV integrase inhibitors discovered by Vasu Nair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent scholar in Drug Discovery at the University of...
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A study funded by the National Science Foundation suggests that Bt corn- a genetically-modified corn engineered to express a bacterial toxin which is poisonous to corn borers - may damage the ecology...
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Scientists at the University of Utah have developed new peptides that appear to be significantly more effective at blocking HIV's entry into cells than other drugs in their class. "Our...
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The development of pest-resistant eggplants genetically-modified to express a natural insecticide derived from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), thus making it resistant to the fruit and shoot...
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One of the most commented entries on this blog is about the launch of the DuBiotech, most of which are from readers interested in landing a job there. Unfortunately, as I've already tried to...
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Three of the biggest European pharmaceutical companies -GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Roche- have launched the Stem Cells for Safer Medicines, or SC4SM, a collaboration to develop stem cells for...
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Researchers have demonstrated in an animal study that ginger extract blocked the toxin responsible for diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. If further studies confirm its efficacy and...
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