Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...alization of products for the targeted delivery of diagnostics and therapeutic substances directly to disease sites. CYTOGEN has received FDA marketing approval for three different anti-cancer compounds.......r its size and leadership inresearch, the prenatal diagnostics program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center giveswomen access to the very latest techniques at the very earliest opportunity. "We offer comprehensive services that extend from pre-pregnancy counselingthrough the entire pregnancy," said Lawrence D. Platt, ......nant proteins for use in pre-clinical research for diagnostics andtherapeutics, as well as for protein-protein interaction studies, protein(including enzyme) structure-function studies, crystallization and pre-clinicalvaccine development. A full range of protein microchemistry techniques, such as mass spectromet...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...r employee who has seen the value ofearly prenatal diagnostics from several angles. As a cytogenetics technologist,she performs chromosome analysis on amniotic fluid cells and CVS cells. And as amom in the over-35 age category who is now pregnant with her second child, sheand her husband, Aidan, have experienced...Northwestern chemist develops nanoplotter with parallel writing capabilities
... could be quite useful in the genomics and medical diagnostics industries. Such arrays are currently generated via techniques with much lower resolution than DPN....Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
...t can have a blood or biopsy sample fed into a DNA diagnostics machine that takes the disease-state DNA results and within hours comes up with a tailored drug/catalyst therapy. This treatment will kill the cancerous cells in the body and leave the others unharmed, and it is capable of beating the cancer even as...Australian chemists present new research findings at Pacifichem 2000
...The researchers are also developing antibody-based diagnostics for detecting fungal contaminants in order to improve wine quality. (AGRO 278, 2.45 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 17) Antibiotics from unusual sources - Drug-resistant pathogens are a major public health threat worldwide. Researchers at Australian National Univ......, explained Dr. Ljubimova. But in the future, gene diagnostics will make it easy to predict, to follow and to plan better treatments for patients. The study published in the International Journal of Oncology looked specifically at cancers affecting glial cells. This study was designed to identify genes that expr...Applied Biosystems introduces next generation production level DNA analysis systems
...overy, development, and commercialization of novel diagnostics tests. Information about Applera Corporation, including reports and other information filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.applera.com , or by telephoning 800-762-6923. In...Therapy for mice with prion disease could offer benefit to human beings with CJD
...easonable, and concludes: "Development of improved diagnostics and postexposure prophylaxis are urgently needed given the unknown prevalence of subclinical prion infection associated with the BSE outbreak."...Study identifies genetic fingerprint of healthy sperm
...le spermthese mRNAs may become invaluable for: new diagnostics for idiopathic infertility; discovering paternal influences to both the fetus and the placenta; ascertaining if there are generational consequences of environmental exposures of boys and men; new strategies for male contraceptionAre sperm mRNAs remna...HHS announces research plan to fight autoimmune diseases
... the capacity to test potential new treatments and diagnostics with multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary clinical studies. The plan encourages public-private partnerships in creating new treatments. Scientists are also challenged to improve the screening processes that identify at-risk individuals. Training,...HHS announces new regional centers for biodefense research
...will lead to new and improved therapies, vaccines, diagnostics and other tools to protect the citizens of our country and the world against the threat of bioterrorism and other emerging and re-emerging diseases." The RCE program's primary role is to foster the physical and intellectual environments in which wide...Regional consortium of universities chosen for biodefense initiative
...h and test and evaluate vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for emerging infections and select agents. The con...nitial work will focus on developing new vaccines, diagnostics and treatments for orthopoxviruses (including smallpox and monkeypox), Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) ...NIAID reports 'tremendous progress' in biodefense research
...talyze the development of vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for the most threatening bioterror agents. It was in February 2002 that NIAID convened the first Blue Ribbon Panel on Bioterrorism and its Implications for Biomedical Research, which provided NIAID with objective expertise on the Institute's biodefen...NIAID funds construction of biosafety laboratories
...e Americans with effective therapies, vaccines and diagnostics for diseases caused by agents of bioterror as well as for naturally occurring emerging infections such as SARS and West Nile virus," says Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. One-time grants of approximately $120 million each will ...Doris Duke Charitable Foundation selects Emory HIV/AIDS research team for innovation award
... investigators or teams to develop "Point-of-Care" diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring tools to care for AIDS patients in resource-poor areas of the world. The Emory investigators will collaborate with Ethiopian AIDS researchers to develop effective tests to monitor patients with HIV and AIDS by reconfigurin...2003 winners of Collegiate Inventors Competition announced in NYC
...been found to have a wide range of uses in medical diagnostics and research, environmental testing, drug delivery and countless other uses. For instance, Link can make her particles a particular color, then program them to detect a particular substance, such as a toxin. As the microscopic sensors find the toxi...Rochester chosen to focus on rare neurological diseases
... centers, we hope to accelerate the development of diagnostics and treatments that will benefit these important patients."...Binghamton University, RPI and Infotonics Center team up to form national packaging power
...machines that will be thinner than the human hair, diagnostics that will function at the molecular level, electronics packaging materials that will be lighter, stronger, and more versatile than anything now known-these are just a few of the expected fruits of such small-scale systems research and engineering, Sa...