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Regulators Object Drug Produced from Genetically Engineered Farm Animals

...ctive and less cumbersome to produce such types of biotechnology drugs. Cancer-fighting monoclonal antibodies and m...e approval on its own steam to take its efforts in biotechnology forward. <br...

Pharma Companies Tie Up To Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

...ar Hyderabad, Bharat Biotech is a multidimensional biotechnology company specialising in product-oriented research, development and manufacturing of vaccines and bio therapeutics. India has reported cases of avian flu among chickens in Maharastra and Gujarat states, leading to the culling of thousands of chicken...

A new disease: couch potato: needs drug therapy

...volves treatment by various drugs. An Australian biotechnology company called Healthtec, advised by Argos, has had promising trial results of the new drug indolebant, and designed to help people with the condition, as Moynihan "One young man who could not leave his sofa is now working as an investment adviser in...

UC Researchers Find Potential Drug Target For SARS

...rew Mesecar, associate professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology in the UIC College of Pharmacy. "We are attempting to use the same approach that has been accomplished in designing effective drugs against HIV protease, which has led to the development of new drugs to fight the AIDS virus." SARS caused havoc in 200...

Biocon To Shift Focus On Innovation To Accelerate Growth

Biocon Ltd, India's largest biotechnology firm, has made a paradigm shift from being a generic drug manufacturer to innovation to drive its future growth aggressively. // "We are rapidly transforming from a generics API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) manufacturer into an innovator for...

Hope for Dust Mite Allergy Sufferers

Swiss biotechnology company Cytos has developed a vaccine for dust mite allergy sufferers.Dust mites found in ‘every home’ eat flakes of skin, in addition to other things//. They live in bedding, upholstered furniture and even stuffed toys. Allergies are reactions to t...

Cure For Pompe Disease

...ped by Genzyme// to treat this disease. Genzyme, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass said that it has spent more than $500 million since 1998 to develop Myozyme. It has also received incentives provided by the federal government to develop medicines against such disease collectively called orphans diseas...

Cancer Research UK Offers New Hope To Cancer Patients

...drugs that have been shelved by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Under the scheme, companies will hand over molecules that once showed promise, but were never developed, and CRT will take on the clinical trials for those molecules. It is proposed that the Pharma and biotech firms will keep the intelle...

Shares Of AVI BioPharma Drops On Reports Of Disappointing Early Drug Trail

... trade on the Nasdaq. The Portland, Oregon based biotechnology company said that the results came from the second stage of a trial involving the antisense drug, called AVI-4065, among patients infected with the liver-damaging virus. Company officials have said that the drug showed favourable safety in all patien...

Bird Flu Touches Siberia

...s tissue were sent to the Novosibirsk virology and biotechnology centre Vektor, for inspection. Ilya Drozdov, the centre's general director said that the deaths of the chickens were confirmed and they were also found to be infected with bird flu. ...

PharmaVentures Exploits Fastest Growing Media Channel to Launch First Pharmaceutical Business Television Show

...es, provides viewers across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors with insightful analysis and debate coveri...Mergers and Acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Dr Fintan Walton leads a discussion with an expert panel involving: Glyn Edwards, CEO, Anti...

Dishman To Buy Solutia's Pharma Services Biz For $74.5 Mn

...olutions to the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, it said. Last year, the business had a turnover of approximately 80 million Swiss Franc. This transaction, however, is subject to regulatory approvals, including the bankruptcy court overseeing Solutia's re-organisation, it added....

Three-Day Bio-Tech Event Inaugurated

...ech show. Unlike the IT sector based on services, biotechnology sector required a lot of capital investment and 'it (BT) is different,' he said. 'I don't expect the job creation that the industry expects by 2010.' Sibal also asked multinational companies to change their model of drug development to make drugs aff...

New Revolutionary Drug Could Stop the Spread of HIV

A new revolutionary drug manufactured by a US biotechnology company could block the spread of HIV, say scientists after finding its benefits in a small-scale human trial. // Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) steadily weakens the body's immune system until it can no longer fight off infections such as pneum...

New Breed Cats Marketed

A biotechnology firm in San Diego, California, Allerca, Inc., is now taking orders for its Allerca Gene Divergence (GD) kitten, the world’s first hypoallergenic cats //.This is a boon to the several allergy sufferers who are also cat lovers. Allerca sources cla...

Advance in Program for Development of Non-Intravenous Therapy for Hemophilia

... expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives. This release includes forward-looking statements concerning non-intravenous hemophilia therapy. The statements are based on assumptions about many important factors, including the following, which...

New Cell Lines Cuts Down the Cost and Time in the Production of Flu Vaccine

...ilized chicken eggs. HepaLife Technologies Inc., a biotechnology company based in Vancouver, has licensed the technology from MSU and plans to produce cell culture-based flu vaccine. ‘We want to proceed as quickly as possible,’ said Harmel Rayat, president of HepaLife. ‘There's no time to waste. Sooner or later th...

New Blood Test For Early Detection Of Lung Cancer

...UK research team will collaborate with the private biotechnology company 20/20 GeneSystems to develop the clinical application for the blood test. "We are hoping in the next several years this test would become available to the public," Zhong said. (Source: Eurekalert)...

Goat’s Milk One of the First Transgenic Food That Benefits Human

...ts. This study underscores the potential for using biotechnology to improve the healthfulness of the milk of dairy animals by introducing the beneficial properties of human milk into dairy animals, Murray said. He and Maga note that this procedure could be used to produce lysozyme-rich powdered milk and eventually...

Experimental Drug Causes Cytokine Storm

...n as CD28 cells. The drug made by made by German biotechnology firm TeGenero AG were given to six men who were paid volunteers in a study being run by U.S. drug research company Parexel International Corp on behalf of TeGenero. While two of the men involved in the trial got a dummy infusion, six others who got...

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