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Alnylam Topped Biotech Stocks In July
Alnylam, the pioneer in using RNAi technology that silences genes before they can become proteins, topped biotechnology stocks in July after its shares soared following a July 16 release of data on an experimental drug to treat a rare genetic disease.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Matthew Herper Source Type: news
Cytovance Biologics: Cytovance(R) Biologics Announces Don Wuchterl as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Operations
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (MARKET WIRE) Cytovance® Biologics, a leading full-service contract manufacturer ("CMO") of mammalian and microbial biologics, announces Don Wuchterl as the new Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Operations.
Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Pharmaceuticals and Biotech Medical and Healthcare Agriculture Source Type: news
Enterey, Inc. Life Sciences Consulting: Enterey Life Sciences Consulting Turns Ten and Highlights a Decade in the Industry
IRVINE, CA (MARKET WIRE) On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, Enterey Life Sciences Consulting reflects on a decade in the life sciences industry.
Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Pharmaceuticals and Biotech Source Type: news
Fortis Healthcare opens super-specialty hospital in Singapore
Fortis Healthcare today said it has opened a super-specialty hospital 'Fortis Colorectal Hospital (FCH)' in Singapore to treat colorectal disorders.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Zydus Cadila gets USFDA nod for schizophrenia drug
The company got a tentative approval for aripiprazole orally disintegrating tabs in the strengths of 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg and 30 mg.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Unnatural Selection: Muscles, Genes and Genetic Cheats
Take a close look at the athletes competing in this year's Summer Olympic Games in London --their musculature will tell you a lot about how they achieved their elite status. Endless hours of training and commitment to their sport played a big role in building the bodies that got them to the world's premier athletic competition. Take an even closer look--this one requires microscopy--and you'll see something else, something embedded in the genetic blueprints of these young men and women that's just as important to their success. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 31, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Pharmaceuticals,History of Science,Physics,Society & Policy,Everyday Science,More Science,Evolution,Science Education,Evolutionary Biology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Medical Technology,Biology,Chemistry Source Type: news
Hetero Labs to produce Gilead's HIV drugs, through Medicines Patent Pool
Hyderabad based Hetero labs through an agreement with Geneva based Medicines Patent Pool will produce four key HIV drugs developed by Gilead Lifesciences.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 31, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Stem Cell Researchers Assess the State of the Technology
Recently, in Nature Reviews, six leading stem cell researchers assessed the current state of stem cell technology and the challenges they face in developing clinical treatments based on the technology. The researchers shared views on the value of engineered stem cells as compared with one derived from embryos, and the potential of reprogramming normal body....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical - July 31, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Autoantibodies damage blood vessels in the brain
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) The presence of specific autoantibodies of the immune system is associated with blood vessel damage in the brain. These findings were made by researchers from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch and the biotech company E.R.D.E.-AAK-Diagnostik GmbH in rats. Their results suggest that autoimmune mechanisms play a significant role in the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer's and vascular dementia.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 31, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Rope a Dope: Drug Testing in Sports Enters a More Aggressive Era
For thousands of world-class athletes, a passport is something they can't forget to pack before heading off to London for the summer Olympic games. But for a few athletes, a different kind of passport is keeping them out of competition entirely. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Chemistry,Society & Policy,Everyday Science,Pharmaceuticals,Psychology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Medical Technology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news
Vapor Trail: Electronic Noses Sniff Bad Breath for Signs of Disease
If the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates diagnosed you with fetor hepaticus (bad liver breath), it would not be an insult but a friendly warning. It meant the scent of your breath indicated you were going into liver failure. Much of ancient Greek medical knowledge has fallen into obscurity, but using the breath as an indicator of health remains. Researchers have for years worked to develop accurate, inexpensive and portable electronic olfactory sensing technology that can be used to detect and monitor asthma , kidney disease , high cholesterol and a number of other conditions. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Technology,Chemistry,Health,Medical Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Infectious Diseases,Biology,More Science Source Type: news
Lignin-Degrading Enzyme Activities
Over the past three decades, the activities of four kinds of enzyme have been purported to furnish the mechanistic foundations for macromolecular lignin depolymerization in decaying plant cell walls. The pertinent fungal enzymes comprise lignin peroxidase (with a relatively high redox potential), manganese peroxidase, an alkyl aryl etherase, and laccase. The peroxidases and laccase, but not the etherase, are expressed extracellularly by white-rot fungi. A number of these microorganisms exhibit a marked preference toward lignin in their degradation of lignocellulose. Interestingly, some white-rot fungi secrete both kinds of...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Laser Microdissection and Genetic Manipulation Technologies to Probe Lignin Heterogeneity and Configuration in Plant Cell Walls
