Researcher finds alternatives to antibiotics for growing chickens
...resistant bacteria. The company with the exclusive rights to the production method is scaling up for mass production with the help of many other companies. The other compound Cook has tested is conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which was originally identified as a compound in ground beef that inhibits som...Mental health insurance illiteracy at serious high
...ts that followed. Dr. Talbott notes that the legal rights of seriously mentally ill citizens, which started off with some decisions still left in medical hands, deteriorated into an imbalanced system with overwhelming weight placed in the hands of judges and legal advocates. Dr. Appelbaum offers an analysis......Technologies Ltd. (AVT). AVAX Australia holds the rights to manufacture and market AVAX Technologies' autol...elanoma, M-Vax™, in Australia and has similar rights in New Zealand. M-Vax is AVAX's lead cancer vaccine and is currently being evaluated in the U.S. in...US seed industry to benefit from free trade with China
... regarding the protection of intellectual property rights and scientific principles on phytosanitary issues related to seed trade. In addition, by eliminating the current foreign investment rules that favor domestic businesses in China, PNTR may encourage U.S. businesses, such as seed companies, to invest ...UI biologist receives grant to study acoustic management of swine odor
...oll noted that the university would receive patent rights for any technology developed during the study. Prior grants from Caviforce Technologies, Inc. have supported projects in Soll's laboratory aimed at discovering new biological, medical and agricultural applications for emerging acoustic technologies....Targeted Genetics presents data on arthritis gene therapy
...by Immunex Corporation. Targeted Genetics obtained rights to the gene therapy applications of numerous genes and gene delivery technologies when it was spun out of Immunex in 1992. Dr. Haim Burstein, Senior Scientist in the Department of Research at Targeted Genetics, presented the data in an abstract titl......much hope that others having intellectual property rights used in the development of 'golden rice' will follow the generous example of Monsanto and also provide a royalty-free license for the humanitarian use of the technology and its transfer to developing countries," Prof. Potrykus said.The modified rice ...INEEL creates a method to link energy use, greenhouse gases
... Short says the potential value of carbon emission rights at this point is anybody's guess, although technologies that deal with managing the excess carbon in our atmosphere are already being developed. "The problem," he says, "is that if carbon trading is coming, who will decide what technologies to store...NIGMS awards 'Glue Grant' to create virtual cell
...iomedical science endeavor: intellectual property rights and first rights to publish in peer-reviewed journals, the respected anthology of scientific progress. Instead, all ...Biota to develop new influenza drug/Relenza® has positive results in high-risk patients
...igned a Heads of Agreement granting Glaxo Wellcome rights to develop and market worldwide a new influenza drug based on inhibition of the viral neuraminidase. Biota has discovered and will, subject to final agreement being reached, work with Glaxo Wellcome to develop drug candidates with properties that wi...Biotechnology research to grow from embryonic start
...stem cell-based therapies. BresaGen has exclusive rights to a patent application which claims an intermediate cell type (EPL cell) that shares most of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells, but can be more easily coaxed to form specific cell types. The therapeutic uses of this cell type and its deri...... have also agreed to give up intellectual property rights to the data. According to Al Gilman, director of the Alliance and a pharmacologist at University of Texas Southwestern, any researcher who has a computer and Internet access will be able to access the data freely, and combine it with their own resea...MS clinical trials confirm approach, demonstrate need to carefully refine targeted peptide therapy
...ed by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., which owns the rights to this therapy, under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). After studying the patients normal disease patterns for 6 months, the researchers administered 50 mg of APL weekly for up to 9 months while using clinical tests, immuno......ing approval of ZEVALIN. Schering AG has marketing rights to ZEVALIN outside the U.S. Rituxan is copromoted ...nyaku Kogyo Co. Ltd. of Japan. Roche has marketing rights outside the U.S. and Japan. IDEC Pharmaceuticals focuses on the commercialization and development of...Screensavers of the world, unite!
...mal group of Folding@home users vying for bragging rights over who can tally the most computing days. ``The Folding@home project posts statistics for individuals and teams to help foster friendly competition and generate more interest in running the software,`` Pande says. Team Egg Roll is now in...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...d companies around the world literally pay for the rights to continue some of their development plans that would inject carbon into the atmosphere, so long as development plans elsewhere are shelved. The Brazilian Amazon offers an ideal site to sell such carbon credits, which might provide up to $2 billion ...Biotechnology Study Center Honors J. Craig Venter, Leonard Bell, and Steven Shak
... broad range of issues, from intellectual property rights in the university and industry to the ethics of Iceland's population genome study. The Center also is analyzing how biotechnology can have an impact on public health, and it is already pursuing innovative initiatives that could bring desperately...... in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Fisher. Commercial rights to the discovery were licensed to Genquest, Inc. which was acquired by Corixa Corporation in 1998. Introgen has an exclusive license from Corixa Corporation for the use of the mda-7 gene for gene therapy applications. Introgen is a leader in the dev......eness, aggression, and a general disregard for the rights of others. ASPD has been associated with changes in LHPA axis and serotonergic function. Yet, despite the strong association with alcoholism, neither nicotine dependence nor ASPD affected hormonal responses to fenfluramine. "Based upon these f......ssary equipment and software and Hopkins will have rights to publish all research findings resulting from the collaborative effort....