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LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

Luca Technologies LLC today announced that its researchers have confirmed the presence of a resident, methane-generating community of microorganisms ("microbial consortium") in substrate samples taken from the 110,000 acre Monument Butte oilfield located in North Eastern Utah. This site represents the latest in a series of active "GeobioreactorsTM" that Luca Technologies has identified since its...

Updated data on novel HPV vaccine confirms efficacy in large population

Updated data from a study on a promising new vaccine against a pre-cancerous cervical virus shows superior efficacy in preventing cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancer, according to a study presented today during the American Association for Cancer Research's 4th Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Baltimore. Final results of the phase III study, ori...

Ancient DNA confirms single origin of Malagasy primates

Yale biologists have managed to extract and analyze DNA from giant, extinct lemurs, according to a Yale study published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Radiocarbon dating of the bones and teeth from which the DNA was obtained reveal that each of the individuals analyzed died well over 1,000 years ago, according to the senior author, Anne Yoder, ass...

First human study confirms that immune cells can be a primary cause of bone loss in gum disease

Researchers at The Forsyth Institute have confirmed in human gingival tissue that immune cells play a destructive role in periodontal disease. Although researchers had suspected the correlation between bone loss in periodontal (gum) disease and immune cells, this is the first time that this has been confirmed in human tissue samples. With this work, Forsyth scientists and colleagues hope to dete...

New method confirms importance of fungi in Arctic nitrogen cycle

A new method to calculate the transfer of nitrogen from Arctic mushrooms to plants is shedding light on how fungi living symbiotically on plant roots transfer vital nutrients to their hosts. The analytical technique, developed by John E. Hobbie, MBL Distinguished Scientist and co-director of the laboratory's Ecosystems Center and his son, Erik A. Hobbie of the University of New Hampshire, may be...

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SARS research confirms link to animals

Chinese scientists compared the genetic makeup of viral particles isolated from humans with SARS with a virus found in wild animals recently captured //and being held in a retail food market. The animals were found to have a corona virus that was 99.8 percent genetically identical to a virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in humans. Their findings sugges...

Irritable bowel syndrome associated with food intake, confirms blood test

People suffering from irritable bowel syndrome may be having heightened food// specific antibodies to some foods. Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions. It is a chronic disease with symptoms like abdominal pain and changed bowel habits with no particular reason. Often there may not be any long-term cure for the condition. Scientists...

Skin tests confirms cancer

Scientists believe they have developed a screening technique for persons suffering from types of hereditary cancers.The Imperial Cancer Research Fund says investigations of skin lesions may allow doctors to identify people likely to suffer from a group of cancers, particularly those of the colon. By looking at skin warts, benign growths and malignant skin tumours in members of familie...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche confirmed that it is in talks with 15 companies in the U.S. about stepping up the production of Tamiflu, the bird-flu drug//. The partnership would dramatically increase the world's supply of Tamiflu as countries are stockpiling the drug in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic. The Basel-based firm confirmed on Thursday that it was...

Local Test Confirms Bird Flu Related Death Of Indonesian Man

The death of a 39-year-old man from Indonesia has been confirmed to be bird flu related as revealed by a test conducted by a local health agency, according to official sources. // If this were again confirmed by World Health Organization recognized testing centers, it would increase the Indonesian death toll due to bird flu to12. 'We got the local test result around Friday. He had con...

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Biofrontera AG Announces Clinical Study Confirms Excellent Efficacy of BF-200 ALA In Actinic Keratosis

LEVERKUSEN, Germany - Biofrontera AG (DSE: B8F) announces todaythat it has received very positive results in the dose finding partof its phase IIb/III clinical trial started in autumn 2006. BF-200ALA, a gel that combines the active substance 5-aminolevulinic acid(ALA) with the nanoemulsion BF-200, was strongly and significantlysuperior to placebo in the treatment of actinic keratosis. BF-...

Publication Confirms that EpCAM, the Target for Two of Micromet's Product Candidates, Is Overexpressed on Cancer Stem Cells of Certain Cancers

BETHESDA, Md., June 26, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet,Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development ofnovel, proprietary antibody-based products for cancer, inflammatoryand autoimmune diseases, announced that a study published recentlyin the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1) supportsthe findings of several other studies that EpCAM (CD326), whic...

New Data Confirms Significant Improvement of Disease Signs and Symptoms in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Second Multinational Phase III Study Provides Further Evidence ofthe Significant Role of IL-6 Receptor Inhibition in the Treatmentof Rheumatoid Arthritis BASEL, Switzerland, June 6, 2007-Roche announced today thatToward (1), the second multinational phase III Actemra(tocilizumab) study, successfully reached its primary endpoint andshowed that a greater proportion of patients treated with...

New Research Confirms the Benefit of Extended-Release Dipyridamole Plus ASA for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Low- and High-Risk Patients

Aggrenox® (Asasantin® Retard) considered by many asfirst-line in secondary stroke prevention INGELHEIM, Germany, 31 May 2007 - New data presented today at the16th European Stroke Conference in Glasgow confirm that therapywith dipyridamole plus ASA (extended-release dipyridamole plus ASAis marketed as Aggrenox® or Asasantin® Retard) is superiorto ASA* alone in...

Positive Clinical Data on CC-10004 Confirms Potential as Novel Oral Approach to Treating Inflammatory Diseases

Celgene to Advance Clinical and Regulatory Development of OralAnti-Inflammatory Franchise SUMMIT, N.J., May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CelgeneCorporation announced its plans to advance the development ofleading oral anti-inflammatory candidates across a broad range ofinflammatory diseases. CC-10004 (apremilast), an oral TNFantagonist and anti-inflammatory agent has demonstrated si...

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