Exon Skipping in development for DMD

The dystrophin gene is the largest gene in the body, consisting of 79 exons. Exons are small sequences of genetic code which, via an intermediate step involving RNA, lead to the assembly of sections...

Mobius Therapeutics receives HCPCS code for Mitosol

HCPCS code for mitomycin for solution (Mitosol) created for billing Medicare, private insurance providers.

Cytomedix (OTCQX: CMXI) Assignment of HCPCS code establishes reimbursement mechanism

CMS has issued reimbursement coding and claims payment instructions   Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been issued reimbursement coding and claims payment instructions to its...

Mobius Therapeutics(TM) Announces Assignment of HCPCS Code for Mitosol(R)

ST. LOUIS, MO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/08/12 -- Mobius Therapeutics, LLC announced today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned a product-specific Healthcare Common Procedures...

CMS Issues Reimbursement Coding for Autologous PRP in Chronic Non-Healing Wounds

Cytomedix Inc., a regenerative therapies company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell technologies, announced in a press release that the Center for Medicare & Me...

PitchStone Health Launches Free Online ICD-9 & ICD-10 Lookup

Online medical coding software provider, PitchStone Health, is now offering their acclaimed ICD-9 & ICD-10 lookup tools for free. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) September 28, 2012 Continuing in their commit...

JPMA To Develop New Code Of Practice For All Employees

Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association President Isao Teshirogi spoke at a press briefing on Nov. 14, saying that in addition to a promotion code for salespersons of pharmaceutical companies,...

Pregnancy Coding: It's All in the Delivery

Ask a coder to code a pregnancy chart and one can expect mixed emotions depending on which coder is asked. Often, a coder either loves or hates to code pregnancy charts. For coders who lean toward the...

Molecular code for destroying or correcting defective RNA is cracked

Scientists have cracked a molecular code that may open the way to destroying or correcting defective gene products, such as those that cause genetic disorders in humans. A Combinatorial Amino Acid Cod...

Doxorubicin induces senescence and impairs function of human cardiac progenitor cells.

The increasing population of cancer survivors faces considerable morbidity and mortality due to late effects of the antineoplastic therapy. Cardiotoxicity is a major limiting factor of therapy with do...

An Alternative Look at Code Evolution: Using Non-canonical Codes to Evaluate Adaptive and Historic Models for the Origin of the Genetic Code.

The canonical code has been shown many times to be highly robust against point mutations; that is, mutations that change a single nucleotide tend to result in similar amino acids more often than expec...

Instituting Code Blue Drills in the OR.

A code blue in the OR is a low-volume, high-risk event. To be effective during a code blue event, perioperative personnel must be able to properly execute a response plan and perform seldom-used skill...

Code Generation: A Strategy for Neural Network Simulators.

We demonstrate a technique for the design of neural network simulation software, runtime code generation. This technique can be used to give the user complete flexibility in specifying the mathematica...

Expanding the genetic code of an animal.

Genetic code expansion, for the site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins, is currently limited to cultured cells and unicellular organisms. Here we expand the genetic code of...