Scientists Test New Way to Get Drugs to Cancer Cells

...eate immunoliposomes that travel through the bloodstream and seek out tumors. When they come in contact with tumors, the immunoliposomes deliver their payload into cancer cells. "It's a promising approach to solving the problem of how to deliver more of a therapeutic to cancer cells," research leader and ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Reports Progress in Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Clinical Program

...dying cells found at the center of solid tumors. Cotara's targeting mechanism enables it to bind to the dying tumor cells, delivering its radioactive payload to the adjacent living tumor cells and essentially destroying the tumor from the inside out, with minimal radiation exposure to healthy tissue. Cotara...

Hubble Space Telescope Servicing In Orbit Monitored By Three Schneider Lenses

...ce service mission that is likely to enable the Hubble Space Telescope to continue functioning until at least 2014." Mounted in the shuttle's payload bay, the three Schneider lenses were able to cope with even the most severe conditions encountered during launch, without the need for modifications o...

NASA Nanosatellite to Study Antifungal Drug Effectiveness in Space

... drugs work in space. The nanosatellite, known as PharmaSat, is a secondary payload aboard a U.S. Air Force four-stage Minotaur 1 rocket planned for launch the... a three-hour launch window beginning at 8 p.m. EDT May 5. "Secondary payload nanosatellites expand the number of opportunities available to conduct rese...

Rice students win NASA national design award

...r there would be two first-place winners based on the strength of the winning entries. The other, from Virginia Tech, designed a small research rocket payload that could be launched to 900 meters and deployed, and would autonomously navigate to a predefined landing coordinate. Both teams received cash pri...

NASA's 'COLBERT' Supplied by Wyle is Designed to Minimize House Calls

...evice designed to maintain crew health while on-orbit and prepare them for return to Earth. The treadmill will be housed in an "international standard payload rack" and deployed from the rack each time a crewmember uses the treadmill for exercise. The overall approach for the COLBERT project is to utili...

GOCE's 'heart' starts beating

...l it enters 'drag-free mode' at an altitude of 273 km. At this altitude, the satellite will actively compensate for the effect of air drag and its payload will undergo a further six weeks of commissioning and calibration. Mission operations are scheduled to start in summer 2009. "With the ion engine ...

ESA launches first Earth Explorer mission GOCE

...culation and polar ice cap dynamics. A unique payload onboard a unique spacecraft The main payload instrument is a state-of-the-art Electrostatic Gra...o its operational orbit at 263 km altitude and its payload will undergo a further six weeks of commissioning ...

UT nanoscientist gets $7 million DoD Innovator Award for breast cancer research

... Ferrari's proposed solution to this problem is to package these drugs in miniaturized carriers engineered to search out, recognize and release their payload at the site of the tumor. These nanocarriers are about one hundredth the size of a strand of hair and their contents are measured in billionths of a m...

Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

...rs. In the ACS Nano study, the researchers tested the particles with a payload of DNA. Each nanoparticle can carry hundreds of strands of DNA, and could a...p to four different-shaped particles could be developed, each releasing its payload at different wavelengths. ...

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VIRxSYS to Host a Web Conference to Announce Clinical Trial Update

...ruction of the immune system by HIV. About VIRxSYS VIRxSYS is a private biotechnology company using proprietary lentiviral vector delivery and RNA payload platforms to develop therapies for serious human diseases. The Company's initial lentiviral delivery technology was exclusively licensed from The John...

Data To Be Presented at ASCO Supports Potential of Peregrine's Cotara(R) for the Treatment of Brain Cancer

...pecifically targets cells at the center of brain tumors, so its radioactive payload is able to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue largely unaffecte... mechanism enables it to home in on these cells, delivering its radioactive payload directly to the center of the tumor mass and thereby destroying it "from th...

VIRxSYS Presents Data on HIV Vaccine at Keystone HIV Vaccine Symposia

...he delivery of an anti-HIV vaccine." About VIRxSYS VIRxSYS is a private biotechnology company using proprietary lentiviral vector delivery and RNA payload platforms to develop therapies for serious human diseases. The Company's initial lentiviral delivery technology was exclusively licensed from The John...

