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Treatment for Autoimmune and Other Diseases AUSTIN, Texas, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- XBiotech, a privately held biotechnology company, announced today its development of a novel True Human(TM) therapeutic antibody. The Company reports that the antibody neutralizes a pro-inflammatory molecule known as interleukin-6 (IL-6). Agents targeting IL-6 have been effective therapy for a number of autoimmune or oncology-related diseases. Other therapeutic antibody products targeting IL-6...
Supplementary Genomic Analysis Will Offer Complement to Best-in-Class Molecular Profiling Clinical Tool IRVING, Texas, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Caris Life Sciences(TM), a leading biosciences company focused on fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine, today announced it intends to expand its Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) capabilities to include whole exome and transcriptome sequencing. The offering will provide physicians with an in-depth report focusing on the 452...
Programa Biosfera represents a bilateral collaboration between Brazil and the Netherlands, and focuses on the industrialization of bamboo as a material that can assist Brazil in the shift towards such a biobased economy. Sabotagelaan 1, 9727 CL Groningen, The Netherlands (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 The transition towards a sustainable biobased economy requires the utilization of renewable resources, maintaining a balance between extraction and replacement. It requires a systematic approach to...
SAN DIEGO, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorrento Therapeutics (OTCBB: SRNE; or STI) today announced that Henry Ji, Ph.D., the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Jefferies 2013 Global Healthcare Conference on Thursday, June 6(th), 2013, at 3:00 PM ET. The conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt in New York, NY. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at the start time of the presentation by accessing...
Stem Cell Matrix -- a summary of recent studies from HSCI May brought a major advancement in the science of aging when two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers announced their discovery of a protein circulating in the blood of mice and humans that shows potential to be a treatment for age-related heart failure. The protein, called GDF-11, reduced the size and thickness of the heart walls when injected into old mice. There are hundreds of investigators in the HSCI network...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Damage caused to insulin-producing cells by the immune systems of type 1 diabetes patients could be more damaging than previously believed, but a University of Missouri scientist believes that their new discovery could lead to the development of a potential cure for the condition. Individuals suffering from type 1 diabetes rely upon their daily insulin injections in order to survive, and without those shots their body’s defense...
BALTIMORE, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inostics, a molecular diagnostics company that provides blood-based mutation testing, received CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) licensure for its clinical laboratory located in Baltimore, MD. This marks a critical milestone for the clinical adoption of this non-invasive molecular approach for the analysis of tumor biomarkers. "Due to the non-invasiveness and real-time reflection of tumor genetics, the OncoBEAM...
CIRKIL® Biopesticide Products, by Terramera, are now available to New York State-based customers. As bed bugs continue to increase their presence across the United States, Pest Management Professionals (PMPs) need effective products to combat these difficult pests. Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) May 29, 2013 Terramera, a pioneer in developing effective and safe biopesticide products for pest management, today announced that CIRKIL® Biopesticides, the only products that kill both bed...
- Products with advanced technology and intuitive design improve sample standardization - LARKSPUR, Calif., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioCision, a leader in sample handling, announced today a new collaboration with ATCC, the world's leading provider of authenticated biological material. ATCC debuted the first product in this collaboration, the alcohol-free CoolCell® LX cell cryopreservation container, at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) 2013 meeting in April....
President and CEO, Mark Emalfarb, to Provide Update on Dyadic's C1 Enzyme Technology and Progress Towards Producing Cellulosic Sugars for Fuels and Chemicals JUPITER, Fla., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTC Pink: DYAI), announced today that its President and CEO, Mark Emalfarb, will present at the World Biotechnology Congress 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts and the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotech in Montreal, Canada. (Logo:...
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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,...
