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Pennsylvania State University Difficult-to-study diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism now can be probed more safely and effectively thanks to an innovative new method for obtaining mature brain cells called neurons from reprogrammed skin cells. According to Gong Chen, the Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences and professor of biology at Penn State University and the leader of the research team, "the most exciting part of this research is that it offers the promise of...
“Monoclonal Antibodies Partnering Terms and Agreements” is the new market research report added to the ReportsnReports.com store. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) June 06, 2013 Monoclonal Antibodies Partnering Terms & Agreements are intended to provide the reader with an in-depth understanding and access to monoclonal antibodies trends and structure of deals entered into by leading companies worldwide. Monoclonal Antibodies Partnering Terms & Agreements...
Young, energetic, and creative Rita Ferreira revolutionizes old tradition of wine-making by her unique approach creating unparalleled technique from grape combination to end process of wine-making tradition. Vienna, VA (PRWEB) June 06, 2013 The family of Ferreira deeply rooted in the wine-making business of Alto Douro since pre-Renaissance times. The new “Concept” began with developing a new approach where understanding of the region and its particular “terroir.” The foundation...
New data shows that human embryonic stem cells can be differentiated into liver progenitor cells and produce mature liver cells Liver transplantation is the mainstay of treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease, the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, but new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published in the online journal Cell Stem Cell today, suggests that it may one day become possible to regenerate a liver using cell therapy in patients...
American Chemical Society Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has concluded. The viewpoint article on availability of this new toolkit — for engineering biological factories that can produce new biofuels, crops and chemicals, among others — appears in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. Kevin Munnelly, CEO of synthetic biology start-up...
A research team led by pediatric blood and marrow transplantation experts Mark Osborn, Ph.D. and Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D. from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, have discovered a remarkable new way to repair genetic defects in the skin cells of patients with the skin disease epidermolysis bullosa. The findings, published today in the journal Molecular Therapy and highlighted in the most recent issue of Nature, represent the first time researchers been able to correct a...
Partnership Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Therapies WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) today joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to establish a network of sites for clinical trial testing of innovative blood cancer therapies in community oncology settings across the country. This groundbreaking Blood Cancer Research Partnership (BCRP) will bring clinical trials closer to where patients live...
Paper demonstrates potential for cow antibodies to treat human diseases LA JOLLA, Calif., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fabrus Inc., a company developing a next-generation antibody discovery platform that expands the therapeutic applications of antibodies, today announced the publication of data in the journal Cell detailing a structural and sequence analysis of unusually long CDR3 antibodies from cows. Fabrus scientists were co-authors on the paper detailing results of work led by...
Fifth Validation Study Demonstrating Ability to Identify Tumor Origin in Patients with Cancer of Unknown or Uncertain Primary Shows 92% Accuracy, Highest Published Level to Date PHILADELPHIA and REHOVOT, Israel, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosetta Genomics Ltd. (NASDAQ: ROSG), a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announces that a manuscript reporting data validating the clinical utility of the Rosetta Cancer Origin Test((TM)) (formerly...
DUBLIN, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/272vtc/monoclonal ) has announced the addition of the "Monoclonal Antibodies Market in Rheumatoid Arthritis to 2018 - Market Characterized by Large and Diversified Pipeline and Low Threat of Biosimilar Sales Erosion" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/272vtc/monoclonal ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 )...
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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,...
