A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
International efforts towards developing avaccine against HIV infection have been given a much-needed boost bythe publication today of the Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise'sscientific strategic plan, published online in the freely available,open-access global health journal PLoS Medicine.The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise is an international alliance ofindependent agencies and organiz...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
A scientist at the Marine BiologicalLaboratory (MBL) has published the results of an EPA-funded clam embryostudy that supports her hypothesis that, when combined, the pollutantsbromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktailknown as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nervecell development. While scientists have previously studied the effectsof these...Protein Packages Found To Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development And Disease
It's all in the packaging. How nature wraps and tags genes determines if and when they become active, according to researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). They did the largest, most detailed study to date of the protein structure that surrounds the human genome. Their findings reveal surprising and previously unknown specifics of how genes get switc...Gene Vaccine Protects Mice Against Development Of Her2/neu Breast Cancer
Based on successful animal studies, a novelvaccine that uses immune cells as factories to produce Her2/neu proteinmay offer a way to treat some human breast cancers, say researchers atThe University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. [Ed : is a protein often present / surexpressed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/...Development of portable infectious disease detector
A portable device similar to today's homepregnancy tests that can quickly detect the presence of infectiousdiseases, including HIV-AIDS and measles, as well as biological agentssuch as ricin and anthrax, is the object of a new jointuniversity/industry research project.Vanderbilt University's Institute for Integrative Biosystems Researchand Education (VIIBRE) and Pria Diagnostics LLC, a priv...Hybridoma Development from QED Bioscience Inc.
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PRINCETON, NJ - Covance Inc. has promoted Wendel Barr to the position of president, early development, in Madison, Wis., and Anthony Cork to the position of president, early development, in Harrogate, UK. The company said the move supports the regional decision-making employed by its clients in the preclinical segment. With the promotion, Wendel and Tony have become corporate senior vic...The let-7 microRNA Family Regulates RAS: Implications for Development and Oncogenesis
Drs. Frank Slack, Steven Johnson, and Helge Grosshans, and Ms. Kristy Reinert at Yale University, in collaboration with Ambion scientists, discovered that the microRNA (miRNA) family regulates the expression of C. elegans...Evolutionary developmental biology
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Extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for neurologic function Based on their l...Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995
The number of drugs being developed for the treatment of cancer has nearlydoubled during the past six years, according to a new survey of pharmaceuticalcompanies.Currently, 170 pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms various CancerInstitutes are investigating 402 compounds for the treatment of variouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardradiatio...Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos
A NOVEL research-cum-manufacturing agreement between Chiron Corp, the US-based vaccine major, and an Indian company for the development of a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners f...Particulate matter affects lung development
When children living under polluted, hazy skies move away to communities with cleaner air, their lungs begin to grow more quickly, according to a study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Preventive medicine researchers followed more than 100 children through their teen years and compared those who moved away to other communities in the West.Resulting changes in air pollution ex...PhastSystem Separation-Control and Development Units 120 VAC
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Recent clinical studies support the development of DG041 as aneffective anti-platelet that does not increase bleeding risk REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --deCODE genetics today announced progress in the development ofDG041, the company's Phase II developmental compound for theprevention of arterial thrombosis. The results of the Phase IIa andclinical pharmacolog...