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Accelrys releases Pipeline Pilot NGS Collection at Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference its entrance in the rapidly growing next generation sequencing (NGS) market with the release of the NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot.

24 Feb 2011

Aminothiazoles as therapeutic leads for prion diseases

Scientists who examined more than 10,000 chemical compounds during the last year in search of potential new drugs for a group of untreatable brain diseases, are reporting that one substance shows unusual promise.

24 Feb 2011

New vaccine offers hope against Hepatitis C

Immunology: Three percent of the world's population is currently infected by hepatitis C. The virus hides in the liver and can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer, and it's the most frequent cause of liver transplants in Denmark.

24 Feb 2011

FDA approves ONGLYZA to treat type 2 diabetes patients with renal impairment

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and AstraZeneca today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the inclusion of data from two clinical studies in an update to the ONGLYZA U.S. Prescribing Information for adult type 2 diabetes patients.

24 Feb 2011

UCSF study shows increased contraceptive supply decreases unintended pregnancy rates

Rates of unintended pregnancies and abortions decrease significantly when women receive a one-year supply of oral contraceptives, instead of being prescribed one- or three-month supplies, a UCSF study shows.

24 Feb 2011

Nonsurgical methods to identify critical lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nonsurgical methods for identifying critical lymph nodes to help doctors determine courses of treatment for breast cancer patients.

24 Feb 2011

Will Massachusetts' health law derail Romney's presidential ambitions?

Mitt Romney doesn't really want to talk about "RomneyCare," the universal health care plan he signed into law as Massachusetts governor.

24 Feb 2011

EpiCept 2010 fourth quarter net loss is $0.06 per share

EpiCept Corporation today announced operating and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010, and provided an update on its key business initiatives.

24 Feb 2011

Older drivers have higher crash rates in junctions than drivers of other age groups

Drivers aged over 60 have higher crash rates in non problematic operating environments -as in junctions- than drivers of other age groups. Although elderly drivers present deteriorated driving abilities, they have proved to be more cautious, to compensate such deficiencies.

24 Feb 2011

Bacteria and fungi may protect against asthma in rural children: Study

Children who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer from asthma than other rural children. An international team of researchers including Dr. Markus Ege and Professor Erika von Mutius at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet has published a large-scale study that now indicates that this may be due to differences in the spectrum of microbes the two groups are likely to encounter.

24 Feb 2011

Western Pistachio Association partners with USDA's MyPyramid

Western Pistachio Association (WPA) today announced its official partnership with USDA's MyPyramid, ramping up the WPA's nutrition educational programs to coincide with the announcement of the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). The announcement was made at the WPA Annual Conference in Santa Barbara before more than 500 attendees, the majority of whom are growers in the American pistachio industry.

24 Feb 2011

New study suggests variation in PCLO gene can contribute to risk of bipolar disorder

Understanding the genetics of bipolar disorder could lead to new treatments, but identifying specific genetic variations associated with this disorder has been challenging.

24 Feb 2011

ViewRay's radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software receives FDA marketing clearance

ViewRay™, Inc., a privately held medical device company, has received U.S. FDA marketing clearance for its radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software.

24 Feb 2011

Xenogenics retains Emmes to assist with development, execution of its capital formation strategy

Xenogenics Corporation, a majority owned subsidiary of MultiCell Technologies, Inc., is pleased to announce it has retained the Emmes Group to assist with the development and execution of its capital formation strategy to help finance expanded human clinical trials of its Ideal BioStent.

24 Feb 2011

WSJ: IT companies could get boost from health care coding switch

Some venture-backed information-technology companies that serve hospitals and health insurers are getting a boost from what analysts call the "Y2K" of health care.

24 Feb 2011

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

Ingenuity Systems, a leading provider of information and analytics solutions for life science researchers, today announced a research collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing data analysis.

24 Feb 2011

CST, Astellas Pharma enter commercialization partnership for cancer diagnostic, therapeutic products

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. of Danvers, MA announced today a joint commercialization partnership with Astellas Pharma, Inc. of Tokyo, Japan focused on the delivery of personalized cancer therapeutics and diagnostics.

From Cell Signaling Technology 24 Feb 2011

Polio: Myanmar plans vaccination campaign after confirming first new case in three years; India fights disease in rural areas

UNICEF said that Myanmar is planning a mass polio vaccination campaign of children under age five after the country confirmed its first case of the disease in three years, Agence France-Presse reports.

24 Feb 2011

Bunion deformity more frequent in women, greatly reduces general, foot-specific HRQOL

New research determined that an increase in the severity of hallux valgus, or bunion deformity, progressively reduced both general and foot-specific health related quality of life. Bunion deformity was found in 36% of the study population and occurred more frequently in women and older individuals. Pain in other parts of the body beyond the foot was associated with increased bunion severity.

24 Feb 2011

New research: Spinal fluid proteins can differentiate nPTLS from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Patients who suffer from Neurologic Post Treatment Lyme disease and those with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome report similar symptoms. However unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish those two groups from one another and also from people in normal health, according to new research conducted by a team led by Steven E. Schutzer, MD, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, and Richard D. Smith, Ph.D., of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

24 Feb 2011

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Accelrys releases Pipeline Pilot NGS Collection at Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

Aminothiazoles as therapeutic leads for prion diseases

New vaccine offers hope against Hepatitis C

FDA approves ONGLYZA to treat type 2 diabetes patients with renal impairment

UCSF study shows increased contraceptive supply decreases unintended pregnancy rates

Nonsurgical methods to identify critical lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer

Will Massachusetts' health law derail Romney's presidential ambitions?

EpiCept 2010 fourth quarter net loss is $0.06 per share

Older drivers have higher crash rates in junctions than drivers of other age groups

Bacteria and fungi may protect against asthma in rural children: Study

Western Pistachio Association partners with USDA's MyPyramid

New study suggests variation in PCLO gene can contribute to risk of bipolar disorder

ViewRay's radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software receives FDA marketing clearance

Xenogenics retains Emmes to assist with development, execution of its capital formation strategy

WSJ: IT companies could get boost from health care coding switch

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

CST, Astellas Pharma enter commercialization partnership for cancer diagnostic, therapeutic products

Polio: Myanmar plans vaccination campaign after confirming first new case in three years; India fights disease in rural areas

Bunion deformity more frequent in women, greatly reduces general, foot-specific HRQOL

New research: Spinal fluid proteins can differentiate nPTLS from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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