Caution Urged as Patients Seek Deals on Cosmetic Surgery
ASPS Member Surgeons Offer Tips for Finding Quality Care ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers looking to cut costs during the economic downturn cannot afford to cut corners on quality of care, warns the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). While it's on...Derma Sciences Announces 3-Year Licensing Deals for Highly Profitable Character Strip Bandages
Immensely popular licensed characters will add significant growth to the company's first aid division PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Derma Sciences, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DSCI) announced today that it has secured two additional licenses to manufactu...Antisense therapeutics scientist out to pull more big deals
Aiming for more major licensing deals like the one his company recently secured with top 20 global pharmaceutical company, Teva, is front of mind for rising Australian biotechnology star, Antisense Therapeutics Ltd (ASX code: ANP)Research Director Dr Christopher Wraight when he meets with leading ...Experimental Drug Deals Effectively with Prostate Cancer Cells
An experimental RNA-based drug acts by using genetic material called targeting RNA, to enter cancer cells, and another type, called silencing RNA// , to stop the expression of a protein that keeps the cells alive, thereby destroying prostate cancer cells leaving normal cells unharmed. T...StatSure Signs Strategic Financing and License Deals with Inverness Medical Innovations
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- StatSure Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSUR) today reported receipt of a $500,000 strategic investment from Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (Amex: IMA ). In connection with this financing, StatSure and Inverness signed t...One Step Closer: Novel Opioid Receptor Compound in Phase I Clinical Trials
...ent disclosures with the OTC. In addition, more than 110 patents have been issued and Rensselaer has over 45 active licenses and averages 12 to 15 new deals a year, according to Kudla. And thanks to the OTC, Wentland is a step closer to his dream that serves as a promising next step for a medical adv...CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders
...letely novel and non-toxic cancer therapy, we are well positioned for licensing, joint venture and other business arrangements. In normal times these deals might already have been completed a while ago and we would have already started the Phase III trial. In the last few months almost all investments ha...Cambridge Laboratories Announces Approval of Tetrabenazine in Spain
...e the value of this potential new therapy for patients, physicians and our shareholders." Further details in connection with the new licensing deals in Finland and Taiwan and the renewal of existing arrangements in Australia and New Zealand are set out below: - In Finland, Cambridge announ...Technique for Rapidly Reprogramming Adult Cells Into Stem Cells Published in PLoS Biology
...nerative medicine research. Stem Cell Sciences is now focusing on building revenues through the sale of products, collaborative research and licensing deals with international biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Stem Cell Sciences has a substantial portfolio of patents and patent applications in ...Climate change poker: The barriers which are preventing a global agreement
...e to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of climate negotiations is being revealed in an article published today, 5 August, 2009, i...Brain difference in psychopaths identified
...brain were identified as the amygdale, ie the area associated with emotions, fear and aggression, and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the region which deals with decision making. There is a white matter tract that connects the amygdala and OFC, which is called the uncinate fasciculus (UF). However, nobody ...A global model for the origin of species independent of geographical isolation
... Program along with a team of researchers from The New England Complex Systems Institute, have collaborated and found a way to settle the debate which deals with the origin of species independent of geographic isolation. They demonstrated, using a computer model, how diverse species can arise from the ...New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions
...shed today in the journal Astrobiology , the decontamination protocol was developed and tested by scientists at the University of Leeds and NASA. It deals with the dilemma known as 'forward contamination' - ensuring that bugs from Earth don't hitch a ride across space and jeopardise the integrity of samp...Springer and Japanese Society of Biorheology to work together
... Editorial Director for Life Sciences at Springer, said, "Springer is delighted to welcome the Journal of Biorheology to its portfolio. The journal deals with areas bordering on biology, medicine and materials science and thus touches fields in which Springer is already well positioned. We look forward ...Coffee cultivation good for diversity in agrarian settlements but not in forests
...e," says Kristoffer Hylander. The same conclusion regarding the role of coffee in the cultivation landscape is also drawn in the other study, which deals with the distribution of birds and above all forest birds in the landscape. But, besides growing coffee under shade trees in a cultivated landscape, ...Excalibur - 'Transforming' Biotech Deals can Still be Achieved
LONDON, October 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Excalibur, the international investment house specialising in medical sciences, said today 'transforming' deals could still be achieved in the UK biotech sector despite the most severe market conditions. Excalibur, founded by Professor Sir Christopher Evans ...ProMetic and Sartorius Stedim Biotech collaborate on technology transfer deals in Asia
- Collaboration leads to major deals in Asia - Annual revenue to reach $60 M for ProMetic in product sales and royalties - Sartorius Stedim Biotech expects significant demand for its products and services AUBAGNE, France, GOETTINGEN, Germany and MO...Madison-based TrafficCast strikes deals with City of Shanghai
SHANGHAI On day four of Gov. Jim Doyle's trade mission to China, TrafficCast , a Madison-based technology and software company, signed two major agreements Wednesday with the City of Shanghai. The partnership is expected to result in new investments worth tens of millions of dollars and create do...Doyle builds bridges and hopes for deals in Japan
A biotechnology trade mission to Japan is building interest in possible Wisconsin deals, Governor Jim Doyle said while sharing his experiences abroad in a conference call Monday morning. In Japan as part of a fact-finding mission with several Wisconsin representatives, Doyle has been speaking ...Midwest VC investment up in 2004, but number of deals down
Last week, we looked at venture capital performance in the U.S. during 2004. We also took a look at how well the Midwest garnered its share of this investment as well as how the life science industry performed. Though I had hoped to give you a more detailed look at how the life science indust...Michael Rosencrance deals with medical overload through human-centric IT
Michael Rosencrance is a featured speaker at the Digital Healthcare Conference 2005 on the topic of electronic health records. With all of the new medical discoveries and treatments that can complicate patient records, how can individual doctors master enough information to give the best care? ...