Reconstructing mandibular defects with bioengineered tooth and bone

Current strategies for jaw reconstruction require multiple procedures, first to repair the bone defect to offer sufficient support, and then to place the tooth implant. The entire procedure can be painful and time-consuming, and the desired esthetic and functional repair can be achieved only when ...

Tamiflu substrate produced from Bioengineered Bacteria

The worldwide scare of bird flu pandemic as increased which has lead to stockpiling of large quantities of Tamiflu, antiviral bird flu drug by many countries//. U.S. has stocked more than 4 million Tamiflu drugs and many countries have started producing the generic version of the drug Tamiflu manuf...

Scientists Bioengineer New Teeth in Mice

...t they've grown new teeth in mice with the help of bioengineered tissue, an early sign of progress in the effort to... The research provides "convincing" proof that bioengineered teeth can be fully functional, said Dr. Fei Liu, a... wanted to find out what would happen if they took bioengineered tooth "germs" -- tissue that holds the instruction...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. and TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. Announce Merger Agreement

...("NASH") , Huntington's Disease ("HD") , and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency . Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are design...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. to Present at 2009 Cystinosis Research Network Family Conference

...NASH") , Huntington's Disease ("HD") , and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency . Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are design...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals to Collaborate with Roche on Therapeutic Delivery Across Blood-Brain Barrier

...tohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("HD"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are designed t...

Bioengineered proteins: Trial confirms new way to tackle cancer

...in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. "The level of HIF is usually very high under conditions of low oxygen, but when we put in our bioengineered VHL its levels go right down to a level that would be comparable to that in normal oxygen levels." Their findings could have implications for any t...

Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First

...ng was one treatment option, which would have allowed her to live, but seriously impaired her quality of life. Instead, Castillo received a "new," bioengineered airway. The scientists essentially created epithelial and cartilage cells from stem cells from Castillo's own bone marrow. Those cells were put on ...

Type-1 diabetes not so much bad genes as good genes behaving badly, Stanford research shows

...c twin that act differently from the same genes in the other twin who doesn't get diabetes. To do this, the Stanford researchers used two types of bioengineered mice that share a common genome, with just one key difference. So-called NOD mice (the acronym stands for "non-obese diabetic") are extremely likel...

New way to control protein activity could lead to cancer therapies

...ent, Laura Banaszynski, PhD. They created special, bioengineered versions of several different proteins, in each c... tracks, however, by Shield-1, which binds to the bioengineered protein, shielding it from destruction by the cel...breakdown machinery. The drug thus can enhance the bioengineered protein's intracellular concentration and activit...

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New Study Using Combination of Bioengineered Skin and Stem Cells Shows Promise in Treatment of Non-Healing Wounds

SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that leads to thickening and severe scarring of skin as well as thickening and failure of internal organs, including the lungs, heart, kidneys and intestines. The disease -- which the Scleroderma Foundation esti...

ThermoGenesis Announces National Institute of Health Grant

... evidence which shows that the efficacy of stem cells for tissue regeneration and repair can be enhanced if the cells are presented to the body within bioengineered materials. The AXP is used for the processing of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, while the Res-Q a point-of-care device scheduled for lau...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Receives Notices of Allowance for Two NeuroTrans(TM) Patent Applications

...s ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("Huntington's"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are designed t...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Patrice P. Rioux as Chief Medical Officer

...s ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("Huntington's"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are designed t...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in Phase 2a Clinical Trial in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

...tohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("HD"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are designed t...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Announces Positive Phase IIa Clinical Study Results for Convivia(TM) Program

...dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins to that are designe...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals to Collaborate with Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers for Phase II Clinical Trial in Huntington's Disease

...e dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins to that are designe...

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on Targeting Platforms

...e dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency, nephropathic cystinosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH"). Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins to that are designe...

Knee Pain? An Exclusive Study Engineers Cartilage to Match Patient's Own Tissue

...ount of a patient's healthy cartilage is extracted. The biopsy sample is processed to pinpoint the cartilage producing cells, then injected into a 3-D bioengineered matrix and placed under high pressure to grow the cartilage. This matrix, with the same characteristics of the patient's own cartilage, is then implan...

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Cystic fibrosis patients may breathe easier, thanks to bioengineered antimicrobials

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. By better understanding how antimicrobials bind and thereby get inactivated in the mucus of air passages, researchers at the University of Illinois may have found a way to help cystic fibrosis patients fight off deadly infections. While not a cure, this work has potential as a th...

Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections

...eveloped by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of Singapore and reported in Nature Nanotechnology . The stable bioengineered nanoparticles devised at IBN effectively seek out and destroy bacteria and fungal cells that could cause fatal infections and are highly therapeutic. ...

