A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai
The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), in collaboration with the U.K.-based Oxford Brookes University, has opened a new Glycemic Index Testing Centre in Chennai . For the people of the city that subsist on rice and its products, this is a significant development. For now scientific...Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB
UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has opened one of the few clinics in the nation dedicated to providing services to adult patients with Down Syndrome. Because of improvements in diagnosis, treatment and management of the condition while young, Down Syndrome patients are now routinely livi...Let Blind Eyes Be Opened - Stem Cell Therapy and Aniridia
British scientists offer a ray of hope to persons suffering from aniridia - a rare defect of being born with no iris.// Around 1,000 people in the UK alone, suffer from this rare genetic disorder, aniridia, which means they are born without the stem cells that can rejuvenate tissue in the eye....Liver Clinic Opened At GH, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Health Minister K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran commissioned a specialty outpatient clinic for patients// with liver-related disorders at the Government General Hospital on Wednesday. This Clinic, besides providing advanced therapeutic options to diseases like jaundice, kidney failure and lo...SIRO Clinpharm Completes Successful Implementation of Oracle Life Sciences Application Suite
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Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction. Two recently published papers by a University of Oregon biophysicist and colleagues suggest that putting lipids and other cell membrane ...NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists
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...ads the Familial Cancer Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, said that now the importance of luminal progenitor cells in breast cancer was known it opened the way for the development of new drugs or therapies to treat breast cancer, one of the biggest causes of premature death in women. "BRCA1 women ha...UCSF researchers identify new drug target for Kaposi's sarcoma
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: NBS), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, today announced that it has reached a major milestone in its current business plan with t...UCLA welcomes startup to new incubator space at California NanoSystems Institute
... UCLA's newly launched on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) has opened lab space to MediSens Wireless, a startup company that develops and manufactures personal body-monitoring systems for medical and health applications....Cardinal Health Completes Biotech Acquisition
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... DUSSELDORF, Germany, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Gerresheimer Group today opened a new plant for pharmaceutical glass packaging in China. The high-tech production facility constructed in Danyang (Jiangsu Province) covers 16,000 squ...Pharma and Biotech Companies Plug into Singapore's Integrated Research Network
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