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Single-wall carbon nanotubes targeted and killed cancer cells without harming the healthy cells

SouthWest NanoTechnologies’ (SWeNT) Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT) exhibit promising potential for use in biomedical treatments such as cancer photo thermal therapies, new research reveals.

8 Mar 2011

Study analyzes role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes

An Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases and are important targets for anti-cancer therapies.

8 Mar 2011

Compugen reports positive results from CGEN-25068 in animal model to treat certain disease conditions

Compugen Ltd. announced today positive animal model results for CGEN-25068, a novel peptide predicted and selected in silico to block a specific protein-protein interaction known to play an important role in various immune-related disease conditions.

8 Mar 2011

Bristol-Myers Squibb enters strategic partnership with WuXi Pharmatech

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) today announced that they have entered a strategic partnership to conduct stability studies of small-molecule new chemical entities to support global marketing applications.

8 Mar 2011

Study shows how individual cells behave during blood vessel formation

Biologists tend to look at cells in bulk, observing them as a group and taking the average behavior as the norm - the assumption is that genetically identical cells all behave the same way.

8 Mar 2011

Scientists sequence Clostridium botulinum genome that produces neurotoxin

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park have sequenced the genome of a novel strain of Clostridium botulinum, one of the most dangerous pathogens known to man. The strain produces an unusual botulinum neurotoxin, known as type A5 neurotoxin, which was isolated by the Health Protection Agency, following a case of wound botulism.

8 Mar 2011

hUCBs and MenSCs transplant may offer future therapeutic benefit for AD, stroke, ALS

Transplanting stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood cells and menstrual blood cells may offer future therapeutic benefit for those suffering from stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, says a team of neuroscience researchers from the University of South Florida's Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair and collaborators from three private-sector research groups, Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., Tampa, FL, Cryo-Cell International, Inc., Oldsmar, FL, and Cryopraxis, Cell Praxis, BioRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

8 Mar 2011

New study reveals role of INK4, ARF proteins in Burkitt's lymphoma

Burkitt's lymphoma is one of the most aggressive tumors affecting humans. Multiple alterations in genes that regulate cell proliferation rate explain its aggressive behavior.

8 Mar 2011

Ambry, RainDance enter new collaboration to develop and commercialize ADME screening

RainDance Technologies, Inc. and Ambry Genetics, today announced a new collaboration focused on the development and commercialization of a comprehensive drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion genetic screening panel for use on next-generation sequencing systems.

8 Mar 2011

Aerie Pharmaceuticals closes $30 million Series B financing

Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of medical innovations in ophthalmology, today announced the closing of a $30 million Series B financing.

7 Mar 2011

NanoLogix announces MRSA testing preliminary results, new Science Advisory Board members at UTHSC

NanoLogix, a biotechnology innovator in the rapid detection and identification of live-cell microorganisms, announces preliminary results of MRSA testing at the University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston. Dr. Jonathan Faro, M.D., Ph.D. has found NanoLogix technology is able to deliver results for MRSA in 6 hours, as opposed to conventional culture-based testing wait times of 24 to 48 hours.

7 Mar 2011

AusBiotech, WMDO to offer online medtech courses

WMDO, the leading global provider of innovative online training for medical device professionals, and AusBiotech, Australia's leading biotechnology industry organization, announced today a strategic partnership that offers AusBiotech Members access to WMDO's professional online training.

7 Mar 2011

Advaxis CEO issues statement to shareholders regarding recent common stock transition

Thomas A. Moore, chairman and CEO of Advaxis, Inc., the live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes vaccine company, has issued the following statement to shareholders regarding the recent transition to the OTCQB from the OTCBB:

5 Mar 2011

Deal Search Online: Pharma is the single most active sector in decade's health care M&A market

According to Deal Search Online, an Irving Levin Associates M&A database, there has been a total of 1,431 pharmaceutical M&A deals, totaling $632.3 billion dollars committed to the industry during the ten-year period ended December 31, 2010.

5 Mar 2011

Agenus receives letter from Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market

Agenus Inc. announced today that the company received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC on March 3, 2011 indicating that the company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2) (the "Bid Price Requirement") because the bid price for the company's common stock has closed below the minimum $1.00 per share requirement for 30 consecutive business days.

5 Mar 2011

Pending merger transaction between Grifols, Talecris has been extended

Grifols S.A. and Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp. today announced that the outside date under their merger agreement for closing their pending merger transaction has been extended to June 30, 2011 (from March 6, 2011).

5 Mar 2011

New HQ of David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research officially dedicated

The new seven-story headquarters of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, where scientists and engineers are working together to pursue new ways to treat, detect and prevent cancer, will be officially dedicated today at 4 p.m.

5 Mar 2011

Redpoint Bio fourth quarter revenues are $0.7 million for 2010

Redpoint Bio Corporation, a company focused on the development of healthier foods and beverages and new approaches to the treatment of diabetes and obesity, today announced financial and operational results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

5 Mar 2011

Scientist develops cryo-electron microscopy to clarify salmonellae structure

Bacteria like salmonellae infect their host cells by needle-shaped extensions which they create in large numbers during an attack. A group of Vienna-based scientists headed by Thomas Marlovits employed recently developed methods of cryo-electron microscopy and have been able to clarify the structure of this infection apparatus on the near-atomic scale.

4 Mar 2011

Talecris granted EU orphan drug designation for Plasmin (human) to treat acute peripheral arterial occlusion

Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc. (TLCR) announced today that it has been granted orphan drug designation by the European Commission for the development of Plasmin (human) to treat acute peripheral arterial occlusion (aPAO). Talecris is currently investigating Plasmin in a phase II clinical trial designed to assess its ability to treat aPAO, a condition in which arterial blood flow to the extremities, usually the legs, is blocked by a clot.

4 Mar 2011

Biotechnology News and Research

Single-wall carbon nanotubes targeted and killed cancer cells without harming the healthy cells

Study analyzes role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes

Compugen reports positive results from CGEN-25068 in animal model to treat certain disease conditions

Bristol-Myers Squibb enters strategic partnership with WuXi Pharmatech

Study shows how individual cells behave during blood vessel formation

Scientists sequence Clostridium botulinum genome that produces neurotoxin

hUCBs and MenSCs transplant may offer future therapeutic benefit for AD, stroke, ALS

New study reveals role of INK4, ARF proteins in Burkitt's lymphoma

Ambry, RainDance enter new collaboration to develop and commercialize ADME screening

Aerie Pharmaceuticals closes $30 million Series B financing

NanoLogix announces MRSA testing preliminary results, new Science Advisory Board members at UTHSC

AusBiotech, WMDO to offer online medtech courses

Advaxis CEO issues statement to shareholders regarding recent common stock transition

Deal Search Online: Pharma is the single most active sector in decade's health care M&A market

Agenus receives letter from Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market

Pending merger transaction between Grifols, Talecris has been extended

New HQ of David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research officially dedicated

Redpoint Bio fourth quarter revenues are $0.7 million for 2010

Scientist develops cryo-electron microscopy to clarify salmonellae structure

Talecris granted EU orphan drug designation for Plasmin (human) to treat acute peripheral arterial occlusion

Event guide: 3rd IMPACCT Real World Evidence Summit Europe eBook

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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