Single and multiple T-DNA knockouts of genes encoding arogenate dehydratases (ADTs) in Arabidopsis were obtained in homozygous form. These were analyzed for potential differences in lignin contents and compositions, as well as for distinct phenotypes over growth and development. Of these different lines, distinct reductions in lignin contents were obtained, with those having different G:S ratios depending upon the combination of adt genes being knocked out. Results from pyrolysis GC/MS analyses indicated that differential carbon flux occurred into the vascular bundles (vb) and interfascicular fibers (if). These results pro...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Structural Characterization of the Heteroxylans from Poplar and Switchgrass
Heteroxylans are polysaccharides with a backbone composed of 1,4-linked β-d-xylosyl residues. In hardwoods some of these xylosyl residues are substituted at O-2 with 4-O-methyl α-d-glucuronic and occasionally with α-d-glucuronic acid. In grasses, the xylan backbone is predominantly substituted with α-l-arabinofuranosyl residues (most often at O-3, but sometimes at O-2). Grass heteroxylan backbone residues may also have small amounts of α-d-glucuronic acid and/or 4-O-methyl α-d-glucuronic acid at O-2. Heteroxylans have a role in maintaining the structural integrity of the cell walls that c...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Cellulase Processivity
There are two types of processive cellulases, exocellulases and processive endoglucanases. There are also two classes of exocellulases, ones that attack the reducing ends of cellulose chains and ones that attack the nonreducing ends. There are a number of ways of assaying processivity but none of them are ideal. It appears that exocellulases, all of which have their active sites in a tunnel, couple movement along a cellulose chain with cleavage of cellobiose from the end of the cellulose molecule. There are two sets of structures that suggest how an exocellulase might move along a cellulose chain. For family 48 exocellulas...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Analysis of Transgenic Glycoside Hydrolases Expressed in Plants: T. reesei CBH I and A. cellulolyticus EI
Plant cell walls are composed of three basic structural biomolecules: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin with cellulose being the most abundant biopolymer on earth. Cellulose is composed of cellodextrins, which are linear polymers of glucose, and considered to be microcrystalline in structure. The conversion of cellulose to free glucose is one of the primary steps in the fermentative conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. However, the crystalline nature of this complex, noncovalent structure is highly resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis. Thus, the substantial cost currently associated with biomass saccharification p...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Reducing the Effect of Variable Starch Levels in Biomass Recalcitrance Screening
Cell wall recalcitrance is the largest contributor to the high expense of lignocellulose conversion to biofuels (Himmel ME et al., Science 315:804–807, 2007). In response to this problem, researchers at the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) are working to determine the contributing factors of biomass recalcitrance. The primary approach to this is screening large sample sets of genetic and environmental variants of model and feedstock plant species for differences in recalcitrance to combined hydrothermal pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis (Decker S et al., BioEnergy Res 2:179–192, 2009). To handle these large ...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Assessing the Protein Concentration in Commercial Enzyme Preparations
Although a poor indicator of how a cellulase preparation will perform on biomass, the filter paper unit (FPU) still finds wide use in the literature as an apparent measure of performance efficacy. In actuality, the assessment of commercial enzyme preparation performance in terms of biomass conversion or solubilization of insoluble polysaccharides is largely dependent on the substrate composition, which cannot be easily standardized. Commercial cellulase preparations are evaluated based upon their performance or specific activity. The ability to compare commercial enzyme preparation efficacy across a wide variety of differe...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Anaerobic High-Throughput Cultivation Method for Isolation of Thermophiles Using Biomass-Derived Substrates
Flow cytometry (FCM) techniques have been developed for sorting mesophilic organisms, but the difficulty increases if the target microbes are thermophilic anaerobes. We demonstrate a reliable, high-throughput method of screening thermophilic anaerobic organisms using FCM and 96-well plates for growth on biomass-relevant substrates. The method was tested using the cellulolytic thermophiles Clostridium thermocellum (T
opt = 55 °C), Caldicellulosiruptor obsidiansis (T
opt = 78 °C) and the fermentative hyperthermophiles, Pyrococcus furiosus (T
opt = 100 °C) and Thermotoga maritima (T
...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Bioprospecting Metagenomics for New Glycoside Hydrolases
To efficiently deconstruct recalcitrant plant biomass to fermentable sugars in industrial processes, biocatalysts of higher performance and lower cost are required. The genetic diversity found in the metagenomes of natural microbial biomass decay communities may harbor such enzymes. The aim of this chapter is to describe strategies, based on metagenomic approaches, for the discovery of glycoside hydrolases (GHases) from microbial biomass decay communities, especially those from unknown or never-been-cultivated microorganisms.
