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ROCKVILLE, Md., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OriGene Technologies, Inc., a leading genome wide product company for research and diagnostic applications with operations in the United States and China, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the assets of the Life Science business of SDIX(TM) (NASDAQ: SDIX), a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130408/DC90285LOGO) "We anticipate the...
Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No one knows, however, how they boost the immune response. In the March 19, 2013, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers at National Jewish Health continue unraveling the mystery of adjuvants with a report that host DNA coats the alum adjuvant and induces two crucial cells to interact twice as long during the initial stimulation of the adaptive...
Journal of American College of Surgeons study reports that, despite the risks and the costs, liver transplant may also serve as a model for gene therapy through solid organ transplantation for some patients Patients faced with the diagnosis of a life-threatening liver disease have to consider the seriousness of having a liver transplant, which can be a definitive cure for many acquired and genetic liver diseases. Among the main considerations are the anxiety of waiting for a donor organ,...
An Increased Effect in Preventing Sustained Disability Progression is One of the Greatest Unmet Needs in RR-MS, According to a New Report from Decision Resources BURLINGTON, Mass., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that surveyed U.S. neurologists indicated that they would prescribe Biogen Idec's Tecfidera to 20 percent of their patients with relapsing-remitting...
Dr. Chenworth joins the staff of Allergy Associates of Utah providing diagnosis and treatment of a number of allergy and asthma related illnesses. Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) April 05, 2013 Allergy Associates of Utah is pleased to announce the hiring of a new staff physician, Eric C. Chenworth, D.O. He is board certified from the American Board of Medical specialties in both Allergy and Immunology and Internal Medicine. He completed his internship, residency and fellowship at Mayo Clinic....
Board-certified group operates only regional pollen and mold counter for spring allergy sufferers. Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) April 05, 2013 Spring is here and the Carolina Asthma & Allergy Center is once again offering public information from its proprietary pollen counter. The practice gathers data from the counter daily, posting it to the Carolina Asthma & Allergy Center website, http://www.carolinaasthma.com. Carolina Asthma & Allergy Center operates the only daily pollen...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reveals that treating patients with cells may one day become as common as it is now to treat the sick with drugs from engineered proteins, antibodies, or smaller chemicals. The team outlines their vision of cell-based therapy as a "third pillar of medicine" in an online edition of Science Translational Medicine. "Today, biomedical science sits on the cusp of a...
Major milestone achieved as orphan status grants Enlivex seven years of exclusivity for treatment based on immune tolerance for GVHD JERUSALEM, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. (TASE: HDST, OTC: HADSY), a publicly traded portfolio of biotech companies, all based on intellectual property developed and owned by Hadassah University Hospital, Israel's foremost medical research center, announced today that one of its flagship portfolio companies, Enlivex...
WALTHAM, Mass. and LIANYUNGANG, China, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- X-BODY BIOSCIENCES announced today an exclusive alliance with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. ("Hengrui"), in which Hengrui will develop and commercialize a novel antibody program generated from X-BODY's antibody platform for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Greater China (including mainland China, Taiwan, Macao, and Hong Kong). Under the terms of the collaboration, Hengrui will fund and lead all...
AMES, Iowa, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLink Genetics Corporation (NASDAQ: NLNK) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics. The company today announced that preclinical data on one of its IDO pathway inhibitors, NLG919, will be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to be held April 6-10 in Washington, DC. The poster presentation will describe the benefits of...
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The thymus gland is an endocrine organ of the immune system located anteriolateral to the trachea and in between the lungs. Its primary function is to build T lymphocytes for the body’s immune system; therefore, it is most important during childhood and puberty, when it reaches its maximum size. After puberty, it will begin to atrophy and shrink in size. Old age generally brings about hypotrophy of the thymus. In children the thymus is grayish-pink in color and in adults it is yellow. On...
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology is a medical journal established in 1929 as the Journal of Allergy. It is published by Elsevier. It obtained its current name in 1971. It is the official journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. This journal publishes timely clinical papers, instructive case reports, and detailed examinations of state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to clinical allergists, immunologists, dermatologists, internists, and other...
Clostridium tetani is a rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Clostridium. It's a gram-positive and resembles tennis rackets or drumsticks on a gram stain. It can be found as spores in soil and the gastrointestinal tract of animals. It produces a potent biological toxin which is the causative agent of tetanus. Ancient people recognized the relationship between wounds and fatal muscle spasms. Arthur Nicolaier isolated tetanus from soil bacteria. Antonie Carl and Giorgio Rattone...
The Cowpox virus causes a skin disease known as cowpox. It is related to the vaccinia virus and gained its name because it spread by dairymaids touching the udders of infected cows. It manifests as red blisters. It is similar to smallpox although much milder and was actually the basis of the first smallpox vaccine. A person who recovers from cowpox is immune to smallpox. In 1980 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox was the first disease to be eradicated world wide by a...
