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Combo Of Heat Shock Protein Inhibitor And Hormonal Therapy Being Tested In Breast Cancer Clinical TrialPushed to the brink of survival, the hyper-driven cells of a cancerous tumor tap into an ancient system that has helped organisms cope with internal stresses and environmental challenges since life began. As an integral part of this system, heat shoc...

Get Involved: the Salary Survey is Now Open for Life ScienceHelp The Scientist compile the latest data on salaries within the life-science community. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 The Scientist’s annual Salary Survey is now open to the life science community. With the help of researchers, the magazine provides insights into how salaries from various specialties and fields range in this dynamic industry. Responses are used to compile the most up-...

Vertex's Cystic Fibrosis Drug Kalydeco Given Green Light By EU's Scientific Advisory PanelVertex's cystic fibrosis product Kalydeco is one of five new molecular entities given a positive opinion by Europe's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on May 25, which also included Almirall's novel COPD therapy aclidinium and Novo Nordi...

Oxidation reaction is first-ever with well-defined alignment, spinAn important chemical species, molecular oxygen is linear, has an anisotropic shape, and spins from two unpaired electrons. However, until now, we didn’t know how these properties influenced important oxidation reactions. Researchers in Japan h...

MDxHealth: Annual and Extraordinary General Shareholders’ MeetingRegulatory News: MDxHealth SA (NYSE Euronext: MDXH), a leading molecular diagnostic company that develops and commercializes epigenetic tests to support cancer treatment, held its Annual and Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders in Zaventem today. The shareholders approved all agenda items of the Annual General Meeting, including th...

New Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Discussed in Open-to-Public TeleconferenceOn Thursday, May 24, 2012, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso Foundation) hosted Dr. Raffit Hassan from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in an interview about his most recent clinical trial for pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma patients. The call was part of the organization’s “Meet the Experts” series. Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Last night, as part of the “M...

TB4 Provides Both Neuroprotection and Neurorestoration When Administered Shortly after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rat ModelRegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RGRX) (“the Company” or “RegeneRx”) reported that data showing that Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4) “provides both neuroprotection and neurorestoration after traumatic brain injury (TBI),” was published in the current (May 2012) edition of the Journal of Neurosurgery, 116:1081–1092. As re...

Bone: An Endocrine Organ?Prior to 1964, bone was thought to be an inert, static storage depot for calcium crystal in the body. In that year, Dr. Harold Frost introduced the revolutionary hypothesis that bone was actually a very dynamic system that was constantly being remodeled in response to mechanical and gravitational stress. Today at the American Association of Clinical Endocr...

11 Scientists Funded to Move Arthritis Research ForwardEleven cutting-edge scientists researching arthritis have been awarded grants totaling $810,000 by the Arthritis National Research Foundation. Moving arthritis research forward with new, innovative ideas. Long Beach, CA (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Eleven scientists researching arthritis were recently awarded grants totaling $810,000 by the Arthritis National Research Foundation. With 50 million America...

Oncobiologics Fills Key Leadership Positions and Names Scientific Advisory BoardCRANBURY, N.J., May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncobiologics, Inc. announced today that it has filled two important leadership positions with established biopharmaceutical industry experts. Stephen J. McAndrew, Ph.D. is now Vice President, Business Development and Vincent J. Benn, Ph.D. has joined the company as Vice President, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs. The company also announced its n...

DNA evidence shows that marine reserves help to sustain fisheriesResearchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helping to sustain valuable Australian fisheries. The international team of scientists applied a forens...

Would You Like a Side of Dirt with That?In the fall of 2009 a group of biology students at Tufts University sat down together and ate some dirt. They ground up small clay tablets and swallowed the powder to find out, firsthand, what clay tastes like. This unusual taste test was part of a D...

EPSRC to help researchers in synthetic biology to establish platform technologyThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will help the UK's world-leading researchers in synthetic biology to establish platform technology in the emerging field with a new grant of almost -5 million. Platform technology is the...

Cepheid to launch Xpert CT/NG and Xpert CT in Europe for rapid detection, differentiation of chlamydia & gonorrhoeaeCepheid, a leading molecular diagnostics company, has received CE marking for Xpert CT/NG and Xpert CT. The company announced that the shipment is expected to begin immediately.

Scientists discover how microglia detect the site of injuryLike emergency workers rushing to a disaster scene, cells called microglia speed to places where the brain has been injured, to contain the damage by 'eating up' any cellular debris and dead or dying neurons. Scientists at the European Molecular Biol...

Picture release: More than meets the eye(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Images of the cell's transport pods, produced at EMBL Heidelberg, revealed a molecular version of the robots from Transformers, published online today in Science.

Researchers Detect Predictive Biomarkers Of The Fertilizing Capacity Of Sperm DonorsThe study represents a breakthrough in understanding the causes of unexplained infertility The diagnosis of male fertility is usually performed through the observation of the sperm in the microscope. However, normal quality semen does not guarantee a...

FDA Advisory Committee Finds Data Support Effectiveness of Tafamidis Meglumine, Pfizer’s Novel Investigational Treatment for Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP)Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee voted on Pfizer’s clinical data package for tafamidis meglumine. Tafamidis is a novel, investigational, oral therapy for the treatment of Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) in...

When nanoparticles become “artificial atoms”The contention of a major but controversial new theory to explain nanocrystal growth is that nanoparticles can act as “artificial atoms,” forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures. The conclusion is base...

Microorganism ID: Bacteria Identification Service by Altogen LabsAltogen Labs CRO, a preclinical contract research laboratory, announced its launch of microorganism ID bacteria identification service today. Microorganism identification and bioinformatic sequence characterization services are avail

Attractive and repulsive Fermi polarons in two dimensionsThe dynamics of a single impurity in an environment is a fundamental problem in many-body physics. In the solid state, a well known case is an impurity coupled to a bosonic bath (such as lattice vibrations); the impurity and its accompanying lattice...

Metastability and coherence of repulsive polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi mixtureUltracold Fermi gases with tunable interactions provide a test bed for exploring the many-body physics of strongly interacting quantum systems. Over the past decade, experiments have investigated many intriguing phenomena, and precise measurements of...

Transgenomic Acquires Clinical Sample Biorepository from Gene LogicTransgenomic, Inc. (OTCBB: TBIO) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Gene Logic, Inc., an Ocimum Biosolutions Company, to acquire its biorepository assets for $250,000 in cash. The biorepository contains thousands of human biological samples that can be used to validate diagnostic assays developed by Transgenomic. Transgenomic will use th...

Vertex Appoints David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., to its Board of DirectorsVertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., joined its board of directors as an independent director. Dr. Altshuler was appointed to the class of directors whose term expires in 2015. With the addition of Dr. Altshuler, the Vertex board consists of 9 members.

Myriad and Intermountain Healthcare to Collaborate on Molecular DiagnosticsMyriad Genetics, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, and Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit organization that provides affordable medical care, have signed...

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