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MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

A large, multisite trial designed to examine the safety and preliminary effectiveness of two candidate topical microbicides to prevent HIV infection has opened to volunteer enrollment. The trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, represents a partnership among various research institutions in Africa and the U...

NYU and MSKCC research provides model for understanding chemically induced cancer initiation

A team from the chemistry and biology departments of New York University, in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), has uncovered a conformational switch--a change in shape in a carcinogen-damaged DNA site--in tumor suppressor genes altered by a known cancer-causing chemical found in cigarette smoke. This finding may open new horizons for understanding the initiation o...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University have developed a new group of adhesives that may revolutionize a large portion of the wood products industry, and have important environmental and economic benefits. The discovery has already resulted in three pending patents and should lead to a wide range of new products. But it was originally based on the aroused curios...

New plant DNA libraries provides massive boost to world's plant researchers

Researchers at the University of Warwick's horticultural research arm Warwick HRI have created an extensive new range of libraries of plant DNA that will provide a massive boost to the world's plant researchers. The new collection of DNA libraries is the largest of its type in the world and will provide researchers with a unique resource. The Warwick researchers have set up a new spin out...

NASA satellite data provides rapid analysis of Amazon deforestation

The Amazon, a vast tropical forest stretching across South America, is so large that if you were to take pictures of the region with optical photographs, it would take about ten years to...

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Effectene Transfection Reagent provides efficient gene delivery to primary neuronal cell cultures

Jochen Meier, Ivonne Strmel, Radu Iosub, Sonja Schmidt, and Rosemarie Grantyn Developmental Physiology, Johannes Mller Institute, Humboldt University Medical School (Charit), Berlin, Germany Efficient delivery of DNA to primary neuronal cell cultures is of critical importance...

Madison firm provides $200K in capital to tech companies

MDC said it has closed on loans in that amount to C5-6 Technologies, Inc., a biofuels spin off of , and to <a...

Digital River Provides E-Commerce Operations for Metrowerks

MINNEAPOLIS-Digital River, Inc. a e-commerce outsource provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Metrowerks, aprovider of software development tools and services. Based on the agreement, Digital River built Metrowerks' e-commerce site, located at store.metrowerks.com, to support the online sales and marketing of Metrowerks' line of CodeWarrior(TM) software and hardware produc...

TSKgel ODS-100Z and TSKgel ODS-100V column series provides a universal solution for the analysis of samples containing acidic, basic, polar & non-polar compounds

Using high purity Type B silica, Tosoh has introduced two new columns with differing surface treatment procedures and carbon content levels to provide unique selectivities for a wide range of sample types. In recent years, many new octad...

State provides $200K for Necedah ethanol plant

The funding, which will come from the Department of Commerce, will help Necedah construct a new well and water main that will be needed for the plant. When completed, the plant will produce 50...

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Acupuncture provides relief

Acupuncture works better than massage as a treatment for chronic neck pain, but it may need to be combined with other therapies when used over long periods.That's the conclusion of one of the most rigorous trials into the effectiveness of the complementary medicine technique, which involves inserting needles into special sites in the nervous system.// The study compared 157 patients u...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

A minute endoscope, less than 1mm in diameter, presents a new opportunity for the early detection of breast cancer. The research team included Hollywood film technicians who worked alongside Dr Nicolas Beechey-Newham and colleagues from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund’s clinical oncology unit at Guy’s Hospital in London to produce the “micro-camera”. // The camera – small enough to...

Hormone therapy provides no heart benefit

According to a new study, it shows that hormone replacement does not improve the outcome for postmenopausal women with existing heart problems. It has long been assumed that replacing female sex hormones after menopause will protect// a woman from heart disease. For women have far lower rates of heart problems than men - until after menopause. But a new report from the Heart and Estrogen/...

MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects

Molecules of microRNAs may be responsible for birth defects, cancer and other health problems.// The researchers of UF Genetics Institute have used genetically modified mice to see how the microRNAs are responsible for the physiological growth of animals. When the mice were grown without the microRNA molecules they grew to be malformed and with nonfunctional limbs. MicroRNA...

Drug Spironolactone Provides Renal And Cardioprotection In Diabetic Patients

Professor Kaspar Rossing and his colleagues from the Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark has found that supplementation of Spironolactone drug to diabetes patients taking //antihypertensive drugs, reduced the chances of developing kidney failure and reduced blood pressure and albumin protein in urine of these patients. Diabetes patients with high blood pressure are more prone to kidney dis...

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Largest Cervical Cancer Vaccine Efficacy Trial Shows Cervarix Provides Excellent Protection Against Lesions Caused by Most Common Cancer-Causing Virus Types

Results also show significant additional protection againstinfection with virus types beyond 16 and 18 with the GSK cervicalcancer candidate vaccine PHILADELPHIA, June 27, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Resultsfrom an interim analysis of a Phase III study show thatCERVARIX(R), the GlaxoSmithKline cervical cancer candidate vaccine,provides up to 100 percent protection against advanced prec...

Liraglutide provides significantly better glucose control than insulin glargine in phase 3 study

COPENHAGEN, June 21, 2007-Novo Nordisk today announced clinicalresults from the first of five phase 3 studies with liraglutide -the once-daily human GLP-1 analogue. The 26-week study is part ofthe LEAD(TM) (Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes) programmeand included 581 patients with type 2 diabetes inadequatelycontrolled by two of the most widely used oral antidiabetic drugs:metfor...

XTL Provides Update on Phase I Clinical Trial of XTL-2125

VALLEY COTTAGE, New York, June 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- XTL Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. announced today that it hascompleted the analysis of results from a Phase I clinical trialwith XTL-2125 in patients with chronic Hepatitis C. This Phase Itrial was a placebo controlled, randomized, dose escalating study,which evaluated the safety, tolerability and antiviral activity ofsingle and...

Cervarix, the GSK Cervical Cancer Candidate Vaccine, Provides Sustained Immune Response in 100 Percent of Women up to 55 Years of Age

New Study Results Show Antibodies Against Cancer-Causing VirusTypes 16 & 18 That Are At Least Ten Times Greater Than NaturalInfection Levels CHICAGO, June 05, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- New Phase III data showthat at 18 months after the first of a three-dose regimen, 100percent of women up to age 55 vaccinated with the GlaxoSmithKline(GSK) cervical cancer candidate vaccine had antibodies pr...

Daytrana (methylphenidate transdermal system) Provides Significant Effectiveness in ADHD Symptom Relief in Both Boys and Girls

SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plcannounced today that DAYTRANA(TM) (methylphenidate transdermalsystem), its Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patch,had significant efficacy in reducing the symptoms of ADHD in bothmale and female children aged 6 to 12 years, according to clinicaltrial results reported at the American Psychiatric Association(APA) ann...

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