BioCryst Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results And Provides Corporate Update
...eramivir through the traditional regulatory pathway. The successful Phase 3 studies conducted by our partner Shionogi add to the growing body of data characterizing the efficacy and safety of peramivir as a potential treatment for influenza." Second Quarter Financial Results For the three months e...Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference Today on Health Care Reform and Medical Costs
...what did I say last week? Question: [Inaudible.] Speaker Pelosi. That is what our intention is. I don't know what, how you were characterizing what I said last week. That is our intention. Question: [Inaudible.] Speaker Pelosi. Well from January 2010, you begin to see ...Abbott Introduces Molecular Diagnostic System Intended for Broad Identification of Infectious Agents
... CHICAGO, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT ) today unveiled its new PLEX-ID system currently in development for detecting and characterizing a wide range of pathogens, including infectious agents commonly transmitted in hospitals and other clinical sites. PLEX-ID is the next generation of A...Researchers identify potential patient safety risks among methadone maintenance treatment patients
...mong MMT patients engaged in medical care by evaluating the frequency that opioid dependence and MMT documentation were missing in medical records and characterizing potential medication-methadone interactions. The researchers found documentation of opioid dependence diagnosis was missing from the medical record i...Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Forced to Pay for Autism Care In Landmark Case
.... Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan , 08-cv-12272 , filed in Detroit. In the suit, the plaintiff alleged that Blue Cross' pattern and practice of characterizing the scientifically established Applied Behavioral Therapy as "experimental," and thus as excluded under its insurance policies, was arbitrary, caprici...Cellular telephones to expand knowledge of health behaviors and microorganisms in adolescent males
...rganisms. The research is part of the Human Microbiome Demonstration Project, which is part of the National Genomics Institute, and is focused on characterizing microorganisms that inhabit the human body to discover how they are involved in human health and disease. Indiana University Adolescent Medicine r...Fast pandemic detection tool ready to fight flu
..., June 9, 2009In a joint effort by national laboratory-, university- and private-sector institutions, researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics such as Influenza A (H1N1). The first tool, an automated genotyping syste...Entrepreneur Magazine: MxSecure Among 100 "Brilliant Companies"
...ial for future growth. I'm pleased for our MxSecure team, and also thankful for our many clients." Entrepreneur echoed Christie's sentiment, characterizing the healthcare companies they recognized as: "10 companies that know the best medicine for a bad recession is a stellar business model." ...Novel biomarkers in heart failure
...sting that the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are not the same "Biomarker" is a very broad term that refers to parameter reflecting or characterizing a certain biological process. It may include variety of indices/parameters derived from clinical images, physiological tests, tissue biopsies, and eve...Pharmacyclics Announces Data and Publication Characterizing Highly-Selective HDAC Inhibitor
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCYC ) today announced publication of data characterizing the company's novel highly-selective histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor. The study, entitled "A novel histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8)-specific inhibitor ...Pangu BioPharma, aTyr Pharma's Subsidiary in Hong Kong, Files Three Patent Applications
...iants with potent cell signaling activities that are vital to normal functioning of humans. The work at Pangu BioPharma is focused on identifying and characterizing new examples of the tRNA synthetases resectome. In just the first year of operations, Pangu BioPharma has built a strong patent portfolio that provid...Tolerx Presents Data at 69th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association
...vity, and an improved safety profile. This regimen is currently being evaluated in the ongoing multinational Phase 3 clinical trial, DEFEND, which is characterizing the safety and efficacy of otelixizumab, a novel anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, in new onset autoimmune type 1 diabetes patients. About the ...Arrayit to Mass Produce Rapid H1N1 Swine Flu Test Chip
...ified laboratories to provide additional support. During a pandemic, laboratories will play a critical role in detecting and confirming initial cases, characterizing viruses, monitoring the progression of the pandemic, and selecting vaccine strains. Scientists around the world are concerned that the influenza virus...Researchers Discover Metabolite Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
...athways that are linked to cancer invasiveness. This suggests sarcosine as a potential target for future drug development. "This research gets at characterizing the chemical complexity of a sample of cancer progression. In the future, this science will drive how doctors make treatment recommendations for their...Rigel Ubiquitin Ligase Program Identifies Molecules With Anti-HIV Activity
...ww.rigel.com/">http://www.rigel.com after 11:00 a.m. PDT today. Rigel's Rich Ligase Drug Discovery Program Rigel is a leader in investigating and characterizing the ubiquitin ligase system for the discovery and development of potential new therapeutics. The company has initiated one of the industry's broadest ...New lab manual focuses on essential methods for purifying and characterizing proteins
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Oct. 7, 2008) A new, user-friendly laboratory manual for protein purification and analysis has just been released by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Designed for routine, day-to-day use in the laboratory, it includes essential step-wise protocols as well as backg...Singapore scientists elected into National Academy of Sciences