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Single-Molecule Tracking of Carbohydrate-Binding Modules on Cellulose Using Fluorescence Microscopy
Single-molecule fluorescence detection is an invaluable technique for the study of molecular behavior in biological systems, both in vitro and in vivo. In this chapter, we focus on detailed protocols that utilize Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRF-M) to visualize single molecules of carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) labeled with green fluorescent protein (GFP). The content describes step-by-step sample preparation and data acquisition, processing, and analysis. These methods can also be further used to study interactions between domains of cellulase molecules and between cellulases and cellulose.
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Affinity Electrophoresis as a Method for Determining Substrate-Binding Specificity of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Soluble Polysaccharides
Affinity electrophoresis is a simple and rapid tool for the analysis of protein-binding affinities to soluble polysaccharides. This approach is particularly suitable for the characterization of the carbohydrate-active enzymes that contain a carbohydrate-binding module and for their mutants and chimeras. Knowledge of the binding characteristics of these enzymes can be the first step to elucidate the enzymatic activity of a putative enzyme; moreover in some cases, enzymes are able to bind polysaccharides targets other than their specified substrate, and this knowledge can be essential to understand the basics of the intrinsi...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Bacterial Cadherin Domains as Carbohydrate Binding Modules: Determination of Affinity Constants to Insoluble Complex Polysaccharides
Cadherin (CA) and cadherin-like (CADG) doublet domains from the complex polysaccharide-degrading marine bacterium, Saccharophagus degradans 2–40, demonstrated reversible calcium-dependent binding to different complex polysaccharides, which serve as growth substrates for the bacterium. Here we describe a procedure based on adsorption of CA and CADG doublet domains to different insoluble complex polysaccharides, followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) for visualizing and quantifying the distribution of cadherins between the bound and unbound fractions. Scatchard plots were emplo...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
A Simple Method for Determining Specificity of Carbohydrate-Binding Modules for Purified and Crude Insoluble Polysaccharide Substrates
Experimental identification of carbohydrate-binding modules (CBM) and determination of ligand specificity of each CBM are complementary and compulsory steps for their characterization. Some CBMs are very specific for their primary substrate (e.g., cellulose), whereas others are relatively promiscuous or nonspecific in their substrate preference. Here we describe a simple procedure based on in-tube adsorption of a CBM to various insoluble polysaccharides, followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS PAGE) for determining the distribution of the CBM between the bound and unbound fractions. This ...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
A Method to Evaluate Biomass Accessibility in Wet State Based on Thermoporometry
In this report, a thermoporometry method based on DSC isothermal step procedure is explained in details. This detects the amount of nonfreezing bound water in a wet sample and the value is expressed into pore size distribution with the Gibbs–Thomson equation. Information on pore size distribution and pore volume can be used to evaluate biomass accessibility.
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Immunological Approaches to Plant Cell Wall and Biomass Characterization: Immunolocalization of Glycan Epitopes
Plant cell walls are dynamic structures that show changes in composition and configuration depending on the developmental stage, biotic, and abiotic factors. Therefore, it is necessary to have tools for visualizing the components of the cell wall in situ at any stage. Here, we describe how specific monoclonal antibodies can be used to examine the distribution of plant cell wall glycan epitopes at the whole plant, tissue, cell, and subcellular levels. Understanding the basic cell wall structure is essential for devising efficient strategies to convert cell walls to fermentable sugars for ethanol production.
