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Life Sciences And Analytical Reagents Market - New Industry Research Report is Now Available for Pre-Order at Transparency Market Research

A recently added market report by Transparency Market Research on “Life Sciences And Analytical Reagents Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, And Forecast, 2012 - 2018” is now available for pre-order. To browse the report, visit http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/life-sciences-reagents-analytical-reagents.html. Albany, New York (PRWEB) May 25, 2013 Life scien...

Doctors Health Press Reports on Study: Virus’ Reaction to Vaccine Discovered Using Genome Sequencing

Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new study finding how a virus reacts in the presence of a vaccine using genome sequencing. Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 25, 2013 Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing...

Vaccine For Heroin Shows Promise

Scientists say they have seen successful testing of a new vaccine against heroin in lab rats.

[Jennerex] closes $21.6mm late round

In what appears to be its Series F round, [Jennerex Biotherapeutics Inc.] (vaccinia-based cancer vaccines) has raised $21.6mm from undisclosed investors. Since inception, the company has raised over $50mm through six rounds, with most of the proceeds...

Lab Notes: Doubt Cast on Alzheimer's Tx

(MedPage Today) -- Four groups said they could not replicate last year's electrifying finding that a cancer drug cleared beta amyloid plaques from the brains of mice. Also this week: nanoparticles as a next-gen flu vaccine.

Nanoparticles take us “on the road” to universal flu vaccine

A research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US have published research in Nature that seems promising in bringing [...]

Pharmaceutical companies are hiring a little help, and joining with Third Party Logistics (3PL), but are they abandoning too much control over their business

The new report states that use of 3PL companies is a growing trend in the global pharmaceutical supply chain, as cost cutting measures encourage businesses to use outside companies, who can offer services at competitive prices. However, while Direct to Pharmacy (DTP) and Reduced Wholesaler Agreements (RWA) models play a vital role in the UK, other EU countries are boosting their direct sales, an...

BD to Present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Conference

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it will present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Conference on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 10:40 a.m. (ET). A live webcast of BD's presentation can be accessed from the BD corporate website at www.bd.com/investors and...

Cancer vaccine

A cancer vaccine is a vaccine that treats existing cancer or prevents the development of cancer in certain high-risk individuals. Vaccines that treat existing cancer are known as therapeutic cancer vaccines. There are currently no vaccines able to prevent cancer in general. Some types of cancer, such as cervical cancer and some liver cancers, are [...]The post Cancer vaccine appeared first on .

Micro-sphere based methods for detecting HIV antibodies

Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture...

New Research Advances Development of Universal Flu Vaccine

A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. The vaccine concept, which was developed by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), represents an important

Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV

New research highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves the use of cytomegalovirus as a vector to help a vaccine better instruct T cells h...

Pfizer Inc: Re-entry to the OTC healthcare market

MarketLine have recently launched a new report - "Pfizer Inc: Re-entry to the OTC healthcare market" Introduction Pfizer, Inc. was originally founded as fine chemicals business. Following a series of product developments and M&A deals the company is now present in 180 countries around the world, and its portfolio includes human and animal biologic, small molecule medicines, vac...

Low-Income, Minority Parents More Open to HPV Vaccine for Girls, Study Says

FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Low-income, minority parents have more realistic views about their teens' sexual activity and are more open to vaccinating their daughters against the cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), a small new...

GSK awarded up to $200 million by US Government to develop new antibiotics

GlaxoSmithKline plc and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have agreed to establish a collaboration that will support the development of several antibiotic...

Sanofi restructures research activities

A French ministerial mission has presented the conclusions of its report with respect to the Sanofi Research site in Toulouse, France, confirming the necessity to reorganise its operations and open up its activities to include external collaborations...

Heska Corporation To Present At The Second Annual Marcum LLP MicroCap Conference

LOVELAND, Colo., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Heska Corporation (NASDAQ: HSKA, "Heska" or the "Company"), a leading provider of veterinary diagnostic and specialty products, announced today that Dr. Robert Grieve, the Company's chairman and chief executive officer, and Jason Napolitano, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the Second Annual Marcum MicroCap Con...

Sinovac Beijing receives GMP certificate for its proprietary vaccines

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that Sinovac Beijing, the main operating subsidiary company of Sinovac, obtained the Certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Products (G...

Sinovac Beijing Obtains China GMP Certificate Under the New GMP Guidelines

BEIJING, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that Sinovac Beijing, the main operating subsidiary company of Sinovac, obtained the Certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Products (GMP Certificate) from the China State and Food Administration (CFDA) for its proprietary vacci...

Findings highlight importance of IL-21 in the development of antiviral vaccines

Scientists at Emory Vaccine Center have shown that an immune regulatory molecule called IL-21 is needed for long-lasting antibody responses in mice against viral infections.

Novel multiplex immunoassay approach to capture HIV antibodies

Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies and can measure even small amounts of...

New Pneumococcal Vaccine Appears To Be As Safe As Previously Used Vaccine

The new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) appears to be as safe as the previous version used prior to 2010, the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in Vaccine. The U.S. Food...

Promising Early Results For Use Of Poliovirus Vaccine In Recurrent Glioblastoma

An attack on glioblastoma brain tumor cells that uses a modified poliovirus is showing encouraging results in an early study to establish the proper dose level, researchers at Duke Cancer Institute report. The treatment, developed at Duke and tested...

OHSU research highlights promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV

(Oregon Health & Science University) A new discovery at Oregon Health and Science University highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves th...

NHS accused of incompetence over Tamiflu stockpiling

The NHS has been accused of "shocking incompetence" after it wrote off £74m worth of influenza vaccine doses when they became unusable after being stored incorrectly. The chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Marga...