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Vicious cycle: Obesity sustained by changes in brain biochemistry

(Brown University) In a new discovery reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Brown University and Lifespan researchers show that in the brain cells of rats, obesity impedes the production of a hormone that curbs appetite and inspires calori...

Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era

Fluids trapped as inclusions within minerals can be billions of years old and preserve a record of the fluid chemistry and environment at the time of mineralization. Aqueous fluids that have had a similar residence time at mineral interfaces and in f...

BioConference Live Hosts High Level Speakers from UCSF at Their Virtual Conference in May

The 4th Annual BioConference Live Clinical Diagnostics Virtual Conference presents cutting-edge research in clinical diagnostics May 29-31, 2013. Yorba Linda, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 BioConference Live is a premiere producer of online conferences aimed at covering a variety of science verticals, including Clinical Diagnostics, Genetics & Genomics, Cancer Research & Discovery, and Laborato...

Atlantic Peptides Teams Up with a United Kingdom Company to Offer cGMP Peptides and API

Atlantic Peptides LLC, a leader in custom synthetic peptide chemistry service announced today the collaboration with a United Kingdom company to offer cGMP peptides and API. Scarborough, ME (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Atlantic Peptides LLC, a leader in custom synthetic peptide chemistry service announced today the collaboration with a United Kingdom company to offer cGMP peptides and API. The facility...

Director of Proteomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Steven Carr, to Deliver Pittcon 2014 Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that Steven Carr, director of proteomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will deliver the Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture at PIttcon 2014. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Dr. Carr is internationally recognized as a leader in the development of novel proteomics methods and in their application in biology and medicine. Dr. Carr...

BioDuro Opens State-of-the-Art Discovery Lab in Shanghai

New facility offers customized portfolio of services to meet expanding client demand BioDuro, A PPD® Company, today announced it has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Shanghai, strengthening its ability to provide biopharmaceutical clients an extensive range of customized drug discovery services in Asia Pacific. The new lab also enabl...

Almac secures new discovery programme with UCL

BBRSC programme combines chemistry and biochemical engineering at UCL with Almac s biocatalysis group

BASF And Dyadic International Enter Into A Research And License Agreement

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany and JUPITER, Fla., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BASF (BAS.DE) and Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTC Pink: DYAI) announced today that the two Companies have entered into a non-exclusive worldwide research and license agreement.  (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110621/CL06708LOGO )  (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130515/CL13970LO...

PharmaDirections is Co-inventor on Second Issued Formulation Patent Entitled “Layered Pharmaceutical Formulations”

PharmaDirections is pleased to announce that United States Patent 8,318,788 has been issued for “Layered Pharmaceutical Formulations”. This was a second patent that was a result of a collaborative formulation development effort between the scientists at Orexigen, PharmaDirections and their sub-contractors. Cary, NC (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 PharmaDirections has added another issued patent to their...

Point of Care Diagnostics Market Research Report Submitted by Transparency Market Research

Albany, NY, May 15, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Point of care (POC) diagnostics comprises of diagnostic tests that are performed at the patient site. POC diagnostics provides fast results which in turn help in faster patient management. The present POC diagnostics market already sports a number of products with several new products in the development stage. The worldwide diagnostics market is experiencing...

Kyoto University iCeMS to Co-Organize World Stem Cell Summit, San Diego, Ca., Dec. 4-6, 2013

Japan researchers and industry leaders to make major contribution at largest interdisciplinary stem cell meeting The Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) announced that the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) will again serve as a co-organizing institution for the World Stem Cell Summit. The 2013 Summit is schedul...

Anacor Pharmaceuticals: Should Retail Follow Institutions On This Biotech?

By EnhydrisPECorp:Anacor Pharmaceuticals (ANAC) has nosedived over the past week of trading with shares down over 14%. Nevertheless, analysts and institutions alike have placed rather optimistic price targets on the stock that are more than double its current levels (see below). In fact, institutions have bought up nearly 60% of the float ahead of the company's New Drug Application (NDA) for tavab...

Merck KGaA

Merck KGaA  is a top pharmaceutical company based in Darmstadt, Germany. The company was founded in 1668 and is the oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world. Merck stands for innovative therapies – both from the pharmaceutical chemistry and in biotechnology. The company has four core business divisions; all focused on advancing innovations that provide [...]The post Merck KG...

Evonik Industries Selects OPX Biotechnologies for Joint Development of Bio-Based Chemicals

BOULDER, Colo. and ESSEN, Germany, May, 14 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) and Evonik Industries AG today announced the two companies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals. The joint-development agreement signed May 3rd 2013 calls for OPXBIO to use its proprietary EDGE™ (Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering) tec...

Zosano Pharma, Inc. Appoints Nandan Oza as Chief Operations Officer

FREMONT, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zosano Pharma, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company developing products based on its novel transdermal delivery technology, announced today a key addition to its executive team with the appointment of Nandan Oza as the company's Chief Operations Officer. In this position, Mr. Oza will guide the company's efforts in manufacturing, quality...

HFMA Elects Florida Blue's Jonathan Gavras to Board of Directors

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) — the nation's largest and leading membership organization for healthcare finance professionals — has elected Jonathan B. Gavras, M.D., to its Board of Directors for the 2013-16 term, effective June 1, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.pr

ComInnex Aims to Create Novel Chemicals for Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics and Fine Chemical Applications

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY -- (Marketwired) -- 05/14/13 -- ComInnex, Inc., a privately held contract research and integrated discovery chemistry service organization announced today that its innovative project, "Development of a flow chemistry and pyrolysis platform for pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agrochemical applications in combination with novel nanoformulation processes," gained support from the Na...

Diagnosic Technology Improved By Chemistry Breakthrough

From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current c...

Ognjen Miljanic first from UH to be selected a Cottrell Scholar

(University of Houston) Ognjen Miljanic, assistant professor of chemistry, is the first University of Houston faculty member to be selected as a 2013 Cottrell Scholar. Miljanic is this year's only recipient from Texas. His research aims to better imi...

American Chemical Society podcast: Green chemistry mobile app

(American Chemical Society) The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustai...

Bacterium counteracts 'coffee ring effect'

(KU Leuven) Ever notice how a dried coffee stain has a thicker outer rim, while the middle of the stain remains almost unsoiled? This 'coffee ring effect' also occurs in other materials. Researchers from the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Ch...

WuXi PharmaTech Announces First-Quarter 2013 Results

SHANGHAI, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: WX), a leading research and development outsourcing company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, with operations in China and the United States, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013.  Highlights Net Revenues Increased 11.7% Year Over Year to $131....

Biotage and Peptide Synthesis

Uppsala, Sweden, May 13, 2013 / B3C newswire / - CEM Corporation, a competitor of Biotage (STO: BIOT), recently published a press release claiming to have won a “patent dispute” with Biotage. The so called “patent dispute” relates to Biotage’s filing of opposition against certain patents of CEM in Europe* (Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain) and Japan**, becaus...

New Test for H7N9 Avian Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic

Breaking research appearing online today in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, demonstrates that a recently developed diagnostic test can detect the new strain of influenza (H7N9) currently causing an outbreak in China. Since the end of March, 31 people have died from H7N9 infection, and the number of confirmed cases has climbed to 129.

Engineering for the 21st century: Synthetic Biology

For years, scientists have hoped that biology would find its engineering counterpart – a series of principles that could be used as reliably as chemical engineering is for chemistry. Thanks to major advances in synthetic biology, those hopes may so...