New discovery blurs distinction between human cells and those of bacteria
...organisms. If microcompartments can be engineered, biotechnology applications potentially could arise from this research, Yeates said.......president's professor of bioinformatics, Jim Long, biotechnology computing technical leader, and Buck Sharpton, UA president's professor of remote sensing plan to create the first Web site of georeferenced avian influenza data. "We knew about (bird) flu because Kevin Winker has been talking about flu for years," s...Case/UHC/EXACT sciences researchers show positive impact of gene marker on DNA stool test
...ughes Medical Institute and from the Massachusetts biotechnology company, EXACT Sciences Corporation. Through use of this single vimentin marker, the researchers were able to detect colon cancer in 46 percent of patients studied, compared with 15 percent for the standard fecal occult blood test. The vimentin ma...Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys
...th, who, in conjunction with UF, has interest in a biotechnology company that may seek to market some of the research technology. "It may take two to five years before we try this in human patients because of the need for safety studies, but we feel based on success so far, we will be able to provide formal eviden...Biotech text connects science with society for non-biologists
WASHINGTON, DC, -- July 19, 2005--A new biotechnology text from ASM Press not only explains the science ... for understanding the many inevitable advances in biotechnology that the coming years will bring and a context for making decisions about them as potential consumer...... verification of compendial methods, biologics and biotechnology derived therapies, dietary supplements, excipients and making the USP-NF work for you. The USP Annual Scientific Meeting is your opportunity to directly contribute to USP's standards-setting processes. Through interaction with USP's scientific staf...Interim data suggest major response with Aranesp(R) in anemic patients with MDS
...) -- Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced new interim data from a Phase 2 study evaluating the use of 500 mcg of Aranesp(R) (darbepoetin alfa) every three weeks to treat anemia in patients with a bone marrow disorder known as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The data...Argonne receives $50 million NIH grant
...es to advance the State of Illinois as a leader in biotechnology and nanotechnology in a variety of other critical research projects at Argonne. The state has invested more than $60 million for the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility, Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laborato...Not all industrial sectors respond the same way to changes and shocks
...gies. Researchers worked closely with firms in the biotechnology and aerospace sectors in the UK and observed how t...erently; so generalities need to be avoided." Many biotechnology firms believed that the majority of economic changes had only a negligible impact on them and almost...Open Access journals get impressive impact factors
...p third of the genetics titles, and the top 20% of biotechnology journals. BMC Molecular Biology has an impact factor of 3.12, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders an impact factor of 1.00, putting it in the top half of the orthopaedics listing. BMC Genetics has an impact factor of 0.92. Critical Care's impact factor...... Lin acted as a consultant to a number of American biotechnology companies. He is co-editor of several international professional journals. His main fields of work are human and medical genetics, population genetics and genetic anthropology, as well as genomics and bioinformatics. Institute Organization The Part...UC San Diego undergraduates do cyberinfrastructure research in Asia, Australia
...d who participated in it last summer," said Lee, a biotechnology major in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, Clas... For me, Taiwan is the next logical step." For the biotechnology major, the summer in Taiwan is also a chance to do something different with her research. Much of Le...New NIST method improves accuracy of spectrometers
...measurement, lighting development, remote sensing, biotechnology and astronomy. The NIST method improves the measurement accuracy of spectrometers, devices that measure optical radiation at different wavelengths. Spectrometers are used widely in industrial settings and academic research to analyze the emissions f...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...f species." Growing value of products from marine biotechnology The world's oceans host 32 of the 34 known phyla on Earth, the report says. Species diversity is known to be as high as 1,000 per square meter in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Significantly, the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds is higher in...UCLA awarded more than $6 million for biodefense and infectious disease research
...enzymes, a fundamental tool for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, was the result of pure intellectual cur...is an indispensable tool in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. "In addition, knowledge of the genomes of bacterial pathogens required many years of resea...Institute for OneWorld Health to exhibit at BIO
...Annual International Convention to discuss how the biotechnology industry can partner in the company's innovative approaches to develop safe, effective and affordable new medicines for people with infectious disease in developing countries. The company's first drug is on track for submission to the Indian regula...Dye to pinpoint diseases and pathogens
...s Professor Ulrich Krull, the AstraZeneca Chair in biotechnology and vice-principal (research) at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. "It could also act to constantly monitor the environment and sound an alarm if harmful agents were to appear." In a study, outlined in the March issue of Bioorganic & Medicin...Data confirm panitumumab single-agent antitumor activity in patients with mCRC
...5) Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, and Abgenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABGX), a leading antibody development company, today announced updated results from an ongoing Phase 2 study of panitumumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody directed against the epidermal growth factor receptor (...Aranesp dosed every three weeks achieved and maintained target hemoglobin levels
...5) Amgen Inc., (NASDAQ: AMGN) the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced that new interim data from a single-arm, open label study of 1,225 cancer patients receiving chemotherapy demonstrated that Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) administered every three weeks was effective in increasing and maintaining...Large community-based clinical trial in older cancer patients suggests benefits of Neulasta
...5) Amgen Inc., (NASDAQ: AMGN) the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced that an initial report from a study of 701 older cancer patients with solid tumors demonstrates Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) administered beginning in the first cycle of myelosuppressive chemotherapy resulted in reductions in feb...