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A gene's first 'kiss' sets off that affair known as puberty

Puberty, that awkward phase when boys and girls are primed for their sexual reproductive years as men and women, appears to be triggered by the brain's own version of "It takes two to tango," whereby a signal literally gets turned on by a molecule that is produced by a gene aptly named KiSS-1. The couple ?a biochemical equivalent to Adam and Eve ?makes its sudden appearance in a region of...

Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed

Timing is everything, it seems, even inscience. A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has unraveled the firststep in translating genetic information in order to build a protein,only to find that it's not one step but two.In a series of experiments, the scientists found that when yeast'sprotein-building machinery recognizes the starting line for a gene'sinstructions, it first alters its str...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institutehave compiled the first atlas showing the locations of crucial generegulators, or switches that determine how different parts of the braindevelop ?and, in some cases, develop abnormally or malfunction.The scientists say the map will accelerate research on brain tumors andneurological diseases that result from mutations in these switch genes?called...

First-ever Compounds To Target Only Metastatic Cells Are Highly Effective Against Breast, Prostate, And Colon Cancers

Two compounds that zero in on cancer cells spreading throughout the body, while ignoring primary tumor cells, could someday give doctors a whole new weapon in the fight against tough-to-treat metastatic disease, according to Weill Medical College of Cornell University researchers. The compounds, called synthetic migrastatin analogues, prevented 91 to 99 percent of metastatic breast cancer...

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CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling System - dUTP with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

Description:CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling System - dUTP with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit, 50 reactions. For the generation and purification of Cy3- and Cy5-labeled cDNA.Optimized reagents are packaged together for complete cDNA labeling and purification.Flexible and optimized protocols can be used for performing labeling reactions with either Cy3- or Cy5-labeled nucleotides.Reliable purification usin...
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CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling Kit with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

Description:CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling Kit with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit, 25 reactions. For the generation and purification of Cy3- and Cy5-labeled cDNA.Optimized reagents are packaged together for complete cDNA labeling and purification.Flexible and optimized protocols can be used for performing labeling reactions with either Cy3- or Cy5-labeled nucleotides.Reliable purification using the CySc...
Company:GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling System - dCTP with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

Description:CyScribe First-Strand cDNA Labeling System - dCTP with CyScribe GFX Purification Kit, 50 reactions. For the generation and purification of Cy3- and Cy5-labeled cDNA.Optimized reagents are packaged together for complete cDNA labeling and purification.Flexible and optimized protocols can be used for performing labeling reactions with either Cy3- or Cy5-labeled nucleotides.Reliable purification usin...
Company:GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

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First graduates boon to Wisconsin biotechnology

MADISON - Two years ago, 10 students working as scientists, business managers and lawyers came together with a single goal: to become leaders in this state's burgeoning biotechnology industry. On Saturday, May 15, they will graduate as the first alumni of the at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...

UW-Eau Claire graduates first online MBAs

Eau Claire, Wis. When Suzanne DeCann visits the DeCann, who lives in Georgia, will be among the first 11 UW-Eau Claire students to earn their MBAs completely online. When she comes to Eau Cl...

Merge eFilm announces rapid growth in first quarter

MILWAUKEE -- Merge Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday that its net sales are up 41 percent in first-quarter 2004, compared to first-quarter 2003. The Milwaukee-based company, which does business as RIS Logic's pro...

Firstlogic announces availability of mailroom technology

La Crosse, Wis, -- , a provider of information quality and postal automation solutions, announced Wednesday the general availability of the latest release of the firms directory retrieval system (DRS) software solution. DRS is designed for use on multi-line optical character recognition automation equipment. The solution enab...

The Genesis of Gendicine: The Story Behind the First Gene Therapy

In this BioPharmInternational exclusiveinterview,SiBionosfounder relates thescience andmanufacture of hiscompanys innovativecancer therapy....

