Baylor Research Institute receives $6.2 million grant to establish Center for Lupus Research
...chereau. We are currently in collaboration with a biotech company to develop a blocker for type I interferon. The goal is to control the symptom flares that are common to lupus patients by shutting off the signal that causes them. Recently Dr. Pascual was selected as the recipient of the Kirkland Scholar ...New research brings initial find of Alois Alzheimer to fore once again
...nology has been licensed to Socratech, a Rochester biotech company created by Zlokovic to search for new treatments for Alzheimer's and stroke. Miano has served as a consultant to Socratech and is now leading a research effort there looking for compounds to inhibit SRF and myocardin. ...Important mechanism identified in the formation of blood vessels
...wedish scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the biotech company AngioGenetics AB have now shown that another factor called Dll4 (Delta-like 4) has a similarly fundamental role in blood vessel formation as VEGF. The results are published in Nature no. 28 (January 2007) and can mean that Dll4 is just as imp...Americans fear decline in US performance in math and science
...earch is important to the U.S. economy, as are the biotech and pharmaceutical industries specifically (94%). Ninety-four percent also say investing in scientific research is important in terms of job creation and higher incomes. We need to encourage young people to take a stronger interest in science and...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2007 inductees
...d's DNA sequencer has played a crucial role in the biotech industry, greatly accelerating the progress of the Human Genome Project in the 1990s. Godfrey Hounsfield (1919-2004) CAT scanner Hounsfield was a pioneer in computerized-assisted tomography. CAT scans have since provided physicians with valuab...African scientists will train at Emory University in latest drug discovery techniques
...his colleagues recently formed iThemba, a start-up biotech company based in South Africa. By developing scientific, economic and educational alliances with Africa's scientists, industry and universities, iThemba will focus on developing affordable drugs to fight the diseases of poverty. "We believe that w...Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again
...ost powerful players in the country's struggle for biotech supremacy, writes journalist Jonathan Gornall. It is also threatening to disrupt Korea's efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-Sok Hwang's stem cell research. Dr Kim claims a paper about premature ovar...UCSF brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results
...d tissue was sent to Antigenics, the Massachusetts biotech company that produces the vaccine from the patients tumor tissue. Altogether, Canagelo has now received seven injections of vaccine. My most recent MRI showed that there is no tumor, Canagelo said. I havent had any side effects from the treatment, ...Largest ever grant for University of Copenhagenhagen
...ry. "The Center will be a dynamo for the entire biotech research community in Denmark and it will especially be a hotspot for the protein researchers of the future. This will strengthen Danish efforts in the area of tailored proteins as tomorrow's drugs," says Ulf J. Johansson, dr.techn. and chair of the ...Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage
...cal Center is in the process of founding a private biotech company to develop the technology. It would search for new drugs that interfere with key inflammatory receptors on sensory nerve cells within the CNS. Joining Kyrkanides in the publication from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Den...New drug development facility helps move medicines to market
...ials in hospitals around the world. "Australian biotech companies, universities, research institutes and the pharmaceutical industry now have access to a highly skilled commercial R&D service with a wealth of experience in the four core disciplines that are required in preclinical drug development," Ms Pe...