Miami Doctor and Chemist Plead Guilty in HIV Infusion Fraud Scheme
WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two Miami-area residents pleaded guilty today in connection with a $10 million Medicare fraud scheme involving HIV infusion clinics, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of th...University of Alberta organic chemist receives top young Canadian scientist prize
A University of Alberta organic chemist has been named the 2008 winner of the prestigious Steacie Prize for outstanding scientific research carried out in Canada. The prize is one of Canada's most prestigious science awards encompassing a wide range of disciplines including mathematics, engineerin...Your Chemist Shop Responds to Online Shopping Trends
Your Chemist Shop responds to latest research suggesting online chemists are becoming increasingly popular with consumers as prices fall below those of traditional, offline, chemists. Melbourne, VIC (PRWEB) January 16, 2008 -- Your Chemist Shop is an online chemist ow...Patients Benefit From Mobicosa, A Unique, Natural Arthritis Treatment Available At Your Chemist Shop
Arthritis and stiff joints affect many Australians, from the elderly to the very active, restricting the simplest of day-to-day activities. Your Chemist Shop is offering patients an all natural arthritis treatment called Mobicosa to help combat this by soothing and maintaining mobility in stiff j...Duke chemist has new way to tell right from left
DURHAM, N.C. A Duke University chemist has apparently solved a long-standing frustration in creating certain synthetic molecules that make up drugs, which could lead to better drugs with fewer side effects. Like human hands, many molecules that make up drugs come in two shapes, right and left....Tree named in honor of Virginia Tech chemist David G.I. Kingston
Blacksburg, Va. -- A new yew species that grows in India, China, and Taiwan has been named for David G.I. Kingston, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in Virginia Tech's College of Science. Taxus kingstonii, also called the Kingston yew, was described by Richard Spjut in a major re...Miami Physician Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Role in $10 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
...s co-defendants have already been sentenced for their roles at Midway and related clinics. On June 5, 2009, in a sentencing hearing before Judge Huck, chemist Alexis Dagnesses, 44, was sentenced to 90 months in prison; medical assistant Gonzalo Nodarse, 38, was sentenced to 78 months in prison; medical assis...'Chemical Nose' May Sniff Out Cancer Earlier
...sult is key. It shows that we can differentiate between the three cell types in a single individual using the chemical nose approach," researchers and chemist Vincent Rotello, of the University of Massachusetts, said in a news release. The sensors use the polymer PPE, or para-phenyleneethynylene, and thr...World-renowned nanotechnology expert proves there is big potential in the smallest of matter
...ield of nanotechnology, Mirkin is the author of 380 manuscripts and over 350 patents and applications, and is currently listed as the third most cited chemist over the past decade and the most cited nanomedicine researcher in the world.1,2 "Professor Mirkin's cutting-edge, innovative work is greatly contribu...Iowa State chemist synthesizes carbohydrates, launches startup company
AMES, Iowa Carbohydrates are part of our daily vocabulary. We all know they're part of a healthy diet. We know they're in breads and pastas. We know they have something to do with starches and sugars. But, even though carbohydrates are so familiar, there's still a lot for science to learn about t...Queen's chemist sheds light on health benefits of garlic
Kingston, ON A Queen's-led team has discovered the reason why garlic is so good for us. Researchers have widely believed that the organic compound, allicin which gives garlic its aroma and flavour acts as the world's most powerful antioxidant. But until now it hasn't been clear how allicin ...Brown chemist finds gray mold's killer gene
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Gray mold is a gardener's nightmare. The fungus, also known by its scientific name Botrytis cinerea , is a scourge to more than 200 agricultural and ornamental plant species, including staples such as tomatoes, strawberries, snap and lima beans, cabbage, lettu...Marine chemist says 'not so fast' to quick oil detection method
A new method for assessing environmental contamination after oil spills is in danger of being applied in situations where it doesn't work and might produce false conclusions, a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has warned. Private firms and government agencies have recen...Simplifying manufacture of drugs, plastics earns UH chemist top honor
HOUSTON, March 24, 2008 Simplifying the process for forming compounds that can be used in many everyday products, such as pharmaceuticals and plastics, has earned one University of Houston chemist a prestigious honor. Olafs Daugulis, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Natural...Yale chemist receives NIH Young Investigator Award for antibody targeting
