MDS Nordion Submits Expression of Interest Proposal to Government of Canada on Medical Isotope and Generator Production

MAPLE Reactors Could Solve the Isotope Crisis within 24 months OTTAWA, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leading provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals, has submitted a Proposal to the Government of Canada's Expert Review Panel on Medical Isotope and Technetium-99...

Intelident Solutions Reaffirms Proposal to Acquire Zila

TAMPA, Fla., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelident Solutions, Inc. ("Intelident") today announced that it has reaffirmed its offer to acquire Zila, Inc. (NasdaqCM: ZILA) for $0.42 per Common share and $0.48 per Preferred share. In addition, Intelident announced that it has filed ...

PIA Opposes Kennedy Proposal to Create Health Insurance "Navigators"

Plan Would Create Federally-Funded Insurance Brokerages, Ban Participation by Licensed Health Insurance Agents WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A proposal to award grants to public and private entities to conduct public education, distribute information and assist with health ...

NCBA's Statement in Response to Senator Conrad's Proposal to Reform Health Care

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Congress debates what shape health care reform will take, the cooperative business model has entered prominently into the discussion. Cooperatives save money for members by aggregating demand for specific services, whether it's health insurance, ph...

MMR Information Systems, Inc. Receives Licensing Proposal Involving the Company's Anti-CD20 Antibodies

LOS ANGELES, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MMR Information Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MMRF) (the "Company"), which was known as Favrille, Inc. until it acquired its subsidiary MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR") in January 2009, announced today that it had received a proposal to license cer...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces Withdrawal of Director Nominees and Proposal to Liquidate Submitted by Tang Capital

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: VNDA ) ("Vanda" or the "Company") announced today that Tang Capital Partners, LP ("TCP") has ended its proxy contest by withdrawing its nominations of director candidates for election to Vanda's Board of Director...

HealthSouth Issues Preliminary Comments on the President's Healthcare Budget Proposal and Announces Plans to Host a Conference Call

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS ) provided preliminary comments on President Obama's budget proposal released by the Office of Management and Budget on February 26, 2009. HealthSouth has been a leader in advocating policy ...

Legion Condemns Governor's Non-Response to ISSCH Proposal As 'Slap In The Face'

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The State Commander of the Indiana American Legion reacted angrily today to what he called a "slap in the face" to supporters of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children's Home by Governor Mitch Daniels. "At his (Governor Daniels') request to ...

State Budget Proposal Hurts Ability to Care for Most Vulnerable Ohioans

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohio's coalition representing skilled nursing facilities today expressed deep concern about the impact of Governor Strickland's budget proposal to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates at a time when patient needs are increasing. Alan Melamed, spokesman for th...

Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. Clarifies Proposal Received from Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC

DENVER, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. ("Global Med" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: GLOB), an international e-Health, medical information technology company, today announced that due to inquiries from stockholders, Global Med is clarifying that the lette...

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Proposal in Medical Technology

PharmAthene Submits Proposal to BARDA in Response to Broad Agency Announcement for Advanced Research and Development for Valortim(R)

ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP ), a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, today announced that it has submitted a proposal to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (B...

Justice Department Will Not Oppose CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Proposal

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice announced today that it will not oppose a proposal by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer (CRC) to develop and publicize model contract language for clinical trials of potential new cancer treatments. The Department said the lan...

Cyberonics Provides Update on Depression Post-Approval Study

...at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has approved the company's proposal to amend the protocol of its D-21 post-approval dosing study in depression patients treated with VNS Therapy(TM). The company submitted a proposal in November 2008 to reduce the number of study subjects from 460 to 330 and...

Awardees for the 2009 Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research Announced

...other grant will be awarded to Xinhua Chen, PhD, who is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His proposal is titled "Protective Role of Baker's Yeast in Colonic Inflammation and Cancer." This study could make an important contribution in understanding the...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Results of 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting

...ilizing our $17 million NIH grant to enhance our vaccine development." Dr. McNally added, "We also are greatly encouraged by our recently signed proposal to discuss a cooperative arrangement with Chicago's Cook County Board President Todd H. Stroger and the Commissioners of Cook County; the Cook County ...

