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Scripps Research study reveals new activation mechanism for pain sensing channel

...ently being investigated by several pharmaceutical companies as a potential target for chronic pain, Patapoutian noted. ...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

.... "I ordered bacterial strains that pharmaceutical companies use to test their antimicrobials." Haydel and Williams tested both of the French clays that Brunet de Courssou had been importing. One completely inhibited pathogenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (often a proble...

Fake pesticides threaten food safety

...says Doig. DEFRA is currently investigating two companies suspected of acting illegally. Jean Train, spokesp...f successful action PSD have already taken against companies dealing in illegal pesticides. Twenty-four companies were issued with warnings in October at the Bri...

Novel experiment documents evolution of genome in near-real time

...," said Herring. "There may be a number of biotech companies that want to use this new approach to help design bacteria to do useful jobs." UCSD's office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services has filed U.S. patent applications related to the experimental evolution approach. The approach c...

A valuable fly for research into disease

... lead to future therapies. Moreover, more and more companies that exploit this model system are being establish...erence have invited two of the main pharmaceutical companies currently making considerable investments into research using Drosophila: En Vivo Pharmaceuticals, i...

A silent pandemic: Industrial chemicals are impairing the brain development of children worldwide

...ting, access to the data may be restricted because companies fear exposing proprietary information. Also, current toxicity testing rarely includes neurobehavioral functions. "The brains of our children are our most precious economic resource, and we haven't recognized how vulnerable they are," says Grandje...

Ghengis Khan wonder berry could conquer heart disease

... quantities of cholesterol-lowering compounds. Two companies have shown interest in the process including one based in Mongolia. In research due to be published this week in SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (DOI 10.1002/jsfa2620) Dr C Arumyghan and his team at the Regional Research Laborat...

New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

... effective the test was and already clinical trial companies are showing an interest in the touch screen system". ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

...er variables. ATRP is being licensed to several companies that have already begun commercial production in t...olutely requires the removal of residual catalyst, companies will now have much less of it to take out, significantly lowering removal costs, according to the au...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...San Diego and eight other universities and biotech companies hope to use a federal grant to lower the cost to only $1,000 per human genome sequenced. Determining the genome sequence of individuals is considered crucial to understanding and routinely treating hundreds of inherited diseases, predispositions to o...

Technology exists to keep E. coli out of food

... to get it into the food industry (a few Minnesota companies are already using the system). The solution can be sprayed directly onto foods such as vegetables, destroying bacteria like the E. coli strain responsible for the spinach/green onion outbreaks. This system could be used from the farm to the retail...

Few clues about African ancestry to be found in mitochondrial DNA

...rial DNA to trace maternal ancestries, and several companies now offer to analyse individuals' mitochondrial DNA sequences to obtain information about their origins. The current study suggests that only one in nine African Americans may be able to find clues about where their ancestors came from, in their mito...

Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

...iptions for Lipitor alone. Although pharmaceutical companies report that side effects of statin drugs are rare, there are some patients who experience serious consequences of taking these drugs. "We received many calls from patients in the community experiencing side effects, and wanting answers about what t...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

... Inc. The Rochester-based consortium assists young companies with funding from New York state, Cornell University and the University of Rochester, and provided Rosero's start-up with the opportunity to develop a first-generation device. As research progressed, Excell offered additional support that this month ...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

... misleading, he says. Indeed the claims made by companies to support the sales of such products may be overtly and malignly incorrect and, in many cases, the products may be doctored by chemicals borrowed from the conventional pharmaceutical industry. The reason that these products are accessible to patient...

Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins

...and mechanical properties. Working with the two companies should help move all that work ahead, Kessler said. "Collaborating with these companies will be useful," he said. "And we hope it will help us come up with other ideas."...

Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs

...eutical companies, so that academic scientists and companies alike can compare the signatures of diseases and compounds to signatures in the Connectivity Map database, and, from that, generate hypotheses," Golub said. The strategy allows scientists to capture distinctive gene signatures of cancer and other d...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...thod is easy to learn and use. "Researchers and companies working in cell therapy expressed the need to find...od. The Company is currently working with several companies in applying its filter harvest system to the development of innovative cell-based therapies in a var...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...thod is easy to learn and use. "Researchers and companies working in cell therapy expressed the need to find...od. The Company is currently working with several companies in applying its filter harvest system to the development of innovative cell-based therapies in a var...

Unique soybean lines hold promise for producing allergy-free soybeans

...releasing this information with no patents so that companies and breeders involved with soybeans can incorporate these two lines as quickly as possible," Hymowitz said. Companies in Japan, Canada and across the United States have been following the research effort, he added. The research, which was funded pri...

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