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The informatics team of the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas, based in Baylor College of Medicine’s department of molecular and cellular biology, is collaborating with the global information company Thomson Reuters, makers of EndnoteTM software, to increase access to public datasets for the global biomedical research community. Thomson Reuters has identified NURSA as a key resource for a new initiative called the Data Citation IndexSM, which will become part of Thomson Reuters "Web of...

Collaborative donations of computing cycles to enable more in-depth research; goal is speeding discovery of small molecules for use in new medicines and vaccines EXTON, Pa., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new effort, being introduced today, aims to make it possible for medical researchers to develop small molecules that can be used to prevent, treat and find cures for a wide range of debilitating diseases by enlisting the help of volunteers around the world and using their idle...

On 30(th) Anniversary of Orphan Drug Act and NORD, Rare Disease Patient Advocates Fear That Budget Cuts for NIH and FDA Will Slow Momentum WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday (Feb. 28), millions of people around the world will be observing Rare Disease Day and this annual observance has special significance for Americans this year for two reasons. The first is that 2013 is the 30(th) anniversary of the Orphan Drug Act - landmark legislation made...

Indian Country and Public Health communications specialist part of small business team qualified by NIH to deliver education, information or communication campaigns over next 5 years WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) named today a team of seven firms, including BlackBear Communications, qualified to develop and deliver education, information and/or communications campaigns as part of a $500 million NIH Public Information and...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02), the Congressional champion for brain science research, addresses the Parkinson's Action Network Forum today to advocate for additional research and recognition for the million-plus Americans who suffer from this debilitating disease. "America has been made aware of the effects of Parkinson's as we see it in celebrities like Michael J Fox, athletes like Muhammad Ali, public servants like Janet...

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Fidelity, a healthcare big data company and technology leader in clinical natural language processing (NLP), has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support point-of-care documentation improvement. This work contributes to national initiatives to enhance and improve care, including...

With biomedical scientists struggling to collect and analyze millions of gigabytes of data in their efforts to improve human health, the National Institutes of Health has launched a $700 million project to develop a common data-sharing framework and start training future scientists to tap that gold mine of information. That's the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The US Human Genome Project (HGP) was a successful model of a public/private partnership that advanced the understanding of life at one of its most basic levels. Officially begun in 1990, the HGP was a 13-year effort headed up by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project--originally planned to take 15 years--was completed two years ahead of time, thanks in no small part to the rapid...

Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has long said the current drug-development system in the United States is in need of change, "representing an unsustainable model." Even though the number of drugs approved has risen in the last three years, overall, roughly the same number of drugs have been approved by the Food and...

DETROIT, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wayne State University officials announced today that the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the University a second 10-year contract to continue housing the Perinatology Research Branch. The contract, awarded through a competitive bidding process, ensures the PRB will continue conducting critical perinatal and maternal-fetal medical research...