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Osprey Biotechnics: More Trillions of Good Bacteria

SARASOTA, Fla., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A company here is expanding to produce more trillions of beneficial bacteria -- the hungry kind that open drain pipes, clean up soil and groundwater, treat waste water, and are beneficial to fruits and vegetables. Osprey Biotechnics is quadr...

Malaysian Healthcare Industry Is in Good Shape

Country's healthcare industry in 2009 is expected to grow at 8 percent MALAYSIA, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The recent economic downturn has contributed to a significant shift in the Healthcare industry in 2009 regionally, but not for Malaysia. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20...

SleepQuest Tireless in Pursuit of Good Sleep

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- SleepQuest has always followed the essence of its name by seeking to help those who suffer from undiagnosed and unexplained health problems related to lack of sleep. SleepQuest frequently visits local organizations to discuss the importance of iden...

PAREXEL Partners with Glenmark to Win the Good Clinical Practice Journal Award for Most Innovative Patient Recruitment Strategy

BOSTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, in partnership with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, today announced that it has been recognized by the Good Clinical Practice Journal (GCPj) as the ...

PAREXEL Corporate Vice President Dr. Alberto Grignolo Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Good Clinical Practice Journal

BOSTON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced that Alberto Grignolo, Ph.D., Corporate Vice President, PAREXEL Consulting, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Goo...

Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have helped resolve two important questions about an emerging microcircuit manufacturing technology called nanoimprint lithographyyes, it can accurately sta...

Following a Good Start to the Year Shire Reaffirms Full Year 2008 Financial Guidance

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company announces results for the three months to March 31, 2008. Q1 2008 Financial Highlights - Product sales up 37% to $632m - New produ...

Sanofi-aventis' SoloSTAR(R) Insulin Pen for Lantus and Apidra Receives the Prestigious GOOD DESIGN Award

PARIS, February 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi-aventis announced today that the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design has awarded a 2007 GOOD DESIGN(TM) Award for the new SoloSTAR(R) disposable insulin injection pen for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. "LANTUS(R) So...

It's Good News for The Lungs!

MIAMI, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Expand-A-Lung Breathing Resistance Exerciser has successfully accomplished the crossover from the sports respiratory fitness training market into the respiratory therapy market for COPD patients. Jorge Brouwer, President of Expand-A-Lung, Inc., and inventor o...

World's smallest radio uses single nanotube to pick up good vibrations

Berkeley -- Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built the smallest radio yet - a single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair that requires only a battery and earphones to tune in to your favorite station. The scientists successfully received the...

Parexel Consulting Strengthens Good Manufacturing Practice Capabilities in Europe

BOSTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PAREXEL Consulting, a business unit of PAREXEL International (Nasdaq: PRXL ) and a leading global life sciences consultancy serving the bio/pharmaceutical and medical device industries, announced today that it is strengthening its Good Manufacturing ...

Probiotic good bugs may control gut infections

Probiotics, the friendly bacteria beloved of yoghurt advertisers, may be an effective substitute for growth promoting antibiotics in pigs, giving us safer pork products, according to scientists speaking today (Wednesday 5 September 2007) at the Society for General Microbiologys 161st Meeting at th...

Business Plan Contest Has Good Model

MILWAUKEE, WI. - As refreshing as Gov. Jim Doyles announcement of the statewide Governors Business Plan Contest must have been to some entrepreneurial ears last week, Wisconsin already has a long-running model to the north from which to learn. The Eau Claire Area Economic Development council is...

Investment tax credit bill is a good start, but Wisconsin must confront other barriers to capital formation

MADISON Now that Gov. Jim Doyle has signed a bill to promote investment in Wisconsins small start-up businesses, will the states technology sector blossom like a spring flower? Based on this law alone, dont count on it. The bills creation of tax credits for angel and early-stage investments as ...

How Good Does Your Web Site Look on Paper?

The best way to ensure the effectiveness of your companys next web site is to let the sites users lend you a hand (quite literally) through the process of paper prototyping. Paper prototyping is a fast, low-cost method of testing web site designs. It involves creating rough sketches of a web sit...

Dividing stem cells along partisan lines isnt a good experiment

Magnified stem cells. Source: Office of U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Redondo Beach, Calif.) MADISON Are human embryonic stem cells Democratic or Republican? As silly as that question is, it appears to be at the core of one of the more lamentable wedge issues of the 2004 presidential campaign. Bo...

Governing good Web-site design

Frustration is a common experience among marketers trying to judge the quality of a Web-site design. Everyone wants to implement the best-looking web site, but opinions of what constitutes a great site vary. Fortunately, good Web sites arent based on opinion. They are based on evidence. A...

Low tech is good for local politics

Much has been written since the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer about political blogs and their impact on the November election. From the sheer number and the attention given to political bloggers, you would think these technology-equipped political pundits would have a signific...

Why bad technology happens to good organizations

Most of us havent had too much direct experience with really bad technology. Technology that doesnt fit, technology that irritates, technology that confuses, yes, but really, really bad technology, on the scale of the exploding Ford Pintos or more recently SUV-flipping Firestone tires? Not reall...

UW-Madison spinoff Pedrus finds more to business planning than good science

Pedrus Pharma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout that has sped to the finals in the Governor's Business Plan Contest , may put a stop to the annual flu vaccine hoopla, among other things. Founders Curtis Brandt and Hansi Dean, both UW-Madison researchers, are developing two drugs based ...

