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The Burrill Features

Saving Normal

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As the American Psychiatric Association prepares to release the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, a long brewing controversy over the work has erupted into the mainstream. We spoke to Allen Frances, professor ...

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Obama Administration Offers $1 Billion for Healthcare Innovation

HHS awards designed to transform delivery and payment systems. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that nearly $1 billion will be made available in the second round of Health Care Innovation Awards for projects that have ...

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Pharma to Support Early-Stage Biotechs

Roche and Bayer team with QB3 while Atlas Ventures rounds up Amgen and Novartis. As Big Pharma continues to externalize its early stage R&D, it is ramping up its efforts to tap early stage innovation and support biotech startups that ...

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Hot Papers

How the brain folds to fit

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During fetal development of the mammalian brain, the cerebral cortex undergoes a marked expansion in surface area in some species, which is accommodated by folding of the tissue in species with most expanded neuron numbers and surface area. Researchers have now identified a key regulator of this crucial ...

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Muscle Repair After Injury Helped by Fat-Forming Cells

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UC San Francisco Study Examines Role of Immune Cell in Triggering Muscle Regrowth.UC San Francisco scientists have discovered that muscle repair requires the action of two types of cells better known for causing inflammation and forming fat. The finding in mice, published in the April 11 issue of Cell, showed that a well-known immune cell called the eosinophil  [ee-oh-SIN-oh-fil] carries out the beneficial role in two ways – by clearing out cellular debris from damaged tissue and teaming up with a type of cell that can make fat to instead trigger muscle ...

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Rising Stars

David Berry: Renewable Petroleum from Microbes

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David Berry is sitting in a midtown Manhattan coffee shop, taking a break from a carbon-trading conference across the street, when a news report on the wall-mounted television catches his ...

Jeffrey Bode:Peptide "Legos" to Make New Drugs

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 The market for protein-based drugs, such as insulin and human growth hormone, has doubled over the last five years, to more than $50 billion. But making therapeutic proteins is difficult. ...

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Conferences & Events

2012 July Highlights

2nd World Congress on Proteomics & Bioinformatics July 02-04, 2012 | Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel | Las Vegas, NevadaProteomics-2012 is ...

2012 June Highlights

American Society of Clinical Oncology - the ASCO Annual MeetingJune 1-5, 2012 • Friday-Wednesday McComick Place • Chicargo, IllinoisAttendees of the 2012 Annual Meeting will find cutting-edge scientific presentations and comprehensive educational content. The ASCO Annual Meeting brings together more ...

2012 May Highlights

ChinaBio® Partnering Forum 2012 May 23-24, 2012 | Wednesday-Thursday | Kempinski Hotel Suzhou | Suzhou, Jiangsu, ChinaCapturing Innovation in China™, ChinaBio® Partnering Forum is the premier life science partnering event in China. To be held on May 23–24, 2012 in ...

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New Products Release

Andor Deep-Depletion CCD Camera Captures Advance That Could Speed-Up Introduction Of Stem Cell Therapy

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Many medical researchers believe that stem cell therapy will revolutionise the treatment of human disease and may provide treatments for many currently incurable diseases. However, one problem still to be ...

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NEW Capnograph For Small Rodents & Respiratory Mechanics

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Harvard Apparatus-Hugo Sachs Electronik is proud to introduce the Type 340 Capnograph for small rodents. This extremely low dead space Capnograph makes it suitable for mice as well as other ...

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Hyglos Introduces EndoLISA®, The World’s First ELISA-Based Endotoxin Detection Method

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Hyglos today has the pleasure to present EndoLISA®, the world’s first commercially available ELISA-based endotoxin detection method. EndoLISA® is the result of several years of research and test development aimed at ...

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Not One, But Two New Standards For The Violet Laser

Polysciences is pleased to announce the introduction of two new dedicated standards for the violet laser; Violet Laser Reference Standard and Simply Cellular® anti-Mouse for Violet ...

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Looking For An Ultra Low QC For Your Hs Troponin T Assay?

Ensure the accuracy and precision of your hsTnT assay with the new Randox high sensitivity Troponin T control. Cardiac Troponins are widely used in the detection of Myocardial Infarction (MI) with ...

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Swine Flu

Why did healthy children fall critically ill in the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic?

Largest study to date finds co-infection with MRSA increased death risk 8-fold; Flu vaccination urged Boston, Mass. -- During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children ...

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Tracking Swine Flu Vaccination Rates And Attitudes Via Twitter

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A unique and innovative analysis of how social media can affect the spread of a disease has been designed and implemented by a scientist at Penn State University studying attitudes ...

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Recognitions & Appointments

Journal names discovery that HIV treatment can prevent spread 'breakthrough of the year'

Johns Hopkins researchers key part of team recognized for its scientific findings The finding of a team of researchers — including several members from Johns Hopkins ...

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Sanofi (France) Taps David Meeker as New CEO of Genzyme Corporation

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today the appointment of David Meeker as Chief Executive Officer of Genzyme, a Sanofi company, effective November 1, 2011. ...

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Abbott Laboratories's Absorb(TM) Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Honored with Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced that the investigational ABSORB bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) has been recognized as the winner of the Medical Devices category in the 2011 Wall Street Journal Technology ...

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Featured Laboratories

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Novel Technology

Walking again after spinal injury

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In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk—and run—again. Last June in the journal Science, Grégoire Courtine, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), reported that rats in his lab are not only voluntarily initiating ...

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Breakthrough nanoparticle halts multiple sclerosis

New nanotechnology can be used for Type 1 diabetes, food allergies and asthmaNew nanoparticle tricks and resets immune system in mice with MSFirst MS approach that doesn't suppress immune systemClinical trial for MS patients shows why nanoparticle is best optionNanoparticle ...

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Texas Biomed reports faster, more economical method for detecting bioterror threats

Texas Biomedical Research Institute scientists in San Antonio have developed a faster, less expensive route to screen suitable tests for bioterror threats and accelerate the application of ...

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