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Fourth patient dosed in Benitec Biopharma's Phase I/IIa hepatitis C trial

Benitec Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on providing potentially curative therapies with its proprietary gene-silencing technology called ddRNAi or "expressed RNAi," today announced that the fourth patient in the company's Phase I/IIa dose escalation clinical trial of its lead program TT-034 for treating hepatitis C was dosed at the Duke Clinical Research Unit.

11 Mar 2015

BeiGene chooses SAFC's CHOZN Platform to support oncology drug development

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation today announced that SAFC Commercial, its custom manufacturing services business unit, has entered a commercial sales and service contract with leading biopharmaceutical company, BeiGene.

11 Mar 2015

Recruitment completed for Phase III PROUD-PV trial of P1101 for treatment of polycythemia vera

PharmaEssentia (Taipei, Taiwan) and AOP Orphan (Vienna, Austria) announce the completion of recruitment for the Phase III trial PROUD-PV to support global marketing of P1101 (Ropeginterferon alfa-2b), a novel, long-acting, mono-pegylated interferon for the first line treatment of polycythemia vera.

11 Mar 2015

Green Cross makes investment in cell therapy sector in China

Green Cross, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it had signed MOU on the 6th of March with the Guizhou provincial government of China for the investment in the cell therapy sector in China.

11 Mar 2015

Chromogenex US, LiLa sign distribution agreement for i-lipo and i-lipo Ultra body sculpting systems

Chromogenex US, Inc., of Howell, Michigan, the sister company of Chromogenex Technologies, Ltd., and LiLa Enterprise, LLC of Suwanee, Georgia, announced today a strategic alliance wherein Chromogenex US appoints LiLa the exclusive distributor for the i- lipo and i-lipo Ultra body sculpting systems that employ low level laser technology for smoothing cellulite, fat reduction and body shaping treatments.

11 Mar 2015

Xylem’s YSI biochemistry analyzer is effective tool for cell culture and cancer research

Specifically for oncology drug development applications, the YSI 2950 biochemistry analyzer is used to measure analytes such as glucose, glutamine, glutamate, lactate, providing a simple, automated analysis of bioprocess cell culture samples, with accurate results in less than a minute.

11 Mar 2015

Xylem’s YSI biochemistry analyzer ideal for food process applications

The 2900 Series Biochemistry Analyzers from YSI, a Xylem brand, deliver rapid, accurate biochemistry analysis and provide several data management solutions for making process and quality assurance decisions in food process applications.

11 Mar 2015

Avalon Assisted Living receives prestigious national quality award

Avalon Assisted Living at Bridgewater was recognized by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living as one of only four NCAL members in the country to receive this prestigious national quality award.

11 Mar 2015

Intraprise Healthcare launched to provide strategic solutions to healthcare market

Intraprise Solutions, a technology professional services firm with nearly two decades of experience in health information technology today announced the launch of Intraprise Healthcare, a dedicated business division within Intraprise Solutions. Intraprise Healthcare provides strategic consulting and software engineering solutions to the healthcare market.

11 Mar 2015

USAP, Pinnacle announce new partnership with Excel Anesthesia

U.S. Anesthesia Partners, the nation's largest anesthesia-focused, single-specialty physician services organization, and Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants of Dallas, Texas today announced their partnership with Excel Anesthesia, P.A.

11 Mar 2015

UVA, Novant Health to jointly create Northern Virginia regional health system

University of Virginia Health System and Novant Health are in discussions to create a Northern Virginia regional health system. The proposed agreement would include UVA Culpeper Hospital and all of Novant Health's Virginia facilities, including Novant Health Haymarket Medical Center, Novant Health Prince William Medical Center and Novant Health Cancer Center.

11 Mar 2015

University of Cambridge's Alastair Compston wins 2015 John Dystel Prize for MS Research

The American Academy of Neurology and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society are awarding the 2015 John Dystel Prize for MS Research to Alastair Compston, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Neurology at the University of Cambridge.

11 Mar 2015

One World Cannabis, Sheba Academic Medical Center ink collaboration agreement

OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp.'s wholly owned subsidiary One World Cannabis Ltd. signed a collaboration agreement with Sheba Academic Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel and in the Middle East.

11 Mar 2015

Andor Neo sCMOS camera is perfect partner for correlative microscopy

CD44 is recognised as an important cell surface receptor involved in the adhesion of circulating leukocytes to endothelium, a process that is critical for their trafficking in the vasculature. Now, a Japanese group of researchers using an ultra-sensitive Andor Neo sCMOS camera in their correlative microscopy set-up has demonstrated that microvilli projections around the cell surface mediate this adhesion.

From Andor Technology Ltd. 11 Mar 2015

Weak spots in ebola’s defenses: an interview with Dr. Andrew Ward

There are hundreds of other antibodies against Ebola that we are in the process of imaging using the electron microscope. We are looking for new sites of vulnerability as well as subtle differences in the way the known sites are attacked. In particular we are looking for antibodies that the virus is unlikely to escape from when it mutates.

11 Mar 2015

New stem cell treatment reverses disability in certain MS patients

A PIONEERING new stem cell treatment ‘rebooting’ the immune system in some multiple sclerosis sufferers is being hailed as an encouraging step forward in the treatment of the disease in sufferers who fail to respond to standard therapies.

11 Mar 2015

Camp Twinkletoes educates, supports and inspires children and teenagers with arthritis

Each year, Arthritis & Osteoporosis NSW is proud to host two special camps for children and teenagers with arthritis. Camp Twinkletoes is one of these camps and we visited Stanwell Tops on 20-22 February to set about educating, supporting and inspiring some very special families and their children with arthritis.

11 Mar 2015

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Fourth patient dosed in Benitec Biopharma's Phase I/IIa hepatitis C trial

BeiGene chooses SAFC's CHOZN Platform to support oncology drug development

Recruitment completed for Phase III PROUD-PV trial of P1101 for treatment of polycythemia vera

Green Cross makes investment in cell therapy sector in China

Chromogenex US, LiLa sign distribution agreement for i-lipo and i-lipo Ultra body sculpting systems

Xylem’s YSI biochemistry analyzer is effective tool for cell culture and cancer research

Xylem’s YSI biochemistry analyzer ideal for food process applications

Avalon Assisted Living receives prestigious national quality award

Intraprise Healthcare launched to provide strategic solutions to healthcare market

USAP, Pinnacle announce new partnership with Excel Anesthesia

UVA, Novant Health to jointly create Northern Virginia regional health system

University of Cambridge's Alastair Compston wins 2015 John Dystel Prize for MS Research

One World Cannabis, Sheba Academic Medical Center ink collaboration agreement

Andor Neo sCMOS camera is perfect partner for correlative microscopy

Weak spots in ebola’s defenses: an interview with Dr. Andrew Ward

New stem cell treatment reverses disability in certain MS patients

Camp Twinkletoes educates, supports and inspires children and teenagers with arthritis

COCIR participates in EuroSafe session at ECR 2015

Experts to discuss global healthcare, personalized medicine at BIOVISION 2015

Understanding the role of next generation sequencing in stratified cancer medicine

Lab Matters host Harriet Gould on building a more connected lab community

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

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