United States FDA Clears the REGEN Trial to Test Bioheart's Combination Gene and Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure Patients

SUNRISE, Fla., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today that the US FDA cleared a p...

LS9's UltraClean Diesel Exceeds United States & Brazilian Fuels Specifications

Continuing its rapid progress toward commercialization of advanced biofuels, LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company™, today announced that its UltraClean™ Diesel product exceeds American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D6751 and Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum ANP-7 spec...

As Other States Pull Back, Kansas Accelerates Innovation Investments at Bio International Convention

$11 Million in New Projects Approved in Atlanta ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meeting at the world's largest bioscience and biotechnology convention, the Kansas Bioscience Authority has approved more than $11 million in new investments as part of a $581 million initiative to hel...

United States Recognizes Leading Scottish Scientist for Disease Research

Sir Philip Cohen to be inducted into National Academy of Sciences for groundbreaking work in biochemistry and biology WASHINGTON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Philip Cohen of Scotland's University of Dundee will be inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) during its 146th ...

Vermillion, Inc. Files a Voluntary Petition for Reorganization Relief Under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code

FREMONT, Calif. , April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vermillion, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VRML) today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for reorganization relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware...

Enerkem announces plans to enter the United States with next-generation biofuels project in Mississippi

Project will allow the recycling and conversion of 60% of Three Rivers region's waste material MONTREAL, March 19 /PRNewswire/ - Enerkem Inc., a leading advanced biofuels and green chemicals technology company, today announced its plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels prod...

Quantros Acquires MEDMARX(R) from United States Pharmacopeia (USP)

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) Convention, an official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines sold in the United States, on December 4, 2008 transferred all rights, ownership and management of the overall MEDMARX report...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces the Opening of a United States Office

PORTON DOWN, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Enigma Diagnostics, the decentralized and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today the opening of a new U.S. office in San Francisco and the appointment of Chris Melancon as Vice President, Business Development. ...

Stallergenes: Launch of a Phase III Clinical Trial in Adults for Oralair(R) Grasses in the United States Operating Income Expected to Remain Stable in 2009

ANTONY, France, October 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stallergenes has just obtained authorization (IND(1)) from the FDA for immediately launching a phase III clinical trial in the United States with Oralair(R) Grasses in the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to grass pollens in adults....

International Drug & Explosive Detection Firm Identa Corp Releasing: Jant Pharmacal Corporation Reports Successful Market Penetration of the Accutest(R) IDenta Co-brand in the United States and Oversees

JERUSALEM, October 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDenta Corp. (Other OTC: IDTA.PK) released today the Jant Pharmacal Corporation report regarding the penetration of the United States and Oversees markets. - The strategic partnership between Jant Pharmacal Corporation (Encino, CA) and IDenta C...

Department of Justice Provides States With Funding for Testing in Postconviction Cases

Kentucky Receives $1.1 Million to Investigate Innocence Claims WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced over $1.1 million to the State of Kentucky to help defray costs associated with reviewing cases where DNA testing and evidence m...

Silence Therapeutics Receives Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Core RNAi Patent

U.S. AtuRNAi Patent Allowance Builds on European Equivalent Granted in 2007, Expanding Commercial Protection LONDON, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Silence Therapeutics plc (AIM: SLN), a leading European RNAi focused biotechnology company, today announced that the United States Paten...

Animetrics Inc. Selected to Provide 3D Face Viewer Technology for United States Army Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT)

Technology Will Aid in Facial Recognition Efforts Conway, N.H. (PRWEB) July 17, 2008 -- Animetrics Inc. today announced that it has completed the first stage of integrating its 3D Face Viewer software into the United States Army Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) system....

Genzyme Files Applications for Approval of Mozobil in the United States and Europe

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genzyme Corporation (Nasdaq: GENZ ) announced today that it has submitted marketing applications in both the United States and the European Union for Mozobil(TM) (plerixafor), a product candidate intended to enhance mobilization of hematopoi...

