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Biotherapeutics - news, views, reports and blogs

The field encompassing therapeutic materials produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology. Latest Biotherapeutics News - RSS feed - Twitter account - @Biotherapeutic1 -...

Collaborations in biotechnology

Commercial and academic collaborations are used throughout the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector to enhance research and product development. Latest Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Collabor...

Biosimilars - news, reports, views and blogs

Biosimilars or Follow-on biologics are terms used to describe officially approved subsequent versions of innovator biopharmaceutical products made by a different sponsor following patent and exclusi...

Diagnostics - news, views, blogs

A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease. For example: to diagnose diseases to measure the progress or recovery from disease...

Epidemiology and Genetics of Myopic Refractive Error

This new study gives a detailed overview of the genetics of myopic refrative error and how the disease presents and evolves. Expert Review of Ophthalmology

Lucentis improves myopic choroidal neovascularization

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's Novartis said on Wednesday new data for Lucentis demonstrated its benefits in treating myopic choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathological myopia, which...

StemCells gene/cell therapy news

StemCells Awarded Broad U.S. Patent Covering Expandable Liver Cells

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - StemCells Inc. (STEM) announced the issuance of U.S. Patent Number 8,283,164 titled 'Liver engrafting cells, assays, and uses thereof.'The patent broadly covers purified pop...

StemCells, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) neurology news

StemCells Cuts 30% of Staff

StemCells Inc., the Palo Alto, CA-based developer of regenerative medicines, said today it has cut 30 percent of its U.S. workforce to conserve cash while it runs trials of its treatment for spinal co...

StemCells wins $20m CIRM award for Alzheimer's disease program

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $20m to StemCells under CIRM's Disease Team Therapy Development Award program (RFA 10-05).

Characteristics of intrachoroidal cavitation located temporal to optic disc in highly myopic eyes

Characteristics of intrachoroidal cavitation located temporal to optic disc in highly myopic eyes Eye advance online publication, March 8 2013. doi:10.1038/eye.2013.16 Authors: K Ohno-Matsu...

The latest news in fuel cells and batteries.

A Screen for Conditional Growth Suppressor Genes Identifies the Drosophila Homolog of HD-PTP as a Regulator of the Oncoprotein Yorkie.

Mammalian cancers depend on "multiple hits," some of which promote growth and some of which block apoptosis. We screened for mutations that require a synergistic block in apoptosis to promote tissue o...

Bulletin Board: Highlighting the latest news and research in microbiology.

Comparing myopic progression of urban and rural Taiwanese schoolchildren.

PURPOSE: To compare myopic progression rates in Taiwanese schoolchildren between urban and rural areas. METHODS: Several longitudinal studies of myopic progression were performed in urban and rural ar...

Hearing Bad News.

Personal reports of receiving bad news provide data that describes patients' comprehension, reflections, experienced emotions, and an interpretative commentary with the wisdom of hindsight. Analysis o...