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Finding out where gene-regulator proteinsbind to DNA and identifying the genes they regulate just got a stepeasier thanks to a new technique developed by scientists at the U.S.Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. The techniquecould greatly speed the process of unraveling the role these proteinsplay in turning on and off the genes that establish the very identityof cells ?b...Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks
Scientists may have found a way to throw a wrench in the transmissions of several speed demons of the parasite world. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have identified a protein that could help them develop drugs to stop or slow cell invasion by malaria and other parasites known as apicomplexans. Results of the study will appear in...Stopping smallpox in its tracks: A new anti-viral approach
Natural or deliberate exposure to smallpox poses a great health threat, especially since routine smallpox vaccinations have been discontinued and no clinically approved treatment currently exists. In the February 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ellis Reinherz and colleagues from Harvard Medical School propose a new antiviral therapy ?a low molecular weight inhibitor of signaling...Findings have implications for tracking disease, drugs at the molecular level
Researchers in the laboratory of Boston College Chemistry Professor John T. Fourkas have demonstrated that gold particles comparable in size to a molecule can be induced to emit light so strongly that it is readily possible to observe a single nanoparticle. Fourkas, in collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Richard Farrer and BC undergraduates Francis Butterfield and Vincent Chen, coaxed the...Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio
Wildlife researchers are being warned that radio-tracking could be affecting the animals they are studying. According to new research published today in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, fitting radio-collars to water voles was associated with a "dramatic shift" in the sex ratio of the animals' offspring, casting doubt on the assumption that radio-tracking does not fund...Pipette Tracker Pro from Labtronics, Inc.
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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...BioCryst’s Bird Flu Drug Enjoys Fast-Track Review By FD
A new drug, peramivir, claimed to be a highly potent formulation for combating the virulent forms of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been credited with a fast-track review by the Food and Drug Administration. // This novel drug, produced by the pharmaceutical company BioCryst can be injected intravenously. Promising results have been obtained from drug trials conducted against different...New imaging technique for tracking Alzheimer's
Researchers, for the first time, have shown, using a new imaging technique based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI), how Alzheimer's attacks the brain over time. Until now, MRI was used to show how Alzheimer's disease shrinks the hippocampus, a key area of the brain for memory and learning. And post-mortem studies revealed how the disease devastates even larger brain areas. This is the fi...Maintaining a Pharma index could help track price fluctuations
The Indian government is in the process of instituting a pharmaceutical price// index similar to the wholesale price index in order to track drug price fluctuations for price-related decisions. At present, the government is relying on the retail audit of market research agency ORG-IMS for drug price revisions. However it is felt that the present system of price revisions based on the reta...Quitting Smoking Made Easy By Track Of New Chemical
A new study has been designed to help researchers track a tracer chemical, monamine oxidase (MAO), which will help those struggling to quit smoking. This enzyme has been found to play a crucial role in blood pressure and mood regulation // has two subtypes MAO A and B. The study showed that levels of MAO B in smokers' peripheral organs - the heart, kidneys, spleen and lungs - were red...OmniSight image guided surgery system with Calyx 2 Fluoroscopic Tracking Module
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STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Researchers at theStanford University School of Medicine have illuminated the pathtaken by human neural stem cells that were transplanted into thebrains of rats and mice, and found that the cells successfullynavigate toward areas damaged by stroke. The research group placed miniscule particles of iron insidestem cells to act as cellular bea...Pixantrone Granted Fast Track Designation by FDA for Relapsed Indolent NHL Patients
Proposed Phase III Trial Has the Potential to Demonstrate an Effecton a Serious or Life Threatening Aspect of This Disease SEATTLE, May 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today it received fast trackdesignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forpixantrone, a novel anthracenedione, being investigated for thepotential treatment of rel...