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Genetic manipulation might model cystic fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene responsible for making the protein CFTR. Progress toward understanding the disease-causing mechanisms and developing new therapies has been hampered by the lack of a good animal model; e.g., CF mice fail to develop many of the symptoms seen i...

You might work in a Midwest technology environment if...

CHICAGO While we talk all the time about Midwest technology workplaces in this Nine2Five column, what really constitutes one? Could you qualify as a Midwest tech employee if you work from home doing outside sales for a travel-industry CRM vendor? Yes, technically. After all, technology is so ...

Patent enforcement: What you don't know might hurt you

This is part one of a two part article. The next installment covering the enforcement tactics and proactive measures to take will appear next week. You or your company may have no patents and, generally, little perceived need to be concerned with patent matters. However, there is a growin...

Glue made from ethanol leftovers might be worth more than fuel

Madison, Wis. - Mixing up a batch of ethanol from alfalfa or switchgrass isn't nearly as efficient as creating it from corn, but that doesn't mean growing grass crops for fuel won't pay, says Paul Weimer. Rather than dwelling on finding ways to squeeze extra ethanol out of biomass from crops s...

Energy conservation might take us farther than renewable fuels

Energy is the biggest challenge in the world, and we have to do something major about its inefficiencies. The problem of energy inefficiencies can be attributed to transportation (27 percent), industry (25 percent), and buildings (48 percent). The breakdown was calculated by the U.S. Energy Info...

DHC 2007: Without fuller IT adoption, health costs might drain America's wealth

Madison, Wis. - If the pace of healthcare information technology adoption doesn't pick up soon, the United States could reach an unsustainable situation regarding healthcare costs, according to John Wade, who delivered the keynote address Wednesday at Digital Healthcare Conference 2007 . With...

Growth spurts

...have been adopted to avoid coalescence events. "Our observations provide invaluable direct information on how nanocrystals grow and indicate how we might directly control nanocrystal synthesis for tailored properties," says Zheng. "Also, our in situ liquid cell TEM technique can be applied to other are...

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

...un the device. The PNNL chemists in the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis study a rhodium-based catalyst that performs this job fairly well, but might have potential for improvement. Their initial work showed that the catalyst worked as a molecule that contained a core of four rhodium atoms in a tetr...

Amicus Therapeutics Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...ed. Any or all of the forward-looking statements in this press release may turn out to be wrong. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions Amicus might make or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. For example, with respect to statements regarding the goals, progress, timing and outcomes of ong...

Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact

...o show which new combinations of materials and at what baking time and temperature could form bubbles and channels in a way that the resulting polymer might meet the standard. Such testing can be accomplished using a very small tool called an atomic force microscope, which uses a needle similar to the ...

Oncothyreon appoints Diana Hausman as Vice President of Clinical Development

... the timing and results of regulatory reviews, the safety and efficacy of our product candidates, and the indications for which our product candidates might be developed. There can be no guarantee that the results of preclinical studies or clinical trials will be predictive of either safety or efficacy in ...

ETC Biomedical Announces Chamber Sale in India

... change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 K for the...

Oncothyreon announces presentation of long-term Stimuvax data at World Conference on Lung Cancer

... and results of clinical trials, the timing and results of regulatory reviews, the safety and efficacy of Stimuvax, the indications for which Stimuvax might be developed, and Merck KGaA's development plans for Stimuvax. There can be no guarantee that the results of preclinical studies or clinical trials wi...

Bacteria pack their own demise

...mitate the toxin protein, block the antitoxin protein, or disrupt the interaction between the toxin and antitoxin. In time, a new class of antibiotics might come out of it though Nature mostly has a countermove up its sleeve against any move scientists do. ...

ERT Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include: unfavorable economic conditions; our ability to obtain new contracts and accurately estimate net revenues, variabilit...

Cynosure Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...rket conditions and other factors. Repurchases may also be made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, which would permit shares to be repurchased when the company might otherwise be precluded from doing so under insider trading laws. The repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. Any repurchase...

NeoGenomics Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...e anticipated in the forward looking statements, Actual results could differ materially from such statements expressed or implied herein. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, the company's ability to continue gaining new customers, offer new types of tests, and otherwise implem...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Exercise of Overallotment

...e Company. The risks and uncertainties include the risk that the investors might not exercise their warrants, the Company might not be able to continue to raise additional capital as needed to fund its o...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants

...e Company. The risks and uncertainties include the risk that the investors might not exercise their warrants, the Company might not be able to continue to raise additional capital as needed to fund its o...

Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature

...mechanical strain in living organisms. Better understanding could potentially inform physiological research and biomedical applications. Such insights might also inspire biomimetic research and design for nanotechnology. ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Promotion of Don R. Webber to VP of Sales for their BioMedical Division

...change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 K for the...