Alfacell's Onconase Highlighted in Latest Edition of Handbook of Therapeutic Antibodies

... BLOOMFIELD, N.J., March 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alfacell Corporation's ONCONASE (ranpirnase) has shown potential to act as a potent payload in antibody conjugates for cancer therapy, according to the latest edition of the Handbook of Therapeutic Antibodies. In a chapter of the text that ...

Seattle Genetics Highlights Data on its Proprietary Antibody-Drug Conjugate Technology at AACR

...re bound to monoclonal antibodies through proprietary linker systems. The linkers are designed to be stable in the bloodstream but to release the drug payload under specific conditions once inside target cells, thereby sparing non-target cells many of the toxic effects of traditional chemotherapy. "Empower...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Preclinical Trial Targeting System's Success in Mouse Model Reported in Cancer Cell

... vector - nicknamed VISA. It includes a targeting agent, also called a promoter, two components that boost gene expression in the target tissue, and a payload - in this case a gene known to kill cancer cells. It's all packaged in a fatty ball called a liposome and delivered intravenously. Researchers are w...

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SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

...e follows a rescheduling of the previously announced date of 9 September. Both the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite and the secondary payload Proba-2, which is ESA's second Project for Onboard Autonomy mission, will be launched together on a Rockot launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrom...

Former NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar to speak at NJIT's biomedical engineering seminar

...ments. A NASA Mission Specialist astronaut and veteran of 5 space flights, Dr. Dunbar has logged more than 50 days in space. She has served as the payload Commander on two flights, including the first Space Shuttle docking mission to the Russian Space Station Mir. Dr. Dunbar holds BS and MS degrees in...

UK robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity

... batteries. The batteries are packed in bundles in pressure-tested housings. Either end of the seven-metre sub there are free-flooding areas where the payload of instruments are installed. It carries a multibeam sonar system that builds up a 3D map of the ice above and the seabed below.. It also carries prec...

New 'pollution radar' developed to provide unprecedented picture of urban smog

...ored across physically large urban and industrial spaces. He said: "The instrument has been developed for potential deployment as a small satellite payload and provides the performance of current, comparable instruments, which are significantly larger in size. Its compact size, achieved through the use of...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 13, 2008

...ture of a spacecraft is absolutely crucial. Currently, there is no way to do it for very small spacecraft." With the cost of orbiting one pound of payload hovering around $5,000, micro-spacecraft are expected to be the thrust of future aerospace development. With these miniature craft, NASA, military and...

Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice

...sily slip through the larger holes in the relatively leaky blood vessels in the tumor tissue. That enabled the nanotubes to deliver their medicinal payload with tremendous efficiency, throwing a therapeutic wrench into the cellular means of reproduction and thus squelching the hitherto unrestrained prolif...

UCLA researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes

...n cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using ...component, activating a toxic agent in the genetic payload to kill the spreading cancer cells. Wu hopes one d... we will find out how effective this genetic toxic payload is in preventing further spread of the cancer to o...

Researchers observe spontaneous 'ratcheting' of single ribosome molecules

...move spontaneously." To better understand the role of EF-G, the researchers added a modified EF-G molecule that could not deliver its normal energy payload to the ribosome. The modified EF-G bound to the ribosome only in the rotated, hybrid state. These findings led the researchers to propose that EF-G...

GMES Sentinel-2 satellite contract signed

...e industrial consortium led by Astrium-GmbH (platform and satellite prime) includes a number of core-team partners: Astrium SAS is responsible for the payload instrument and system support activities; Boostec (F) is providing the three-mirror Silicon carbide telescope; CASA (E) is responsible for satellite s...

Final preparations for first human-rated spacecraft to be lauched from Europe's Spaceport

...ifts for six days a week, the ATV campaign, which started in early August, solved all technical issues. The two major pieces of the ATV, a pressurised payload unit and an avionics/propulsion unit, were carefully mated for the last time in one piece on 15 December in the Spaceport's giant integration hall. In...

