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VANCOUVER, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - viDA Therapeutics Inc. announces completion of a second tranche, equity financing of $750,000 bringing the total gross proceeds of the seed round financing to approximately $3,646,000. This additional funding of $750,000 from the Business Development Bank of Canada's venture capital arm (BDC Venture Capital) marks completion of key, preclinical milestones, supporting continued development of viDA's lead molecule (a granzyme B inhibitor) as...
High-powered microscopes open a live look at a process where mutations lead to autism and other diseases Using spinning disk microscopy on barely day-old zebra fish embryos, University of Oregon scientists have gained a new window on how synapse-building components move to worksites in the central nervous system. What researchers captured in these see-through embryos -- in what may be one of the first views of early glutamate-driven synapse formation in a living vertebrate -- were...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital(® )channels support of Radio One, Inc., Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker and James Fortune MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With efforts led by Radio One, Inc., the largest radio company primarily targeting African-American and urban listeners, nationally syndicated inspiration shows across the country helped raise $1,126,000 so St. Jude Children's Research Hospital(®) can continue its research discoveries to save the...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Blame it on their small stature. Blame it on their soft fur. For what could be a myriad of reasons, Koalas would almost certainly win the “Most Cuddly” award amongst all of the familiar marsupials. Sadly, like all other creatures – cute and ugly alike – Koalas also have a tendency to get sick from time to time. According Dr. Adam Polkinghorne and a host of researchers with Queensland University of Technology (QUT), these...
WAYNE, N.J., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer HealthCare announced today that the New Drug Application (NDA) for its oral investigational compound riociguat has been accepted for filing and granted priority review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) or with persistent or recurrent CTEPH after pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Both CTEPH and PAH are...
Jason Pierce, MSN, MBA, RN for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have published a study describing the use of an innovative process to examine the effect of tension in maintaining retinal tissue. The method allows the retinal tissue to be studied outside the body while simulating the mechanical strain experienced by the tissue in the human body. The authors anticipate that the method will lead to better understanding of the reason for vision...
Acid Alkaline Diet Program is a brand new alkaline diet plan developed by Michael Murray, who claims to help people preserve a healthy life and keep them from diseases. A full Acid Alkaline Diet Program review on the site Vkool.com shows if the program is helpful for users to apply. Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) March 27, 2013 Acid Alkaline Diet Program is the new alkaline diet plan made by Michael Murray, who claims to help people keep a healthy life permanently. When users become members of this...
-- Data Predict OMS824 has Greater Brain Activity without Movement Side-Effects Seen with other PDE10 Inhibitors -- SEATTLE, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced positive data from the multiple-ascending-dose (MAD) portion of the Company's Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating OMS824, the lead compound in Omeros' phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) program. With these data and the previously announced successful single-ascending-dose portion of this...
Research from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that improving vitamin D status by increasing its level in the blood could have a number of non-skeletal health benefits. The study, published online in PLOS ONE, reveals for the first time that improvement in the vitamin D status of healthy adults significantly impacts genes involved with a number of biologic pathways associated with cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD), infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. While...
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office today awarded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital U.S. patent number 8,399,645 for St. Jude's invention of compositions for genetically modifying human immune cells so they can destroy some of the most common forms of cancer in children and adults. "This groundbreaking invention enables human immune cells to recognize and attack certain cells that cause leukemia and lymphoma,...
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General surgery is a specialty that concentrates on the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and the thyroid gland. This specialty also deals with skin, breast, soft tissue and hernia related diseases. General Surgeons have the opportunity to subspecialize in one or more of the following: Trauma Surgery: Trauma surgery is the specialty that performs invasive procedures for physical injuries in an emergency. This subspecialty holds the...
The earwigs are an order (Dermaptera) of insects characterized by large membraneous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (thus the literal name of the order - "skin wings"). The abdomen extends well beyond the wings, and frequently ends in a pair of forceps-like cerci. With about 1,800 recorded species in 10 families, the order is relatively small among the Insecta, but the earwigs themselves are quite common throughout the world, often finding their way into houses, where they...