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Immunological Approaches to Plant Cell Wall and Biomass Characterization: Glycome Profiling
The native complexity of plant cell walls makes research on them challenging. Hence, it is advantageous to have a diversity of tools that can be used to analyze and characterize plant cell walls. In this chapter, we describe one of two immunological approaches that can be employed for screening of plant cell wall/biomass materials from diverse plants and tissues. This approach, Glycome Profiling, lends itself well to moderate to high-throughput screening of plant cell wall/biomass samples. Glycome Profiling is being further optimized to reduce the amount of sample required for the analysis, and to improve the sensitivity a...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Coherent Raman Microscopy Analysis of Plant Cell Walls
Coherent Raman scattering (CRS) microscopy is a label-free method for chemical imaging, as it offers chemical specificity with orders of magnitude better sensitivity than the state-of-the-art confocal Raman scattering microscopy. Currently CRS technique includes coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS), and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). This chapter describes the methods of using CRS microscopy to image major polymers in plant cell wall (i.e., lignin and cellulose). This method can also be used to real-time monitor the chemical processes involved in biomass pretreatment. These together demonstrate CRS as an effect...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Preservation and Preparation of Lignocellulosic Biomass Samples for Multi-scale Microscopy Analysis
Biomass exhibits structural and chemical complexity over multiple size scales, presenting many challenges to the effective characterization of these materials. The macroscopic nature of plants requires that some form of size reduction, such as dissection and microtomy, be performed to prepare samples and reveal features of interest for any microscopic and nanoscopic analyses. These size reduction techniques, particularly sectioning and microtomy, are complicated by the inherent porosity of plant tissue that often necessitates fixation and embedding in a supporting matrix to preserve structural integrity. The chemical struc...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Imaging Cellulose Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Cellulose is an important biopolymer primarily stored as plant cell wall material. Plant-synthesized cellulose forms elementary fibrils that are micrometers in length and 3–5 nm in dimensions. Cellulose is a dynamic structure, and its size and property vary in different cellulose-containing materials. Atomic force microscopy offers the capability of imaging surface structure at the subnanometer resolution and under nearly physiological conditions, therefore providing an ideal tool for cellulose characterization.
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Overview of Computer Modeling of Cellulose
Although it has a deceptively simple primary structure, the collective organization of bulk cellulose, particularly as it exists in cellulose fibers in the cell walls of living plants and other organisms, is quite diverse and complex. While some experimental techniques, such as vibrational spectroscopy and diffraction from partially crystalline samples, are able to provide insights into the organization of bulk cellulose, its intrinsic complexity has left many questions still unanswered. For this reason, additional probes of cellulose structure would be highly desirable. With the continuing advances in computer power throu...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Challenges for Assessing the Performance of Biomass Degrading Biocatalysts
Common analytical challenges impact current work to estimate the cost of converting plant biomass to fermentable sugars. The most noteworthy are measuring cellulase and hemicellulase activities, cellulase and hemicellulase protein, biomass compositions (before and after pretreatment), and the products formed. The use of high-throughput (HTP) methods has shown considerable promise for improving both analytical precision and technician efficiency, but can also present pitfalls regarding experimental accuracy and relevance. Recent work demonstrates that HTP systems which include biomass composition analysis, thermal chemical ...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biotechnology - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Are Stem Cells Delivering on Their Potential Therapeutic Benefits?
