Structure in Biological Technology

Viral Genetics Retires Nearly $3.5 Million Convertible Debt and Provides Updates on Capital Structure and Stock Issuances

SAN MARINO, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Viral Genetics (Pink Sheets: VRAL), a biotechnology company that develops drug compounds for HIV/AIDS, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, has retired the majority of its $3.5 million of convertible debt. The company also retired other ...

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day could be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems, such as those that convert solar energy to electri...

ChemImage and Next Breath Structure Partnership to Validate Bioequivalence Testing for Nasal Spray Suspensions

Testing Will Help Advance Technology to Find a Faster, More Accurate and Repeatable Method for Drug-Particle Sizing PITTSBURGH, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemImage, ( www.chemimage.com ) today announces a strategic research partnership with Next Breath, LLC ( www.nextbreath.net ), a leading Con...

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution of less than one angstrom (less than one hundred-millionth of a centimeter). Optical an...

Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves

People debating politics are well-advised to shed more light than heat. Engineers working in optical technologies have the same aspiration. Light waves transmit data with much greater speed than do electrical signals, says Qiaoqiang Gan, a Ph.D. candidate at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. ...

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene is cut, say researchers at the University of Illinois. Graphene consists of a hexago...

Positive Study Results for Ceftaroline Phase III Clinical Study for the Treatment of Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections Presented at ICAAC / IDSA

New Data on Ceftaroline, a Novel, Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin in Development for Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections (cSSSI) and Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX ) presented a detailed ana...

ChemAxon Launches Marvin and JChem Version 5.1; Name to Structure Generation, OLE 2 and JavaScript Integration

BUDAPEST, Hungary, August 19 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics today announced the launch of version 5.1 of their cheminformatics toolkits, Marvin & JChem. As well as other improvements, the release sees the introduction of IUPAC name import, support f...

Ames Laboratory researchers solve fuel-cell membrane structure conundrum

AMES, Iowa Fuel-cell cars are reaching commercial viability in todays increasingly eco-conscious society, but despite their promise, even scientists have struggled to explain just how the fuel-cells central component the proton exchange membrane really works. However, a team of researchers...

Researchers outline structure of largest nonvirus particle ever crystallized

Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have modeled the structure of the largest cellular particle ever crystallized, suggesting ways to engineer the particles for drug delivery. The research...

Efficient Primary Structure Elucidation of Disulfide-bridged Peptides

The combination of Edman sequence analysis and electrospray tandem mass spectrometry provides accurate and detailed structural data of highlyknotted spider toxins Purpose The primary structure determination of disulfide bridged peptides...

Using the DCode System to Identify DNA Sequence Variation for Studies of Population Structure in Marine Organisms

Patrick M. Gaffney, Elizabeth A. Orbacz, and Ziniu Yu, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware. Introduction DNA polymorphisms are useful tools for ecological and evolutionary studies ...

Journey Leads Astronomer to New Galactic Structure

MADISON - For Ron Reynolds, an early peek at what would turn out to be a major new feature of the Milky Way came through a hole in the ceiling. As a physics post-doc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1970s, Reynolds sawed a hole in the ceiling of an office of the university's Ph...

DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers

... Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) $21 million for five years to dramatically increase our fundamental knowledge of the physical structure of bio-polymers in plant cell walls to provide a basis for improved methods for converting biomass into fuels. Purdue University (West Lafayette, ...

Sigma-Aldrich Acquires ChemNavigator, Inc., to Provide Researchers With Industry-Leading Chemical Compound Selection and Procurement Services

...distribution to accelerate discovery research programs. Early in the drug discovery process, researchers work at the molecular level to perform structure activity relationship (SAR) studies, seeking molecular patterns that may exhibit enhanced biological activity against disease targets. This virtual di...

ThermoGenesis Provides Update on Fiscal 2009 Results

...s a major focus for the Company. We have begun to streamline the organization, outsource certain manufacturing activities and implement changes to our structure to ensure we are properly focused on our key customers." Engle said the following factors are expected to drive growth and contribute to improv...

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

...t in action. Most researchers examine a catalyst's structure when the catalyst is at a standstill, but that is ...Berkeley, Calif. The computer model produced a structure that best incorporated the experimental data. To test whether this structure worked properly, the team performed a computer sim...

PDI Reports 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results

...aging and expanding our core CSO capabilities, strategically adding to management, reducing expenses and taking appropriate charges in order to better structure the Company for future success. We are confident that adherence to this strategy will put us on a trajectory toward profitability as we strategically ...

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Phase 2 Study Results for Radezolid in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

...Radezolid has also completed a Phase 2 trial in uncomplicated skin and skin structure infections (uSSSI). In in vitro studies, radezolid has demonstrated great...rug discovery engine capitalizes on its proprietary high-resolution crystal structure of the ribosome, which performs an essential role in protein synthesis. Man...

Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact

...carbon-based materials to reliably form the proper structure at the nanoscale (tinier than 2-millionths of an i...ch heat is applied and for how long. The exact structure of the bubbles and channels is critical to the sol...development of plastic solar cells even ignore the structure issues and assume that blending the two materials ...

Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations

...lation towers. By contrast, zeolite membranes with optimal porosity consume much less energy when they perform separations. When zeolites are made, structure directing agents, or SDAs, direct the formation of the porous crystalline structure. But the SDAs are then trapped inside the zeolite pores in what sc...

