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Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge

Underscoring the value of good prenatal care, new research suggests that early infection may create a cognitive vulnerability that appears later during stress on the immune system. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have reported that rats who experienced a one-time infection as newborns didn't learn as well as adult rats who were not infected as pups, after their immunity was c...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

Deliberately spreading disease among the enemy has been occasionally practiced over hundreds of years. But modern bioterrorism is more chilling than ever because of rapidly expanding knowledge about infectious diseases and biotoxins and their potential to wreak havoc in complex, interdependent societies. The nation is in the process of developing a strong microbial forensic program to attribute a...

Changing ecosystems throw scientists mega-challenges

Accelerating environmental changes have presented humanity with some significant scientific and engineering challenges, according to the new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, Pathways to the Future: Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life and Society in the 21st Century. Among the changes the report cites are rapid shifts in climate and ecosystems, the degradation...

Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers

Effective control of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an article in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Men with...

Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative funds Yale project

Yale has been offered $17 million from the Grand Challenges in Global health initiative to genetically engineer mice with immune systems similar enough to humans to aid in testing the safety and effectiveness of potential vaccines. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Yale project will be headed by Richard A. Flavell, M.D., Sterling Professor and Chair of Immunobiology at...

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The Best Enzyme for the Toughest PCR Challenges Improved with New Hot-Start Feature

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Challenge the Performance of Your Hot-Start PCRs with FastStart Taq DNA Polymerase and the Novel FastStart High Fidelity PCR System

FastStart Taq DNA Polymerase, a chemically modified versionof Taq DNA Polymerase for hot start PCR, was introducedin 2000. Based on the feedback from many customers,FastStart Taq DNA Polym...

WARF questions relevancy of documents used to uphold patent challenge

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Wisconsin biosciences rise to the challenge

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Here's why Wisconsin's stem cell patents are being challenged

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Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to challenge patents on drug

Pharma major Dr Reddy’s Laboratories will continue to aggressively challenge patents on drugs in the US despite the recent denial of a 180-day marketing exclusivity to its generic Omeprazole 40 mg capsules by the US Food and Drug Administration. Omeprazole is indicated for the treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers. The FDA granted the marketing exclusivity to Andrx group of the US....

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

It's a condition that has existed for centuries, doctors say. But only recently has it been given a name: "chronic daily headaches," or CDH, defined as migraines or neck- and head-squeezing tension headaches //that are present 15 or more days each month. Some might think it sounds like just another excuse to skip school. But young people such as Rachel Gohmann, an 18-year-old college fr...

‘Never Say Die’ Spirit of Visually Challenged - Makes Him a Role Modl

Bhagipur (Orissa): A visually-challenged man, is an inspiration today for all of his villagers and now not only makes his own living but also helps other physically challenged people both in spirit and kind//. Srinivas Jena became blind at the age of five years old. Many of his neighbours suggested that he should take to begging for his family's survival, however he was inspired by...

Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges

California in the year 2005 planned to begin stem cell research in the state with the approval of 61% of voters passing the Proposition 71. But the legal challenges have impeded the initiative. // The officials now say that it would take spring 2007 before the project will be initiated. Zach Hall, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, told his board of directo...

Australia Ready to Meet the Challenges of Bird Flu

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said that the risk of the H5N1 strain reaching Australia was very high. // OIE director-general Bernard Vallat reported this to the French parliamentary commission on the disease and put the United States and Canada in the same risk category. It said that the avian flu was likely to be transmitted from Indonesia by migratory birds. But th...

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Neuroblastoma Expert Reviews Progress and Challenges in Fighting Difficult Pediatric Cancer

PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Childhoodcancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is aspecial case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers,but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as asolid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, andpelvis, developing in the network of the body's sympathetic nervoussyst...

Novavax Pandemic Flu Vaccine Provided Protection Against a Lethal Challenge of Live Virus, Pre-Clinical Data Show

Study Presented at Second International Conference on AvianInfluenza at France's Pasteur Institute PARIS, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Very low doses ofNovavax Inc.'s pandemic influenza vaccine provided protectionagainst a lethal challenge of live H5N1 viruses, according topre-clinical data presented here today at the Second InternationalConference on Avian Influenza in Humans....

Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Focuses on the Challenges of Care and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

WASHINGTON, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual meeting ofthe Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), the largestmeeting devoted to the comprehensive care and science of multiplesclerosis (MS), is underway in the nation's capital today. Multiplesclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that affects400,000 people in the United States, challenges patients, carepartne...

Independent Publication Confirms Growing Therapeutic Challenge of T315I Mutation in Patients with CML, Notes ChemGenex

MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May21, 2007 - ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ: CXSP) notesthe publication of new clinical data relevant to the developmentstrategy for Ceflatonin(R) (homoharringtonine). The paper "Targetedtherapy and the T315I mutation in Philadelphia-positive leukemias"by researchers Simona Soverini and colleagues at the University...

Independent Publication Confirms Growing Therapeutic Challenge of T315I Mutation in Patients with CML, Notes ChemGenex

MELBOURNE, Australia, and MENLO PARK, CaliforniaU.S.A. (May 21, 2007): ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ:CXSP) notes the publication of new clinical data relevant to thedevelopment strategy for Ceflatonin® (homoharringtonine). Thepaper "Targeted therapy and the T315I mutation inPhiladelphia-positive leukemias" by researchers Simona Soverini andcolleagues at...

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