Lab Automation Networks Proliferating
Although it may still seem radically innovative in the context of many clinical laboratories,
automated production in the manufacturing sector had been the norm for many years. In
automobile assembly, for example,
automated lines fabricate sub-assemblies and entire vehicles with only occasional human oversight. The result has been vastly improved products, far fewer defects, and significant p...
Xanthus Presents Novel Approach for Autoimmune Disease Reversal
with Symadex
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2007 - XanthusPharmaceuticals, Inc today presented data demonstrating thatSymadex(TM) reversed the clinical and pathological signs of chronicdisease in an animal model for multiple sclerosis. The presentationwas made by Stephen J. Karlik, Ph.D., Professor of DiagnosticRadiology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,together with rese...
Cellerant Therapeutics Reversed Autoimmune Disease in Lupus Mice
with Transplant of Purified Donor Blood Stem Cells
SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2007 - CellerantTherapeutics today announced the publication of data suggestingthat established
autoimmune disease can be reversed or stabilizedby the transplantation of purified allogeneic (donated)hematopoietic (blood forming) stem cells (HSC) in a mouse study ofSystemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Subjects that underwent thisprocedure exhibited...
MedImmune Publishes New Data in Nature Immunology Demonstrating The
Role HMGB1 May Play in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
- Preclinical Data Support Rationale for Targeting Pro-InflammatoryProtein - GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --MedImmune, Inc. today announced the publication of preclinicalstudy data demonstrating a role for high mobility group boxprotein-1 (HMGB1), a nuclear DNA-binding protein, in the pathologyof systemic
autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupuserythematosus...
Immunicon Will Exhibit CellCapture CTC Mouse/Rat Kit and EasyCount
System for Automated Cell Counting at AACR
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 12, 2007 - ImmuniconCorporation (NASDAQ-GM:IMMC) will exhibit at the AmericanAssociation for Cancer Research (AACR) at the Los AngelesConvention Center, April 15 to 18. The Company will featureImmunicon Pharma Services(SM), the new CellCapture(TM) CTCMouse/Rat Kit and the new EasyCount(TM) System at booth 1604. Immunicon Pharma Services offers...
Scientists Implicate Gene in Vitiligo and Other Autoimmune Diseases
BETHESDA, Md., April 10, 2007--In a study appearing in the March22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by theNational Institutes of Healths National Institute of Arthritis andMusculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have discovered aconnection between a specific gene and the inflammatory skincondition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of
autoimmunediseases. V...