Features - eBioNews

Features - eBioNews

The Burrill Features

Biotech 2010 Life Sciences: Adapting for Success

Astellas Turns Up the Heat

Keeping a Beat

Archimedes Does Some Math

Fast-tracking regulatory science

R&D is better with three

Millipore in play

No Place Like Home

A Potential Blockbuster

Fighting Cancer Gets Personal

>> More in: The Burrill Features

Collaboration, Projects, & Consortia

Biosearch Licenses Roche IP that Allows the Manufacture and Sale of IVD Kits

BG Medicine and Abbott to Develop Galectin-3 Test for the i-STAT® System

Multicenter NIH clinical trial will study potential benefits of brain cooling after a stroke

Lonza Inks Deal with Odyssey Thera Expanding Drug-Discovery and Safety-Testing Offerings

Geron Highlights Product Launch from Collaboration with Corning – the Synthemax™ Surface for Scalable Growth of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

American Society for Microbiology honors J. Michael Miller

BIO Asks Congress to Address Barriers to Commercialization of Algae Biofuels

Enzo Biochem Claims Favorable USPTO Decision in Patent Dispute with Bayer

Innova Biosciences Inks China Distribution Pact

Food Safety Center to Team with Agilent on Testing Methods

>> More in: Collaboration, Projects and Consortia

Expert Opinions & Commentaries

Abortion Remains High Hurdle in Health-Care Push

Another Plus Month for Health-Care Jobs

Storm Brews Over Snow-Related Firings at DC Hospital

Merck, Sanofi Herd Animal-Health Businesses Into One Corral

Summit Aftermath:The Health-Care Divide in Focus

Health Summit: They Came, They Talked, They Left Much Undone

Confusion Over Whether Coated Aspirin Can Protect Your Stomach

Reconciliation: Going Too Far?

Why That Guy on TV Touting Lipitor Could Be Your Neighbor

Studies Keeping Coming on Roche’s Avastin; Latest Is Positive

>> More in: Expert Opinions and Commentaries

Featured Distributors

Industries in Transition: What Does It Mean for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech?

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Industries in Transition: What Does It Mean for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech?

Featured Experts

Dr Elaine Fuchs: Best Known for her Fundamental Research on Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages

Dr Aharon Razin: Studying the Role of DNA Methylation in the Control of Gene Expression

Professor Steven D. Tanksley, Won 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize In Agriculture For His "Innovative Development Of Hybrid Rice And Discovery 0f The Genetic Basis Of Heterosis In This Important Food Staple."

Professor Yuan Longping Was Awarded The 2004 Wolf Prize For Innovative Development Of Hybrid Rice

Dr. Howard Cedar was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with Aharon Razin, for "for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of DNA methylation in the control of gene expression." in 2008

Dr. Mark S. Ptashne,won Albert Lasker Medical Research Award for his study for elegant and incisive discoveries leading to the understanding of how regulatory proteins control the transcription of genes.

Alexander Levitzki was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine for "pioneering signal transduction therapy and for developing tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer and a range of other diseases" in 2005

Dr. Bertil Hille, An American Biologist Well Known For His Research on Cell Singalling By Ion Channels

Dr. Clay M. Armstrong Won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in K+ Ion Channel Pore in 1999.

Dr. Alexander Varshavsky Won Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for his Research on Ubiquitination

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Rising Stars

Jaime Teevan:Using Personal Information to Improve Ssearch Results

Cyrus Wadia:Identifying Materials that Could Be Unexpectedly Useful in Solar Cells

Elena Shevchenko:Assembling Nanocrystals to Create Made-to-order Materials

Andrea Armani:Sensitive Optical Sensors Detect Single Molecules

Chris Burge: Connectiong Computer and Biology

Corinna E. Lathan: Doing Cool Things !

Melissa Mahoney: Making Materials to Treat Brain Damage

Xudong Wang: Powering the Nanoworld

J. Joseph Kim: Fight to Diseases Learning from Virus

Vijay Pande:Calculate Tiny Portions of a Folding Sequence of Protein in Computer

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Featured Laboratories

Warner C. Greene: focuses on the pathogenic interplay of the HIV-1 and HTLV-I human retroviruses with immune cells.

