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The Burrill Features
 Charles Darwin told us that it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Biotech 2010—Life Sciences: Adapting for Success, Burrill & Company’s latest annual report on t... More |
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 Study drug shrinks tumors in 81 percent of melanoma patients. Plexxikon said its experimental drug, the subject of a collaboration with Roche, was able to shrink melanoma tumors in 81 percent of patients in an early-stage trial. The ... More |
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 Podcast: August 30, 2010 When Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois he introduced legislation designed to foster the development of personalized medicine. New versions of that bill have followed, but never managed to get out ... More |
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Hot Papers
 A unique 'natural laboratory' in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the ... More |
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 A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko's sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko ... More |
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Expert Opinions & Commentaries
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Rising Stars
 Christopher Loose is the founder and chief technology officer of Semprus BioSciences (formerly SteriCoat Corp), a biotechnology start-up developing long-lasting anti-infective coating for medical devices. Loose graduated from Princeton's chemical ... |
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 Each year, billions of dollars worth of drugs, from insulin for diabetics to the stroke drug tPA, are made in huge vats full of microbes engineered to produce human proteins. ... |
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Conferences & Events
11th International Lung Cancer Congress Overview and PurposeThe purpose of the 11th International Lung Cancer Congress is to provide participants with an update on advances in the field of lung cancer, including ... |
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Biocat2010-- 5th International Congress on Biocatalysis Time: Aug 31-Sep. 4, 2010Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Scientific Program The meeting will focus on the presentation of the latest results ... |
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New Products Release
 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its Thermo Scientific NESLAB ThermoFlex Series of Recirculating Chillers. The ThermoFlex 24000 is the latest ... More |
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 Dionex is pleased to announce the release of an application that demonstrates the determination of ethyl- ene glycol (EG) and diethylene glycol (DEG) in a sorbitol solution using liquid chromatography ... More |
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 Frederick, MD: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to introduce GeNi, an affordable, fully motorized gel documentation system. This innovative system is the only one in ... More |
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One of the biggest challenges companies face in their efforts to remain competitive is being able to manage the ever-increasing amount of unstructured data. "Information at your fingertips," was the ... More |
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 TCGRx (TCG) announces the launch of the new, compact AVF-Series™ Automatic Vial Filler, which will be presented at the NACDS Pharmacy & Technology Conference, August 28 - 31, in San ... More |
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Swine Flu
 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued updated recommendations for the use of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine and antiviral medications for the prevention and treatment of influenza in children. ... More |
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 The European Commission asked the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to investigate whether GlaxoSmithKline's flu jab, Panemrix is linked to a higher risk of developing narcoplepsy. The EMEA says the investigation ... More |
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Recognitions & Appointments
 MethylGene Inc. (TSX: MYG) today announced the appointment of Dr. Martin Godbout as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, effective immediately. Dr. Godbout has been a member ... More |
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France has named Dr. Harry L. Messmore of Loyola University Health System a Knight of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his valor during World War II.... More |
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 In recognition of his lifetime contributions to the prevention sciences, the Society for Prevention Research has awarded Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin its prestigious Presidential Award.... More |
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Featured Laboratories
 My laboratory focuses on the pathogenic interplay of the HIV-1 and HTLV-I human retroviruses with immune cells. Infection of human hosts with these retroviruses produces contrasting diseases within the CD4 subset of T lymphocytes, specifically the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) with HIV-1 and the Adult T-cell Leukemia (ATL) with ... More |
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Novel Technology
 Microbes may have eaten away at BP's oil in deep water; now the marshland needs help. Microbes may become the heroes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by gobbling up oil more rapidly than anyone expected. Now some experts suggest ... More |
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 Once again, federal funding restrictions cast uncertainty over the field. It was just 18 months ago that U.S. scientists studying embryonic stem cells thought their nearly decade-long battle for federal funding was finally won. President Obama had signed an executive order ... More |
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 Researchers describe progress on technology for storing energy in the form of hydrogen fuel. Anyone relying entirely on solar power or wind for electricity--say, in a remote location cut off from the grid--could use a cheap way to store power for ... More |
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