A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

...ign by a team headed by Zhongwu Chou and Mark Thompson of the University of Southern California uses two new elements. First, it takes advantage of bioengineered synthetic antibodies, much, much smaller versions of the natural substances that are designed to bind with a specific protein and only that protein. ...

From stem cells to new organs: Stanford and NYU scientists cross threshold in regenerative medicine

...he March 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal ( http://www.fasebj.org ) brings bioengineered organs a step closer, as scientists from Stanford and New York University L... blood, fat, and bone marrow grew. This advance clears two major hurdles to bioengineered replacement organs, namely a matrix on which stem cells can form a 3-dimens...

Tool helps identify gene function in soybeans

... COLUMBIA, Mo. In the race for bioengineered crops, sequencing the genome could be considered the first leg in a multi-leg relay. Once the sequence is complete, the baton is passed forward to res...

Adult stem cell breakthrough

...een successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The bioengineered trachea immediately provided the patient with a normally functioning airway...nd the tube to the patient's left lung (bronchus) should be replaced with a bioengineered airway based on the scaffold of a human trachea. A seven-centimetre trac...

Tufts to develop morphing 'chemical robots'

...eering. "We expect that these devices will literally be able to disappear after completing their mission." The biomaterials will be designed from bioengineered polymers, which the group has studied for many years. Wireless Telemetry Saves Energy The complete chembot is envisioned to have multiple hai...

Ragweed research is nothing to sneeze at

...s using data from the 18-acre field to develop a computer model of ragweed pollen behavior. The model also could someday help to predict the spread of bioengineered corn pollen before it contaminates natural crops. Under the guidance of several faculty advisers, the ragweed research is being carried out by...

Scientists discover important beauty secret for balanced skin color and tone

... from helping doctors develop more natural looking bioengineered skin grafts to helping cosmetics companies develop...n. Most immediately, this study should lead to bioengineered skin grafts that more closely resemble the natural...hich produce no pigment of their own. Working with bioengineered skin, which is used for some types of skin grafts,...

Engineering the heart piece by piece

...r describing their success in growing pulsing, three-dimensional patches of bioengineered heart muscle, or BEHM. That paper describes the use of an innovative techni...nditions, as well as hurdles that still lie ahead. In all, the authors say, bioengineered cardiac tissue holds immediate promise as a way to study heart disease and ...

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Raptor Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in Phase 2b Clinical Trial of DR Cysteamine for Cystinosis

...tohepatitis ("NASH"), Huntington's Disease ("HD"), and aldehyde dehydrogenase ("ALDH2") deficiency. Raptor's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates and drug-targeting platforms derived from the human receptor-associated protein ("RAP") and related proteins that are designed t...

Stemedica Signs Scientific Advisory Board Agreement with Leading Pediatric Burn & Wound Care Researcher

...ation administered through an all natural, gauze-like scaffold construct. During the clinical trials, pediatric burn patients treated with whole cell bioengineered tissue showed significant clinical improvement over traditional grafting techniques. In patients participating in the trial - all of whom had full thi...

Serica Technologies Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for SeriScaffold(TM) Technology for Soft Tissue Repair

... "We are delighted to receive FDA clearance under the 510(k) process. This 510(k) clearance represents a major milestone for Serica as well as for our bioengineered silk-based biomaterial for soft tissue repair applications," said Gregory H. Altman, PhD, President and CEO, Serica Technologies. The SeriScaff...

Advanced BioHealing and Regenesis Biomedical Form Co-Promotion Alliance for Dermagraft(R)

... We believe this co-promotion is the most effective way to maximize reach and penetration of Dermagraft in this specialized market." Dermagraft is a bioengineered tissue product approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). DFUs, a complication of diabetes, ...

Bioengineered in Biological Definition

Bacterium

...ed foods such as cheese , pickles , soy sauce , sauerkraut , vinegar , wine , and yoghurt . Using biotechnology techniques, bacteria can be bioengineered for the production of therapeutic drugs, such as insulin , or for the bioremediation of toxic wastes . Miscellaneous In terms of evoluti...

Bacterium

...ed foods such as cheese , pickles , soy sauce , sauerkraut , vinegar , wine , and yoghurt . Using biotechnology techniques, bacteria can be bioengineered for the production of therapeutic drugs, such as insulin , or for the bioremediation of toxic wastes . Miscellaneous In terms of evoluti...

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Biosphere

...cally and most commonly defined as that part of the Earth in ... As such, the biosphere is one of four mutually exclusive spheres, the others ... bioengineered microspheres for the minimally invasive treatment of hypervascularized tumors and vascular malformations. Biosphere 2 Center, nestled in the foot...