'Trojan horse' technology destroys blood supply to cancer tumors in mice
... M. D. Anderson, and related intellectual property rights are owned by Research Development Foundation (RDF). RDF is in the process of licensing the gelonin technology for use with various cell-targeting proteins such as growth factors and antibodies. Therapies that attack tumor blood vessels have recently...ASU researcher puts recalled Firestone tires to good use
...ology has been around for 30 years -- he does own rights for the first "real world" application. A patent is pending on the ASU process for making rubberized concrete. Arizona is one of the leading states for using crumb rubber in pavement, said Zhu. He began to explore uses for crumb rubber in 1998 with a...Singapore's Ministry of Education to improve life sciences education
... for teachers. The Ministry of Education will have rights to use DNALC-developed curricula for 5th through 12th grade students and will be provided with the necessary support to mirror several award-winning websites developed by DNALC, which currently receive more than 400,000 visitors per month. "I am part...When mistreated children act out later in life: Brain gene may play a role, study says
...s generally defined as "behavior that violates the rights and safety of others," according to Moffitt. Specifically, they used the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for adolescent conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder, court records for violent crimes, and evidence of aggressive per...Investing in environment pays off at 100-1, says paper published in Science this week
...ging by building logging roads and selling logging rights to public lands at well below market value. "By reallocating the funds that are supporting perverse subsidies," says Costanza, "we can easily pay the annual costs of preserving the global reserve network."...Rogue trees get criminal treatment from scientists.
... for plant growers eager to protect their breeding rights added: "This technique is particularly significant for insurance companies or building surveyors acting for people who live in London and the South of England or affluent areas generally, where house prices tend to be much higher and claims are ther...Microscience to license vaccine delivery technology
... agreement in which the company acquires exclusive rights to the delivery of DNA using any strain or serovar...ight has been retained by UMBI. The license gives rights to Microscience under patents already granted in the USA and Europe. Microscience, based in Berkshi...Kimberly-Clark Worldwide donates intellectual property to Rensselaer
... Johnson licensed to Xylos the exclusive worldwide rights to its patents for using microbial cellulose in wound-care dressings. Xylos continues to augments its patent portfolio with additional patent applications. Rensselaer's prominence in biomaterials and tissue engineering research makes it poised at a c...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Albuquerque, October 12-15
...elau@umail.umd.edu ) How Festo has changed the rights of patent holders The presenter will discuss how patent holders' rights have changed in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Festo Corporation v. Shoketsu...U-M researcher calls for new approach to biological disarmament
...territorial disputes and agree on their respective rights to exist---and we're about as far away from that situation as we can get. But in the long run, the problem of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East can only be resolved regionally, not through the punitive treatment of a single state," she s...USF study: Nicotine antagonist relieves depression in children with Tourette's
..., Inc., a California biotechnology firm that owned rights to the medication at the time of the study. Mecamylamine (Inversine™) is now owned and marketed by Targacept, a Salem, NC pharmaceutical company that licenses USF's patent covering the use of nicotine antagonists for the treatment of neuropsyc...Applied Biosystems announces SNPlex ultra high throughput genotyping system
...d by law. Copyright 2003. Applera Corporation. All rights reserved. Applied Biosystems is a registered trademark and Applera, Assays-on-Demand, Celera, Celera Diagnostics, Celera Discovery System, Celera Genomics, and SNPlex are trademarks of Applera Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and certain o...Soft drinks, teens and cavities
...These statistics alarm dentists, who agree pouring rights contracts, in which schools accept advertising and sales deals to boost finances, has helped boost the amount of cavities in teens, which is reverting the oral health of many teens to a pre-fluoride condition, according to Cindy Flanagan, DDS, FAGD, ...Mount Holyoke College series examines advances in human reproductive technologies
...Advisory Commission. A leading authority on animal rights issues, patient advocacy and research ethics, and the law and bioethics. On Thursday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. , Gina Kolata, science reporter for the New York Times, will present "Reporting on the Embryo." Before joining the Times in 1987, Kolata wa...[Mis]understanding village abandonments
...pation length is evidence that houses and property rights were passed from one generation to the next, according to Varien. Varien and his team also studied tree ring data to uncover the periods when humans harvested trees for construction timbers and fuels. Periods where there was little or no tree harvest...New age for Mungo Man, new human history
...dynamics of this strange land, especially with the rights and richness of their descendants. "Indeed it is those descendants, in the person of the three traditional tribal groups of the Willandra region (the Barkandji, the Mutthi Mutthi and the Nyampaa) who facilitated and cooperated closely with this proje...Chimpanzees with little or no human contact found in remote African rainforest
...local logging company, which had legal rights to the forest rich in mahogany and other valuable hardwoods, to preserve the pristine habitat. In July 2001, representatives of the WCS, Congolese government and the logging com...Scientific innovations, social issues and biobusiness at Bio Tech Helsinki 03
... deCODE genetics, a genomicscompany with exclusive rights to a gene bank on the Icelandic population,conducting research into the inherited causes of common diseases. A parallel seminar dealing with the mystery of the brain has attracted asspeakers international researchers from Switzerland, Germany, GreatB...Potato-related plant species exhaust potato cyst nematode
...rom Groningen, has meanwhile acquired the breeding rights to a number of Solanum sisymbriifolium varieties. At present the plant is only being cultivated on a few hundred hectares on a trial basis. Potato growers will only be able to use the crop on a large scale once the growing conditions under which this...Texas A&M, Ecor Corp. sign deal to produce health-related proteins
...greement with ECOR whereby ECOR acquires exclusive rights to commercialize the Texas A&M patents in the field of bioprocessing. ECOR's subsidiary, proCANE LLC, will produce and market the new sugarcane-derived, high-value proteins. ECOR's president and CEO, Michael A. Zito, said, "ECOR is focused on bec...