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN) Blog: International Students in the United States - A Diminishing Pool of Talent for Biotech?

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Is the United States making it too difficult for foreign students to study in a post-9/11 America? What are the implications of a diminished pool of international talent for American biotechnology research and industrial activities? Michael Koeris,...

HemoGenix(R), Inc. Receives Issued Patent for its HALO(R) Technology Platform From the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- HemoGenix(R), Inc., a privately-held contract research and assay development company, reported that the USPTO has issued the first two of several patent applications for the company's HALO(R) technology. HALO(R) is the 21st century answer ...

United States Patent Office Grants CryoCor's Request for Patent Interference

CryoCor Named Senior Party in Interference SAN DIEGO, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CryoCor, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRYO), a medical device company focused on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has declared...

Nycomed's Ciclesonide to be Commercialised in the United States by Sepracor

ZURICH, Switzerland, January 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Nycomed has granted Sepracor, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEPR ) the exclusive development, marketing and commercialisation rights for Ciclesonide in the United States. Ciclesonide is Nycomed's patented corticosteroid with a novel principle of action. It is t...

Essilor: New Acquisitions in the United States and Brazil

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, January 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Essilor of America, Essilor International's US subsidiary, has strengthened its prescription laboratory network in the United States with the acquisition of Interstate Optical Co., one of the country's five largest independent lab...

Medical Services Begins Working With United States Companies for Distribution of Its Products

EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical Services International Inc. (Pink Sheets: MSITF) is pleased to announce that it has begun working with U.S. based Companies to expand its distribution network worldwide. These companies have established distribution networks and are i...

ISTO Technologies Granted Key Patent for Cartilage Cell Expansion by the United States Patent Office

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ISTO Technologies, Inc., a privately held orthobiologics company, today announced that the United States Patent Office granted a key patent protecting the Company's core technology for cell-based cartilage repair: "Method for Chondrocyte Expansion with Phenoty...

Cepheid Enters Into Five-Year Agreement With Northrop Grumman for the Purchase of Anthrax Test Cartridges for Use in United States Postal Service Biohazard Detection Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that it has entered into a five-year master purchase order with Northrop Grumman for the purchase of up to $200 million in Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) test cartridges and associated materials. The anth...

Purdue Pharmaceutical Products L.P. and Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sign Exclusive Agreement to Commercialize Intermezzo(R) in the United States

STAMFORD, Conn. and PT. RICHMOND, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Purdue Pharmaceutical Products L.P. and Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSPT ) today announced entry into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement to commercialize Intermezzo ((R)) (z...

MedMira Strengthens North American Sales Channels, Adding VWR as Distributor for the United States

HALIFAX, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MedMira Inc., ("MedMira") (TSX Venture: MIR, NASDAQ: MMIRF ), a developer and marketer of rapid diagnostic technology and solutions, announced today that VWR International, LLC (VWR) has joined the Company's U.S. distribution network. Headquartered in Wes...

Campaign to Increase the Awareness and Understanding of Lou Gehrig's Disease Reaches 22 U.S. States

Non-Profit Biotech Calls on the Entire ALS Community to Join a Nationwide Network of Independence Day Events CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) announced its BBQ For ALS Awareness , is a national initiative designed to increas...

The Chiesi Group Lands in the United States

PARMA, Italy, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Parma Group has reacquired the marketing rights to its own drug Curosurf and is laying the groundwork to acquire control of the American pharmaceutical company Cornerstone; it will be setting up its twenty-third associated company in the world's largest ...

Surgeons Perform First Incisionless Bariatric Procedure in the United States

LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Bariatric surgeons at Central Baptist Hospital made U.S. medical history Feb. 16 by performing a groundbreaking bariatric procedure to decrease the capacity of a patient's stomach without making a single incision into her body. This is the first incision...

