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While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

...t cancer by affecting a "promiscuous" protein that pharmaceutical experts are already targeting in an effort to develop a new drug to stop the disease, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The research, which buttresses beliefs about the health benefits of green tea with solid scient...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...volves 21 leading research laboratories as well as pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The goal of this network is to develop safe and effective preventive vaccines against HIV/AIDS. This group has been working...

Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayStudio?Central, Client-Server Software for Biological Pathway Analysis

...s for bio-medical research labs, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. PathwayStudio?Central is available for a free 20 day trial at www.ariadnegenomics.com. PathwayStudio?Central builds pathways from microarray data, identifies biomarkers, and models drug responses. The software comes with ResNet?database o...

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

...ract other types of information. "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 functi...

Designing vaccines by computer

...the market quicker, benefiting patients and saving pharmaceutical companies millions of pounds. Researchers using informatics and computer modelling can help scientists to uncover and harness the hidden patterns in the wealth of DNA and protein sequences that modern bioscience generates and cut the number of compo...

Product improves peptide identification for proteomics research

...rmance ion trap mass spectrometer (MS) that allows pharmaceutical and academic life-science researchers to identify 60 to 80 percent more peptides than preceding models in proteomics applications, such as protein identification and biomarker discovery, potentially leading to a better understanding of diseases like ...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., announced today it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the two leading regulatory agencies in the world, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), for pa...

Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer

...ive target for development of anti-cancer drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The research, which was federally funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, could have applications for many kinds of cancers. The domain of telomerase whose structure the biochemists have determine...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...hted if this independent solution would lead other pharmaceutical companies to use the CenterWatch repository to register ongoing clinical trials and report results of trials. CenterWatch is a leader in web design and experienced in the implementation of websites for clinical trial listings and clinical trial resul...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

...the world to approve Sativex, a novel prescription pharmaceutical product derived from components of the cannabis plant shown to have therapeutic properties. Sativex is administered via a spray into the mouth. Health Canada has approved Sativex with conditions, under the Notice of Compliance with Conditions (NOC/c...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...ublic's health." A research scientist from a major pharmaceutical company, who participated in the roundtable by spe...ned that he had investigated an account into which pharmaceutical companies were paying money that was being accessed by state officials. These officials "were given ...

Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue

...signaled by light (photoinitiatied), will generate pharmaceutical compounds that can cleave DNA, such as in a tumor cell. "The challenge has been that tissue blocks light so we can't signal molecules deep within the body to deliver drug therapy," says Brewer, associate professor of chemistry. Matthew Mongelli of M...

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

...s can be a maddeningly slow and costly process ?if pharmaceutical companies even bother, says Hartmut Derendorf, cha...d Derendorf, whose work is primarily funded by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Sankyo. “That may not always be the right place to look. Most infections are no...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...stalled by legal 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 ...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...ing for expO’s launch comes from six international pharmaceutical firms. Major sponsors are Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth and IBM. Other sponsors are Pfizer, Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Flinn Foundation, ILEX Oncology, and Genomics Collaborative Inc. Research support from Affymetrix, AmeriPath, ...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

... and NHGRI, $1 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 Kenne...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

... morphology of nanoparticles, which can be used in pharmaceutical synthesis and novel biomedical applications. This... chiral drugs, which make up over one-third of all pharmaceutical drugs currently sold worldwide. Chiral drugs are comprised of “left-handed?and “right-handed?molecul...

Newly Discovered Compound Blocks Known Cancer-Causing Protein

...rug discovery capability usually available only to pharmaceutical company scientists. Duke's new facility is a fina...prenylation pathway works. This accomplishment led pharmaceutical companies to test compounds that block another key player in the pathway, a protein called farnesylt...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

...ons of untested drug compounds that exist in large pharmaceutical "libraries." The chips could dramatically increase...ge of researchers, from engineers to chemists, and pharmaceutical scientists to physicists. The research is supported by the Bindley Bioscience Center, which is part ...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

.... "The microbes are evolving genetically, and the pharmaceutical companies are evolving chemically; the two don't match," says Dr. Davies, adding that doctors who deal with microbial diseases in hospitals must remain cautious about exposing the bacterial pathogens to the newest and most effective drugs so as to av...

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