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Alnylam and Collaborators at MIT Report New Pre-clinical Research on Systemic Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics
Story Summary: (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, and collaborators from the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the publication of new data in the jou...
Scripps Florida scientists show lifeless prions capable of evolutionary change and adaptation
Story Summary: The study from Scripps Florida in Jupiter shows that prions can develop large numbers of mutations at the protein level and, through natural selection, these mutations can eventually bring about such evolutionary adaptations as drug re...
Institute To Identify New Vaccine Targets For Tuberculosis, Malaria, Dengue Virus And Smallpox
Story Summary: Epitopes are important for protective immunity and are key to developing new and more effective vaccines. D, an endowed professor in Microbial Immunology at the University of Iowa, who studies basic immunology that can inform vaccine d...
Scientists At The Genome Institute Of Singapore And 26 Institutes In China Identify Leprosy Genes
Story Summary: This study represents one of the largest and best organized studies of the host genetics in infectious diseases published, said Prof Edison Liu, Executive Director at the GIS. The strength of Chinese clinical sciences and of Singapores...
$14.6 Million To Expand Pathogen Database, Expedite Worldwide Research Awarded To Penn, Georgia Collaboration
Story Summary: EuPathDB has been expanded several times based on its success in expediting infectious disease research. Toxoplasma and Neospora caninum are also economically important as sources of congenital infection in farm animals. The parasites ...
Microcephaly genes associated with human brain size
Story Summary: The study, which involved collaboration between researchers from the University of Oslo, the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, will be published on line the week of...
Major breakthrough may pave the way for therapeutic vaccines
Story Summary: However, there has now been a major breakthrough in this area. The cost of these protein pharmaceuticals is high, between 15 000 and 150 000 dollars per patient and year, and long periods of treatment are often needed. Therapeutic vacc...
Missing piece of DNA replication puzzle identified
Story Summary: The process, or mechanism, by which this is accomplished presents many challenges as the double helical (coil-shaped) DNA divides into two strands that are duplicated by different methods, yet both strands complete the replication at t...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Collaborates with Expression Pathology to Improve Identification of Cancer-Related Proteins
Story Summary: However, IHC can only be used to locate and assess those few proteins for which specific antibodies have been developed. This will provide valuable information for clinical researchers involved in disease biomarker discovery and verifi...
Researchers Identify Missing Piece of the DNA Replication Puzzle
Story Summary: The helicase enzyme initiates DNA replication, by unwinding, or separating, the strands which are then reproduced by polymerase enzymes which are responsible for making an exact copy of the DNA. According to Dr. Patel, the researchers...
Silence Therapeutics to Merge with Intradigm Corp to Create Leading RNAi Therapeutics Company
Story Summary: Existing shareholders of Intradigm, including Alta Partners, Frazier Healthcare, Lilly Ventures, Roche Finance and Astellas Venture have committed over 5 million pounds of new funds by way of subscription. The placing has been underwri...
Marking of tissue-specific genes in embryonic stem cells crucial to ensure proper cell function
Story Summary: The findings, published in the Dec. 15 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Genes and Development, provide important new insights into a class of genes whose properties previously were assumed to be unimportant for stem cell function. W...