PharmAthene Submits SparVax(TM) Regulatory Strategy to FDA

...ion rPA anthrax vaccine for the country's civilian biomedical stockpile. In September 2008, PharmAthene received notification from HHS that its proposal for SparVax(TM) had been deemed technically acceptable and within the competitive range for procurement consideration. Since that time, PharmAthene h...

The Government of Canada Procures IMVAMUNE(R) Smallpox Vaccine for the Country's Biological Preparedness

... KVISTGARD, Denmark, December 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following a Request for proposal issued in 2007 with the intent to procure an MVA-based, third generation smallpox vaccine, Public Works and Government Services Canada, on behalf of t...

Major State Grant Accelerates Research and Development of Novel Cancer Therapy

...s, developing licensing agreements and attracting private investments. FAU, together with CHS (which licensed this technology from FAU), submitted a proposal for Weissbach's discovery of a novel combination of agents that work to preferentially target and kill cancer cells. In addition, CHS was instrumental...

ViroDefense Inc Announces Selection of Poliovirus Antiviral Preclinical Candidate

...rus Antiviral Initiative be established to implement the NRC recommendations. The Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication (ACPE) supported the proposal and recommended action. In June 2007, the CDC acted on the ACPE recommendations by contracting the Task Force to facilitate development of effective p...

Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. Announces Approval of Proposed Actions at Annual Shareholders Meeting

...t its Annual Meeting of Shareholders held Friday, May 30, 2008. The first proposal related to the re-election of each of the six sitting directors of the Comp...ors were re-elected by the requisite vote of the shareholders. The second proposal related to the approval of a reverse stock split to be effected at a ratio ...

Proposal in Medical Dictionary

Rickettsia

...between viruses and ... Rickettsia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Mechanisms of evolution in Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii" ... proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus ... Rickettsia are a gram-negative, obligate intercellular organism that displ...

Fits

...t does not fit well into the primary HDU or a standard ... Checksum proposal - embedded checksum keywords to verify integrity of FITS files ... Table Indexing proposal - for creating indices on FITS tables (Postscript) ... List of 2298 c...

Proposal in Biological News

Plankton Power and RTDC announce proposed algae-to-biofuels pilot facility on Cape Cod

... oil and petroleum diesel and will be produced for commercial distribution. The Cape Cod Algae Biorefinery Consortium recently submitted a $20 million proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy that would leverage $4 million in private funding to construct the proposed facility. MassDevelopment, the Massachuse...

Stem cell research: From molecular physiology to therapeutic applications

...He is one of the two winners in China of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's "Grand Challenges in Global Health". He obtained $1.9 million for his proposal to use stem cells to create mouse models for testing HIV and hepatitis C vaccines. Professor Deng has written a summary of recent progress in human em...

Humans lend a hand to critically endangered waterbird

...h would destroy the birds' habitats entirely, along with the local farming communities. "The Forestry Administration in Cambodia is supportive of a proposal to make the area a protected forest and we believe that this along with the continuation of local farming methods practiced for generation after gene...

University of Miami receives stimulus funds for study of hurricane impacts on structures, ecosystems

...tial. This building will provide an excellent resource to help us to decipher what is taking place on the planet." Professor Brian Haus led the proposal to establish this new facility with the participation of co-Principal Investigators Robert Cowen, Maytag professor of ichthyology and UM chair of Mari...

Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

...ghlands, to help control the populations and behavior of red deer that in the past 250 years have changed the whole nature of large ecosystems. The proposal is modeled after research done in the United States, at Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere, which has demonstrated that the absence of large pred...

Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation

... the IGC a year ago, proves the applicability of this new assay and open doors to future studies into centromere assembly and structure. Indeed, Lars' proposal to further explore centromere assembly and function, was awarded an EMBO installation grant and entrance into the prestigious network of some of Europ...

