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New Agreement Extends Drug Discovery and Development Collaboration Between the Companies ALBANY, N.Y., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AMRI (NASDAQ: AMRI) announced today that it has entered into a new five-year service agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., (TSE: 4528), a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Under the terms of the agreement, AMRI may provide a range of services from early drug discovery to cGMP manufacturing. (Logo:...
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, over 23.5 million people suffer from over eighty different types of known autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, treatment for those suffering from non-curable autoimmune diseases has been limited to: Slowing the Spread of the Diseases Controlling the Symptoms To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
RICHMOND, Va., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lingerfelt Companies, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia (www.LingerfeltCo.com), announce that development has begun on the third phase of BioTech 8, a six-story tower within the 34-acre Virginia BioTechnology Research Park in downtown Richmond. The project will complete this $100 million three-building headquarter complex totaling 276,000 sq. ft. including a four-story, 485-space parking deck. This facility is an expansion for...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Malaysia, being one of the most competitive biotechnology hubs in Asia, recently showcased its potential to be the future global hub for the bio-based economy at the annual BIO International Convention 2013 (BIO). The Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) together with Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) led the Malaysian delegation in presenting the endless possibilities within the Malaysian biotech industry that...
Initiates New Capital Markets and Digital Media Program JUPITER, Fla., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. ("BRT" or the "Company") (OTC BB: BRTXD), a life sciences company focused on stem cell based cellular therapies for various personal medical applications, today announced the appointment of ProActive Capital Group as its new Capital Markets Advisory and Digital Media Strategies firm. "We are very pleased to have retained the services of ProActive...
Reliable Biopharmaceutical Corporation (RBC) announced today that it has invested several million dollars into its High Purity production suites. These investments will nearly triple the production capacity in its High Purity Ingredients (HPI) line. St. Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 Reliable Biopharmaceutical Corporation (RBC) announced today that it has invested several million dollars into its High Purity production suites. These investments will nearly triple the production...
Cells are the basic unit of a living organism. The human body consists of a vast array of highly specialized cells, such as blood cells, skin cells and neurons. In total more than 250 different cell types exist. How are the different types related to each other? Which factors are unique for each cell type? And what in the end determines the development of a certain cell? To answer these questions, the research team designed a computer-based method that uses already existing biological data...
Sweeping study of cancer metabolism identifies hundreds of alterations and potential drug targets to starve tumors A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer. The analysis, conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, also identified hundreds of potential drug targets that could cut off a tumor's fuel supply or interfere with its ability to synthesize essential building...
PRINCETON, N.J., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To showcase New Jersey as one of the world's premiere locations for life science companies and medical research, Choose New Jersey, Inc. is collaborating with Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, the Business Action Center (BAC), BioNJ, the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) and other partners at the BIO International Convention in Chicago on April 22-25, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/NY26273LOGO ) This is the...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) congratulated Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and the state of Kansas for the passage and signing of Kansas SB 199. The law establishes a new adult stem cell research and treatment center at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City's medical school. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) FRC's Senior Fellow Dr. David Prentice has testified in Kansas for years about...
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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1979 under the title Journal of Applied Biochemistry and published by Academic Press. It assumed its present title in 1986 and publication was taken over by Portland Press in 1993. It is now published bimonthly by Wiley-Blackwell (since 2011). It is the official journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The journal publishes scholarly Articles and Reviews relating to...
Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal founded by Benjamin Lewin in January 1974 with the sponsorship of MIT Press. Lewin bought the rights to the journal in 1986 and published it under his own publishing arm Cell Press. Cell Press was sold to Elsevier in 1999, which currently publishes Cell twice monthly. Cell Press publishes several biomedical journals, including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Cancer Cell, Current Biology, Structure, Chemistry &...
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease (the formation of tumours) in over 140 species of dicot. It is rod shaped. Symptoms are caused by the insertion of a small segment of DNA into the plant cell. It is an alphaproteobacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae which includes the nitrogen fixing legume symbionts. They are pathogenic and provide no benefit to the plant. It also affects a wide variety of plants. In an economical sense it affects walnuts, grape vines,...