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Data Presented at Society of Nuclear Medicine 2009 Annual Meeting Supports Potential of Peregrine's Cotara(R) for the Treatment of Brain Cancer

... at the center of brain tumors, so its radioactive payload is able to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy...rming Cotara's potential to target its radioactive payload to brain tumors while minimizing radiation exposur... the dying tumor cells, delivering its radioactive payload to the adjacent living tumor cells and essentially...

Epeius Biotechnologies' Lead Product, Rexin-G for Metastatic Cancer, Aptly Highlighted by National Cancer Institute Journal

...body. Within minutes, the tumor-targeted nanoparticles of Rexin-G begin to accumulate within the cancerous lesions to high levels, delivering a lethal payload of genetic medicine selectively to cancer cells and their attendant blood supply, while sparing normal cells and tissues. In a series of four clinical...

Epeius Biotechnologies' Tumor-Targeted Rexin-G Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for the Treatment of Osteosarcoma

... tumor-targeted anti-cancer agents designed to seek out and accumulate in metastatic cancers that have spread throughout the body, delivering a lethal payload of genetic medicine to tumor cells and their associated blood supplies without harming normal cells, tissues, or organ systems. Specifically designed ...

Epeius Biotechnologies Awarded U.S. Patent for Targeted Injectable Gene Delivery In Vivo

...ccumulate selectively in cancerous tissues and remote metastatic tumor nodules that have spread throughout the body. Rexin-G delivers it tumor-killing payload precisely where it is needed most, by targeting cancer from the inside. *(LOGO: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-0325-Epeius_72dpi.jpg) Rexin-G demonst...

VIRxSYS Announces Interim Results from VRX496 Gene Therapy Phase II Trial

.... The VIRxSYS poster was number 753. About VIRxSYS VIRxSYS is a private biotechnology company using proprietary lentiviral vector delivery and RNA payload platforms to develop therapies for serious human diseases. The Company's initial lentiviral delivery technology was exclusively licensed from The John...

VIRxSYS and Lentigen Announce Litigation Settlement

... of the settlement are confidential. About VIRxSYS VIRxSYS is a private biotechnology company using proprietary lentiviral vector delivery and RNA payload platforms to develop therapies for serious human diseases. The Company's initial lentiviral delivery technology was exclusively licensed from The John...

Fluid theory confirmed by Foton

...is prediction has come about, and the results completely support the earlier forecast. The first images from the experiment were downloaded to the payload Operations Centre in Kiruna, Sweden, and received on Earth after only a few orbits, explained Professor Marzio Giglio, leader of the team from the Dep...

Mirus Bio Awarded Grants & Contracts of Over $5 Million

...roduction of disease-causing proteins. DPCs are comprised of proprietary polymers, masking agents and targeting molecules that are linked to the siRNA payload and shield it as it is injected into the bloodstream. When the DPCs attach to and are taken up by the target cells, they disassemble and release their...

Space Place opens new astronomy center

...300,000 to acquire and set up the new location. Among the regular features of the exhibit hall, including the OAO-2 satellite and suborbital rocket payload instrument, are new permanent exhibits about galaxies, the solar system, the colors of the universe, as well as an amateur radio center, a new rooftop...

Oshkosh's TerraMax rolls across finish line

...ax is a MTVR (Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement) that Oshkosh Truck designed for the U.S. Marine Corps. It has a 15-ton on-road and 7.1-ton off-road payload capacity. The MTVR is a 6x6 cargo hauler with Oshkosh Truck's patented TAK-4 independent suspension system to accommodate its 70 percent off-road prof...

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MX80 Series Miniature Precision Stages from Parker Hannifin Corporation

Description:... Accelerations to 5 gs Velocities to 2 m/s Fast settling; smooth translations Cleanroom and low-ESD options Dowel holes provided for precise payload and multi-axis mounting Master reference surface to actual path of travel Optional vacuum preparation ...
Company:Parker Hannifin Corporation

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Probe

...yer's source for vehicle information and ratings on the web... space probe ( ′spās ′prōb ) ( aerospace engineering ) An instrumented vehicle, the payload of a rocket-launching system designed specifically for ...