Recent Posts Tagged With 'collaboration'

• Alnylam and Collaborators at MIT Report New Pre-clinical Research on Systemic Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 20:58 in collaboration, target, molecules, liver, delivery solutions

  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

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 14:28 in collaboration, jupiter, prions, natural protein, florida professor

  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

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 14:10 in pregnancy, collaboration, malaria, sette, health tool

  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

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 19:10 in collaboration, clinical research, disabilities, cooperation, capabilities

  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

  Posted on Sunday December 27th, 2009 at 18:16 in collaboration, proteins, thousand dollars, factual information, protein expression

  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

  Posted on Thursday December 24th, 2009 at 03:29 in collaboration, proteins, brain size, patient groups, tuberculosis bacterium

  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

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 05:25 in drugs, collaboration, colleagues, health diseases, lymphoblastic leukaemia

  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

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 18:04 in collaboration, molecules, former president, fundamental problem, helical coil

  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

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 00:50 in collaboration, proteins, control settings, reagents, laboratory equipment

  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

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 08:05 in grants, medical school, collaboration, new brunswick, fundamental problem

  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

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 02:30 in australia, collaboration, january 4, delivery solutions, cancer growth

  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

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 16:24 in adult, collaboration, tissues, new insights, ucla researchers

  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...