'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales

...tions governing commercial bycatch have been adopted, Baker said. Japan is now seeking IWC agreement to initiate a small coastal whaling program, a proposal which Baker says should be scrutinized carefully because of the uncertainty of the actual catch and the need to determine appropriate population count...

Toxic molecule may help birds 'see' north and south

... the eyes of birds and other animals. Schulten was the first to propose (in 2000) that this protein was a key component of birds' geomagnetic sense, a proposal that was later corroborated by experimental evidence. He made this prediction after he and his colleagues discovered that magnetic fields can influenc...

Rosenstiel students come out on top

...he Great Barrier Reef. Parkinson was awarded the NSF fellowship for his proposal to examine the response of coral larvae and their symbiont communities to s... the NSF. Sean Bignami received an Honorable Mention from the NSF for a proposal on the carry-over effects of conditions such as high and low food availabil...

Global sunscreen won't save corals

...r this expansion of the land biosphere, while it's a slight help to ocean acidification is not enough to make a big difference." A widely-discussed proposal for countering warming with geoengineering involves injecting small, reflective particles into the upper atmosphere. This would partially block incomi...

Proposal in Biological Technology

GeoVax Signs HIV/AIDS Vaccine Proposal With Health and Hospital System of Cook County, Illinois

ATLANTA, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX), an Atlanta-based biopharmaceutical company developing human vaccines for diseases caused by the HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), and other infectious agents, announced today that it signed a proposal to...

Bio-Matrix Scientific Group & Entest BioMedical Submit Research Proposal to U.S. Army for Funding Adipose-Derived Stem Cells to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury

SAN DIEGO, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BMSN)( http://www.BMSN.us ) and Entest BioMedical Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary, announced today they have jointly submitted a Project Summary Report to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Mater...

ArunA Biomedical Submits Contract Proposal to Further Develop Environmental Biosensor for National Security

ArunA Biomedical Submits Contract Proposal to Further Develop Environmental Biosensor for National Security ATHENS, Ga., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- ArunA Biomedical, Inc., a leader in human embryonic stem cell derived products, announced today that it has submitted a Department of De...

CV Therapeutics Statement on Unsolicited Proposal From Astellas

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In light of an announcement made recently by Astellas Pharma Inc., CV Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVTX ) confirmed that it had received a letter dated November 13, 2008 from Astellas setting forth an unsolicited proposal by Astellas to acquire...

International Society for Stem Cell Research Applauds Outcome of Proposal 2 Advancing Stem Cell Research

DEERFIELD, Ill., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, Michigan voters were asked to support Michigan's Proposal 2, a state initiative to accelerate medical research and develop new stem cell treatments for currently incurable diseases. The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), re...

Investor Call Scheduled to Discuss Ouster Proposal of Trinity Biotech Directors

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomas Reidy, an investor in Trinity Biotech plc (Nasdaq: TRIB ), an Ireland-based developer and manufacturer of diagnostic products whose American Depository Receipts are traded on NASDAQ, will host an investor conference call November 3, 2008, at 10...

GPhA Says BIO Cries Wolf on Senate Biogenerics Proposal

ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) released the following statement today from GPhA President and CEO Kathleen Jaeger on The Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO's) erroneous claims regarding the Senate HELP Biogenerics amendments. "BIO'...

CV Therapeutics' Board of Directors Rejects Astellas Unsolicited Proposal

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CV Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVTX ) today announced that its board of directors has thoroughly reviewed and rejected the previously announced unsolicited proposal from Astellas Pharma Inc. to acquire CV Therapeutics at a price of $16.00 per ...

New Shire Holding Company Proposal

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc ("Shire" or the "Company") (LSE: SHP) (NASDAQ: SHPGY ), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that further to yesterday's announcement regarding Shire's new holding company proposal, it wil...