Since stem cells have the potential to become almost any cell in the body, these cells offer tremendous potential to repair damage from serious injuries and degenerative diseases. However, stem cell treatments seem to be taking a while to develop....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical - July 30, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Hard work pays off for Wockhardt: Habil Khorakiwala
Wockhardt has about 70% of its sales accruing from overseas, mostly the US. Hedging is par for the course for companies with forex exposure.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 29, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Companies like Eli Lilly, Biocon & Cadila oppose move to cut margin on insulin
Insulin brands are set to appeal against the drug price regulator's decision to further squeeze their profit margins on the diabetes medicine.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 29, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Chilli used by Indian army in weaponry is hot property for poor farmers
Military's demand for bhut jolokia, once the world's hottest chilli, is offering thousands of Assam farmers a way out of poverty"Look at this," said Dr Anuj Baruah, holding up a vial containing a few drops of rusty red liquid. "With this I could make you senseless." His nose started twitching; his eyes watered. "Oh dear. I think I may have got some on my fingers," he said, looking remarkably unconcerned that his skin had touched something the Indian government has developed into a biological weapon."I know what happens. Your brain starts to not work properly, you become restless … " He scurried off, returning a few minut...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 29, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Helen Pidd Tags: The Guardian India World news Food & drink Weapons technology Life and style Science Source Type: news
Culture Systems: Embryo Co-Culture
During the 1970s, domestic animal biotechnology, i.e., embryo transfer in farm animals, was confronted with the problem of embryonic developmental arrest observed in vitro, especially during the cycle in which maternal to zygotic transition (MZT) cycle takes place. In farm animals, obtaining blastocysts is mandatory, as transfer at earlier stages results in expulsion of the embryo from the vagina. In humans, the first attempts to obtain blastocysts with classical culture media were disappointing, and the use of a coculture strategy was naturally tempting: the first significant results of successful blastocyst development w...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Cell Biology - July 28, 2012 Category: Cytology Source Type: news
Antidepressants Zoloft and Prozac Are Also Antimicrobials
Two recent articles in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy demonstrate how most drugs have multiple activities. The antidepressant Prozac was discovered to be an effective antiviral, and another antidepressant, Zoloft, has an antifungal activity. The drugs were included in large chemical libraries that were screened to find compounds with antiviral or antifungal activities....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical - July 28, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
High-Throughput Sequencing of the Methylome Using Two-Base Encoding
Methylation of Cytosine together with other epigenetic traits plays an important role in the development and regulation of both healthy and diseased cells. Changes in the methylation patterns have been shown to be associated with the development of cancer, growth, neurodevelopmental, and endocrine disorders (Laird PW, Nat Rev Genet 11:191–203, 2010; Tost J, Mol Biotechnol 44:71–81, 2010; Zuo T et al., Epigenomics 1:331–345, 2009). Thus, studying the methylation pattern can give important insights to the underlying causes of disease and development. A method for studying the methylome on a single base reso...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Bioinformatics - July 27, 2012 Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: news
Biotech Distributor BDI Pharma Launches New Mobile Website
Custom interfaces for mobile phones and tablet devices create user-friendly options for accessing resources while on the go.(PRWeb July 25, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/7/prweb9732123.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - July 27, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
USFDA lifts ban on Dr Reddy's Laboratories' Mexico plant
Drug firm Dr Reddy's Laboratories today said the US health regulator has lifted an import alert issued on its Mexico-based subsidiary.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 27, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
FDA Oks Horizon Pharma's Time-Release Painkiller
[Chicago
Tribune]
From Chicago Tribune (IL) (July 27, 2012)
July 26--The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave the
suburban biotech company Horizon Pharma Inc. the thumbs up on a...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 27, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
India considering price controls for patented drugs to make them affordable
A committee has already finalised a proposal which wil be put out in the public domain, secretary of department of pharma said.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 27, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
US doublespeak on patent waiver bared; resorts to its liberal use
Temporary importation of unapproved foreign drugs is considered in rare cases when there is a shortage of an approved drug that is critical to patients.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 26, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Bio-Path initiates enrolment in fourth dosage cohort of Phase I leukemia trial
Bio-Path Holdings, a biotechnology company, has started patient enrollment in the fourth dosage cohort of Phase I clinical trial of BP-100.1.01 (Liposomal Grb-2) in leukemias.
Source: Drug Development Technology - July 26, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Early HIV Treatment Might Save Livelihoods as Well as Lives
People can work more when their ailments are treated. And HIV is no exception. Adults who tested positive for HIV in Uganda but had a less severe infection were able to work more hours per week, and their kids were more likely to be in school, according to findings presented July 26 at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C . [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 26, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Society & Policy,Everyday Science,Pharmaceuticals,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Infectious Diseases,Medical Technology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news
