Features - eBioNews

Features - eBioNews

The Burrill Features

Biotech 2010 Life Sciences: Adapting for Success

Remarkable Result in Melanoma Drug Trial

Legislators Weigh Goals of Personalized Medicine Bill

Roche Dominates the Deal Flow

Life Technologies to Buy Ion Torrent for $375 Million

What’s in a Name?

The Brain on a Microchip

Sanofi Funds Personalized Medicine Research

Renewables Fuel IPO Queue

Obesity Rates Growing Faster Than Expected

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Collaboration, Projects, & Consortia

Pri-Med Announces Expansion of On-Demand Programming with ReachMD

Generic Drug Sector Gets Better Information on API Manufacturing Costs from Thomson Reuters and Rondaxe Enterprises

Austrian BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG And Swiss Selexis SA Join Forces To Further Optimize High-Yield Mammalian Cell Cultures For The Production Of Protein Pharmaceuticals

Naurex's Novel Antidepressant GLYX-13 Recognized As One Of Windhover's Top 10 Neuroscience Projects To Watch

Inspire Announces Amendment to Ophthalmic Collaboration

Genentech Provides Update on FDA Application for T-DM1

Athera Signs Distribution Agreement in Scandinavia

Idera Pharmaceuticals Achieves Clinical Milestone Under Its Collaboration with Merck KGaA for Cancer Treatment

DSM Biomedical Announces Six New License Agreements with Orthopedic, Cardiovascular, Vascular and Urology Device Manufacturers

PositiveID Corporation And RECEPTORS LLC To Develop A Salmonella Detection Product Using Patented CARA(TM) Platform Technology

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Expert Opinions & Commentaries

FDA Egg Farm Inspection Reports Include Rodents, Flies, 8-Foot-High Manure Pile.

FDA, Vaccine Manufacturers: No Worries of Salmonella From Flu Vaccines.

Public Hospitals, ‘Poorly Equipped to Survive,’ Are Being Sold.

A.M. Vitals: Genzyme Rejects Takeover Offer From Sanofi-Aventis.

A.M. Vitals: Latest J&J Recall Involves Two DePuy Hip Implants.

Report: Pharma Digital Spending Growing — But Slowly.

Death Toll From ‘Average’ Flu Season Not So Easy to Come Up With.

Betting on X — As in XMRV — With a Big-Ticket Research Center.

Is There a Generational Clash in the Medical Workplace?.

Tues. Egg Recall Roundup: Producers Need ‘Detailed Plans’ to Avoid Contamination.

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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. Robert Allan Weinberg, Won The 2004 Wolf Prize In Medicine For His Discoveries Of The First Human Oncogene Ras And The First Tumor Supressor Gene Rb

Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta, A Biologist From India Was The Recipient Of The World Food Prize In 2005 For His Work To Enhance Nutrition For Over One Million People

Dr. A. Colin McClung Received The 2006 World Food Prize For His Role In Helping Transform The Cerrado – A Region Of Vast, Once Infertile Tropical High Plains Stretching Across Brazil – Into Highly Productive Cropland

Mr. Edson Lobato, A Brazilian Soil Fertility Scientist, Received The 2006 World Food Prize For His Role In Helping Transform The Cerrado Into Productive Cropland

Dr. Philip E. Nelson Received The World Food Prize In 2007 For His Revolutionary Work On Aseptic Food Storage

Dr. Gebisa Ejeta Won The 2009 World Food Prize For His Major Contributions In The Production Of Sorghum

Dr Philip Beachy: Contributing To Basic And Clinical Reasearch On The Fuctions Of Secreted Protein Signals And The Roles Of Such Signaling Pathways In Cancer Growth

Dr Stephen Elledge: Studying The Cell Cycle Checkpoint Regulation And The Cellular Response To Genotoxic Stress

Prof. Jonathan Gressel, Receives the Israel Prize for Agricultural Research

Prof. Ilan Chet, A Pioneer In The Field Of Biological Control Of Plant Pathogens Which Cause Major Crop Losses.

