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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...

Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering

Sacramento - Today, Affymetrix, Inc.announced plans to make eight new GeneChip(R) plant and animal genomearrays available in 2005 as part of its Consortia Program, includingcanine, Rhesus macaque, Medicago trancatula (legume), Brassica, tomato,citrus, poplar and sugar cane. More than 20 research presentations atthis week's Plant and Animal Genome Conference XIII in San Diego,Calif. feature...

Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

In the battle against insect pests, new research indicates that it may all come down to the sense of smell. A group of Rockefeller University scientists who had previously identified a key gene essential for the sense of smell in fruit flies now shows that this gene's function appears to be evolutionarily conserved across very different insect species. Research by Leslie Vosshall's laborat...

Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

Scientists may have found a way to throw a wrench in the transmissions of several speed demons of the parasite world. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have identified a protein that could help them develop drugs to stop or slow cell invasion by malaria and other parasites known as apicomplexans. Results of the study will appear in...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

A University of Alberta and Capital Health surgeon, well known for his pioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for diabetes, has taken another important step in the fight against diabetes. On January 19, at Kyoto University Hospital, Dr. Koichi Tanaka and Dr. James Shapiro, along with a team of Japanese surgeons, removed part of a 56-year-old woman's pancreas. Dr. Sh...

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Versatile Transfection Reagent Offers Low Toxicity and Consistent Performance

Stratagene transfection reagent offersimproved, consistent transfections for both adherent cells and cells growing insuspension. In this article, we summarize the results of several experimentsthat characterize the eff...

Venture Investors to open Michigan office

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Promega breaks ground for new office building

The $22 million project will take up 84,000 square feet located near Cheryl Parkway and Fish Hatchery Road, 62,000 of which will be occupied by Promega and 22,000 of which will be re...

Suggestions offered to foster high-growth business investment

A group of business investors and government representatives have suggested a series of changes to Wisconsin Act 255 that was enacted to stimulate investments in high-growth industries. Their suggestions were made to a state Senate committee on Wednesday. For more on that hearing, read: Regulations still stymie business investment in high-growth compa...

When innovation gets off track

What's caught my investigator's eye most recently is the flurry of news about Acela, the fast train service along the Eastern Co...

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Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief

Many more patients with chronic pancreatitis can safely turn to a minimally invasive operation for long-term pain relief, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University physicians. Endoscopic therapy is an effective alternative to more invasive surgery or drugs, says Anthony N. Kalloo, MD, director of GI endoscopy at Hopkins and lead author of the study that appeared in the July...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

Diflucan Partnership seems to be the latest mantra of Pfizer. The pharmaceutical giant has announced that it will supply free antifungal drug to 50 countries hardest hit by the AIDS virus. The decision by the Pfizer comes close on the heels of the South African Government winning a landmark case against pharmaceutical companies. In an announcement on Wednesday Pfizer said AIDS related a...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

Diflucan Partnership seems to be the latest mantra of Pfizer. The pharmaceutical giant has announced that it will supply free antifungal drug to 50 countries hardest hit by the AIDS virus. The decision by the Pfizer comes close on the heels of the South African Government winning a landmark case against pharmaceutical companies. In an announcement on Wednesday Pfizer said AIDS related a...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

There is new war brewing! Neither in the devastated NewYork of America nor in the Afghanistan! It is right here in the commercial capital of India --- Mumbai. And who are the warring parties? They are the pharmaceutical industry of the country and the RDCA or the Retail & Dispensing Chemists Association. The latter is a member body of over 5,000 retail druggists & chemists spread across t...

Keep guilt off

Dr Geoff Lowe from the University of Hull has told the British Psychological Society that people who feel bad about activities such as eating chocolate, lazing in front of the television, or going shopping are more likely to have weaker immune systems. This could make them more susceptible to disease.Those on the other hand who feel little or no guilt are better able to fight off infectio...

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Analyzers Offer Point-of-Care Lipid Panels

Plasma lipids, comprised of triglycerides and cholesterols, vary with genetic predisposition, weight, diet and physical activity. All of these factors contribute to serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels and highly correlate with risk of untoward vascular and cardiac events. Perhaps no other commonly determined medical laboratory values are so much in the public eye as serum levels of good...

Ties Between Physicians and Drug Companies Still Too Strong: the Prescription Project Offers Solutions to Prevent Conflicts of Interest

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2007 - A new study published todayin the New England Journal of Medicine ("A National Survey ofPhysician-Industry Relationships") on the extent of doctor andpharmaceutical company relationships, highlights the need forprofession-wide and public policy reforms promoted by ThePrescription Project. The article concludes that the existing,voluntary PhRMA (Pharma...

Novel Human Tissue Transgenic Cancer Model May Offer Significant Advance Toward Accurately Modeling Human Cancer

LOS ANGELES & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 18, 2007 -AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused onthe discovery and development of novel, targeted cancer medicines,presented today findings from its novel human-in-mouse (HIM) tissuetransgenic cancer model system, in which AVEO successfully createdinvasive human tumors that develop over time in mice from prim...

Calcium Channel Blocker Adalat GITS Offer Additional Benefits

ACTION-trial shows medical and economic advantages of nifedipineGITS therapy LEVERKUSEN, Germany, March 28, 2007 – Two recentlypublished articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology providefurther evidence that the use of the long-acting calcium channelblocker (CCB) nifedipine GITS (Adalat? GITS) has additionalbenefits beyond its blood pressure lowing effec...

MUSC Research Offers Hope for Those Resistant to Depression Treatment

CHARLESTON, S.C., March 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers atthe Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have announced theresults of a two-year study, which tested the long-termantidepressant response to VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation)Therapy(TM) in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).The study, of which Mark S. George, M.D., MUSC DistinguishedProfessor of Psychiatry,...

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