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UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

Experts in bioengineering, imaging, molecular genetics, immunology, ethics, hematology/oncology and cellular biology to collaborate on Proposition 71 research Drawing together experts from fields as diverse as engineering to molecular biology, UCLA officials announced March 16 the formation of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine to conduct embryonic and adult stem cell resear...

3D Atlas Will Help Navigate The Spinal Cord

Professor George Paxinos and Dr Yuri Koutcherov of the Spinal Injuries Research Centre at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute have been awarded ~$200,000 by the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation to prepare a three-dimensional (3D) atlas of the rat spinal cord over the next two years. Christopher Reeve met with Institute scientists during his visit to Australia in 2003 and w...

Sensor web simulation investigates technique to improve prediction of pollution across the globe

For asthmatics and for anyone with respiratory problems, air pollution can significantly impair simple everyday activities. NASA is trying to tie together satellites and stations on the ground to develop a "sensor web" to track this pollution and improve air quality forecasts. Understanding how tropospheric or near-surface-level ozone is produced, distributed and transported from city to c...

Displaced songbirds navigate in the high Arctic

By experimentally relocating migratory white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) from their breeding area in the Canadian Northwest Territories to regions at and around the magnetic North Pole, researchers have gained new insight into how birds navigate in the high Arctic. In particular, the findings aid our understanding of how birds might determine longitudinal information--a cha...

Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer

Heavy alcohol consumption contributes to numerous problems in Russia, not the least of which is a very high death rate. In an ongoing study of 25- to 54-year-old Russian men living in an industrial city, researchers have discovered that a significant proportion consume "surrogate" alcohols, otherwise known as products containing alcohol that are not legally sold for consumption. Researchers hav...

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Time gated separation of lanthanide luminescence

The distinctive luminescence of lanthanide ions has long been a challenge for the spectroscopist. Methods to counter the extremely low absorption coefficients and luminescence quantum yields have concentrated on Protective ligands to reduce vibrational quenching effects by XH moieties (X = O, N,)....

Mobile Phase Optimization for the Analysis of an Antibody-Based Fusion Protein and Aggregates using a TSKgel Super SW3000 Size-Exclusion Column

T.J. Higley and Roy Eksteen, Tosoh Bioscience LLC, Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania andScott Lauder, Lexigen Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, Massachusetts During method development, many variables are examined to ensure method robustness. Factors such as elution profile, peak shape, and recovery...

What if Jobs and Gates had teamed up?

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Traffic data firm navigates international business

Part of the reason is that it has cut its technological teeth on some of the most knotty r...

Digital Media Superstar: Seagate?

It would have been easy to overlook last week's flurry of announcements from hard disk drive stalwart Seagate. After all, this company has been making component hard drives for more than 20 years - and disk storage is, as everyone knows, a rather mundane commodity market where the greatest excitement comes from news that someone has packed another gigabyte of magnet...

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Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

To avoid quackery in the field of stem cell therapy, and propagate the stem cell research on right track, the Government has decided to work on improving the protocols involved in this therapy. // The system would be developed under the leadership of director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), according to Union health secretary P K Hota. The...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

A new study of 311 sets of same-sex twins in which only one twin had smoked marijuana before age 17 has bolstered the fiercely debated "gateway theory" that pot can lead to harder drugs. The study included 136 sets of identical twins who shared the same genetic makeup and all the participants were 30 years of age, on an average, when they were asked about their teenage drug use. The resea...

Bill Gates to Fund £28m for Malaria researc

Bill Gates is to fund £28m for research in United Kingdom as part of £145m package for research programs worldwide for the eradication of Malaria worldwide. Bill Gates along with his Melinda Gates Foundation is going to sponsor three // international projects for malaria eradication over the next five years. Mr. Gates expressed that more research funding is contributed to research of AIDS...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

AUSTIN, Texas - Oral care product leader Colgate-Palmolive Company has entered into an alliance with Introgen Therapeutics to market oral health care formulations specifically designed to fight against pre-cancerous //conditions in the oral cavity as well as oral cancer. Towards this end Colgate purchased $20 million of Introgen shares with exclusive rights over the products that are pr...

Bill Gates Takes Personal Interest in AIDS Program

Bill Gates, Chief of Microsoft, will visit India on 6 December 2005, along with his wife Melinda. Chennai and Bangalore will be among the cities he will visit as he reviews the progress of his $200 million HIV/AIDS initiative in India//. India figures very high on the priority list of Microsoft. Gates' fourth visit in two years will see him sharing his IT vision as he interacts with key...

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Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel (VGCC) Autoantibody RIA

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ConjuChem Biotechnologies Reports PC-DAC:Exendin-4 Albumin Conjugate Data Presented at American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting

MONTREAL, June 19 /CNW/ - ConjuChem Biotechnologies (TSX:CJB)today announced that data relating to its proprietaryPC-DAC(TM):Exendin-4 Albumin Conjugate for the treatment ofType 2 diabetes will be presented at the 67th ScientificSessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to beheld June 22-26, 2007 in Chicago, IL. The ADA's annualScientific Sessions meeting is one of the larges...

Seattle Genetics Highlights Data on its Proprietary Antibody-Drug Conjugate Technology at AACR

BOTHELL, Wash. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 17, 2007 -Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced data fromfifteen presentations by the company and its collaborators at the2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research(AACR) demonstrating preclinical advances with its proprietaryantibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology and cancer productpipeline.<p...

Medarex Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Potent Anti-Tumor Activity of Anti-CD19 and Anti-CD70 Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Cancer Animal Models

- Data presentations at American Association for Cancer Researchannual meeting - PRINCETON, N.J., April 17, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Medarex, Inc. today presented preclinical data demonstrating potentanti- tumor activity from two separate studies exploring theefficacy and safety in animal models of anti-CD19 and anti-CD70antibody-drug conjugates. CD19 and CD70 are both attractive tar...
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