Encorium Group Completes Sale of its U.S. Business to Pierrel Research USA; Announces Management Changes

...due reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date of this press release. Additional information concerning factors that might affect our business or stock price which could cause actual results to materially differ from those in forward-looking statements is contained in Enco...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Sale of Additional Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers

...change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 K for th...

New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's

...rent drug discovery process is arduous, requiring identification of potential drug targets, synthesis of large collections of molecular compounds that might interact effectively with an identified target, screening of compounds with expensive assays and robotics, and defining the compounds' structures larg...

Health Robotics Expands and Diversifies Global Channel Strategies With Joint-Ventures & Direct Operations

...r line-up in Taiwan and Oceania; and if necessary, terminating for cause some of Health Robotics' indirect distribution agreements with companies that might be unwilling or unable to adequately support our customers. "This key milestone to diversify and expand beyond our traditional indirect channel...

Jesup & Lamont Announces Presenting LifeTech Companies and Former FDA Commissioner at Annual Growth Stock & National Sales Conference

... to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, without limitation, fluctuations in the volume of transactional services provided by the Company, competition with re...

Information warfare in the 21st century: Ideas are sometimes stronger than bombs

...s, video clips, and television programs. When the army succeeds in presenting a product of information that incriminates the guerilla organization, it might be able to meet its required target more efficiently than if it had acted with physical force," Dr. Levyatan concludes. ...

REMERON(R) Now Approved in Japan for the Treatment of Depression in Adult Patients

...ssibly discontinuing the medication, in patients whose depression is persistently worse, or who are experiencing emergent suicidality or symptoms that might be precursors to worsening depression or suicidality, especially if these symptoms are severe, abrupt in onset, or were not part of the patient's pres...

iZumi Bio and Pierian Merge to Form iPierian to Advance Cellular Reprogramming

...component of the pancreas, are formed during organogenesis, how their function is regulated in the mature organism, and how changes in gene expression might allow islet regeneration. Dr. Amy Wagers, assistant professor in the Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center ...

Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices

... magnetic field detectors. Arrays of nanoscale sandwiches of a similar type might be used in future data storage devices that would outdo even today's astoni...meters down into the ferromagnet right underneath," explains Shull, "so you might expect that there could be some residual effect maybe tens of nanometers aw...

Encorium Group Updates Expected Timeframe with Respect to the Sale of its U.S. Business

...due reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date of this press release. Additional information concerning factors that might affect our business or stock price which could cause actual results to materially differ from those in forward-looking statements is contained in Enco...

Excalibur International Marine (49% Owned by EFT BioTech Holdings) Completes Inaugural Passenger Crossing of Taiwan Strait

... result of new information, future events or otherwise. The company disclaims any such obligation unless required by law. Risks and uncertainties that might affect the Company include, but are not limited to (i) the global economic environment in which the Company operates, as well as the economic conditio...

EFT BioTech Holdings, Inc.'s Sea Vessel Completes Inaugural Passenger Voyage Across the Taiwan Strait

... result of new information, future events or otherwise. The company disclaims any such obligation unless required by law. Risks and uncertainties that might affect the Company include, but are not limited to (i) the global economic environment in which the Company operates, as well as the economic conditio...

Palkion Selects Novel Oral Development Candidate for the Treatment of Anemia

... an oral agent, as being developed by Palkion, could be very appealing from both a commercial and clinical perspective as an orally bioavailable agent might expand usage and improve patient compliance as well. "This sooner than expected start of preclinical development studies is an affirmation of C...

New England Journal of Medicine Study Highlights Need for Rapid, PCR-based Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Testing at Time of Admission for Labor and Delivery

...nge Commission. All forward-looking statements and reasons why results might differ included in this release are made as of the date of this press relea...igation to update any such forward-looking statement or reasons why results might differ. CONTACTS: For Media Inquiries: For Ce...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division to Exhibit at Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Meeting

...change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10K for the ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division Achieves Foreign Manufacturer Accreditation in Japan

...change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 K for th...

Oncothyreon announces initiation of Phase 3 trial of Stimuvax in breast cancer

... and results of clinical trials, the timing and results of regulatory reviews, the safety and efficacy of Stimuvax, the indications for which Stimuvax might be developed, and Merck Serono's development plans for Stimuvax. There can be no guarantee that the results of preclinical studies or clinical trials ...

Fallopian tubes offer new stem cell source

...suggesting chromosomal stability. Jazedje comments, "In addition to providing an additional potential source for regenerative medicine, these findings might contribute to reproductive science as a whole." Jazedje concludes, "Moreover, the use of human tissue fragments that are usually discarded in surg...

Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull

...acial region in people. Especially relevant, the researchers said, is the insight gained into early molecular events during embryonic development that might help explain such birth defects. Dr. Robbins said the findings from this study can be used to develop specific drugs that could target the affecte...
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