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BOSTON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scotland's standing as Europe's largest and most highly regarded stem cell research community has been reaffirmed recently by announcements of funding from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the British Heart Foundation to the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter. As part of a major $25m boost for UK regenerative medicine, the Edinburgh center will play a key role in the development of new...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While the cardiovascular system of a younger adult might be capable of compensating for the effects of obesity, new research published in the journal Hypertension suggests that the ability to adapt is lost after middle age, resulting to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to the relationship between body fat and aortic stiffness. In the study, experts from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre at...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A recent study from University of Otago, New Zealand, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggested that too much TV was making kids mean and antisocial. The results of that study also showed that it was not always how much TV, but what types of shows they were watching. However, a new study by the Medical Research Council (MRC) has found evidence that spending hours in front of the TV or playing video/computer games each day...

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ImmBio (Immunobiology Ltd), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative vaccines against serious infectious diseases, today announced that the UK government-backed Biomedical Catalyst has awarded the company approximately GBP0.2 million ($0.3 million) to support pre-clinical development of its pneumococcal vaccine, PnuBioVax(TM), which targets a wide range of strains of the bacteria. This new grant follows the award of...

VIENNA, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MOMENTUM 2012 -- News Summary: MRC Technology Selects EMC OnDemand, a private cloud deployment model for enterprise-class applications and enabler for accelerating customers' journey to the cloud EMC Documentum Platform OnDemand will enable MRCT to manage intellectual property and critical content related to advancing medical discoveries EMC OnDemand increases business agility, saves time and costs, and reduces risk EMC OnDemand customers...

New born human infants have the largest brains among primates, but also the highest proportion of body fat. Before birth, if the supply of nutrients from the mother through the placenta is limited or unbalanced, the developing baby faces a dilemma: should resources be allocated to brain growth, or to fat deposition for use as an energy reserve during the early months after birth? Scientists at the University of Southampton have shown that this decision could have an effect on how fat we...

WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England, and BOSTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR drug discovery company, has extended its collaboration with the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), including its leading research groups at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB, Cambridge, UK) and MRC National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR, London, UK), on the structure and active conformations of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), and other...

EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Research into conditions such as multiple sclerosis and heart and liver disease will benefit from multi-million dollar stem cell research and life sciences facilities opened yesterday by HRH, the Princess Royal. The Princess Royal is to unveil plaques this afternoon at the $85 million Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) and $38 million bio-incubator facility, Nine, in Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh's Scottish...

The Mount Sinai Medical Center and MRC Technology (MRCT), the technology transfer organization for the United Kingdom’s prestigious Medical Research Council, have reached an agreement to collaborate on the development of monoclonal antibodies that can be commercialized as drugs to control infection and treat diseases. New York (PRWEB) April 02, 2012 The Mount Sinai Medical Center and MRC Technology (MRCT), the technology transfer organization for the United Kingdom’s prestigious...

King's College London researchers produce the first animal product-free clinical grade human embryonic stem cell lines intended for public benefit Stem cell scientists at King's College London will today (Tuesday 6 December) announce they have submitted to the UK Stem Cell Bank (UKSCB) their first clinical grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines that are free from animal-derived products, known as 'xeno-free' stem cells. The cells, which have the potential to become the 'gold...