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First Vaccine Designed for Africa Cleared for Testing in Humans

The first AIDS vaccine candidate designed specifically for Africa will enter human trials this summer. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced on July 11 at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, that the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) of the United Kingdom has approved Phase I testing of a DNA vaccine based on HIV subtype A, the most commo...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

An Iowa infant aged 7 months was the first recipient of a bloodless liver transplant in Los Angeles, the United States of America. The seven month old, Aiden Michael Rush, whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses are prohibited by their religion to receive transfusions. The boy received 20% of his mother’s liver during the transplantation on February 7th at the children’s hospital i...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

Oracle Corp. and Health South Corp. together will build the worlds first "all digital hospital", according to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospital will feature inpatient beds with display screens connected to the Internet, electronic medical records storage, digital imaging and a wireless communications network permitting doctors and o...

Ajanta Launches World's First Once-A-Day Nimesulide Oral Formulation

The Mumbai-based Ajanta Pharmaceuticals (APL) has launched its once-a-day 200mg controlled release nimesulide brand Nimlodi for arthritis. Nimlodi, which was developed by the Company through new drug delivery system, is the world's first once-a-day nimesulide brand for the treatment of arthritis. Ajanta, which manufactures both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicines, developed this oral formulation i...

First human clone is near

Human cloning could effectively create a replica of another living or dead person. Scientists could create the first cloned human before the end of the year. Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who along with his Italian colleague Dr. Severino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offspring. Countries like France and Germany have appealed to the United Nations to ge...

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First-Call Medical Monitoring Services

Description:First-Call Medical, Nationwide 24-Hour Holter, Event, and Pacemaker Monitoring. First-Call Medical is a cardiac scanning laboratory located in Billerica, MA. The laboratory offers the finest diagnostic equipment to assist physicians in the assessment and treatment of the cardiac patient. The diagnostic services are offered nationwide by employing the latest reporting technologies via fax and on-l...
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FirstChoice Closed Pouch, Cut-to-Fit

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Data Available From Erbitux Phase III Study in First-Line Treatment of Advanced Lung Cancer

NEW YORK, July 12, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ImCloneSystems Incorporated and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company todayannounced results from an open-label Phase III study of ERBITUX(R)(Cetuximab) plus a taxane and carboplatin in the first-linetreatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thestudy did not meet its primary endpoint of progression-freesurvival (PFS) as assessed...

Pixantrone Combination Therapy for First-line Treatment of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Results in Reduction in Severe Toxicities Including Heart Damage When Compared to Doxorubicin-based Therapy

Positive interim results prompt request for meeting with FDA SEATTLE, July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today that interim results ofits phase II/III trial comparing CPOP-R, in which pixantrone issubstituted for doxorubicin in standard CHOP-R first-line treatmentof patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), resultedin essentially al...

Genzyme Announces Data from First Phase 3 Study of Tolevamer in Patients with C. difficile Associated Diarrhea

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Genzyme Corp. announced top-line data today from the first of twoPhase 3 clinical studies to assess the safety and efficacy oftolevamer liquid, an investigational, non-antibiotic, polymertherapy for patients with Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea(CDAD). The second Phase 3 study of tolevamer liquid is fullyenrolled and resul...

Ablynx Announces Interim Results of First Nanobody Phase I Study of ALX-0081 (ANTI-VWF)

GHENT, Belgium, 2 July, 2007 -- Ablynx today announced positiveinterim results from the ongoing Phase I study of its leaddevelopment programme, ALX-0081, an anti-thrombotic treatment.ALX-0081 is a novel ´first-in-class´ therapeuticNanobody® targeting von Willebrand Factor (vWF), which canreduce the risk of thrombosis in patients with acute coronarysyndrome. The Pha...

Advanced Life Sciences Announces Supplemental Efficacy Data from First Pivotal Phase 3 Pneumonia Clinical Trial

Provides Update to Timeline for Second Pivotal Phase 3 Trial CL-05 CHICAGO, July 02, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. , today announced the confirmation ofsupplemental efficacy data from Trial CL-06, the first of twopivotal Phase 3 clinical trials designed to assess the safety andeffectiveness of cethromycin, a novel once-a-day antibiotic, forthe treatme...

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