Dr.Mingjie Zhang's laboratory: Focus on Neuronal structural biology

Dr. Erik Winfree:The DNA and Natural Algorithms Group

Dr.David Botstein:Professor of Genomics Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute

Dr.David Baltimore:1975 Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Dr.Samuel Pfaff: focusing on the fetal development of the spinal cord.

Dr. Wessler: identifying plant transposable elements and determining how they contribute to gene and genome evolution

Dr. Theresa M. Reineke: specializes in the synthetic design and investigation of functional macromolecules.

Dr David Agard: focusing on elucidating the mechanism of microtubule nucleation, Hsp90 chaperone function, and the role of dynamics in enzyme function and folding.

Dr Edwin R. Chapman: understanding the molecular basis by which Ca2+ triggers the exocytosis of neurotransmitters from neurons

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Featured Technologies

Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips

Catalysts for Plastic Recycling

A Vision for Personalized Medicine

Nuclear Physics Promises Earlier Detection of Brain Tumors With Just One Scan

Discovery Points Toward Anti-Inflammation Treatment for Blinding Disease

Scaling Up Solar Power

Solar Shingles See the Light of Day

Multipurpose Molecule for Cancer Surgery

Personalized Medicine on the Spot

From Waste Biomass to Jet Fuel

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Grant & Funding Opportunities

GrowthWorks Funds Report Investment in Spectral Diagnostics

Research Roundup: Childhood Obesity, Insurance Coverage In Cancer Trials, Hospitals Stays And Need For Nursing Homes

BMS Gives Up $40M in Exchange for Allergan’s Neuropathic Pain Drug

Univ. of Arizona Translational Science Institute Expanding with Aim of CTSA Membership

NHLBI Pledges up to $30M for Lung Centers

Oregon Legislature Approves $9M for Marine Genomics Center

NHLBI to Fund Cross Organ Systems Studies

Melbourne Institute Grants $1.5M for Cancer Genetics Research

NIH, FDA Start $6.8M 'Microscope to Marketplace' Effort

Sage Bionetworks to be NCI Center

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Hot Papers

Effects of Iodine Supplements on Maternal Thyroid Function Studied

By Tracking Water Molecules, Physicists Hope to Unlock Secrets of Life

Taxing Unhealthy Foods May Encourage Healthier Eating Habits

New Photonic Material May Facilitate All-Optical Switching and Computing

Life's Smallest Motor, Cargo Carrier of the Cells, Moves Like a Seesaw

Southern African Genomes Sequenced: Benefits for Human Health Expected

Enzyme With Industrial Applications Characterized

Toward Safer Plastics That Lock in Potentially Harmful Plasticizers

Study Maps Effects of Acupuncture on the Brain

US Parkinson's Rates Highest in Whites, Hispanics, and Midwest, Northeast

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Appointments

TOA Technologies Appoints Former ONO CEO Richard Alden as Its European President

Leading Clinical Expert Joins AirStrip Technologies

Biocitech SAS Appoints Jean-Francois Boussard as CEO

Brookfield Asset Management Appoints Jeff Kendrew as Chief Development Officer of Its Global Infrastructure Platform

EKR Therapeutics Appoints John Bailye as Interim President & Chief Executive Officer

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Names Andreotti as CEO

Cyanotech’s Board of Directors Names David I. Rosenthal as Interim President and CEO

Cook Pharmica Names Veda Walcott Vice President of Quality

Greer Appoints Terrance C. Coyne, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer and Expands Clinical and Medical Affairs Programs

Sucampo Appoints Thomas J. Knapp as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

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Recognitions

Award From Thoracic Surgery Foundation For Research And Education Given In Honor Of Nina Starr Braunwald, First Female Cardiac Surgeon

NIH Student Award Winner Exploring How Couples Cope With Breast Cancer

Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards Mayo Clinic Researcher Grant To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research

$300,000 CIHR Grant Awarded To Medicago, The Research Institute Of The MUHC And McGill University

Psychology Blog Reaches Award Finals - British Psychological Society

New Biomedical Engineering Chair Earns High Honors

New Biomedical Engineering Chair Earns High Honors

The ASCO Cancer Foundation Awards $25,000 To Young Researchers For Important Contributions To Genitourinary Cancers Research

Jefferson surgeon receives outstanding performance award from American College Of Surgeons

Dental Research: AADR Awards The 2010 AADR William B. Clark Fellowship To Isabel Gay

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