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Asthma patients need to avoid heavy, high-fat meals: New research

People with asthma may be well-advised to avoid heavy, high-fat meals, according to new research. Individuals with asthma who consumed a high-fat meal showed increased airway inflammation just hours after the binge, according to Australian researchers who conducted the study.

17 May 2010

Cell Therapeutics announces exchange agreements for 4% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has entered into exchange agreements with certain holders of some of the Company's outstanding 4% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010.

17 May 2010

Blood-flow fMRI to be used to study brain-wide impact of neural circuitry changes

Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging to show them what the brain is doing when people respond to different stimuli.

17 May 2010

UNC-developed technique has broad applications in cancer, biomedical research

A precise understanding of cellular growth and movement is the key to developing new treatments for cancer and other disorders caused by dysfunctional cell behavior. Recent breakthroughs in genetic medicine have uncovered how genes control whether cellular proteins are turned 'on' or 'off' at the molecular level, but much remains to be understood about how protein signaling influences cell behavior.

17 May 2010

Female sex hormones may work with estrogen in reducing airway constriction: Research

Female sex hormones may work with beta-agonists in reducing airway constriction, according to new bench research from the Mayo Clinic.

17 May 2010

3SBio's first-quarter 2010 total net revenues up 40.5%

3SBio Inc., a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

17 May 2010

Cell Therapeutics' Special Meeting of Shareholders adjourned to June 4, 2010

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Company has adjourned today's Special Meeting of Shareholders to 10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time, Friday, June 4, 2010.

15 May 2010

Researchers identify protein involved in pushing bladder tumors to become invasive

Bladder cancer often becomes aggressive and spreads in patients despite treatment, but now researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have identified a protein they believe is involved in pushing tumors to become invasive - and deadly.

15 May 2010

Mechanism in newborn's memory centre that adjusts brain maturation for information processing discovered

With their French colleagues, researchers at the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism in the memory centre of newborn that adjusts the maturation of the brain for the information processing required later in life. The study was published this week in an American science magazine The Journal of Neuroscience.

15 May 2010

Athersys presents data supporting MultiStem programs

Athersys, Inc. today presented data supporting its MultiStem® programs in cardiovascular disease, neurological disease and immune system modulation, and highlighted advancements in other areas, including progress in its drug development program in the area of obesity.

15 May 2010

Power3 Medical Products files provisional patent applications with USPTO

Power3 Medical Products, Inc. announced today that it has filed two provisional patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - one on Alzheimer's disease specific differential diagnosis in the clinical setting and the other on important differences in pathophysiology and therapeutic options for the genetically distinct groups of Alzheimer's disease patients.

15 May 2010

HHS announces $1 billion in Recovery Act awards for construction, repair and renovation of research facilities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced one billion dollars of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds have been awarded to construct, repair and renovate scientific research laboratories and related facilities across the country. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) administered the grants, which are expected to create or sustain jobs nationwide and to help foster scientific advances that may lead to improved human health.

15 May 2010

Robertson Foundation gifts NYSCF $27 million

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) has received a grant of $27 million from the Robertson Foundation, established by Julian and Josie Robertson.

15 May 2010

Biovest International announces filing of proposed Plan of Reorganization

Biovest International, Inc. today announced that the Company filed its proposed Plan of Reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. With this filing, Biovest is positioned to emerge from Chapter 11 protection this summer as a fully restructured company.

15 May 2010

Research sheds light on early embryogenesis, genetic disease

Chromosome 22q11 deletion syndrome (also known as DiGeorge syndrome) is the most common human chromosome deletion syndrome, having an estimated incidence of at least one in 4,000 live births.

15 May 2010

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

HistoRx , Inc., announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent protecting the company's methods for determining a cancer patient's prognosis based on sub-cellular localization of biomarkers.

15 May 2010

HSPH researchers succeed in locking malaria parasites within infected blood cells

Harvard School of Public Health researchers and colleagues seeking to block invasion of healthy red blood cells by malaria parasites have instead succeeded in locking the parasites within infected blood cells, potentially containing the disease.

15 May 2010

AutoImmune stockholders vote in favor of voluntary dissolution

AutoImmune Inc. today announced that its stockholders have voted in favor of the company's voluntary dissolution pursuant to a Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution at a special meeting of stockholders held on May 11, 2010. Stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the dissolution of the company pursuant to the Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution, with the proposal receiving an affirmative vote from approximately 99% of the votes cast at the special meeting of stockholders.

15 May 2010

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

A hitherto unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered by researchers at Linköping University.

15 May 2010

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

Researchers found that as dominant members of the population surrendered to host immune defenses, they were replaced by a hyperaggressive, mutant minority population that thrived and took over the abandoned community to become the new majority.

15 May 2010

Cell News and Research

Asthma patients need to avoid heavy, high-fat meals: New research

Cell Therapeutics announces exchange agreements for 4% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010

Blood-flow fMRI to be used to study brain-wide impact of neural circuitry changes

UNC-developed technique has broad applications in cancer, biomedical research

Female sex hormones may work with estrogen in reducing airway constriction: Research

3SBio's first-quarter 2010 total net revenues up 40.5%

Cell Therapeutics' Special Meeting of Shareholders adjourned to June 4, 2010

Researchers identify protein involved in pushing bladder tumors to become invasive

Mechanism in newborn's memory centre that adjusts brain maturation for information processing discovered

Athersys presents data supporting MultiStem programs

Power3 Medical Products files provisional patent applications with USPTO

HHS announces $1 billion in Recovery Act awards for construction, repair and renovation of research facilities

Robertson Foundation gifts NYSCF $27 million

Biovest International announces filing of proposed Plan of Reorganization

Research sheds light on early embryogenesis, genetic disease

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

HSPH researchers succeed in locking malaria parasites within infected blood cells

AutoImmune stockholders vote in favor of voluntary dissolution

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

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