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 Company’s offering sets the mood for biotech IPOs.Investors greeted the Nasdaq debut of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals February 2 with warm but restrained interest, allowing the company to raise $188 million to push its drug development plans ahead. At $11.25 per share, ... More |
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Shell-Cosan enter $12 billion venture to ramp up production and distribution.A new $12 billion joint venture in the offing between Royal Dutch Shell and Cosan is likely to scale up sugarcane ethanol production and distribution in Brazil and beyond, holding ... More |
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Obama's fiscal 2011 budget calls for more money for NIH, FDA.President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will add a modest $1.7 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services budget if it's passed, bringing the department's total budget to $81.3 ... More |
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Hot Papers
 Important new research about the effects of acupuncture on the brain may provide an understanding of the complex mechanisms of acupuncture and could lead to a wider acceptability of the treatment. The study, by researchers at the University of York and the Hull York Medical School published in Brain Research, indicates that acupuncture has a significant effect on specific neural structures. When a patient receives acupuncture treatment, a sensation called deqi can be obtained; scientific analysis shows that this deactivates areas within the brain that are associated with the processing of ... More |
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 The largest epidemiological study of Parkinson's disease in the United States has found that the disease is more common in the Midwest and the Northeast and is twice as likely to strike whites and Hispanics as blacks and Asians. The study, based on data from 36 million Medicare recipients, is both the first to produce any significant information on patterns of Parkinson's disease in minorities and to show geographic clusters for the ... More |
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Rising Stars
 Chris Burge admits it’s been hard to choose a research focus. In high school he won math contests but in college majored in biology. He traveled to Nicaragua to see ... |
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 While involved in biomedical studies funded by NASA, Cori Lathan realized that astronauts in orbit encounter physical challenges much like those faced by people with disabilities. An astronaut, for example, ... |
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The 28th J.P. Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference, January 11-14, 2010 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. This event is the premier conference of its kind, bringing together established industry leaders, emerging fast-growth companies, innovative technology creators and globally ... |
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CHI's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, February 3-5 2010, Moscone North Convention Center, San Francisco, CA John Crowley's Featured Keynote 'When Drug Research is Personal'. His story is the inspiration for the new film 'Extraordinary Measures' ... |
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SABPA Science & Technology Forum VIII: Breakthroughs in Stem Cell Research and Clinical Applications March 13, 2010 at Institute of Americas, UCSD, San Diego Stem cell research, after nearly a decade’s progress, has achieved a landmark milestone in January 2009, ... |
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 Entelos, Inc., a simulation and modeling company focused on human health, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 7,654,955 entitled "Apparatus and Methods ... More |
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 Fate Therapeutics, Inc. received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application Number 10/997,146 entitled "Methods for Reprogramming Somatic Cells." Upon issuance, ... More |
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 Arrayit Corporation , a life sciences and healthcare technology leader, announced today that the Company has received patent protection in the State of Israel for its proprietary Variation Identification Platform? ... More |
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Proprietary sol gel coating materials developed by Ocean Optics have enabled new technology for convenient, non-intrusive monitoring of biological samples. By encapsulating pH indicator dyes into coatings applied to its ... More |
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 Cellectricon AB today announced that it has resumed its litigation against Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. Cellectricon filed the lawsuit in July 2009 in the United States District Court for the Northern ... More |
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Swine Flu
 ILI rate: The Department of Health & Children and the HSE advised that the rate of influenza-like illness (ILI) for the week ending Sunday 31st January 2010 (week 4, 2010), ... More |
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 An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations ... More |
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Recognitions & Appointments
 Roche NimbleGen (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY ) has announced that ATLAS Biolabs GmbH, a B... More |
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 The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) released today a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebeliu... More |
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 The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the recipients of its five awards for distinguished service to the field of genetics. These awards represent sustained activity and ... More |
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 Neuronal structural biology is the focus area of Dr. Zhang's laboratory. We aim to understand the molecular mecha... More |
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 The research is likely to challenge our notions of consciousness. Some people thought to be in a vegetative state--a persistent lack of awareness following brain injury--may be more aware than previously thought, even able to communicate, according to new research. ... More |
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 Francis Collins's book offers optimism but no grand plan.In the final pages of his new book about personalized medicine, Francis Collins offers a compelling vision of the future via a fictional character named Hope, born on January 1, 2000. Collins ... More |
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 A research project will make jet fuel without wasting fresh water or farmland.A project in the Middle East aims to make jet fuel from saltwater-tolerant crops grown in the desert. Researchers at the Masdar Institute in the United Arab Emirates ... More |
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