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Rising Stars

Christopher Loose: Beating up Bacteria

Matthew DeLisa: Delivering More Medicine From Microbes

Christophe Schilling (Co-founder, VP, CTO of Genomatica Inc): Transforms Microbes into Fine-tuned Manufacturing Machines

Martin Burke: Generate Diverse Arrays of Small Molecules Simply and Quickly

Milica Radisic: Patching Damaged Hearts

Christopher Chang: Probing Chemical Reactions in the Body

Michelle Chang: Designing Microbes to Make Fuels and Drugs

Konrad Hochedlinger: Turning Adult Cells into Stem Cells

Theodore Betley: Re-creating Photosynthesis

J. Christopher Anderson: Creating Tumor-killing Bacteria:

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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.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic:The focus of our research is on engineering functional human tissues

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.

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Featured Technologies

The Great Vanishing Oil Spill

New Court Ruling Could Cripple Stem-Cell Research

Faster Catalysts Improve Hydrogen Generation

New Cancer Drug Gets Dramatic Results

An Implantable Antenna

A 'Kill Switch' for Rogue Microbes

Is engineered 'Frankenfish' coming to the nation's table?

Going Further on the Same Tank

Graphene Could Improve DNA Sequencing

The Science of a Sparkling Shave

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Grant & Funding Opportunities

BTG to Facilitate Return of U.S. Drug Rights from Nycomed with up to $16.6M

Endocyte Secures $15 Million Credit Facility

Bayer Licenses Kythera’s Adipolytic Agent for $43M

Emergent Wins $28.7M NIAID contract for Clinical Development of 3rd Gen Anthrax Vaccine

Purdue Biodefense Technology Project Awarded $1.3 Million NIH Seed Grant

Investigations Of Biomolecular Structure Advanced By $1.9 Million National Science Foundation Grant

Nurse-Family Partnership Receives $210,000 Grant From WellPoint Foundation

Jefferson Receive $3 Million NIH Grant To Study Platelets

Biomagnetics Announces LOI to Acquire Hubei Tianyuan Chemical Company–Third Chinese Asset Targeted at $1.50 BMGP Share Price

Roche to Pay Aileron $25M to Tap Into Stapled Peptide Expertise

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Hot Papers

Acidifying Oceans Spell Bleak Marine Biological Future 'by End of Century', Mediterranean Research Finds

Secrets of the Gecko Foot Help Robot Climb

Bug With Bifocals Baffles Biologists

Delaying Fat Digestion to Curb Appetite

Colitis Patients Diagnosed Later in Life Tend to Have Better Disease Outcomes

Human Toll of Violence in Central African Republic Documented

Chili Peppers May Come With Blood Pressure Benefits

'Fearless' Aphids Ignore Warnings, Get Eaten by Ladybugs

Aging and Longevity Tied to Specific Brain Region in Mice

Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco

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Appointments

MethylGene Appoints Dr. Martin Godbout as Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. James Lally Named President of the American Osteopathic Foundation

King Pharmaceuticals®, Inc. Appoints Jeffrey Bailey Chief Commercial Officer

Celgene Announces Appointment of Jacqualyn A. Fouse as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Could Be Sign of Celgene's Intention to Go International

XenoPort, Inc. President Resigns To Be CEO Elsewhere

NeuroSearch AS Names Patrik Dahlen as the Company's New CEO

Emergent BioSolutions Announces Appointment of John E. Niederhuber, M.D. to the Company’s Board of Directors

AnaSpec, Inc. Visits with Noted Alzheimer's Researcher, Dr. Patrick McGeer

Torbjorn Bjerke Appointed as new CEO for Karolinska Development AB

ICON Appoints Alan Morgan To Role Of Group President, Clinical Research Services

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Recognitions

France Honors Blind Researcher, 87, For World War II Valor

Dr. Gilbert Botvin Receives Presidential Award From Society For Prevention Research

For His Mathematical Models Of Tumor Growth, John King, University Of Nottingham, Awarded The 2010 Julian Cole Lectureship

UNC Hospitals Receives Performance Achievement Award From American College Of Cardiology Foundation

Agilent Technologies Awards 2010 Russell Varian Laureate For Excellence In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Innovation

Novartis Awards 2010 Prizes For Immunology In Recognition Of Outstanding Contributions To Immunology In Medical Research

BMA Comment On Review Of Consultant Award Schemes, U

American Red Cross Of Greater Cleveland Hero Awards To Be Held November 16; Nominations Needed

Focused Ultrasound Symposium Offers Young Investigator Awards

Three Researchers Awarded 2010 Toshiba America Medical Systems/RSNA Grants

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