...ng A*STAR, they have set up and now jointly run IMCB's cancer genetics laboratory and have been working on new ways of analyzing the cancer genome, by characterizing the genetic changes required to promote or sustain tumor formation. In their research to induce different types of human cancer in mice, their IMC...The coming of biofuels: Study shows reducing gasoline emissions will benefit human health
...he distribution in space and time of these impacts for reduced gasoline use. To do this they first needed to define the factors that really matter for characterizing such impacts. "For example, when looking at greenhouse gas emissions the key is to determine the total amount of emissions being vented into the at...New method developed by UC San Diego bioengineers gives regenerative medicine a boost
... and subsequently removed without changing the original DNA sequence. Current DNA methylation assays are limited in the flexibility and efficiency of characterizing a large number of genomic targets, and are extremely costly (more than $100,000). The method created by Zhang and his team will allow researchers to p...Caltech researchers train computers to analyze fruit-fly behavior
...ese innate behaviors. The program allows computers to examine half an hour of video footage of pairs of interacting flies in what is almost real time; characterizing the behavior of a new line of flies "by hand" might take a biologist more than 100 hours. This work--led by Pietro Perona, the Allen E. Puckett Pro...Daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia
...ge fo the Unit of Development Neuropsychiatry of Jan (Spain). This work has studied the risk factors associated with schizophrenia, identifying and characterizing in depth those psychosis associated with a continual consumption of cannabis. They carried out a study with 92 subjects, 50 of which had developed a ...IADR Wilmer Souder Award presented to University of Colorado professor
...icine. Dr. Stansbury's current research is centered on dental and biomedical polymeric materials, and his research group is designing, synthesizing, characterizing and evaluating novel polymeric materials for a wide array of dental and biomedical applications. Dr. Stansbury has presented various papers on this su...Ultra-fine coatings on sediment grains influence nitrate and sulfate storage in soil
...findings are particularly important for evaluating the long-term effects of agricultural land use on groundwater quality. Continuing research includes characterizing stream sediments, determining relations between sediment mineralogy and the concentration of pesticides stored on the sediments, and laboratory experi...Mama whales teach babies where to eat
...ity of the ocean." The study tracked how whales are related by analyzing maternal DNA, and then compared that with dietary information obtained by characterizing different forms or isotopes of chemical elements in their skin. The two techniques which the researchers say they used together for the first time a...CSHL scientists clarify editing error underlying genetic neurodegenerative disease
...lty. This can result, in young children, in the onset of PCH. The CSHL team's findings also have implications for studies aimed at uncovering and characterizing new disease-causing mutations, according to Krainer. "We expect to more accurately identify and understand certain splicing mutations that we may have...Simultaneously characterizing and quantifying chloramphenicol and its metabolite using LC/MS/MS
With the advent of liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry and information dependent data acquisition function in mass spectrometry, it has become possible to characterise metabolites while to quantifying their parents during metabolic stability studies. This was once impossible to be an...Repligen Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results
...otential to arrest disease progression in patients with Friedreich's ataxia. We have identified several potential clinical candidates and are further characterizing these leads in preclinical models for their pharmacologic, toxicologic and pharmacodynamic profiles. Quarterly Conference Call Repligen wil...NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video
...consider that you get all of that information in each snapshot," Grier added. "It exceeds other existing technology in terms of tracking particles and characterizing their make-upand the holographic microscope can do both simultaneously." Because the analysis is computationally intensive, the researchers employ ...UCSF researchers help crack parasite genome, identify drug leads
... blood fluke, which has taken nearly a decade to achieve, researchers said. Three UCSF researchers contributed to that research by identifying and characterizing the parasite's complement of proteolytic enzymes, known as the "degradome," which in many other biomedical contexts has provided valuable drug targets...VisEn Launches New Cat-K FAST(TM) Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agent
...folio and its Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT (TM) ) Imaging Systems, provide robust fluorescence molecular imaging performance in identifying, characterizing and quantifying ranges of disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in vivo . VisEn's FMT systems and agents are used by leading research institut...Repligen Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results
...Friedreich's ataxia, a novel approach to treating this debilitating disease. We have identified several potential clinical candidates and are further characterizing these leads in animal models for their pharmacologic, toxicologic and pharmacodynamic profiles. Bioprocessing Business Repligen has supplied ...Caliper Life Sciences Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
...ch growth was strong, primarily due to sales of the proprietary LabChip GX, which the Company believes is the "best-in-class" proprietary solution for characterizing proteins in the fast growing biologicals market, and increased sales of Profiler Pro reagent kits which are used for kinase screening with the EZ Read...New organic material may speed Internet access
...en the silicon ridges and to cover the whole structure we needed to cover. "Our collaborators in Karlsruhe, who have state-of-the-art equipment for characterizing optical communications systems, were able to reliably switch individual bits out of a 170 gigabits per second data stream, which is impressive, but th...