CFSO Calls for Roundtable to Develop National Strategy for Advancing Forensic Sciences in the United States

DENVER, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AAFS Convention -- With tomorrow's release of the Forensics Study by the National Academy of Sciences, The Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations (CFSO) has announced that: -- Peter Marone, CFSO chairman, will be available to the media f...

Organic, Preservative-Free Skin Care Products from Dermaheal Now Available in the United States

A high-end skin care brand from Dermaheal now available in the United States marries science and convenience, bringing its scientifically based formula to customers' doorsteps with biweekly home delivery. Irvine, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2008 -- Dermaheal 2 Weeks Miracl...

Lilly Announces Launch of Color Differentiation System for Humalog(R) and Humulin(R) U-100 Insulin Products in the United States

Provides supplemental recognition factor to assist in product identification INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) today announced the introduction of a color differentiation system for U-100 insulin products market...

Nikon Instruments Appoints LABSCO its Clinical Distributor in Six States

New Dealer Will Service Health Care Clients in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and West Virginia MELVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikon Instruments Inc. announced that it has appointed Laboratory Supply Company, "LABSCO" its clinical laboratory dealer in Kentucky,...

JD Technologies, LLC Selected by FCT Ingenieurkeramik GmbH to Represent Their High Performance Ceramic Expertise In the United States

JD Technologies, LLC will use their extensive field sales expertise and established relationships in numerous industries to pursue new applications for FCT's proven engineered ceramic manufacturing design, development and testing expertise. Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB)...

InVitria Further Strengthens Sales Team with Promotion of Brandy Sargent to Account Manager - Western United States

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- InVitria ( http://www.InVitria.com ), a leading global supplier of animal free products that enhance productivity, safety and time to market for companies in the biopharmaceutical, cell culture, life science research and diagnostics industry, today ...

Baxter Announces Licensing Agreement for Innocoll's Gentamicin Surgical Implant in the United States

The antibiotic surgical product may reduce incidence of surgical site infections and reduce post-operative cost and complications DEERFIELD, Ill. and ASHBURN, Va., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Baxter Healthcare Corporation today announced a licensing agreement with Innocoll Pharmace...

Mylan Launches First Generic Version of Antihypertensive Sular(R) ER in the United States

PITTSBURGH, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mylan Inc. (NYSE: MYL ) today announced that its subsidiary, Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Nisoldipine Extended-release ...

Moleac Launches NeuroAid10(TM) in the United States

Supplement to help support Neurological Function Now Available in the US SINGAPORE, March 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Singapore-based Moleac today launched a new product called NeuroAid10(TM) in the US market to support patients' neurological functions. NeuroAid10(TM) is derived from NeuroAid(TM)...

Neptune Technologies receives GRAS notification in the United States

a required milestone for functional food partners and market entrance LAVAL, QC, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. ("Neptune") (NASDAQ.NEPT - TSX.V.NTB) received notification that Neptune Krill Oil ("NKO(R)") has been determined to be safe as a human ...

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. Secures Access to Nationwide Consumer Mass Market in the United States

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. and Salt Lake City based Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. entered into a distribution agreement for U.S. nationwide distribution of Neptune Krill Oil under the brand name Schiff(R) MegaRed(TM) LAVAL, QC, Nov. 29 /PRNewsw...

Bioponic Phytoceuticals to Roll Out Multiple Products to 1,000 Major Health Food Stores in the Western United States

MAUI, Hawaii, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioponic Phytoceuticals, Inc. (OTC: BPYT) ("Bioponic"), an innovative provider of natural products and patented technology serving the Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) and nutraceutical markets, announced today that it has engaged Active ...

Panel to Discuss the Far-Ranging Effects and Consequences of Heart Disease, Which is the Leading Killer in Both Men and Women in the United States

CHARLIE ROSE SCIENCE SERIES Episode #9 - HEART DISEASE September 19, 2007 NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Pfizer Inc: WHAT: The upcoming episode of the Charlie Rose Science Series will discuss the global burden of cardiovascular disease, the leading...