Feuds between UW and the Legislature should end for good of the state

In Minnesota these days, the governor and the Legislature are bogged down in a budget fight, just like their counterparts in Wisconsin. Money is tight, just as it is in Wisconsin. But there's an important distinction between the two states: In Minnesota, the university budget is one of the few ar...

When doing a good job isn't good enough

Madison, Wis. You work hard. You've developed a lot of relevant expertise. You've achieved results that are recognized within your company. And you just got fired. Or laid off or RiF'd (reduction in force) or downsized or bought out. Whatever. The bottom line is that that sweet little profess...

Planning, reality, good intentions and the road to ...

Madison, Wis. In debates and teaching, it is sometimes useful to go to extremes to make a point. It's rare that the real world resorts to such tactics, but in the last month exactly that has happened with both hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Since nobody in their right mind wants to get into a con...

Theres more than a bit of mystery, but attracting 'Big Pharma' is good for the state

It has all the makings of a Hollywood hit a mysterious drug company... money local heroes trying to do what's right for their community even a "leading lady" of sorts. But it's not "The Constant Gardener," the film that won a Best Supporting Actress award this week for Rachel Weisz. Rather, it...

Seven good reasons to approve the Institutes for Discovery

Ever since the Trojans hauled that giant wooden statue inside their walls, and woke up to the sound of armed Greeks in the streets, people have been examining gift horses carefully. There's generally nothing wrong with that careful policy - within reason. The state Building Commission will def...

Visions: Matheys says CIO role is good training for executive suite

Steve Matheys Green Bay, Wis. - For six years, Steve Matheys served as the chief technologist for Schneider National , and his experience during that period - 1998 to 2004 - convinced him that serving as a CIO can be a great training ground for bigger and better things in the executive suite....

Picking Vista sure seemed like a good idea at the time

I'm exhausted! I've been running hard up the Vista/Office 2007 learning curve for the last two weeks, and I'm just plain worn out. Productivity is in the basement. Frustration has reached all-time highs, and all I'm trying to do is write a column, synchronize my e-mail, launch a presentation, a...

Americas weighty problem: Why the fight against fat is about more than just looking good

MADISON Speaking to a home-state crowd last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson described how his agency touches Americans in unseen ways every day, from regulating the prescription drugs they take to administering their Medicare accounts to watching over the safety of the foo...

Synthetech Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results

...and specialty resins, primarily for the pharmaceutical industry. Synthetech produces advanced pharmaceutical intermediates in accordance with Current good Manufacturing Practices ( cGMP ) in compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) regulations. Our products support the development and m...

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

...to outline the chemical reaction occurring between the catalyst and the ammonia borane. The catalyst does not remain still, said Rousseau, making it a good catalyst but, like an active two-year old, also a difficult subject to pin down. Plucking Atoms One at a Time The results suggested that the a...

Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth

...as approved Fast Track designation for the product. Rolling review of the New Drug Application ("NDA") has started. Our core portfolio has made good progress in the quarter. We are pleased with the performance of VYVANSE as it has retained market share during the historically quieter summer vacatio...

Biotech Hot in July Driven by Positive Drug Data and Acquisitions

...cal assets in various stages of development by Medarex - in particular, monoclonal antibodies focused in oncology and immunology. It wasn't all good news for biotechs. Genzyme shares tumbled more than 6 percent in July following an announcement that the FDA plans to re-inspect a key manufacturing p...

NovaBay(R) Pharmaceuticals Names Roy J. Wu as Senior Vice President for Business Development

...nd the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan. Among the many strengths Wu adds to NovaBay's executive team is his deep understanding of good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and of the International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals ...

Model predicts evolution of Mediterranean landscape following fires

... for example, that if the ground is dry, or there is a lack of Holm oak acorns, a burned area can turn into a pine forest within 30 years. However, in good water and soil conditions, the ecosystem could develop into a deciduous chestnut and melojo oak forest. "The intensity and number of fires have a d...

Bacteria pack their own demise

...," is called a gene. Humans have several tens of thousands of genes. Toxin and antitoxin If your genetic information becomes damaged, you have a good chance of becoming ill or even dying. This is also true for bacteria, which over time developed a handy way of providing extra protection to importan...

ERT Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...ults can be found in the Company's Reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Guidance is based on management's good faith expectations given current market conditions but that continued or further deterioration of general economic conditions, in addition to other fa...

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Clearance of Phase II Protocol to Study ANA598 in Combination With Interferon-Alpha and Ribavirin in HCV Patients

...ers of 2010. "ANA598 has demonstrated potent antiviral activity and good tolerability as a single agent in Phase I, as well as preclinical propertie...ical studies of ANA598 that have demonstrated potent antiviral activity and good tolerability. In a monotherapy study in naive genotype 1 patients, treatme...

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Program Highlights

... and CEO of Anadys. "ANA598 has demonstrated potent antiviral activity and good tolerability in Phase I, as well as preclinical properties indicative of li... at EASL. In April 2009, data demonstrating potent antiviral activity and good tolerability of ANA598 as a single agent at all dose levels in a Phase Ib s...

Medicago's H1N1 pandemic vaccine candidate shows positive response in 100% of vaccinated animals after a single dose

...rienced difficulties producing a pandemic candidate for H1N1, our H1N1 vaccine candidate was well expressed in our plant-based system and has produced good yields." Vaccine makers currently developing vaccine candidates for the pandemic swine flu using egg-based and cell culture technologies have advise...

First genetically engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials

...Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, which has the only facility worldwide capable of producing genetically-altered malaria parasites that comply with the good manufacturing practice guidelines required for human clinical trials. ...