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India's DBT, Bharat Biotech announce positive Phase III clinical trial results of rotavirus vaccine

India's DBT, Bharat Biotech announce positive Phase III clinical trial results of rotavirus vaccine

The Government of India's Department of Biotechnology and Bharat Biotech announced positive results from a Phase III clinical trial of a rotavirus vaccine developed and manufactured in India. [More]
Study provides evidence of altered circadian gene rhythms in brain tissue of people with depression

Study provides evidence of altered circadian gene rhythms in brain tissue of people with depression

UC Irvine Health researchers have helped discover that genes controlling circadian clock rhythms are profoundly altered in the brains of people with severe depression. [More]
Noninvasive imaging tests may play bigger role in diabetes management

Noninvasive imaging tests may play bigger role in diabetes management

New approaches to applying noninvasive imaging tests such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and positron emission tomography may play a bigger role in evaluating and managing patients with diabetes. [More]
Biogen Idec announces FDA's acceptance of ELOCTATE BLA for treatment of hemophilia A

Biogen Idec announces FDA's acceptance of ELOCTATE BLA for treatment of hemophilia A

Biogen Idec announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted the company's Biologics License Application for the marketing approval of ELOCTATE (recombinant factor VIII Fc fusion protein) for the treatment of hemophilia A. [More]

ALS-ETF, Denovo partner to explore personalized medicine approach for ALS

The ALS Emergency Treatment Fund and Denovo Biomarkers have announced a partnership to explore using Denovo's technology to identify potential responder groups for drugs being studied in ALS patients. [More]
Headline results of Creabilis' CT327 Phase 2b trial in psoriasis patients announced

Headline results of Creabilis' CT327 Phase 2b trial in psoriasis patients announced

Creabilis, a late stage European dermatology company with a focus on chronic pruritus (itch), today announces headline results of its Phase 2b trial with its lead product, CT327, in psoriasis patients. [More]

Hidden HIV replication may be occurring within the body's tissue, researchers report

Scientists have long believed that measuring the amount of HIV in a person's blood is an indicator of whether the virus is actively reproducing. [More]
UA researchers discover genetic mutations that cause severe epilepsies in children

UA researchers discover genetic mutations that cause severe epilepsies in children

Researchers at the University of Arizona have successfully determined the genetic mutations causing severe epilepsies in seven out of 10 children for whom the cause of the disorder could not be determined clinically or by conventional genetic testing. [More]
Review for clinicians on optimal utilization of aspirin to treat, prevent heart attacks published

Review for clinicians on optimal utilization of aspirin to treat, prevent heart attacks published

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., the first Sir Richard Doll professor and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University published a review for clinicians on the optimal utilization of aspirin to treat and prevent heart attacks. [More]

More work needed to understand use of nanosilver, say researchers

Researchers from the University of New South Wales have cautioned that more work is needed to understand how micro-organisms respond to the disinfecting properties of silver nano-particles, increasingly used in medical and environmental applications. [More]

Aviir to extend comprehensive inherited cardiovascular disease genetic test menu

Aviir Inc., a biotechnology company dedicated to the prevention of cardiovascular disease through innovative laboratory tests, announced that it will be extending its offered services with comprehensive inherited cardiovascular disease genetic test menu. [More]
IDIBELL signs patent licensing agreement with Minoryx

IDIBELL signs patent licensing agreement with Minoryx

The Bellvittge Biomedical Research Institute has signed a licensing agreement with the Spanish biotechnology company Minoryx of a patent for the treatment of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare serious neurodegenerative disease which has no effective treatment. [More]
Cubist receives Fast Track designation from FDA for late-stage antibiotic candidate

Cubist receives Fast Track designation from FDA for late-stage antibiotic candidate

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the Company's late-stage antibiotic candidate ceftolozane/tazobactam (CXA-201) Fast Track status in the previously granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product indications, Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia/Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia and Complicated Urinary Tract Infections. [More]

Clinical data of cabozantinib to be presented at ASCO meeting

Exelixis, Inc. announced today that cabozantinib will be the subject of nine separate data presentations at the upcoming 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. [More]
Immunoglobulin fails to meet co-primary endpoints in Phase III clinical study, Baxter reports

Immunoglobulin fails to meet co-primary endpoints in Phase III clinical study, Baxter reports

Baxter International Inc. today announced that its Phase III clinical study of immunoglobulin did not meet its co-primary endpoints of reducing cognitive decline and preserving functional abilities in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. [More]
Complex network of molecules controls formation and activity of neuronal connections

Complex network of molecules controls formation and activity of neuronal connections

Environment moulds behaviour - and not just that of people in society, but also at the microscopic level. This is because, for their function, neurons are dependent on the cell environment, the so-termed extracellular matrix. [More]
Kinase inhibitors: an interview with Jan Hoflack, CSO of Oncodesign

Kinase inhibitors: an interview with Jan Hoflack, CSO of Oncodesign

Kinase inhibitors are molecules that block the activity of kinases. Kinases are a specific class of enzymes. They are extremely important in signal transduction processes in the human body meaning that they actually regulate most of the physiological processes that take place in the body. [More]

Study offers new hope to patients suffering from laminopathies

Laminopathies are hereditary diseases that affect mainly the muscle tissue. These diseases include for example Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. [More]
Biocryst reports financial results for first quarter 2013

Biocryst reports financial results for first quarter 2013

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. [More]

FARMARABA and Neiker-Tecnalia use marine plant micro-organisms to produce Omega 3

Neiker-Tecnalia, the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, and the company FARMARABA S.L. are working together on a Project designed to produce Omega 3 using marine plant micro-organisms. The ultimate aim is to develop in-house technologies to obtain this highly valued fatty acid, and then apply them at a FARMARABA production plant. [More]