International biotech firm to locate in Southwest Virginia
...ased on technologies developedat Virginia Tech and licensed to the American Red Cross. Pharming hassublicensed the technology from the Red Cross. Virginia Tech's research has lead to discoveries enabling biopharmaceuticalproduction using transgenic livestock. Beginning with the ground breaking workof Dr. Wi...Technotes -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's summer news tipsheet
...er containersto inventory contents. PUMA has been licensed to Canberra Industries ofMeriden, Conn. Building a green thumb for research A garden of a different sort is blooming at Pacific Northwest's Marine SciencesLaboratory. A marine greenhouse recently built at the Sequim, Wash., laboratorywill provide ...Pacific Northwest developments earn spots in top 100 list
...nproliferation to cancer treatment. PUMA has been licensed toCanberra Industries of Meriden, Conn. Electrodynamic Ion Funnel. This revolutionary tool significantlyimproves the sensitivity of certain mass spectrometers and other analyticalinstruments. Mass spectrometry is a tool widely used in envi...Clinical results with AVANT rotavirus vaccine demonstrate nearly 90% protection in young children
...nt increase ingastrointestinal symptoms. AVANT has licensed the oral rotavirus vaccine to SmithKline Beecham (NYSE: SBH)for subsequent development and commercialization. "The rotavirus vaccineprovides a significant opportunity for AVANT, through its collaboratorSmithKline Beecham, to develop a highly effecti...National Science Board selects leading chemists to establish new Science and Technology Center
...on polymer products in carbondioxide, a technology licensed from UNC-CH. "These systems have proven environmentally friendly and energy efficientand have significant performance advantages over competing processes using wateror organic liquid solvents," DeSimone said. "Many other potential application...Duke scientists reverse a rare form of muscular dystrophy in mice using gene therapy
...d a way to make the enzyme in large quantities and licensed thattechnology to Synpac (North Carolina) Inc., a drug development company inResearch Triangle Park, and its parent company, Synpac Pharmaceuticals Ltd. ofCambois, England. The company is funding an on-going clinical trial to test theenzyme therapy i...UD News: Gene-repair pioneer, Eric Kmiec, brings his lab to the University of Delaware
...the body. Kimeragen researchers, using technology licensed from Kmiec and TJU, are nearinghuman trials. And, other researchers worldwide are conducting promisinginvestigations of such diseases as muscular dystrophy. From human diseases to crop research "Sickle-cell anemia is a terrible disease," Kmiec says...Millennium and the Whitehead Institute identify novel protein important in fat absorption
...ters, including FATP4. Millennium has exclusively licensed the rightsto the FATP4 gene and to the other members of the FATP family identified by Dr.Lodish and his colleagues. The company intends to continue development of FATP4using internally available resources while it evaluates potential partnershipoppo...Advance may put gene chip technology on scientists' desktops
...ison scientists. Rights to thetechnology have been licensed to a Madison-based company known as NimbleGenSystems. NimbleGen, founded by three of the paper's authors, will focus on developmentand commercialization of the new technology. The Wisconsin team includes Green of the UW-Madison Environmental Toxicol...Biosensor expected to improve food safety
...lso undergoing fieldtests. The chemical sensor was licensed commercially by the Atlanta-basedcompany Photonic Sensor. Commercialization for the biosensor is still some time away, researcherssaid. After the field test at Gold Kist is completed, researchers plan to returnto their laboratories to further...Jefferson scientists show drug is effective against a Hepatitis C Virus model in the laboratory
...yl-DNJ. Jefferson and Oxford University previously licensed drugdevelopment rights to Monsanto-Searle, which in turn created Synergy. "HCV represents an important unmet medical need," Dr. Block says. In earlier work, and Dr. Block and his colleagues at severalinstitutions found that N-nonyl-DN...Researchers discover new vein of cancer-fighting agents
...In July 1999, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center licensed its intellectual property rights in canstatin and four other angiogenic inhibitors derived from vascular basement membrane to ILEX Oncology, a publicly traded drug development company in San Antonio. Kalluri, Sukhatme and BIDMC all own equity in ILEX......ley National Laboratory (LBNL). It was exclusively licensed and further developed by Neomorphic, which was founded by a group of scientists from LBNL, UC Berkeley, and UCSC. Genie was recently used to identify genes in the genome of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which was sequenced last year. Neomor...... in the early 1980s. Layton BioScience, Inc., has licensed a patented process that uses several chemicals to transform this cell line into fully differentiated non-dividing human neuronal cells (LBS-Neurons) that can be used in clinical applications. In extensive preclinical testing, implants of LBS-Neurons...... potent research approach and the patent has been licensed to a private genomics company. First author on the Nature paper is Anthony Bishop, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher at Scripps Research Institute and formerly Shokat's graduate student graduate at Princeton University where much of this research...Gene barrier in corn may boost trade, environment
...property in the interest of UW-Madison. It will be licensed non-exclusively for domestic and international use. Licensing terms will include a provision that GMO technology be kept out of maize varieties with the teosinte barrier. In addition to its commercial potential, Kermicle's discovery may also provide ...Hopkins researchers develop method to predict response to chemotherapy
...ing to Herman. Virco Lab Inc. (Great Britain) has licensed the technology from Hopkins and could have a commercial test available as early as 2001. Methylation has long been known to help regulate the expression of proteins made by genes by adding chemical molecules to genetic on/off switches, technically...Gel may cut doses for some medications
...ing on the material for 15 years. It has also been licensed to a medical device company called MicroVention Inc., of Aliso Viejo, Calif., for developing a method to treat aneurysms, Park said. The promise of Park's hydrogels illustrates how the public benefits through university research, said Lisa Kuuttila, ......nd patented the compound, which the university has licensed to Immtech. The firm already has received approval to begin the first phase of human clinical trials for DB 289 as an anti-infective drug to treat pneumocystis carinnii pneumonia, an opportunistic fungal infection that is potentially fatal in immune-...Researchers discover weight-loss compound that doesnt affect food intake
...he protein was patented by Whitehead Institute and licensed to Genset in 1999. Over the past year, researchers at Whitehead Institute and Genset discovered that one particular fragment of Acrp30, called gAcrp30, is naturally produced by the body and works in a completely different manner compared to most ava...