Medimmune and Critical Therapeutics to co-develop treatments for severe inflammatory diseases
...ses, such as rheumatoid arthritis and sepsis. The companies plan to focus on developing drug products with the potential to block HMGB-1, which if successful, could help reduce the injury and death associ-ated with severe inflammatory diseases and infections. "CTI's proprietary anti-HMGB-1 technology is a ...OHSU researcher publishes first measurements of 'free-base' nicotine in cigarette smoke
...he new rule -- which also applies to foreign-based companies -- was issued over the protests of tobacco companies concerned about the disclosure of proprietary product information. According to an April 25 Reuters ...Industry asked to design Mars rover and payload
...me Office issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for companies wishing to submit proposals for the detailed desig...n of proposals is 13 October 2003, after which two companies will be selected to conduct the one-year Phase A design studies. The ExoMars mission includes an or...Homeland security highlights ACS scientific meeting in New York Sept. 7-11
...gh Wednesday at the Javits Center by more than 300 companies providing goods and services of interest to the chemical community. Other symposia and research papers on the New York program include: Irradiation of food Processes for developing cleaner gasoline and diesel fuels The latest DNA research from ...Protein holds promise as new diabetes drug target
...pened to bind to and activate glucokinase." Other companies that have also been searching for compounds to affect glucokinase activity have not been so fortunate, he said. The Hoffman-La Roche team demonstrated that the new compound enhances insulin release from isolated rat pancreatic islets. It also lowers...Rutgers scientists post a genetic road map to sources of disease
...ut genotyping machines commercially available from companies including Applied Biosystems, Illumina and Amersham Biosciences. But in the journal article, Matise and her co-authors wrote, "It is anticipated that the successful identification of a set of SNPs tailored for linkage analysis, such as that present...Immerge BioTherapeutics announces new findings addressing key safety risk in xenotransplantation
... depth of Immerge's safety program is unique among companies conducting xenotransplantation research. The company has previously reported the first identification of receptors for PERV (Ericsson et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003; 100: 6759-6764). In the past year, in collaborative ......uns programs that introduce FSU scientists to U.S. companies and funds more substantial R&D collaborations. This session will feature several successful R&D collaborations from current and past U.S. and FSU grant participants. Speakers: Christopher Hilton, Program Manager, Industry Travel and Training Pro...'Unzipping' double helix to study protein-DNA interaction
...t in drug development, for example, pharmaceutical companies could use UFAPA to screen libraries of small molecules for affinity to DNA." The other PRL author, Koch, was a physics graduate student at Cornell at the time of the research and now is a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories.UFAP...UN development work guided from space
...and Space Imaging Eurasia, along with value-adding companies (VACs) such as Gamma Remote Sensing and Digitech who work to turn raw satellite data into usable products and maps. This non-profit initiative is eventually intended to cover its costs through the services it provides for clients. "In the past, use ...Strategy to treat AIDS patients in Africa with less drug, reduced toxicity set for clinical test
...e source. Even at the reduced prices at which drug companies are now making their HIV drugs available in South Africa and other parts of the developing world, the cost could be well over $1 million - a significant burden for a team of nonprofit scientists. (In the U.S., the same drugs would cost approximately ...NASA biotechnology activities enhancing quality of life
...thers have or are being developed by more than 150 companies that are partners with NASA's Space Product Develo...ng people living in space. The Space Station gives companies a chance to grow plants that are larger and require several months to mature. Several new products, ...ACS announces awards for environmentally conscious business innovation
A Brooklyn, N.Y., researcher and companies in Kentucky, California, Delaware and Georgia were honored today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for using chemistry to improve the environment. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards have been presented annually since 1996 to ...Connecticut chemist receives award for cleaner air technology
...ions contribute to the commercial success of their companies and enhance our quality of life....Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois chemists receive award for drug to combat antibiotic resistance
...ions contribute to the commercial success of their companies and enhance our quality of life. The members of the research team who received the award are: Steven Brickner, Ph.D., a research advisor at Pfizer Inc. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1976 and ...Immigration and Travel Issues for Foreign Scientists and Technology Workers
...y have a significant impact on the ability of U.S. companies to recruit the best and brightest scientists and engineers. On Monday, 23 June 2003, from 6:00 8:00 p.m., AAAS, the science society, will bring together immigration professionals to consider the issues of travel for scientists from foreign countries...Key regulatory enzyme is a molecular 'octopus'
...r fundamental discovery could guide pharmaceutical companies in creating a new class of drugs that aim not at blocking the receptors themselves, but at modulating the machinery that regulates them. Such drugs could treat a range of disorders from congestive heart failure to Parkinson's disease, they said. The ...New Zealand biotech: An emerging global presence
... in the world. Many of the country's major biotech companies will be represented here at BIO 2003, sponsored by...Jon Lamb and COO Dr. Arnie Geursen ). New Zealand companies participating in BIO 2003: Celentis Crop and Food EndocrinZ Genesis Hort Research Industrial......sses are already involved, acting as host training companies for the 13 waste assessors who will collect the data. The companies include Remploy in Porth, Agrisense BCS in Treforest, and the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff. Cleanaway in Tr...Hebrew University researchers develop method to improve neutraceutical absorption
...ents include several major food and pharmaceutical companies which have asked for vehicles for nutraceuticals such as lycopene (which can lower the risk of contracting prostrate or breast cancer and also can slow down certain signs of aging), phytosterol (which helps prevent the accumulation of cholesterol), a...