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Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...ey. Dr. Ensley is the Chairman of MatrixDesign, a biotechnology company that analyzes the genomics of human tissues and uses the information to produce high performance wound healing and tissue regeneration products, and the CEO of DermaPlus, a science-based skin care company. Dr. Ensley is a Fellow of the Americ...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

... also founder and president of the Rochester-based biotechnology company LAGeT, a company Schwarz spun off from his university research. The firm seeks to commercialize Schwarz's research findings on light-activated gene therapy and has licensed the technology from the university. Also taking part from the Univer...

Gene Vaccine Protects Mice Against Development Of Her2/neu Breast Cancer

...es.Researchers at AlphaVax, Inc., a privately held biotechnology companyin Research Triangle Park, N.C., have deleted certain genes from theVEE virus, thereby making it impossible for the vector version of virusto reproduce itself, but still allowing the vector to express thetarget protein. For this study, the res...

A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020

...es.Researchers at AlphaVax, Inc., a privately held biotechnology companyin Research Triangle Park, N.C., have deleted certain genes from theVEE virus, thereby making it impossible for the vector version of virusto reproduce itself, but still allowing the vector to express thetarget protein. For this study, the res...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

... clinical improvements. Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, conducted the trials and later halted use of the drug because of safety concerns, creating an outcry from hopeful Parkinson's patients. But the gene therapy used in monkeys represents a different way to deliver the GDNF to the brain, causin...

The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born

...ernel' of the world's first 'explicit open source' biotechnology toolkit. These tools, and the precedent they establish, will allow the public-sector, small to medium enterprises and even large firms worldwide to explore new business models and begin a new era of transparent and cost-effective innovation in life s...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

... by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies as well as leading academic, government and not-for-profit research institutes. More than 1,200 systems have been shipped around the world and nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix' patented ...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...hematic priority one, ‘Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health?are open to INCO partners. Biotech for health The workshop organisers explained to delegates that the aim of this research priority, among others, is to help exploit ?in this post-genomic era ?the “unprecedented opportunities for generati...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...clinical improvements. Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, conducted the trials and later halted use of the drug because of safety concerns, creating an outcry from hopeful Parkinson's patients. But the gene therapy used in monkeys represents a different way to deliver the GDNF to the brain, causin...

LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

...h. Luca scientists, employing the tools of modern biotechnology and genomics, have now shown that living methane generating, microbial consortia are present and actively forming methane within some of these hydrocarbon substrates. In addition to demonstrating that methane formation by these microbes can be stimul...

Anti cancer virotherapy well tolerated in first human administration, research finds

...gy is licensed to Australian Stock Exchange listed biotechnology company, Psiron Limited (ASX:PSX). Professor Shaf...and infected mice . ### Psiron is an anti-cancer biotechnology company focusing on virotherapy. Psiron is developing a suite of viruses for treatment of a range of...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

... coordinated with Slainte Bioceuticals, a start-up biotechnology company in metro Atlanta that is helping to bring this potential drug to market. "Even if Enigmols are effective in humans, the greatest success is likely to come from the right combination of drugs that interact in a synergistic way," Merrill noted...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

... by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies as well as leading academic, government and not-for-profit research institutes. More than 1,200 systems have been shipped around the world and over 3,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix' patented ph...

Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

... information. "The majority of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies recognize the need for an in-house information extraction technology that would help them to process literature, patent applications and internal text documents in order to create and automatically maintain internal functional relationship ...

Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayStudio?Central, Client-Server Software for Biological Pathway Analysis

...regulation networks for bio-medical research labs, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. PathwayStudio?Central is available for a free 20 day trial at www.ariadnegenomics.com. PathwayStudio?Central builds pathways from microarray data, identifies biomarkers, and models drug responses. The software comes wit...

Open Access journals get impressive impact factors

...p third of the genetics titles, and the top 20% of biotechnology journals. BMC Molecular Biology has an impact factor of 3.12, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders an impact factor of 1.00, putting it in the top half of the orthopaedics listing. BMC Genetics has an impact factor of 0.92. Critical Care's impact facto...

'Bionic' arm gives amputee sense of touch

...p third of the genetics titles, and the top 20% of biotechnology journals. BMC Molecular Biology has an impact factor of 3.12, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders an impact factor of 1.00, putting it in the top half of the orthopaedics listing. BMC Genetics has an impact factor of 0.92. Critical Care's impact facto...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...opmental or physiological processes, as well as to biotechnology industry scientists seeking to create maize plants with enhanced properties for agriculture or industry, Brutnell says. "This is going to be the only resource of its kind, a sequence-indexed library that allows researchers to do a database search fo...

Scientists turn tobacco against cancer

..., Dr. Ko says. “These results indicate that plant biotechnology can be a useful alternative to produce monoclonal antibodies,?he says. “The antibody produced in tobacco is as good as the antibody produced in animal cells,?says Dr. Koprowski, noting that tobacco-derived antibody should be safer and less expensive...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...e a succinate-producing bacterial mutant. They use biotechnology to either insert genes that boost succinate production or delete genes that interfere with it. The goal is to maximize the rate -- the speed of the conversion -- and the yield -- the amount of succinate produced per pound of glucose converted. Benne...

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