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Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

The destruction of habitat by human activity and the extinction of species around the world is more than a looming environmental catastrophe, warns a Canadian zoologist. This ecological damage also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines." Dr. Daniel (Dan) Brooks, a parasitologist at the University of Toronto, says the decline of global biodiversity is li...

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified a newly emerging illness, named staphylococcal purpura fulminans. The disease begins as a respiratory tract infection, which then is infected by Staphylococcus aureus. The infection then moves to the lungs, making superantigens (bacterial toxins that activate large numbers of T cells), often leading to death due to hypertension and shock....

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced four-year grants totaling approximately $80 million for two new Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (RCE). The grants to the University of California, Irvine, and Colorado State University (Fort Collins) mark the completi...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

A study of how the immune system reacts to strains of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria--emerging strains that sicken otherwise healthy people, or so-called "community-acquired" infections--has shown for the first time that these strains are more deadly and better at evading human immune defenses than more common S. aureus strains that originate in hospitals and other health-car...

Ticks, flukes, and genomics: Emerging pathogens revealed

Ehrlichiosis is no star of science. This emerging disease has an awkward name, vague flu-like symptoms, and a nasty habit of being caused by bacteria that live inside ticks and flatworms. But in the current issue of the journal Public Library of Science Genetics (PLoS Genetics), scientists put ehrlichiosis under the genomic spotlight--and discover some brilliant biology. Led by scientists...

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Software piracy declines in emerging markets

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Old bell system merging back together, but it's not the same

AT&T buying BellSouth for $67 billion creates a bigger entity to deal with for regulators. In an editorial about a year ago, I coined the term "revestiture". In it, I observed that consolidation just like in the oligopoly that is the automobile industry is a natural evolution and is critical for survival: As a country, we are progressing quickly into what I call the tel...

Early Stage Symposium session will help emerging companies prepare for investors

"Venture Readiness Tools for Commercialization Success" will be held Oct. 20 as a track within the larger conference at Madison 's Monona Terrace Convention Center . Compa...

Emerging technology companies receive significant funding

Good news for some of Madisons emerging technology companies as they received significant funding this past week. These investments and grants will help to accelerate the growth of these high tech firms. Alfalight, a UW-Madison spinout company that manufacturers high-powered laser devices, announced that they have received nearly $6 million in military funding. Meanwhile, another UW-spinout eMet...

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PCR emerging as a promising technique for Diagnosing Urinary Tuberculosis

Urinary Tuberculosis is often difficult to diagnose and many a times the diagnosis is made by exclusion. Urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is emerging as a promising technique for early diagnosis of Urinary Tuberculosis. The technique involves detection of bacteria by facilitating rapid amplification of small amounts of a genome sequence, Dr Narmada P Gupta told the Millennium Interna...

HIV Virus Emerging Drug Resistant In UK, Prompting Fear Of A Second Epidemic

Reports of highest resistance rates of the HIV virus in the UK has come just in time before the World AIDS Day that is to be celebrated on December 1st. This has created panic // among the scientific community, raising a possibility of a second wave epidemic of resistant virus. Anti-retroviral drugs are currently used in the management of AIDS victims. The currently available drugs are...

Tamil Nadu Emerging As Model State In Public Health Care: Governor

Tamil Nadu is emerging as a model state in public health for the rest of the country and its health care system has achieved international renown, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said today. // 'Several medical colleges, medical education and research institutes and health care centres contributed to the success of the health care industry in the state. The cost of health care had come...

Emerging Therapies for Skin Cancer Treatment

This year, more than one million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. Fortunately, if detected early, this potentially deadly //condition is extremely treatable, averaging a cure rate of 95 percent. While current treatments for skin cancer involve treating or removing both cancerous and healthy skin, advanced research is producing new therapies which treat only...

Emerging from the shadows of Breast Cancer

Years of research and undying efforts of Oncologists have clearly borne fruit shows the results of many surveys conducted among breast cancer //survivors and support groups.Reports reveal that more than 85% of women today diagnosed with breast cancer live on for an average of 5 years. Way back in the early eighties the risk of dying from breast cancer had reached an all time high of 1...

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Auxilium Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 2007 CEUT Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference

MALVERN, Pa., June 28, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AuxiliumPharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Mr. Armando Anido, ChiefExecutive Officer and President, and Mr. Jim Fickenscher, ChiefFinancial Officer, will participate in the 2007 CEUT EmergingGrowth Opportunities Conference to be held July 10 through July 12,2007 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. Mr. Anido issche...

ViaCell to Present at the C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 2, 2007 - ViaCell, Inc.(NASDAQ: VIAC) today announced that Marc D. Beer, President andChief Executive Officer of ViaCell, will present an update on itsbusiness activities and product pipeline at the C.E. Unterberg,Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference on Tuesday, July10, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York,NY. A live...

Accelrys to Present to Investors at C.E. Unterberg Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 2, 2007 - Accelrys, Inc.(NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading provider of scientific businessintelligence software and services, announced today that its CFO,Rick Russo, will present at the C.E. Unterberg, Towbin EmergingGrowth Opportunities Conference in New York on July 11, 2007 at10:30 a.m. ET. The conference will take place at the MandarinOriental Hotel July 10th-12...

Metabasis to Present at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Conference and Attend Pacific Growth Equities Conference

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 2, 2007 - Metabasis Therapeutics(NASDAQ:MBRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on thediscovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs for thetreatment of metabolic and liver diseases by targeting the liverand liver pathways, announced today that John Beck, senior vicepresident of finance and chief financial officer of Metabasis willpresent at t...

Inspire Announces Webcast of Presentation at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 3, 2007 - InspirePharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISPH) announced today that Christy L.Shaffer, Ph.D., President and CEO, will present at the C.E.Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference onWednesday, July 11, 2007 at 11:00 am ET in New York City. The webcast of the presentation will be available on Inspire'sweb site at www.inspirepharm.com...

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