New Haven, Conn. David Spiegel , assistant professor of organic chemistry at Yale, has received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Directors New Innovator Award that will support his work designing a rational approach for using antibodies to target a wide variety of cells and d...MIT chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines
MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature. After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret. Scientists already knew that a particular enzyme was able to coax a reaction out of stubb...UCR chemist part of team identifying new areas of gene regulation
Researcher Kangling Zhang at the University of California, Riverside is part of a team that has discovered a new way that yeast governs genetic expression and repression, a finding that could be repeated in cells of other organisms. Zhang, an academic coordinator at the Mass Spectrometry Facility...Flexible neck in cell-receptor DC-SIGN targets more pathogens
...r Ebola, Dengue fever and HIV. How the molecule binds to pathogens has been unclear. New findings from a research team led by University of Illinois chemist Deborah Leckband show that flexibility in the region near the binding sites of DC-SIGN plays a significant role in pathogen targeting and binding. "...Carnegie Mellon's Kris Matyjaszewski recieves EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
...rials employed in ATRP and used for purification. "Kris is a dedicated chemist whose work has revolutionized the way we produce polymers," said Richard Mc...erials for a wide variety of applications. Matyjaszewski is the second chemist from Carnegie Mellon to win this award since its inception in 1996. Terry C...SMU chemist wins NSF early career award
DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University chemist Brent Sumerlin has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, given to junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars in American colleges and universities. Sumerlin, assistant professor in the ...Northwestern chemist investigates lost reds in Homer painting
EVANSTON, Ill. --- More than 30 years ago, when Northwestern University chemist Richard Van Duyne developed a powerful new sensing technique, he never thought he would be using it to learn more about treasures in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection -- including a watercolor recently featured...NYU chemist Seeman recognized for founding, establishing the field of structural DNA nanotechnology
New York University Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman has received the American Chemical Societys Nicholas Medal for his founding and establishing the field of structural DNA nanotechnology. Created in 1902, the Nichols Medal annually recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry...For creating new field of science, Texas chemist wins international prize
AUSTIN, TexasDr. Allen Bard, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded the 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry jointly with Professor William Moerner of Stanford University. The award, announced by Israels minister of education, Professor Yuli Tamir, was...New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
...r August 5 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society . "These studies tell us what is the hardest part of the chemical reaction," said PNNL chemist and study author Roger Rousseau. "If we can find a way to change the hard part, that is, make it easier to release the hydrogen, then we can improve t...NovaBay(R) Pharmaceuticals Names Roy J. Wu as Senior Vice President for Business Development
...h organization, after working for 16 years at Syntex Corporation. At Syntex, he held numerous positions with increasing responsibility, beginning as a chemist at the Syntex Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and culminating as director of R&D Program Planning and Management for the company's J...Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease
...ys Dr. Lindquist. She notes that her lab and others have modeled many human diseases in yeast and in other kinds of cells. Joshua Kritzer, Ph.D., a chemist and postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Lindquist's lab, designed and executed the cyclic peptide strategy. His procedure involves exposing yeast cells to shor...Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
...ow, Stanford chemists have developed a new method to make isotopic analysis easier and less expensive. "It's all done with smoke and mirrors," said chemist Richard Zare, giving a very literal description of the new method. The device he and his collaborators have created burns chemical samples into a gas,...FDA Inspects Hovione's API Manufacturing Plant in Macau
...pection by FDA. The inspection, carried out by Mr. Michael Charles, investigator of New York District office in Buffalo and Mr. ChunChang Fang, chemist from California District initially planned to take 4 days lasted 2.5 days, starting on 22nd June and concluded on the 24th. A Form 483 with five point...