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HighRes Biosolutions to provide high-throughput screening automation to Rigel

HighRes Biosolutions, the leader in laboratory automation solutions for life science, announced today that it will be providing high-throughput screening automation to Rigel Pharmaceuticals, a South San Francisco, California-based clinical-stage drug development company.

13 Jul 2010

Food portion control is a matter of perception, suggests study

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, suggests that the key to losing weight could lie in manipulating our beliefs about how filling we think food will be before we eat it, suggesting that portion control is all a matter of perception.

13 Jul 2010

Sewage that overflows into urban creeks, streams can promote spread of West Nile virus: Study

Sewage that overflows into urban creeks and streams during periods of heavy rain can promote the spread of West Nile virus, a study led by Emory University finds. The analysis of six years of data showed that people living near creeks with sewage overflows in lower-income neighborhoods of Southeast Atlanta had a seven times higher risk for West Nile virus than the rest of the city.

13 Jul 2010

Differences in response to taste of fat between obese and lean men

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds marked differences between obese and lean men in how they respond to the taste of fat. Fat also is less effective in obese men in stimulating certain gut hormones that are released into the bloodstream and normally suppress appetite.

13 Jul 2010

Researchers identify genetic variant associated with increased risk of AAA

Geisinger researchers are part of an international team that has identified a genetic variant more common in individuals with abdominal aortic aneurysms. This is one of the largest studies ever into the genetics of AAA. The results of the work will appear in this week's online edition of Nature Genetics.

13 Jul 2010

FRC refutes RCOG claims on fetal pain

The Family Research Council today released a new report that refutes claims made recently by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' (RCOG) that a fetus is not able to feel pain before 24 weeks of development. RCOG's study is being used to uphold Britain's current legalization of abortions up to 24 weeks.

13 Jul 2010

UC Irvine public health professor to lead malaria field research in Southeast Asia

UC Irvine public health professor Guiyun Yan will lead groundbreaking malaria field research in impoverished reaches of China, Myanmar and Thailand, thanks to new federal funding. UCI will receive $4.7 million of a seven-year, $14.5 million award to Pennsylvania State University by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases. Yan will collaborate with Penn State principal investigator Liwang Cui.

13 Jul 2010

Marking World Population Day, U.N. points to relationship between population growth, MDGs

U.N. officials marked World Population Day on Sunday, highlighting the relationship between population trends and the successful implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, Xinhua reports.

13 Jul 2010

Larger heads may protect against Alzheimer’s disease: Study

A larger head may be offer natural protection against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease say researchers in a study conducted on 270 patients and published in the journal Neurology.

13 Jul 2010

Debt unsustainable, Obama commission chairs say; Orszag's successor to be left with a tough job

The Associated Press: The two chairman of President Obama's debt commission told the National Governors Association Sunday that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are sucking up the entire federal discretionary budget.

13 Jul 2010

AnaptysBio awarded DARPA contract to generate novel high affinity thermally stable antibodies

AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody platform and product company, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to use its proprietary somatic hypermutation (SHM) technology platform to generate novel high affinity thermally stable antibodies that could be used by the military in antibody-based biosensors, including those that can detect bioterrorist threats.

13 Jul 2010

Preclinical results of TH-302 presented at AACR Translational Cancer Medicine Meeting

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced two preclinical presentations on its clinical stage hypoxia-activated prodrug, TH-302, at the American Association for Cancer Research Translational Cancer Medicine Meeting, being held July 11 to 14, 2010, in San Francisco, CA. The preclinical presentations describe new findings regarding the efficacy of TH-302 when combined with multi-kinase inhibitors that inhibit VEGF signaling, as well as the efficacy of TH-302 in combination with gemcitabine in models of pancreatic cancer.

13 Jul 2010

Fresh salsa and guacamole may be important vehicles of foodborne infection, says ORISE researcher

Nearly 1 out of every 25 restaurant-associated foodborne outbreaks with identified food sources between 1998 and 2008 can be traced back to contaminated salsa or guacamole, more than double the rate during the previous decade, according to research released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

13 Jul 2010

Manila Bulletin reports on WHO's efforts to address migration of global health workers

The Manila Bulletin reports on how the WHO is working with countries that have high rates of migrating health workers to maintain and expand the health workforce in areas with the greatest need, expecially low-income rural communities.

13 Jul 2010

Amity Foundation to break ground for Dragonfly Village children and family center

The public is invited to attend the official Ground Breaking Ceremony for Amity Foundation's state of the art children and family center, Dragonfly Village. The event will take place on Thursday morning 8:00 a.m. sharp August 19, 2010. The site is located on the campus of Amity's Circle Tree Ranch 10500 E. Tanque Verde Road, Tucson, Arizona 85749 (just east of Houghton Road.) The event will proceed indoors by 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. for more information and refreshments.

13 Jul 2010

Texas doctors bristle at Medicaid cuts as Congress to consider extending funds; State pinpoints high prescribing docs

Despite states' warnings that they will face massive budget cuts without help from Washington, Congress has not yet moved to provide $24.2 billion in additional Medicaid funding that many statehouses had anticipated would be included in a failed June bill, American Medical News reports. "Lawmakers return to Washington from their Independence Day break on July 12, but Democratic leaders have not offered a clear path forward on the issue" (Trapp, 7/12).

13 Jul 2010

Jellyfish protein may help cognitive function in Alzheimer’s

Quincy Bioscience, a research-based biotechnology company, is attending the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD) sharing promising interim data from the Madison Memory Study, a randomized controlled trial, which shows the jellyfish protein apoaequorin improves cognitive function in individuals with memory concerns.

13 Jul 2010

Research News and Research

HighRes Biosolutions to provide high-throughput screening automation to Rigel

Food portion control is a matter of perception, suggests study

Sewage that overflows into urban creeks, streams can promote spread of West Nile virus: Study

Differences in response to taste of fat between obese and lean men

Researchers identify genetic variant associated with increased risk of AAA

FRC refutes RCOG claims on fetal pain

UC Irvine public health professor to lead malaria field research in Southeast Asia

Marking World Population Day, U.N. points to relationship between population growth, MDGs

Larger heads may protect against Alzheimer’s disease: Study

Debt unsustainable, Obama commission chairs say; Orszag's successor to be left with a tough job

AnaptysBio awarded DARPA contract to generate novel high affinity thermally stable antibodies

Preclinical results of TH-302 presented at AACR Translational Cancer Medicine Meeting

Fresh salsa and guacamole may be important vehicles of foodborne infection, says ORISE researcher

Manila Bulletin reports on WHO's efforts to address migration of global health workers

Amity Foundation to break ground for Dragonfly Village children and family center

Texas doctors bristle at Medicaid cuts as Congress to consider extending funds; State pinpoints high prescribing docs

Jellyfish protein may help cognitive function in Alzheimer’s

Tart cherry juice could help reduce severity of insomnia in older adults: Study

Portion control all a matter of perception!

News outlets examine Haitian rebuilding effort six months after major quake

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