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Gene-specific Ebola therapies protect non-human primates from lethal disease

...formed in collaboration with AVI BioPharma, a U.S. biotechnology firm. According to the study's authors, antisense drugs are useful against viral diseases because they are designed to enter cells and eliminate viruses by preventing their replication. The drugs, which act by blocking critical viral genetic sequenc...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...utes of Health (FNIH) and major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, especially Pfizer Global Research & Development of New London, Conn.; and Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., to accelerate genome association studies to find the genetic roots of widespread sicknesses. The genetic analysis compone...

Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague

Through an innovative feat of plant biotechnology and vaccine design, researchers in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have successfully turned tobacco plants into vaccine production factories to combat the deadliest form of plague. The vaccine elicits a protective immune response ...

Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target

...will motivate the researchers in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies to pursue the design of a new kind of inhibitor," Perryman said. "We are trying to lead other scientists toward a completely novel approach to fighting HIV infections." In contrast to the colorful but static images on the covers of scienti...

Major WHO study concludes calcium supplements can reduce complications during pregnancy

...will motivate the researchers in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies to pursue the design of a new kind of inhibitor," Perryman said. "We are trying to lead other scientists toward a completely novel approach to fighting HIV infections." In contrast to the colorful but static images on the covers of scienti...

Stable polymer nanotubes may have a biotech future

... Academy of Sciences,* the NIST nanotubes may have biotechnology applications as channels for tiny volumes of chemicals in nanofluidic reactor devices, for example, or as the "world's smallest hypodermic needles" for injecting molecules one at a time. Carbon nanotubes are of keen interest in nanotechnology resear...

DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...ortant organisms, DOE JGI is helping to accelerate biotechnology discovery and innovation." Microbes are critical ...stone National Park, for instance--and lead to new biotechnology products. "DOE JGI has played an invaluable and otherwise unavailable role in the development of ne...

'Micro-boxes' of water used to study single molecules

...evices that might be used for medical screening or biotechnology research. The work was reported in the July 3 issue of Applied Physics Letters. The NIST team creates the boxes by briefly shaking a mixture of water, the biomolecules to be studied, and a fluorocarbon medium. Water droplets form in the oily fluoroc...

Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous

... factor-gene interactions was made possible by new biotechnology tools that provide comprehensive analysis of cells, like a passerby suddenly being able to monitor all the telephone calls made within a city. The team discovered that part of the interaction network was involved, as expected, in repairing damaged D...

Basic work on E. coli identifies two new keys to regulation of bacterial gene expression

... make toxins. E. coli is also the workhorse of the biotechnology industry. Understanding E. coli gene expression in detail allows us to harness these cells for producing products of biotechnological importance, like pharmaceuticals." Gourse's work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the United Sta...

Ten years later, Dolly is still making headlines

...ariety of critical issues affecting pharmaceutical biotechnology including Biogenerics, a field that is being haile...ans. Wilmut will be joined by two other leaders in biotechnology research, Dr. Kevin Eggan of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, where plans were just announced to cre...

Transgenic goat's milk offers hope for tackling children's intestinal disease

... "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 eventual...

Science captures the essence of fruit

...vour and fragrance compounds for use in industrial biotechnology applications." HortResearch has proven the bioproduction concept can be used to produce fruit flavours and fragrances by perfectly recreating a fruit compound called alpha-farnesene, responsible for the distinctive aroma of green apples. The comp...

DOE publishes research roadmap for developing cleaner fuels

...page scientific "roadmap" cites recent advances in biotechnology that have made cost-effective production of ethano...e focus of the research plan is to use advances in biotechnology -- first developed in the Human Genome Project and continued in the Genomics: GTL program in the Dep...

Large-scale genomics project will hunt genes behind common childhood diseases

...king use of advanced automated technology from the biotechnology company Illumina, Inc., the Hospital's new Center for Applied Genomics will house one of the world's largest programs for genotyping--the process of detecting gene variations, with the aim of linking them to particular illnesses. The program will fo...

Researchers report technique for freezing and preserving genetically enhanced pig embryos

...ity of Missouri-Columbia professor of reproductive biotechnology have reported success in freezing and preserving swine embryos that were created by in vitro techniques and that carried modified genetic material. After thawing and transfer to a surrogate mother, some of the embryos went on to produce live piglets ...

Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

...Ion Channel Innovations (ICI), a development stage biotechnology company, in which Christ and Melman are co-founders and directing members. The therapy is known as ion channel therapy because the proteins it targets are potassium channels, "gates" within cells critical for contraction and relaxation of smooth musc...

Better sludge through metagenomics

... civilization--is the largest microbially-mediated biotechnology process on the planet. When it works, it is a microbial symphony in tune with humanity. When it fails, the consequences can be dire. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and collaborators at the Universit...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...y. "In addition, previous studies of the health biotechnology sectors in developing countries have shown that lo...olutionized communication in the developing world, biotechnology -- and in particular regenerative medicine -- could in the future provide new ways to deal with old ...

Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia

...sco, Michael Lochhead, a bioengineer at the Denver biotechnology company Accelr8, described a new lab-on-a-chip tha...er software company that refashioned itself into a biotechnology company, plans to place development instruments in collaborating clinical laboratories within a year...

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