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Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...n in short supply. As of 2004 only four commercial companies produce vaccines for young children, and vaccines for seven of the preventable diseases of childhood are manufactured by only one company. The rising cost of vaccines, due partly to compliance with regulations and liability concerns, threatens the wi...

Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

... 18 universities, medical research institutes, and companies across the United States. The Director of the LIPID MAPS initiative and senior author of the manuscript Dr. Edward A. Dennis, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego says: "The ...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...ng research laboratories as well as pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The g...

Chemical Engineer Kao Explores Antibiotic Synthesis With DNA Chips

...al strains competing for resources. Pharmaceutical companies exploit this property to manufacture drugs, but th... then directly introduced into a new strain. Drug companies use chemicals and radiation to damage DNA and induce mutations. But it's not easy to detect these si...

Sugar beet virus mutation requires Texas touch

...t," he said. "We're looking at new crosses by seed companies and challenging them with each of these two viruses, as well as a combination of the two." By measuring the effect of the disease on the plant, as well as purifying the virus and quantifying how much is actually present, they can determine if resist...

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

... "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 databases,...

Designing vaccines by computer

...ker, benefiting patients and saving pharmaceutical companies millions of pounds. Researchers using informatics...nce generates and cut the number of compounds drug companies need to test when searching for new vaccines. Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biologica...

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

...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 photolithogr...

Friendly bacteria in humans may protect against HIV

... technology is the lack of financial support. Drug companies and venture capitalists are not interested because the beneficiary populations are infants and women in poor countries," says Tao. He is currently seeking sponsorship from charities or philanthropists to develop this technology. ...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...ution that provides a public database in which all companies can publish both national and international protoc...dependent solution would lead other pharmaceutical companies to use the CenterWatch repository to register ongoing clinical trials and report results of trials. ...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...th industry, and that the FDA gets money from drug companies through the Prescription Drug User Fee Act "to app...speakerphone to protect anonymity, said that "drug companies will not conduct safety studies unless they have to - meaning basically that they're required by a r...

Researchers report new pro-inflammatory role for anti-inflammatory enzyme

...k and other inflammatory diseases. "Pharmaceutical companies have been developing iNOS inhibitors to treat sepsis," explains Dr. Hobbs. "However, it now appears as if these are ineffective in reducing the mortality associated with the disease. The identification of a pro-inflammatory role for eNOS-derived NO m...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...eningly slow and costly process ?if pharmaceutical companies even bother, says Hartmut Derendorf, chairman of t...ose work is primarily funded by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Sankyo. “That may not always be the right place to look. Most infections are not in the b...

McGill researchers shed light on formation of carcinogen in food

... carcinogens. "Even so," says Dr. Yaylayan, "food companies and government agencies are keeping a close eye on the situation. It's important to know exactly what chemicals are present in food, and to understand how they form during processing." ...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

...e than 1,000 products from multinational and local companies were considered for this recognition. The judging panel commented, "Chemical fibers can now be made with natural ingredients. This will reduce the dependency of traditional chemical fiber products on oil resources. It will be another bold attempt in...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...l objections from Bayer, one of the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the drug. In the meantime, two major U.S. poultry producers, Tyson Food and Perdue Farms, separately announced in 2002 that they would immediately stop using fluoroquinolones to treat poultry flocks. One year after the Tyson and Perdue...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...million. The donations from the two pharmaceutical companies were coordinated by The SNP Consortium, Ltd., of Deerfield, Ill. "Researchers are already using HapMap data to accelerate the search for genes involved in common diseases, as well as genes involved in drug responsiveness," said Karen Kennedy, Ph.D.,...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...oligonucleotide manufacturers and drug development companies by providing NittoPhase? a new support with superlative performance at a significantly reduced unit cost. In this way we see considerable potential to make it possible for players of all scales in this industry to meet both long and short term object...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...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 photolitho...

Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response

...fection that is triggered by LPS. "Pharmaceutical companies have tried to develop anti-septic shock agents for a long time without clear success," explains Dr. Lee. "Since LPS is an important inducer of septic shock, blocking LPS receptors such as CD14 are among the most important targets. Our structure shows...

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