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Medical researcher Accused of 'serious misconduct'

...collected $100,970 in fees from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies between 1999 and 2004. Walsh also led government-sponsored research of some of the companies' drugs. NLA...

Dabur Research to set up Drug Discovery Center in Oman

...an to capitalise on its plans to set// up a marine biotechnology center. "We are keen to set up a drug discovery ...that Oman has already committed to set up a marine biotechnology center we are keen to set up research activities there in an area that holds good potential," Rama M...

Lung Cancer Drug effective in extending lives

...researchers in New Zealand and developed by the UK biotechnology company, Antisoma, is found to be effective // in extending lives of lung cancer patients by one-third. Doctors who welcome this breakthrough state that it is the first step in the fight against the disease.Lung cancer is one of the most deadly ca...

Now a Robot to Treat Baldness

British biotechnology firm Intercytex has developed a robot that will help treat baldness by growing new hair follicle cells//. The company has successfully tested the treatment in removing hair follicles from the back of the neck, multiplying them and then re-implanting...

Multiple deaths forces cancer trial to be called off

Cell Therapeutics a biotechnology firm based in Seattle has called off further enrollment for the clinical trial it had initiated early this year following the untimely deaths// of few of the patients who were participating in the clinical trial to prove the efficacy of the cancer dr...

Garlic compound may help treat cancer

... D. Karunagaran, a professor at the department of biotechnology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras, and Suby Oommen, a PhD student at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Kerala, have been working on garlic-based components and their effects on cancer cells from 1998. The researchers ...

USDA Gives Go-Ahead to Market Controversial Genetically Engineered Rice, LL601

...” With this decision, USDA is telling agricultural biotechnology companies that it doesn't matter if you're negligent, if you break the rules, if you contaminate the food supply with untested genetically engineered crops, we'll bail you out. In effect, USDA is sanctioning an 'approval-by-contamination' policy that...

Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million

...000 three-year grant from the Indian department of biotechnology (DBT) for pursuing research on "gall-midge". But ...e been invited and appointed as professor of plant biotechnology at the University of Delhi. Set up 19 years ago, the ICGEB was intended to spearhead the transfer...

Japan Keen to Have More Indian Students

...ing to open some of the undergraduate courses like biotechnology and neurosciences to Indian students," said Kiyoshi Kurokawa, science adviser to Japan's prime minister. He is also a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo. "I have suggested that at least 20 percent of cour...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

New Delhi: Reliance Life Sciences, the biotechnology venture of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, is developing specialty plasma proteins or blood products and building// a world class manufacturing unit to produce them. It has been encouraged to set up a manufacturing unit due to the response to its Fa...

Britain Plans Medical Hub To Meet India, China Challenge

...ght medical schools, 14 teaching hospitals and 200 biotechnology companies. The meeting was attended by David Bren...placement maker Smith and Nephew, David Cooksey, a biotechnology guru, and Richard Sykes, a rector of the Imperial College in London. Universities to be included in...

Britain Plans Medical Hub to Meet India, China Challenge

...ght medical schools, 14 teaching hospitals and 200 biotechnology companies. The meeting was attended by David Bre...placement maker Smith and Nephew, David Cooksey, a biotechnology guru, and Richard Sykes, a rector of the Imperial College in London. Universities to be included i...

US Biotech to Invest $400 Mn in Himachal Pradesh

Shimla: US-based Nanobiosym, a leading biotechnology firm, is keen to invest $400 million project in Himachal Pradesh to manufacture world-class equipment for a global market.// Anita Goel, founder and chief executive officer of Nanobiosym, submitted the project proposal to Chief Minister Virbhadra Si...

New Approach Needed To Restore Faith in Pharmaceutical Industry

...erent from that of others in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry." They say that academic medicine, industry, medical journals and government agencies must come together to define a set of principles governing drug development. They also call for new approaches to collaboration and development of drugs,...

Pharma Major Ind-Swift to Enter US, Japan

...ft was also tying up with top US based generic and biotechnology companies for its future expansion plans in North America, adding that the company was at an advanced stage of entering the Japanese drug market. Source-IANS...

Anti-Aging Powers of Enzyme Sirtuins

...s have energized a number of scientific groups and biotechnology companies, all of which are now eagerly searching for drug candidates able to boost sirtuin activity. The public-health benefits of such an "anti-aging" drug would be substantial – as would the economic returns. A report on the research will appear...

Carbon Nanoneedles For Drug Delivery

...ath is significant for a variety of biomedical and biotechnology applications.” While the actual mechanism by which the functionalised nanotubes are taken up by cells is still unclear, the hypothesis that the team is working with is that they simply pierce the cell and move within it. ”What we do know is tha...

Giant Healthcare Provider to Set Up Massive Gene Bank

...ject that could study as many as 1,000 people, and biotechnology company deCODE Genetics has compiled a database containing the genetic makeup and medical history of more than 100,000 citizens of Iceland. Kaiser's goal of enrolling up to 500,000 of its members is rivaled in ambition only by the government-backed...

Swedish Biotech Licenses HIV Drug to China for Development

The Swedish biotechnology company Medivir announced yesterday that it has licensed its experimental non-nucleoside// reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), code-named MIV-160, to the Chinese company Guangdong Lantai Viewland Pharmaceutical for the China region. Medivir will...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

...nds) acquisition in September of Serono, the Swiss biotechnology group. A sale of the Merck Generics unit, which is believed to be worth between Euro 3 billion and Euro 4 billion, would allow Merck to concentrate on its core prescription pharmaceuticals business. The Times said that Merck Generics had sales in...

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