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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 31, 2006
The European Commission has granted an orphan drug designation to an investigational anticancer drug, 1D09C3, developed for the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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Corporate and Industrial News
, Stem Cells
on January 31, 2006
After the fiasco South Korea had to face, will China be the next hub of stem cell research?
A new report by Kline & Company, a consulting and market research firm about life sciences among others...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 31, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter.To save 14 million deaths from tuberculosis, world leaders have been asked to back a multi-billion dollar plan over the next ten years:
T...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 30, 2006
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes proliferation of that tissue which lines the joints, referred to as synovial tissue. In theory, compounds which can induce apoptosis, or cell death, should be able to ...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 30, 2006
There have been theories circulating for some time now that obesity is not just a genetic or physiological disease, but is actually an infectious one, which means that it is a result of contact with ...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
on January 30, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter."Ethanol fuel from plants may be more efficient that petrol, but for now it offers only marginal environmental benefits", stat...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 29, 2006
The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) gave a positive opinion on the generic growth hormone Omnitrope, bringing the first so-called "biosimilar...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 29, 2006
A group of researchers identifies a new region in the brain where the hormone leptin acts upon and subsequently control the regulation of body weight. They report that, in mice, in addition to the are...
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Food and Agriculture
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
on January 28, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter.Monday, 23rd January, marked the launch of The Crops Research Informatics Lab (CRIL), the first tangible product of an initiative that...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 28, 2006
New York Gov. George Pataki announced that $200 million has been earmarked for a program to promote biotech research.
Of the $200 million, $40 million will be used to build facilities in Manhattan and...
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Meetings and Other Events
on January 28, 2006
What: BIO-Asia Partnering ConferenceWhen: January 30 - 31, 2006Where: Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Japan
The BIO-Asia Partnering Conference 2006 is an exclusive, customized partnering forum that brings togeth...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 28, 2006
After more than a decade of research, the US FDA approved the first inhalable version of insulin. The novel alternative to injectable insulin for the treatment of type-1 and type-2 diabetes has been d...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
on January 27, 2006
Because of their well-studied genome and its rapid life cycle, the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is one of the most commonly used model in genetic research. In an article published on th...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 26, 2006
You've read all about them here in the Biotech Weblog: Biotech centers sprouting all over the world and doing their best to attract biotech companies and talents to set up shop on their territorie...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
, Microbiology
on January 25, 2006
Among fungi, secondary metabolites are primary sources of drug lead candidates. In the past, secondary metabolites have been sources of antiviral agents, antifungals, antibacterials, immunosuppressant...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 25, 2006
Following an 11-3 result of a votation among the FDA Advisory panel, GlaxoSmithKline's weight-loss pill, Alli (60 mg orlistat, half the Dosage of Roche's Xenical), might be the first fat-bloc...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 24, 2006
Artemisinin drugs are a class of anti-malarial drug derived from a Chinese medicinal herb. Although also sold commercially in combination with other anti-malarials, about 60% of sales are "stand...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 23, 2006
More than a year ago, Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb entered into a joint venture to develop and commercialize a once-daily fixed-dose combination of drugs against AIDS. Last week, in an art...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 23, 2006
Good news to early-stage biotech companies in North Carolina: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center offers "bridge" loan programs, helping young companies to survive that stage between ini...
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Food and Agriculture
on January 23, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter.
Norway is planning to build a �doomsday� vault:
The Norwegian government will hollow out a cave on the ice-bound island, Spitsbergen ...
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Food and Agriculture
on January 21, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter.
For almost three years now, (in my current research work) I have been growing rice hydroponically (in culture (nutrient) solution, with...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
, Food and Agriculture
on January 20, 2006
Renessen LLC, a joint biotechnology venture between Cargill and Monsanto, will build a pilot scale facility in CArgill's Iowa BioProcessing Center campus in Eddyville to produce ethanol from new b...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 20, 2006
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 positi...
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Meetings and Other Events
on January 19, 2006
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 science...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 19, 2006
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, high-profi...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
on January 18, 2006
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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Biotech/Science Blogs
on January 18, 2006
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 a...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 17, 2006
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, becaus...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Stem Cells
on January 16, 2006
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 estim...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 16, 2006
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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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
on January 13, 2006
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 publis...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 12, 2006
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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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Food and Agriculture
, Patents and Intellectual Property Rights
on January 12, 2006
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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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 11, 2006
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 vaccine...
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Stem Cells
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 f...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 10, 2006
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 a...
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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
, Microbiology
on January 10, 2006
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 lo...
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Biotech/Science Blogs
, Stem Cells
on January 10, 2006
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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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
on January 9, 2006
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 dru...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 9, 2006
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 de...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 9, 2006
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 f...
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Corporate and Industrial News
, Patents and Intellectual Property Rights
on January 6, 2006
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 be...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 6, 2006
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 rese...
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Corporate and Industrial News
on January 5, 2006
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 i...
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Meetings and Other Events
on January 5, 2006
What: 7th Annual Rx and Biotech Portfolio Management
When: January 23 to 24, 2006
Where: The loews Philadelphia Hotel - Philadelphia, PA
Managing your portfolio is crucial whether your environment i...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
, Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 4, 2006
Researchers from Ghent University and the Universite Catholique de Louvain have developed a novel method of drug delivery that allow sequential release following a single administration.
Unlike some ...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
on January 4, 2006
On the New Year's eve, the first baby ever conceived with a frozen donor egg from Cryo Eggs International, a commercial egg bank, was born. As opposed to using fresh donor egg cells, frozen ova o...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
on January 4, 2006
Scanning through the entries in the first issue for year 2006 of the Medical Blogging Grand Rounds, I found an entry on a novel medical gadget to measure blood sugar. Oculir Inc, which has devised a g...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Stem Cells
on January 3, 2006
Scientists from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center used a combination of stem cell-based gene therapy and RNA interface technology to genetically reverse sickle cell disease (SCD) in human ce...
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Corporate and Industrial News
, Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
on January 3, 2006
Medimmune announced last week that the US FDA has approved its newly constructed influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in England, enabling them to to produce up to 15 million bulk doses per month,...
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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
, Other Biotechnology News
, Stem Cells
on January 3, 2006
Happy New Year! The Biotech weblog is back in circulation and to start off, let's all first take a look back into the year that was. Similar to that of The Scientist is Technology Review's Bes...
