New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible
... commercial feasibility of raising the lobsters to market size. They have now received Phase II funding from NOAA for two years totaling $200,000 to explore techniques for gathering even more larvae, to study open water and land-based methods for raising the larvae to adulthood, and to begin developing poss......zer, Inc. to withdraw Bextra (valdecoxib) from the market because the overall risk versus benefit profile for the drug is unfavorable. FDA has also asked Pfizer to include a boxed warning in the Celebrex (celecoxib) label. Pfizer has agreed to suspend sales and marketing of Bextra in the U.S., pending furth...Products containing specific probes for detecting alternative splice forms protected
...e launched earlier this year. The genome profiling market is rapidly growing, and SpliceArrays are the only ...as in which these claims will further increase our market share." ...New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal
...rk and which dose is best could get antibiotics to market faster and more cheaply, say University of Florida...stimates put the cost of bringing a new product to market at $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. UF researchers are working on an approach known as PK/PD, which co...Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells
...ll culturing methods can't meet the projected high market demand for stem cells," Yang said. He and Anli Ouyang, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, grew mouse embryonic stem cells in a bioreactor. Cell growth increased 193-fold in 15 days. At the end of that period, cell density ?the number of cel...Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance
... consortium of developers in an effort to bring to market breakthrough gene expression microarray technology. By partnering with other thought leaders in our field, we believe we have the opportunity to position our technology as a standard for expression analysis." ...Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance
...al approaches, manufacturing, product development, market acceptance, personnel retention, uncertainties related to cost and pricing of Affymetrix products, dependence on collaborative partners (including uncertainties related to the outcome of the collaboration discussed in this press release), uncertainti...The Bacteria's guide to survival
If there was a market for it, a survival guide for bacteria might include topics like "How to use your pili to keep your host from going apoptotic." A host's cells can respond to a bacterial infection with apoptosis, or programmed cell death. For bacteria that pass direct...Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers
...rhaps, the many anti-oxidative creams flooding the market to combat aging. The concentration of oxygen in the air we breathe is toxic to us. Indeed, fruit flies, which have been studied closely for decades, die sooner from aging in a high-oxygen environment." Insects take in oxygen through spiracles -- tub......understanding of the clinical and diagnosticdevice market and the ability to rapidly prototype optical andmicrofluidics devices," says Wikswo, "but it is difficult for thecompany to survey large numbers of possible applications. Yet, here atthe university, searching for new applications is one of the things...