VaxGen Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve Reverse Split Proposal

General Meeting vote suggests broad stockholder support for proposed Raven merger SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VaxGen Inc. (Pink Sheets: VXGN), a biopharmaceutical company, announced today that its stockholders approved the propo...

Proposal in Biological Definition

Alfred Russel Wallace

... ( January 8 1823 — November 7 1913 ) was a British naturalist , geographer , anthropologist and biologist . Wallace's independent proposal of a theory of evolution by natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to reveal his own more developed and researched, but unpublished, theory s...

Biology

... A small, but free, research journal The Public Library of Science: Biology : A newer, but more ambitious free research journal. BioCode : A proposal for organism naming. PhyloCode , [1] The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences biology discussion forum Further reading Lynn Margul...

Chemiosmotic hypothesis

... The Chemiosmotic Hypothesis is the proposal in 1961, by Peter D. Mitchell, that the mitochondrion functioned as a kin...ible proton pump , the ATP synthase , to create ATP . This was a radical proposal at the time, and not well accepted. The prevailing view was that the energy...

Charles Darwin

...tural selection as a mechanism. He published this proposal in 1859 in the book The Origin of Species , w...ebrity and science 3.1 Transmutation 3.2 proposal 3.3 My theory 4 Marriage and children ...es. Emma Darwin, Charles' wife proposal Fully recuperated, he returned home to Shrewsbu...

Francis Crick

...avendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England. Building on the X-ray research of Rosalind Franklin , they together developed the proposal of the helical structure of DNA, which they published in 1953 , and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962...

Glycome

... The Sugar Rush Adobe Acrobat PDF The Glycome Project: A Sugar Coated proposal Glycome project: concept, strategy and preliminary application to Caenorhabditis elegans (A proposal to base the glycome project on Caenorhabditis Elegans a microscopic worm,...

Homunculus

...rom Gregory(1987), (1990)). Very few people would propose that there actually is a little man in the brain looking at brain activity. However, this proposal has been used as a ' straw man ' in theories of mind. Gilbert Ryle (1949) proposed that the human mind is known by its intelligent acts. He argued tha...

Lynn Margulis

...on of genomes in symbioses followed by natural selection, she suggests, leads to increasingly complex levels of individuality." [1] " After the proposal of the endosymbiotic theory, Margulis predicted that if organelles were prokaryotic symbionts, then the organelles will have their own DNA that would ...

Proposal in Biological Dictionary

Neo-darwinism

...sm and creationism. ... Neo - Darwinism : What is at Stake? Tom Bethell ... 2 'Why ' Neo '- Darwinism ' section. 2.1 Other non-WP:RS citations. 3 proposal for deletion ... a fact that the term neo - Darwinism is very widely used in articles ... Why Neo - Darwinism is a Pseudoscience? : The Scien...

Linkage

... ... Lube the linkage by PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly ... the right way to do linkage ... International Trade and Labor Standards: A proposal for Linkage ... This then brings us to the argument about linkage . ... Mouse Maneuver, a Puzzle and Board Game from AddictingGames: Are you a p...

Inbreeding

...ly as it relates to Texas Longhorn cattle. ... To-do list for Inbreeding : ... 19 Father-daughter inbreeding as reproductive strategy. 20 Merger proposal ... 30 Other Notable Cases of Human Inbreeding ? ... Inbreeding vs. Outbreeding ... The controversy concerns the systems of inbreeding used to...

Hypothesis

... A hypothesis consists either of a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena. The term derives from the Greek, hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or &...

Genetic code

...Exposition ... Understand the triplet nature of the genetic code , and know the meaning of the term codon. ... This kind of reasoning led to the proposal of a triplet genetic code . ... Definitions of the important terms you need to know about in order to understand Genetic Code , including A...

Ecdysone

...he first pulse. ... The last and highest burst of ecdysone takes place in the middle of ... ... in response to ecdysone stimulation led. to the proposal of a hierarchical model whereby ecdysone ... present data indicating that the ecdysone response ... Zoology information, history, articles and ...