Iron exporter revealed that may explain common human disorder
The first direct evidence that a single protein is critical in the cellular export of iron may help to explain human hemochromatosis, researchers report in the March issue of Cell Metabolism. Hemochromatosis--which affects one in every 200 to 300 people in Western populations --causes tissues of the body to become overloaded with iron. Left untreated, the hereditary disease can lead to org...Exporting The Wisconsin Idea - British Educators Study UW for Role Model of the Future
During July 2003, two British education officals visited Madison to determine whether the "Wisconsin Idea" can be exported. At a time when many Wisconsin leaders are studying how to import ideas from other cities and regions, it is ironic that across the Atlantic, the British are faced with the same challenges and have turned to Wisconsin to export an idea - our educatio...Ranbaxy Laboratories All Set To Export Bird Flu Vaccines
In view, of the ever-increasing threat about bird flu worldwide, there has been a healthy competition among several pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the drug.// Ranbaxy Laboratories has become the first Indian company to start shipments of generic version of bird flu drug, Tamiflu. The drug is believed to get shipped to a country where the patent held by the Swedish major Roche would be in...Malachite green adulteration in seafood exports
Seafood industry of Asian countries is in the threat of ban on their export of seafood to Canada as a recent report of imported seafood from Asian countries had the banned chemical Malachite green in the fish tissues.// Critics feel that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency should follow strict stringent rules and should test all batches of imported seafood coming into the country for th...Ban on exports of poultry products from British Columbia lifted
United States has lifted the ban on the import of poultry products which it imposed last week following isolation of bird flu strain //for the second time in a month from Fraser Valley duck farm. The lifting of ban follows identifying that both the isolated virus strains were H5 strains and this strain is found to be a non-infectious and less pathogenic strain. U.S. has still not lifte...Export Of Ayurvedic Medicines Affected Due To High Heavy Metal Content
The export of Ayurvedic medicines from India has suffered a set back following the testing by the Canadian Government that has revealed alarmingly high levels of heavy metals in the exported traditional medicinal preparations. // More than 18 different Ayurvedic medicines have been tested by the Health Canada, a part of the Canadian government’s health department. The analysis has hi...Argentine Meat Export business gets a jolt from Russia.
Citing the fear of FMD (foot-and-mouth disease), Russia has put a stop and a aban on imports of live animals, all products of animal origin and animal feed from the Argentine province of Corrientes. The action was taken this Friday.// This was revealed by the the Agriculture Ministry of Russia. The step comes after a report by OIE (the international animal health body), a...Kosan Presents Preclinical Data on Nuclear Export Inhibitors, Novel Anticancer Agents, at AACR
HAYWARD, Calif., April 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KosanBiosciences Incorporated today presented preclinical data on itsproprietary nuclear export inhibitors (NEI) showing induction ofpotent, fast-acting and long-lasting anticancer activity with ahigh degree of tolerability in multiple human tumor xenograftcancer models. Kosan's NEIs are potent, specific inhibitors of CRM1,...