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More than drought affecting wheat yields

... many cases, the crop is "zeroed out" by insurance companies and plowed up. This year's virus started early because of last year's crop, he said. A hail storm across much of the region shortly before harvest knocked the grain from the heads, Allen said. These seeds germinated into a heavy volunteer wheat cro...

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

...form strategic partnerships with biopharmaceutical companies to develop novel therapeutics," said Dr. Hakonarson. Tailoring treatments to a patient's genetic profile represents an era of personalized medicine still in its early stages. Part of the research task ahead, said Dr. Hakonarson, is not only to map ...

Loosen up, DNA: Leukemia gene changes genetic packaging

...g drugs that target a single gene or protein, many companies are taking aim at the way whole sets of genes are packaged in an attempt to turn on or off several genes at a time. It's part of a field known as "epigenetics": Now that the sequence of chemical bases that make up our genes is largely known, scientis...

Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile

...elivers forecasts of potential HABs to aquaculture companies via a customised Internet portal. HABs are a natural phenomenon that have increased in frequency over the last 30 years, causing millions of Euros worth of annual losses to the 360 fish farms found in the southern region of Chile. They deplete the ...

3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis

...ation, where it once again divides. Pharmaceutical companies typically use simplistic two-dimensional assays fo...l Engineering Division. He believes pharmaceutical companies will eventually use three-dimensional assays, accompanied by appropriate computational models such a...

UCSD researchers develop 'smart petri dish'

... a toxin is introduced to the body. Pharmaceutical companies want to know early on the effect a drug has on the liver. But it's very expensive to screen every potential candidate on living animals, typically rats. So if you can use just a few cells from the liver rather than the entire animal, you can perform...

Cells use mix-and-match approach to tailor regulation of genes

...sion of those genes on or off. Some pharmaceutical companies are also hoping to develop drugs that selectively block the binding of transcription factors as a way to short-circuit the harmful effects of diseases, and researchers at the University of California, San Diego on June 16 reported new findings that c...

Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint

...sor of environmental health at UC. "In some cases, companies are offering the same or similar products, minus t...sible that paint manufacturers--particularly large companies with plentiful resources--would knowingly distribute a product that can be dangerous to people." "...

Research reveals inner workings of immune system 'thermostat'

...ap said the findings should send a message to drug companies designing and testing tyk2-inhibiting medicines for arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. Block tyk2 function, Yap said, and patients will be more prone to infection ?and their arthritis may not be relieved. "There could be a downside to these dru...

Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system

...ecting the immune system. "There are a number of companies developing inhibitors of the p38 enzyme for treating rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis," Rubenstein said. "Our study suggests that those same drugs might be valuable in treating pemphigus vulgaris." Of the 48 mice used in the study, 24 received a h...

Delft water-purification method promises radical improvement

...V is currently negotiating with water purification companies to test this purification method on a larger scale. The first installations are already in use in the industrial sector. ...

New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

...s been filed on the drug delivery system, and drug companies across the world are expected to express great interest in the new technology. Dr Perera has been working closely with David Coleman and Jennie Solbé from the University's Research Innovation Services department, to develop this technology. Her stude...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

...t accuracy in a matter of seconds," he added. Drug companies covet finding good, short drug names that are easy to remember, Kondrak noted, adding, "the FDA and other drug agencies need to balance this against confusing the names with existing ones--it's a serious problem." Kondrak co-authored a paper on this...

Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens surge 250 percent over 7 year period

...less, the study noted that overall, pharmaceutical companies increased their spending on television advertising six fold, to $1.5 billion, between 1996 and 2000, with the trend accelerating after 1997, when the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act was passed. However, at the same time teenagers were...

Tandem transcripts team together

...being developed as therapeutic proteins by several companies and institutes. The problem is that these proteins often elicit an immune response and therefore, are toxic and cannot be used as efficient drugs. The understanding that some gene pairs are naturally produced as fused proteins might lead, in the fu...

World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology

...dentification period, personnel came and went, and companies and agencies assisted on projects and then dropped out of the program. In the end, hundreds of people cooperated in the identifications. Not all individuals who died on Sept. 11 were identified, but the best possible effort given the circumstances ...

Major WHO study concludes calcium supplements can reduce complications during pregnancy

...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 scientific journa...

Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target

...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 scientific journa...

Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx

...on. This has prompted several large pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs targeting this enzyme. Such inhibitors will soon enter human trials. FitzGerald and his colleagues showed that deletion of mPGES-1, in contrast to deletion or inhibition of COX-2, did not predispose the animals to thrombosis or elev...

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

... "Our partnership with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to speed up this research exemplifies the aim Congress had in mind when it established the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to support the mission of NIH," said John E. Porter, Vice Chairman of the foundation's Board of Directors. "Th...

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