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NIH Getting Back To Business As Shutdown Ends

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17 Oct 2013

Stem Cell Therapeutics Nabs Sirpa Protein-Targeting Mabs

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17 Oct 2013

Astrazeneca, Taiwan's NRPB Launch Drug Discovery Collaboration

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17 Oct 2013

Blood-Based Protein Test May Distinguish Between Malignant And Benign Lung Nodules

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17 Oct 2013

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

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17 Oct 2013

Celmatix presents six research findings at ASRM's annual meeting

Celmatix, a biotechnology company focused on helping physicians guide patients to treatments that maximize their personal reproductive potential, announced today six research presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, being held October 12-17 in Boston.

17 Oct 2013

Scientists identify recessive gene mutation that reduces certain protein affecting brain development

Though worlds apart, four unrelated families have been united in a medical mystery over the source of a rare inherited disorder that results in their children being born with abnormal brain growth and severe functional impairments.

17 Oct 2013

Researchers find 5-fold increase in high cholesterol risk

What leads to high cholesterol? Your genes and lifestyle factors may not explain it all. A study presented today at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress has connected some of the risk for high cholesterol in adults to their mother's cholesterol levels before she even became pregnant.

17 Oct 2013

Scientists uncover faulty brain mechanism that may underlie schizophrenia in humans

Working with mice genetically engineered to display symptoms of schizophrenia, neuroscientists at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have uncovered a faulty brain mechanism that may underlie schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders in humans.

17 Oct 2013

Scientists identify 127 mutated genes that appear to drive development of tumors in the body

Examining 12 major types of cancer, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified 127 repeatedly mutated genes that appear to drive the development and progression of a range of tumors in the body. The discovery sets the stage for devising new diagnostic tools and more personalized cancer treatments.

17 Oct 2013

Research in mouse whiskers reveals signal pathway from touch neuron to brain

Human fingertips have several types of sensory neurons that are responsible for relaying touch signals to the central nervous system. Scientists have long believed these neurons followed a linear path to the brain with a "labeled-lines" structure.

17 Oct 2013

Imaxio Sells Genomics Division To Hybrigenics

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16 Oct 2013

Biotech CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

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16 Oct 2013

Pieris Inks Co-Development Deal With Zydus For Protein Drugs

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16 Oct 2013

Pieris Inks Co-Development Alliance With Zydus For Protein Drugs

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16 Oct 2013

Astrazeneca To Use Wyss Institute’s Organs-On-Chips

AstraZeneca has taken a small step in reducing the need for traditional animal testing by signing on to evaluate Organs-on-Chips from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.

16 Oct 2013

CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

CEL-SCI, Ergomed To Co-Develop Head And Neck Cancer Candidate As Potential HPV Treatment

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16 Oct 2013

Trovagene launches pharmaceutical alliance to monitor lung cancer patients' EGFR mutational status

Trovagene, Inc., a developer of cell-free molecular diagnostics, today announced that it will collaborate with a pharmaceutical company to evaluate Trovagene's proprietary, urine-based, cell-free DNA technology for the detection of certain epidermal growth factor receptor mutations associated with lung cancer.

16 Oct 2013