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H7N9 Bird Flu Virus

Avian influenza A H7 viruses are a group of influenza viruses that normally circulate among birds. The avian influenza A(H7N9) virus is one subgroup among the larger group of H7 viruses. Although so...

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 4 (mGluR4)

Metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GRM4 gene. Together with GRM6, GRM7 and GRM8 it belongs to group III of the metabotropic glutamate receptor famil...

Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy is a group of degenerative inherited disorders causing muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue. The different types are Becker muscular dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, E...

Blood Transfusion

When a patient has had a serious accident and lost a lot of blood, or has a blood disorder, their own blood can be replaced with blood that has been donated by other people. Because of the differe...

Charlie Morris appointed to Almac’s executive team

The Almac Group’s Clinical Technologies business unit announces that Charlie Morris has joined the company as Vice President of New Products and Services.  In this role, Mr. Morris will report dire...

Almac opens new non-GMP plant and says 'send us your CV!'

Almac Group says high demand for potent tabs and liquids was driving forces in creation of its new $10.5 million facilities.

Almac secures new discovery programme with UCL

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

Almac to host clinical trial workshop series

The Almac Group is hosting its third international series of complimentary workshops this spring, titled “Protocol to Patient: Managing Clinical Supplies in an Evolving Marketplace.”

DSM Pharmaceutical, Almac sign manufacturing agreement in biocatalysis

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, has entered into a collaboration agreement in biocatalysis with the Almac Group to provide sustainable manuf...

Almac signs collaboration agreement with DSM in the field of biocatalysis

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, announced today that it has signed a collaboration agreement with the Almac Group Ltd. (UK) in the field of...

Almac teams with DSM on biocatalysis and ramps up API capacity

Demand for larger-scale, sustainable API manufacturing capacity is a key strategy driver for Almac if developments this week are an indication.

Almac Discovery announces licensing of ALM201 to Shin Poong for development and marketing in South Korea

Almac Discovery today announced the licensing of its novel anti-angiogenic peptide ALM201 to Shin Poong Pharmaceutical Company Ltd for clinical development and marketing in South...

9-Aminoacridine peptide derivatives as versatile reporter systems for use in fluorescence lifetime assays.

A novel long lifetime fluorescence reporter based on 9-aminoacridine was designed, the lifetime of which can be modulated in a defined manner when in proximity to a tryptophan residue enabling fluores...

Design and Synthesis of Conformationally Constrained Cyclophilin Inhibitors Showing a Cyclosporin-A Phenotype in C. elegans.

Cyclophilin A (CypA) is a member of the immunophilin family of proteins and receptor for the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A (CsA). Here we describe the design and synthesis of a new class of sma...

Evolutionarily stable in-group favoritism and out-group spite in intergroup conflict.

We study conflict between two groups of individuals. Using Schaffer's (1988) concept of evolutionary stability we provide an evolutionary underpinning for in-group altruism combined with spiteful beha...

Influence of age at first lambing on reproductive and productive performance of Lacaune dairy sheep under an intensive management system.

The present study investigated the effect of age at first lambing (AFL) on the performance of Lacaune sheep under intensive management conditions. Records from 3088 maiden sheep from one farm, for the...

Report: Treatment of Nigella sativa in experimental sepsis model in rats.

This experimental study was designed to determine effects of Nigella sativa oil (NSO) on endothelin-1 (ET-1) level and oxidative stress parameters, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA)...