Researchers Discover New Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
...liminary study would raise hopes that drugs in the pipeline may beeffective against the disorder, which affects about 4 million Americans. Since 1993, scientists have known of a relationship between the APOEgene and Alzheimer's disease. But no one knew of a mechanism by which APOE mightlead to the di...Salmonella Vaccine Now Available For Poultry
...s and humans,food safety vaccines. We have a full pipeline and are pleased to have been thefirst to apply this new patented technology to help solve a current human healthproblem." says Brian Clevinger, Ph.D., President and CEO for Megan Health , Inc....Allelix drug increases bone density and content in women with osteoporosis
...X-0600 for gastrointestinal disorders. The product pipeline includes ALE-26015for dementia, a family of GRI-1 antagonists for schizophrenia plus additionalneuroscience compounds for other indications.......e company has an extensiveresearch and development pipeline focused on five principal projects: Promycin(porfiromycin), a hypoxic cancer cell therapy currently undergoing Phase IIIclinical testing; TAPET, the company's platform cancer treatment technology;Triapine, a ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor current...Millennium and the Whitehead Institute identify novel protein important in fat absorption
... potential partnershipopportunities for its robust pipeline of obesity targets. "The most widely prescribed obesity drug on the market today blocks anearlier step in the process of absorbing dietary fat," said Robert Tepper,M.D., chief scientific officer of Millennium. "It is possible thattherapeutic approach...DoubleTwist completes the first annotation of the human genome
...bleTwist's proprietary multi-step genomic analysis pipeline includes multiple validated gene prediction algorithms, as well as methodologies based on elucidating DNA and protein similarities. To accomplish the initial annotation of the human genome and to facilitate on-going genomic processing, DoubleTwist ha...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
...hwab have used plants to help clean up a Texas oil pipeline spill, contamination at an Indiana manufactured-gas plant, an industrial sludge site in California and diesel spills on Naval bases in Virginia and California. They describe their work in "Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils," a book published last ...New protein a key to cell shape and movement
...e subsequent studies will be built on this. In the pipeline we have projects related to neuroscience, orthopedic research, developmental biology, including embryo implantation, and we're studying palladin in cancer metastasis. I think in the next couple of years we'll see results that are more specific to pub......m, we anticipate that in addition to our screening pipeline of more than 70 targets, we will have several preclinical compounds and potentially one chemical compound nearing IND status by year-end. In May 2000, Millennium and Bayer expanded the initial objectives of the alliance, based on the success of t...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...nging from population growth to economic policies, pipeline construction, roads, power lines, an influx of multi-national timber companies, slash-and-burn farming, ranching, mining, oil exploration, and many other issues. It projects the real impact of those causes on the Amazon landscape 20 years into the fu...Whitehead press seminar 2001: new horizons in the post-genome world
... the human genome. Also, making their way down the pipeline are new therapeutic approaches including stem cells, cloning, tissue engineering, and gene therapy. At the Whitehead press seminar this year, leading scientists will tell you where we are headed in these emerging areas. Joshua LaBaer, director of the...Blood vessels trigger development of the pancreas
...other organs, from developing until a blood-supply pipeline is in place. According to the researchers, the source of the blood vessel signal may prove useful to scientists who are hoping to guide the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into pancreatic islet cells, the insulin-producing cells that are depl...Gene-rich pufferfish DNA decoded
...tion of a live Fugu genome bioinformatics analysis pipeline producing annotations and comparisons for the community." Tan anticipates that over the next few years the Singapore group and the Institute for Systems Biology will finish selected regions of the genome, based upon their biology programs. Tan added...Lancet study shows DiaPep277 arrests progression of Type 1 diabetes
...r has a number of autoimmune drugs in its research pipeline and anticipates using its technologies to develop cancer therapies as well. Founded in 1993, Peptor is based in Rehovot, Israel and Erkrath, Germany....Purdue leads center using pollution-busting plants, microbes
... team has used plants to help clean up a Texas oil pipeline spill, contamination at an Indiana site where manufactured gas was produced from coal, industrial sludge in California and diesel spills in Virginia and California. At the Indiana site, near Bedford, Banks and Schwab planted grasses and poplar trees ...More chance of a cure for patients with common and aggressive form of blood cancer
...roducts and promising new drugs coming through the pipeline Roche expects to see strong growth in its Oncology Franchise in the future....Research highights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...iently removes sulfur odorants, which are added to pipeline natural gas for leak detection - but act as a poi...ment for catalytic fuel processors used to convert pipeline natural gas to hydrogen for use in hydrogen-based fuel cells. PNNL is teaming with Siemens Westingh...NHGRI prioritizes model organisms for sequencing
...sms to be considered for entry into the sequencing pipeline as the current efforts with human, mouse and rat approach completion. The organisms designated as high priority for having their genome analyzed include chicken, chimpanzee, several species of fungi, a sea urchin, a microscopic animal commonly used i...Applied Biosystems launches Assays-on-Demand SNP genotyping and gene expression products
... designed using Applied Biosystems' bioinformatics pipeline and proprietary software algorithms. For every assay produced, the target sequence is subjected to an extensive selection and quality control process to screen for those assays that are specific to the gene or SNP of interest for improved specificity......derlines our commitment to broaden our development pipeline following our progress in developing a broad oral ...f significant unmet clinical need. The Company's pipeline includes five novel vaccines that are all entering clinical development . They include three oral va...