Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
The world's three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases [100,000,000,000 bases; the 'letters' of the genetic code] of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types of biological information, the three members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration [INSDC,...Protease inhibitors reach beyond HIV
The immunodeficiency that arises in HIV may be due to excessive programmed cell death of immune CD4 T cells. HIV protease inhibitors (PI) can block programmed cell death in virus-infected T cells in vitro, but have also been shown to induce programmed cell death at higher concentrations. The mechanisms for these paradoxical data are unclear, as is whether PI therapy would aid CD4 T cell reconstit...Natural vitamin E tocotrienol reaches blood at protective levels
Two recent studies offer new evidence suggesting an alternative form of natural vitamin E can be taken by mouth and will reach the blood in humans at levels determined to protect against stroke and other diseases. Vitamin E occurs naturally in eight different forms. The primary vitamin E on drugstore shelves is called tocopherol, or TCP. But another natural form of vitamin E surfacing as...Blood-brain barrier breached by new therapeutic strategy
A major obstacle in the treatment of infections and other diseases of the brain is the blood-brain barrier, which prevents systemically delivered therapeutic drugs from reaching the brain. Grantees of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have now shown that a short protein (peptide) from the rabies virus can carry a strip of ther...Avolte Venture Partners reaches capital goal
The fund, which was to be capped at $50 million, has not raised that muc...Biotech industry reaches midpoint in 50-year maturation cycle
An interesting article in ) on March 1 states unequivocally that most industry cycles run about 50 years until they mature. If this...Douglas Stewart reaches distribution pact with digital video firm
Financial terms of the deal were...Supreme Court limits foreign reach of U.S. patents
the Supreme Court delivered another blow by limiting their reach abroad and...HIV infections have reached a new high
The number of people infected with HIV in the UK is likely to increase by almost half over the first five years of the 21st century, according to public health experts.// New figures released by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) predict that the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis may rise from around 23,000 in 2000 to almost 34,000 by the year 2005. In 2001, the nu...SARS reaches Russian Federation
A Russian health official said their country has its first known case of SARS. A man in the town on border with chin have shown signs of SARS virus. Health officials sent sent lab samples to Moscow to determine whether he has the virus. However the health ministry said analysis had not yet confirmed the diagnosis. After the man's hospitalization with SARS-like symptoms, authorities in the Amur re...Heart Attack Patients Reaching Hospital During Off-Hours Have Increased Risk Of Death
Patients, who reach hospital during off working hours for treatment for heart attacks, may be more at risk from death and delayed restoration of normal blood flow, said a research // findings in the latest issue of JAMA. Reperfusion therapy (restoration of blood flow to an organ or tissue) with either fibrinolytic therapy (medication for dissolving blood clots) or percutaneous coronary...Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany
The discovery by a young boy of 22 dead geese at a pond in western Germany has raised fears that avian flu// may have already found its way into the country, though officials are urging the public to remain calm. Firemen from the town of Neuwied wore biological protection suits to scoop up the carcasses at a flooded gravel pit Monday evening and take them in metal boxes to the laborator...LASIK Treatments Still To Reach Common Man
Even after a decade of its institution, Lasik, the eye surgery that corrects vision be means of Laser, remains out of reach of common man. // An average procedure costs somewhere between $3,000 to $5,000 and not many people can afford it. Moreover, there are still question marks over the efficacy of the treatment as well as its rage of safety. It is estimated that over 18 percent of the...MBP XLPFor Hard-to-Reach Places
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OSS, the Netherlands, June 27, 2007-Organon, the humanhealthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel, announced today that twoout of three Phase III clinical trials with corifollitropin alfa(Org 36286), a new long-acting fertility hormone, have reachedtheir randomization target. Corifollitropin alfa is a new recombinant fertility hormone. It isthe first of a new class of gonadotropi...