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Amgen introduces comprehensive financial assistance programs for cancer patients

Amgen today announced Amgen TM Oncology Assistance (AOA), a comprehensive, multi-faceted financial assistance program that will include a "cap" on out-of-pocket co-payments for cancer patients receiving Vectibix TM (panitumumab). Through AOA, patients who are uninsured...

'Molecular assassin' targets disease gene

...versity of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have announced they are developing a new class of experimental drug that has the potential to treat a diverse range of health problems, from inflammation and cancer through to eye and heart disease. The research is published in the July issue of Nature Biotechnolog...

Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens

Origen Therapeutics announced today that it has succeeded in developing a robust and versatile technology for genetically modifying chickens that, for the first time, puts avian transgenics on a par with transgenic mice. The company made the announcement in conjunction with the p...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

Doctors at the MUHC have announced Quebec's first successful combined heart/liver transplant. The patient, Patrice Dionne, age 54 years, was transferred from the Institut de cardiologie de Quebec (l'hôpital Laval) to the MUHC. The patient received his new heart and liver during a 6-ho...

DOE publishes research roadmap for developing cleaner fuels

...The roadmap responds directly to the goal recently announced by Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman of displacing 30 percent of 2004 transportation fuel consumption with biofuels by 2030. This goal was set in response to the President's Advanced Energy Initiative. The roadmap identifies the research require...

Biofuels researcher searches for new sources

...arch in biofuel, and the U.S. Department of Energy announced this month an ambitious research agenda for developing cellulosic ethanol. The Department of Energy called it in a news release "a renewable, cleaner-burning, and carbon-neutral alternative to gasoline" and "an economically viable transportation fuel...

Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol

...nced Energy Initiative(AEI), a research initiative announced by President Bush in his 2006 State of the Union Address, embraces key recommendations of Somerville and the plant and microbiological science communities. Somerville called the AEI a visionary research initiative that will help transition the natio...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

...he scientific breakthrough comes as the University announced Breast Cancer Campaign funding for two other research projects worth nearly £300,000. Dr. Andrew Gilmore, also in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been awarded a grant of £146,000 to examine in more detail a process called "anoikis." Anoikis is th...

WWF captures first-ever photo of wild rhino on Borneo

...ld Wildlife Fund and the Sabah Wildlife Department announced today. The rhino is believed to be one of a population of as few as 13 whose existence was confirmed during a field survey last year in the interior forests of Sabah, Malaysia, an area known as the "Heart of Borneo." A handful of rhinos are thought ...

Ten years later, Dolly is still making headlines

...Harvard Stem Cell Institute, where plans were just announced to create the world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells, and Dr. Burt Adelman of Biogen Idec, the company that produces the recently re-approved multiple sclerosis drug, Tysabri. The Plenary Session is Monday, June 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a....

Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women

...od." Yaffe notes that since the WHI results were announced in 2004, "the field of estrogen research has been stymied. Hopefully, this study will start to turn the tide." ...

Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops

...ists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have announced that a vaccine they developed a few years ago against one antigenic variant of the avian influenza virus H5N1 may protect humans against future variants of the virus. Vaccines based on this model might therefore be suitable for stockpiling for use du...

H5N1 vaccine could be basis for life-saving stockpile

...ists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have announced that a vaccine they developed a few years ago against one antigenic variant of the avian influenza virus H5N1 may protect humans against future variants of the virus. Vaccines based on this model might therefore be suitable for stockpiling for use du...

Research highlights how bacteria produce energy

...sachusetts in Amherst. Earlier this month, Lovley announced at a meeting that he and his colleagues were able to achieve a 10-fold increase in electrical output by allowing the bacteria in microbial fuel cells to grow on biofilms on the electrodes of a fuel cell. This week, Gemma Reguera, a researcher in Lov...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced several new sequencing targets including the Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys), setting the stage for completing a quest to sequence the genome of at least one non-human primate genome from each of the major positions along the evol...

CHAVI announces international search for genes affecting HIV response

...on among U.S., European and Australian researchers announced June 20, 2006, will seek to identify genetic differences in the way people respond to HIV. Through the new consortium, led by scientists at Duke University, investigators who once competed to unravel the mysteries of HIV will share access to patient...

DOE JGI sequences, releases genome of symbiotic tree fungus

...E JGI). The complete Laccaria genome sequence was announced July 23 at the Fifth International Conference on Mycorrhiza in Granada, Spain by an international consortium comprised of DOE JGI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), the University of A...

Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds

...alifornia Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced earlier this month that it will begin re-evaluating some 600 pyrethroid-containing products. The re-evaluation process will likely help determine what urban pesticide use practices are leading to pyrethroids finding their way into creeks. "We don't...

Speeding discovery of the 'human cancer genome'

Two gene discoveries announced in separate reports in the June 30, 2006 issue of Cell highlight one way to speed through the human genome in search of those genes most important for spawning cancer. Both groups say that a critical element in the enterprise to efficiently character...

Role of protein in immune response may aid HIV research

... with compromised immune responses. The scientists announced discovery of the protein called PGLYRP ? peptidoglycan recognition proteins ? earlier this year. Patients, such as those with HIV/AIDS, are susceptible to bacterial infections that are easily averted by people with healthy immune systems but are li...

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