New systems biology center positions UT Southwestern in vanguard of scientific research
...velop one drug these days," Dr. Gilman said. "Drug companies can only afford to develop drugs they think will have a large market, medications that will return a company's huge investment. Using computer models to develop and test new drugs 'in silico,' in combination with experiments in the lab, will be faste...Carnegie Mellon scientist says new technologies boost bio-terrorism surveillance
...cly available hospital discharge data, credit card companies and banks could match individuals having terminal illness with those having credit cards or loans and proceed to adjust individual creditworthiness. Computer programs can prevent such abuses by rendering data sufficiently anonymous. Provable standard...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
... of Immerge's safety program is unique among other companies conducting xenotransplantation research. The company has previously reported the identification of animals within its miniature swine herd that do not transmit PERV to human cell lines (Oldmixon et al. Journal of Virology 2002; 76: 3045-3048). In...Gates Foundation commits $82.9 million to develop new tuberculosis vaccines
...cientists, academic institutions, governments, and companies in the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and other developing countries. Aeras has already established a clinical research site in Cape Town, South Africa, where more than 9,000 volunteers are enrolled in a clinical trial, and other sites are being consid...Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
... time. For example, divestment from South African companies is no longer an active screen since the end of apa...ging screen type increasingly developed among fund companies and portfolio managers, due to the growing realization that the adoption of principles of sustainabi...Portable kidney dialysis machine developed
...so illustrates how this technology can lead to new companies and new jobs here in Oregon and beyond." Researchers at OSU are partnering with researchers at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other institutions to develop MMD technology, which U.S. Sen...UN report: Accelerate global agreement to oversee exploitation of South Pole 'extremophiles'
...arch institutions, universities and pharmaceutical companies to discover and stake ownership to promising organisms and compounds with genetic properties that make survival possible in extremely cold, arid and salty conditions, says a new UN University report. Bioprospectors are starting to turn their attentio...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...nd of laboratory space is important for bioscience companies that typically need special ventilation and purifi...h also complicates commercialization. For example, companies may need FDA approval before they can take their product or service to market. "Most products must ...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...stributed some 100 copies of the software, and two companies licensed the software to analyze X-ray diffraction data. Now that the details are published, he plans to distribute Elves free to university and non-profit scientists. "We love it," said Heike Krupka, a scientist working for Berkeley-based Plexxi...Gene-disabling techniques simplified by Stanford team
...B. Baxter Professor of Pharmacology. She said some companies are in the process of creating pools, or libraries, of siRNA molecules for all known genes in specific organisms but these libraries aren't yet available. Pathology graduate students George Sen, Tom Wehrman and Jason Myers became interested in creati...International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
...against many bacterial infections, while many drug companies are scaling back or abandoning anti-infective research. The ICEID program will include plenary sessions and symposia with invited speakers, presentations on emerging infections and poster presentations. Topics include lessons learned from SARS outb...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
... Contributions from pharmaceutical and agroscience companies include screening for therapeutic potential, trainingopportunities, technology donations, financial support, and royalties from the sale of any product developed as a result of ICBG research. AWARD HIGHLIGHTS ICBG awards include five comprehensive ...Growing human organs on the farm
...nique would be expensive to develop. What's more, companies are unlikely to invest in the method because he has not tried to patent it. And it could even be unpatentable: in 1998, the US Patent Office declared it unlikely that it would grant any more patents on part-human inventions. Then there is the moral...Ohio State creates first gene chip for horse
...e active in a certain situation. For example, drug companies might use a gene chip to predict how a particular drug will affect an animal. Since their invention nearly a decade ago, gene chips have revolutionized some basic approaches to research. Having a representative gene chip for a large animal could lead...Easily paralyzed flies provide clues to neurodegeneration
...ould become a rich resource to help pharmaceutical companies identify new biological targets and develop new high-volume screens for drug development. "I think the mutants have real value to give us novel information about neural disorders and human disease," Ganetzky asserts. "We can't even begin to gues...Max Planck Research awards 2003 presented
...s led to a uniform, "neoliberal" American model of companies in all industrialized nations. The Max Planck Research Award 2003 for Physics goes to: - Prof. Klaas Bergmann from the Department of Physics at the University of Kaiserslautern for developing the STIRAP method (Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage) ...UC San Diego to host two-day conference on 'sustainable development' Dec. 11 & 12
...stment has achieved a return of $2.7 billion. More companies need to be aware of the potential benefits of sustainable development." Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. "Sustainabil...Congress allocates funding for horseshoe crab research center
...y for use as bait, and they are bled by biomedical companies to produce a chemical critical to protecting public health. Virginia Tech's HCRC is the largest horseshoe crab research institution in the country. "Congress has requested that new research be conducted to improve horseshoe crab management, and th...New program interrogates gene pathways
...genes changes." In the near future, pharmaceutical companies may start developing therapeutics that target an entire network pathway, rather than just targeting specific molecules. Mapping the pathways, the scientists say, is the first step toward that type of drug discovery. The next step in the study, Giffor...Clinical trial patients don't care about study sponsors or physician conflicts of interest
...company. "Many people don't trust pharmaceutical companies because they feel they are being overcharged for medications," Braunstein adds. "But given a chance to get involved in the testing of a new drug that may provide them some health benefit, they want to do this."...