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Essential Pharmaceuticals to commence sales of cell media products acquired from Lifeblood Medical

Essential Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a private company dedicated to providing specialty reagents and solutions to the life sciences market, announced today that the Company will commence sales and distribution of three distinct animal-component-free products: serum replacement, cryopreservation and clinical pathology media, formerly sold under the LiforCell® name.

28 Oct 2010

Cell Therapeutics 2010 third quarter total net operating expense decreases 52% to $13.0 million

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today reported recent accomplishments and financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010.

28 Oct 2010

Elevated amounts of SP2 protein turn stem cells into cancerous tumors: Research

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that the overproduction of a key protein in stem cells causes those stem cells to form cancerous tumors. Their work may lead to new treatments for a variety of cancers.

28 Oct 2010

New oral drug shrinks IMT sarcoma driven by abnormally activated protein

A new oral drug caused dramatic shrinkage of a patient's rare, aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer that was driven by an abnormally activated protein, physician-scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report in the Oct. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

28 Oct 2010

University of Manchester receives Wellcome Trust grant for five-year study

A team investigating how genes respond to hormonal changes and inflammation has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of 1.24 million for a five-year study

From The University of Manchester 28 Oct 2010

Prolonged use of glucosamine linked to greater risk of developing diabetes

High doses or prolonged use of glucosamine causes the death of pancreatic cells and could increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to a team of researchers at Universit- Laval's Faculty of Pharmacy. Details of this discovery were recently published on the website of the Journal of Endocrinology.

28 Oct 2010

New computational techniques to overcome obstacles in hard-to-study genes

Scientists have invented methods to scout the human genome's repetitive landscapes, where DNA sequences are highly identical and heavily duplicated. These advances, as reported today in Science, can identify subtle but important differences among people in the number and content of repeated DNA segments.

28 Oct 2010

GTC 2010 third fiscal quarter net loss decreases to $4.5 million from $26.2 million

GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. today reported its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2010.

28 Oct 2010

Intellect obtains initial draft report of OXIGON Phase 1b clinical trial for Alzheimer’s disease

Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company with an internal preclinical and clinical-stage pipeline and licenses with major pharmaceutical companies covering products in late-stage clinical trials, announced that it has obtained an initial draft report of the Company's Phase 1b clinical trial for its lead Alzheimer's candidate, OXIGON (OX1).

27 Oct 2010

BioSilta releases EnPresso tablet that regulates protein production in recombinant bacteria

BioSilta announces the release of the EnPresso Tablet Cultivation Set, a tabletised form of the patented EnBase technology. The EnBase technology is based on providing an enzymatic-controlled glucose supply in a fed-batch type manner, which allows an extended growth period and promotes higher final cell density.

27 Oct 2010

Scientists develop new imaging technique that can detect breast cancer treatment response

Cancer Research UK scientists have developed a new imaging technique that can show when breast cancer treatment is working, weeks before current methods. The research is published in the British Journal of Cancer today1 (Wednesday).

27 Oct 2010

Scripps Florida scientist receives grant from Landenberger Foundation for HIV research

A scientist on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has received funding from the Philadelphia-based Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation.

27 Oct 2010

CJPS Medical releases VitalPoint device to improve healthcare

CJPS Medical Systems releases VitalPoint this week, a medical device capable of measuring patients' vital signs from home, while allowing direct communication with their caregiver, and generating and saving HIPAA-compliant electronic medical records.

27 Oct 2010

CHORI hosts 2nd annual international Advanced Workshop on Sickle Cell Disease

Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland is hosting the 2nd annual international Advanced Workshop on Sickle Cell Disease October 28 and 29. This impressive conference will bring together hematologists from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and beyond, and the premier sickle cell experts from the United States for a dialogue on research, comprehensive care, and new treatments and therapies.

27 Oct 2010

Study: lncRNA are involved in host response to viral infection

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a certain class of RNA (known as long non-protein-coding RNA [lncRNA]) are involved in the host response to viral infection. These findings, published today in the online journal mBio-, could greatly change the way scientists look at the body's response to viral infection.

27 Oct 2010

VCA Clinical Fellowship awarded for epithelial ovarian cancer research

Dr Clare Scott from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has been awarded a Victorian Cancer Agency (VCA) Clinical Fellowship to further research into an aggressive and highly lethal form of ovarian cancer.

27 Oct 2010

USAID announces LAUNCH: Health innovators

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), NASA, NIKE, Inc. and the U.S. Department of State are pleased to announce those selected to participate in the LAUNCH: Health Forum. The innovators selected will participate in an event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida October 30-31, followed immediately by the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on November 1.

27 Oct 2010

New guideline for using ESAs drugs in cancer patients

An updated joint guideline by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) advises physicians about the appropriate use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), a class of drugs that stimulate the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, to treat cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia.

27 Oct 2010

Reactivating three silenced molecules may provide new strategy to treat multiple myeloma

New research links three molecules to a critical tumor suppressor gene that is often turned off in multiple myeloma, a presently incurable cancer of the blood.

27 Oct 2010

Human haptoglobin gene mutation increases risk of diabetic complications

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a multifactorial disease of complex etiology characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. In addition to genetic susceptibility, it is generally accepted that environmental factors play important roles in triggering disease, with virus infection having perhaps the strongest association.

27 Oct 2010

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Essential Pharmaceuticals to commence sales of cell media products acquired from Lifeblood Medical

Cell Therapeutics 2010 third quarter total net operating expense decreases 52% to $13.0 million

Elevated amounts of SP2 protein turn stem cells into cancerous tumors: Research

New oral drug shrinks IMT sarcoma driven by abnormally activated protein

University of Manchester receives Wellcome Trust grant for five-year study

Prolonged use of glucosamine linked to greater risk of developing diabetes

New computational techniques to overcome obstacles in hard-to-study genes

GTC 2010 third fiscal quarter net loss decreases to $4.5 million from $26.2 million

Intellect obtains initial draft report of OXIGON Phase 1b clinical trial for Alzheimer’s disease

BioSilta releases EnPresso tablet that regulates protein production in recombinant bacteria

Scientists develop new imaging technique that can detect breast cancer treatment response

Scripps Florida scientist receives grant from Landenberger Foundation for HIV research

CJPS Medical releases VitalPoint device to improve healthcare

CHORI hosts 2nd annual international Advanced Workshop on Sickle Cell Disease

Study: lncRNA are involved in host response to viral infection

VCA Clinical Fellowship awarded for epithelial ovarian cancer research

USAID announces LAUNCH: Health innovators

New guideline for using ESAs drugs in cancer patients

Reactivating three silenced molecules may provide new strategy to treat multiple myeloma

Human haptoglobin gene mutation increases risk of diabetic complications

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