W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to Hutchinson Center Scholar to Study How Cells Go Awry

...ype of cell, a "cheater," which requires a nutrient but gives nothing back, is introduced into the system. The lab also looks into the role of spatial structure in stabilizing cooperation among cells. Shou completed her postdoctoral work in quantitative biology at the Rockefeller University and in compu...

Bacteria pack their own demise

...earchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) were able to determine the structure and operating mechanism of the proteins involved. This clears the road for ...t VUB, have applied their relentless dedication to the study of the precise structure and function of the toxin-antitoxin complex, a system that had not been the...

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Program Highlights

...ported its financial results and program highlights for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. "With our enhanced cash position, reduced cost structure and Phase II protocol allowance from the FDA, we are well positioned to continue advancing the development of ANA598 as a treatment for chronic hepati...

NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power

... fullerenes (like oil repulses water) while attracting the polymer. The electrical properties of the interface also change dramatically. The resultant structure gives the light-generated photocurrent more opportunities to reach the proper electrodes and reduces the accumulation of fullerenes at the film bottom...

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...ange rates, and after taking account of changes in structure (in particular the consolidation of Zentiva), net sales rose by 6.5%. Excluding changes in structure and at constant exchange rates, second-quarter net...ange rates, and after taking account of changes in structure (in particular the consolidation of Zentiva in the...

Amgen to Collaborate With GlaxoSmithKline to Commercialize Denosumab in Europe for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (PMO)

...sumab for all indications in countries where Amgen does not currently have a commercial presence, including China, Brazil, India and South Korea. The structure of the collaboration allows Amgen the option of an expanded role in commercialization in both Europe and certain emerging markets in the future. ...

Solace Pharmaceuticals Appoints Professor David Julius, Renowned Pain Physiologist, to Scientific Advisory Board

...ar paradigm, Professor Julius' research showed that a menthol receptor from primary sensory neurons is activated by cold thermal stimuli, and that the structure of this menthol/cold receptor, TRPM8, resembles that of TRPV1. Professor Julius has received considerable recognition during his career. He h...

UCR scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics

...ngle layer of graphite. Even though graphite has been studied for decades, the single sheet first was isolated experimentally only in 2004. Graphene's structure is a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms. Structurally, it is related to carbon nanotubes (tiny hollow tubes formed by rolling up sheets...

Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them

...ree of abstraction in the sense that neurons fired the same to different pictures or the name of a particular person- increased along the hierarchical structure within the areas they recorded from. Moreover, Professor Quian Quiroga found neurons responding to his own pictures and name, thus suggesting that ...

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

...om this nucleic acid information. In Silico 3D structure Prediction to Improve and Accelerate Drug Discover...nucleic acid sequence information into all-atom 3D structure predictions of diverse RNA-based structures with near-crystal structure accuracy. With this NIH project, DNA Software is ...

Novavax Announces Selection of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine Candidate for Advanced Preclinical Studies

...iratory tract and cause disease. The new RSV-F vaccine candidate consists of novel three-dimensional particles containing the F protein. The structure of the F protein in these particles is identical to the configuration in which it exists on the surface of the native virus. The particle nature of t...

Schering-Plough Reports Financial Results for 2009 Second Quarter

...that are not reflected in "Equity income" and are borne by the overall cost structure of Schering-Plough. As a result, Schering-Plough's gross margin and ratios... not reflected in the "Equity income" and are borne by the overall cost structure of Schering-Plough. 1/ Cost of sales for the three months ended June 3...

Heart disease: Research off the beating patch

...njecting cells into heart tissue," says study leader Steven Goldman, MD. Unlike most existing approaches, in which cardiac cells with no supporting structure are injected into heart tissue, Goldman's group uses a patch (Theregen Inc. San Francisco) made from microscopically thin fibers that serve as a scaff...

Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature

...teins. Titin is considered a molecular "ruler" along which the whole muscle structure is aligned, and it acts as an elastic spring when a muscle is stretched. ...ns, and these in turn hinge on the stability with which it is anchored in a structure called the sarcomeric Z-disk. Research published in 2006 showed this anchor...

NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

...tream is a hologram of the original object. Unlike a conventional photograph, each holographic snapshot stores information about the three-dimensional structure and composition of the object that created the scattered light field. The recorded holograms appear as a pattern of concentric light and dark rings...

ChemAxon Launches JChem for Excel

...JChem is used for structure management and search, structure based prediction, library enumeration and library ... or access remote databases, populating cells with structure based prediction results and R-group decomposition...grochemical industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization, search and management, property pre...

BioWa Announces License of POTELLIGENT(R) Technology to Merck KGaA

... major mechanisms of action for antibody therapeutics. POTELLIGENT((R)) Technology involves the reduction of the amount of fucose in the carbohydrate structure of an antibody using a proprietary fucosyltransferase-knockout CHO cell line as a production cell. Research shows that POTELLIGENT((R)) Technology dr...

New RISI Report Analyzes South American Tree Farm and Biomass Energy Investment Opportunities

...land, bioenergy, and carbon markets is creating a flood of new investment opportunities in South America's plantation forest industry and analyzes the structure of that industry. The study also provides an outlook on future fiber supplies, and includes RISI's database of 130 ownerships in 8 countries, totaling...

Novel gene found for dilated cardiomyopathy

...hronic heart failure in young people and the most common reason for heart transplant. ANKRD1 is a gene that encodes a protein that plays a role in the structure and functional ability of the heart. The study, conducted internationally, is published in the July 21 issue of the Journal of the American Colleg...