IFNα-Kinoid

Lupus : A major unmet medical need Lupus is a chronic and severe autoimmune disease in which the immune system produces antibodies to cells within the body leading to widespread inflammation and t...

CD20 Antibodies

The chimeric anti-CD20 antibody rituximab (Rituxan & MabThera) from Biogen Idec and Genentech/Roche is one of the world’s commercially most successful antibodies (2007 sales of over US$ 5 bl...

Blood - news, views, reports and blogs

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's cells (in animals) – such as nutrients and oxygen – and transports waste products away from those...

Eligard

Eligard® is a hormone compound for the treatment of advanced, hormone-dependent prostate cancer. The active ingredient (leuprolide acetate) significantly reduces the level of the male sex hormon...

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Nabi

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human), Nabi-HB, is a sterile solution of immunoglobulin (5 1 percent protein) containing antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs). It is prepared from plasma...

Are Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails Dangerous?

An 18-year-old British woman was out celebrating in a wine bar on 4th October 2012, drank a liquid nitrogen cocktail, became very ill with severe abdominal pain and shortness of breath and was admitte...

Teen has stomach removed after liquid nitrogen cocktail

British surgeons removed a teenager's stomach to save her life after she drank a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen during a night out with friends, police said.

UK nitrogen cocktail drinker has stomach removed

LONDON (Reuters) - British surgeons removed a teenager's stomach to save her life after she drank a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen during a night out with friends, police said.

Oceanography: The trouble with the bubble

Past studies have suggested that the ocean's nitrogen budget has a deficit of fixed nitrogen. This view may now change, thanks to upward revisions of the rate of nitrogen input through biological acti...

Unusual symbiosis found between algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Emerging from the investigation of a mysterious nitrogen-fixing microbe that has a very small genome, an international team of investigators has found that certain type of photosynthetic bacteria not...

Laundry additive helps bust pollution

Plans are now proceeding to commercialize a new liquid laundry additive called CatClo, which contains microscopic pollution-eating particles. The chemical, developed in the U.K., contains nanoparticle...

New carbon accounting method to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use

In 2011, corn was planted on more than 92 million acres in the U.S. Because corn is a nitrogen-loving plant, farmers must use synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to their fields every year to achieve the...

Biogeochemistry: The depths of nitrogen cycling

Breakdown of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean had been thought to be the preserve of microbes at the surface. The discovery that these microbes are not up to the task calls for a reassessment o...

Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Capsules via Poly(ionic liquid)-Based Layer-by-Layer Assembly.

Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique is applied for the first time for the preparation of nitrogen-doped carbon capsules. This approach uses colloid silica as template and two polymeric deposition...

Boron and nitrogen-rich carbons from ionic liquid precursors with tailorable surface properties.

A novel strategy for tailoring the adsorption and structural properties of ionic liquid derived carbons has been developed. By changing the carbonization temperature and ratios of ionic liquids (ILs)...

Off-label Medication Use in the NICU.

MANY INFANTS CARED FOR IN the NICU receive at least one drug that is used off label.1 This column explains what off-label use means, describes the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and the Pediatr...

An exclusion list based label-free proteome quantification approach using an LTQ Orbitrap.

Label-based mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for large-scale protein identification and quantification. However, it requires the chemical or metabolic incorporation of the labeled compound(s) whic...

Enhancing the value of nitrogen from rapeseed meal for microbial oil production.

Rapeseed meal, a major byproduct of biodiesel production, has been used as a low-cost raw material for the production of a generic microbial feedstock through a consolidated bioconversion process. Var...