The physics of films, butterflies, banknotes and rainbows
...s story. As chief technical officer at Californian company Panavision, has helped his firm to scoop 11 of the company's 26 Academy Awards, mostly for the design of zoom lenses. Physics World talks to Neil, who reveals plans to launch a course in lens design at his alma mater Strathclyde University. (p. 11). ...First US tuberculosis vaccine trial in 60 years begins
...cted in the United States by Seattle biotechnology company Corixa and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, a vaccine manufacturer headquartered in Belgium. "This is the first recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to reach human trials in the United States," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Indeed, this is the ...New dressing for wounds developed at Hebrew University
...e inventor and chief scientist of Dittekol Ltd., a company formed in cooperation with the Hebrew University's...pany, to commercialize the new wound dressing. The company is now negotiating with investors for further development....Software that minimises facial disfigurement
...th colleagues from Digital Elite in Los Angeles, a company that specialises in facial modelling for the film industry, has produced software that solves this problem by basing its calculations on data from MRI scans of the patient undergoing surgery. The scans show the structure of the epidermis, the dermis...Nutrition 21 seeks FDA approval of diabetes-related health claims
...trition 21 Nutrition 21 is a nutrition bioscience company using pharmaceutical quality research to substantiate the health benefits of nutritional supplements. It holds 24 patents for chromium compounds and their uses, and 11 other nutrition patents. The Company's proprietary technologies focus on chromiu...New device to help premature babies
...int project between the Australian medical devices company NASCOR and CSIRO BioMedical Devices. "NASCOR went to CSIRO to help us develop this device because we knew of their expertise in gas flow and turbine technology", says Dr Howard Chilton, Chairman and Director of R&D at NASCOR. "CSIRO's mechanical desi...Two UC Davis studies show promising single-drug therapy for hard-to-control epilepsy
...eptic drugs." UCB Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company based in Belgium, manufactures levetiracetam under the commercial name Keppra TM ....... doesn't know what he's doing, he can"t run a good company and everyone becomes frustrated." ADHD is characterized by difficulty concentrating and paying attention, and a high degree of restless and impulsive behavior. Although the problems may be less pronounced in adulthood, it is often a lifelong conditi...UCLA studies experimental cancer drug
...y scientifically oriented, not a conventional drug company study at all. It is entirely a product of the prostate cancer program here at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center." In the study, CCI779 will be administered to volunteers for eight weeks prior to surgery. The prostate will then be removed and researchers w...Emory, GlaxoSmithKline, NIMH enter public-private partnership to develop new drugs for depression
...es already under development by the pharmaceutical company as well as newly discovered candidates. "By joining Emory's longstanding and groundbreaking research programs in depression and mood disorders with the highly successful programs at NIMH and the novel drug development program at GlaxoSmithKline, we ...Wanted: people to test orgasmatron
...sexual dysfunction. He tried to sell his idea to a company called Medtronic, but when the company lost interest he decided to go it alone. He expects a full implant to cost around $13,000. In Octob...PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC receives FDA approval for Plenaxis
...IS PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapies to address unmet medical needs. In addition to its approval in the United States, PRAECIS has also initiated the regulatory review process for Plenaxis TM in the European Union with a...Investigational drug brings new hope to kidney cancer patients
...ver, such promising phase II results may force the company (and FDA) to redesign that trial. Median survival for patients with advanced metastatic kidney cancer is less than one year. Response to standard chemotherapy is less than ten percent and to immunotherapy around 15 percent, but with considerable to...Binghamton University, RPI and Infotonics Center team up to form national packaging power
...or Integrated Nano-Technologies, a Rochester-based company that specializes in chemically synthesizing complex electronic circuits and devices. Representatives from RPI and Binghamton met recently with Infotonics management and scientists from Corning, Kodak and Xerox to review research opportunities and to ...Hassle-free stroke prevention offered by new drug, Stanford researcher says
...e next year. It will be sold by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca under the brand name Exanta. Albers served as a consultant for AstraZeneca during the trial....Leading the way in novel anti-cancer research
...tive research and discovery work undertaken by the company as part of a broad based development program of novel cancer therapies. Key research presented this week also includes results from a study combining two agents developed by AstraZeneca: an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase in...NIAID Ebola vaccine enters human trial
...ufactured by Vical Inc., a San Diego biotechnology company working in collaboration with the VRC. Vical has also secured a nonexclusive license from NIH to proprietary gene sequences used in the DNA Ebola vaccine. In the new trial, volunteers will receive three injections over two months and will be followed...Caterpillar Inc. bolsters Southern Community study with $1 million gift
...dinary vision," Oberhelman said. "Caterpillar is a company that is committed to equal opportunity and that is, it seemed to us, what the Southern Community Cohort Study is all about. We are pleased to have the opportunity to support and participate in such an important endeavor to ensure that the burden of c...Buckwheat may be beneficial for managing diabetes
...borating with Kade Research Ltd., a Canadian-based company involved in research and development of new buckwheat varieties that contain much higher amounts of chiro-inositol for food applications....Fosrenol shows significant reduction in serum phosphate in Chinese end-stage kidney disease patients
... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company also submitted the drug for regulatory review in t...p plc (Shire) is a global specialty pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on meeting the needs of the specialist physician and currently has a range of...