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A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...ientists and companies bioprospecting for possible pharmaceutical or industrial applications. Already several valuab...products. Nevertheless, the report says all major pharmaceutical firms, including Merck, Lilly, Pfizer, Hoffman-Laroche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, have marine biology...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...ientists and companies bioprospecting for possible pharmaceutical or industrial applications. Already several valuab...products. Nevertheless, the report says all major pharmaceutical firms, including Merck, Lilly, Pfizer, Hoffman-Laroche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, have marine biology...

Elderly mice yield clues to the process of growing old

...If that pans out, then we can begin to think about pharmaceutical interventions to retard aging by preserving mitochondrial function." ...

Drug resistance testing in treatment-naive HIV patients is cost-effective

...he authors, who have received support from various pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, caution that there are some drug resistance mutations that may not be detectable by standard resistance tests. The cost of performing the one-time test--now about $400--has decreased from when it was first approved, and wi...

Chemical 'band-aid' prevents heart failure in mice with muscular dystrophy

A common chemical used in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries can repair damage to cardiac muscle cell membranes and prevent heart failure in mice with the genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School. The mutation in ...

Gene Bridges And Covalys To Develop Restriction-Enzyme-Free SNAP-tag Gene Fusion Kits

...that help researchers in academic institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies to improve the efficiency of research into proteins and their function. Its SNAP-tag technology is the first commercially available protein tag which covalently links itself to any chemical probe provided as a substrate. Covalys...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

... In addition, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the pharmaceutical company that developed belatacept, is conducting phase III clinical trials of the drug for kidney transplants. UCSF also is participating in that trial. RESEARCH RESULTS Belatacept is an injectable protein, one of a group of experimental drugs ca...

Fragment of yellow fever virus may hold key to safer vaccine

...or for therapy, but ter Meulen does not think that pharmaceutical companies are likely to take this approach. More realistically, he said, the findings could help manufacturers design a more consistent vaccine based on recombinant genetic technology, without the potential side effects from variations of the weakene...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...mtech International, Inc. of Vernon Hills, Ill., a pharmaceutical company and a contributor to this drug development...ntries often fly beneath the profit radar of large pharmaceutical companies," Tidwell said. "That's because large companies require a high return on their investments...

Unexpected lock and key mechanism found for the assembly of tumor blood vessels

...arner and Parker are currently in discussions with pharmaceutical companies to test integrin inhibitors in cancer clinical trials at the new Moores UCSD Cancer Center. Varner's colleagues in the study included Barbara Garmy-Susini, Hui Jin, Yuhong Zhu, Rou-Jia Sung and Rosa Hwang, all of UCSD. ...

Scientists at Galileo Pharmaceuticals confirm inflammatory response linked to glucose levels

...d that this work is of a type usually performed by pharmaceutical companies, but in this case was completed in an academic environment. ...

Scientists discover that three molecules may be developed into new Alzheimer's drugs

...d that this work is of a type usually performed by pharmaceutical companies, but in this case was completed in an academic environment. ...

Any exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is risky

...-Womens Research Institute. "Perhaps, like certain pharmaceutical warnings, it would be appropriate to caution women to quit smoking if they are pregnant or likely to become pregnant. It is equally imperative that workplace protection be offered to reduce passive exposure." ...

Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs

...e large protein drugs through the GI tract intact, pharmaceutical scientists have looked at other ways to deliver pr...Recombinant DNA technology has and will enable the pharmaceutical industry to produce safer, more pure and more effective versions of therapeutic proteins, Shen adds....

Research on antibiotics receives historical recognition

...the discovery of streptomycin ?the first effective pharmaceutical treatment for tuberculosis ?will be designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark at Rutgers University in a special ceremony in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on May 24. The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, sponsors ...

Discovery could be key to bioterrorism defense

...in has utility as a vaccine, in the development of pharmaceutical compositions and in diagnostic assays. The second patent application, "Compositions and Methods for the Inhibition of Membrane Fusion by Paramyxoviruses," covers the use of a novel peptide sequence of the soluble F glycoprotein, to block fusion of th...

Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen

...ing and has garnered significant interest from the pharmaceutical industry. ...

Sponges as drugs

...hese sponges contain substances of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. As these are increasingly difficult to o...concentration of the substances of interest to the pharmaceutical industry might be produced. Sponge culture The researcher tried to rear 9 of the 151 species of sp...

Second messenger NAADP shows fast, dose-related impact on satiety cycle

One traditional approach to pharmaceutical design uses so-called "first messengers" ?hormones, other natural facilitators or synthetic products ?to initiate various cellular cascades for the desired physiological effect. To date, despite concerted efforts at all levels of research, this appro...

Experiment station researchers to explore genome of disease-fighting fungus

...hich has implications for both agriculture and the pharmaceutical industry. The fungus, Trichoderma virens, is used...rch and Advanced Studies in Mexico. "There's both pharmaceutical and agricultural implications," said Kenerley, who is the lead researcher on the project. "We're goi...

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