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BIOLOGY News, Jun 12, 2012


Emerald Bio Announces Unprecedented Multi-Target 3D Structural BiologySuccess
MarketWatch (press release)
BEDFORD, MA, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Emerald Bio announces early delivery of the 500th novel protein structure under the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID), a consortium of researchers from Seattle ...
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Amyris is Awarded $8 Million DARPA Contract Under 'Living Foundries' Program
MarketWatch (press release)
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jun 12, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS) announced today it has been awarded a contract from the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop tools that can expand the ...
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University of California, Berkeley Announces 2012 Bergeron Scholars
MarketWatch (press release)
BERKELEY, Calif., Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The University of California, Berkeley, today announced the 2012 Bergeron Scholars. This year's Scholars are the first women to benefit from the program funded by Sandra and Douglas Bergeron in Fall ...
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The First Day of Development--a Window to Successful Pregnancy
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- An article published in F1000 Biology Reports (http://f1000.com/reports/b/4/11/ ) discusses recent important advancements in the development of alternative methods of embryo evaluation ...
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BioScale Appoints Proteomics Leader Martin Latterich as Chief Scientific Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
LEXINGTON, Mass., Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BioScale, Inc. a life science company that develops ultrasensitive protein analysis technology, today announced the appointment of Martin Latterich, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO).
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Sapphire Energy Names New Scientific Advisory Board
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sapphire Energy, Inc. today welcomed new members to its Scientific Advisory Board as the company readies its first algae-to-energy commercial demonstration facility.The new board members represent ...
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Mercer International Inc. Partners With The University of British Columbia to...
MarketWatch (press release)
... Jun 12, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Mercer International Inc. (NASDAQ:MERC) (TSU:CA:MRI.U) today announced it has established a C$1 million partnership with The University of British Columbia's (UBC) Department of Chemical and Biological ...
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HemoShear Publishes Key Review on Human-Relevant Organotypic Systems
MarketWatch (press release)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- HemoShear LLC, a biotechnology research company and leading developer of human and animal cell-based surrogate systems for discovery and assessment of new drug compounds, announced today ...
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Tenet Announces Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett Appoints New CEO
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) today announced that Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett appointed Jeremy Clark as its new chief executive officer. Clark joined the 156-bed acute care hospital located in ...
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Alnylam and Collaborators Publish New Pre-clinical Results with an RNAi ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALNY) , a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced the publication of new pre-clinical results in the journal Blood (doi:10.1182/blood-2012-04-423715) that ...
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Berg Pharma presents at ASCO, poised to lead field in cancer metabolism with ...
Sacramento Bee
By Berg Pharma CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 12, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Berg Pharma, a Boston-based pharmaceutical company presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago on BPM 31510, the lead molecule in the Berg's cancer ...
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Identigene Promotes Donna Housley to Lab Director, Strengthens Laboratory...
MarketWatch (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Housley's Former Role as Associate Laboratory Director Has Been Assumed by Georges Frech, Ph.D. Identigene, the world's largest provider of direct-access DNA paternity testing services, today announced ...
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BioInvent and Cancer Research Technology enter Oncology collaboration
MarketWatch (press release)
LUND, Sweden & LONDON, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BioInvent International AB (omxs:BINV) and Cancer Research Technology Ltd (CRT), the commercial arm of Cancer Research UK, announced today that they have entered a collaboration with Queen Mary, ...
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Groundbreaking Discovery of the Cellular Origin of Cervical Cancer
MarketWatch (press release)
Singapore, Jun 12, 2012 (ACN Newswire via COMTEX) -- A team of scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) together with clinicians from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified ...
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FDA Issues Orphan Status Approval for PermaDerm®
MarketWatch (press release)
LITTLE FALLS, NJ, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Regenicin, Inc. (OBB:RGIN) a biotechnology company specializing in the development of and commercialization of regenerative cell therapies to restore the health of damaged tissues and organs, ...
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Multi-Center Clinical Study Intensifies First Strike at High-Risk Cancer in Kids
MarketWatch (press release)
CINCINNATI, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- An experimental treatment that combines intense chemotherapy with a radioactive isotope linked to synthesized neurotransmitter is being tested in newly diagnosed cases of high-risk neuroblastoma - a ...
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Pay (less) to publish: ambitious journal aims to disrupt scholarly publishing
Ars Technica
by John Timmer - Jun 12, 2012 1:00 pm UTC The push to open access to scientific publications has seen some remarkable successes this year. After publishers appeared to overreach by pushing to revoke the US government's existing open access policy, ...
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Ars Technica
Polaris Scientific Colleagues from Several University Cancer Centers Present ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Scientists from numerous institutions reported at the 2012 annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting, results from preclinical studies which showed that certain sarcomas and bladder ...
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Steady Funding Initiatives are Instrumental in Channeling Optical Imaging into...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Current optical imaging technologies provide reproducible, accurate, objective, quantitative assessments of tissue structures. As the marked progress in optical imaging techniques observed ...
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Protea Biosciences Opens New Demonstration and Training Center
MarketWatch (press release)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Jun 12, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Protea(R) Biosciences Group, Inc. (the "Company" or "Protea"), a leading developer of technologies and services for biomolecular analysis, today announced the opening of a dedicated customer ...
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Morpho Detection's CTX 5800 Compact Hold Baggage EDS Certified by Israel ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWARK, CA, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Morpho Detection, Inc. (MDI), the explosives and narcotics detection business of Morpho, Safran group's security unit, today announced its compact-design CTX explosives detection system (EDS), ...
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Four College-Bound Hispanic Students Selected To Receive $100000 RMHC®/HACER ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OAK BROOK, Ill., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Following a five-year tradition that has provided $1.9 million in scholarships for college-bound Hispanic students, Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC®) announced the names of four Hispanic ...
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World's Only USDA Certified Organic and FDA Registered Homeopathic Medicines ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SONOMA, Calif., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Forces of Nature® is singlehandedly changing the over-the-counter medicines industry by introducing the world's first and only FDA Registered remedies that are 100% Certified Organic by the ...
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Kill the Messenger: Small Molecule Prevents Cancer-Causing Message from...
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 12, 2012) — What's good news in one setting might spell disaster in another. In cancer for instance, when a certain cell is commanded to grow and divide without restraint, it's a welcome message for the cell itself but a tragedy for ...
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GREER(R) Reports Positive Findings from Large Phase III Clinical Trial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LENOIR, NC, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GREER(R), a leading developer and provider of allergy immunotherapy products and services, announced the initial results from its investigational pivotal Phase III clinical trial that studied the ...
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Pfizer Canada Announces Neuropathic Pain Research Award Recipients
Sacramento Bee
KIRKLAND, QC, June 12, 2012 /CNW/ - Pfizer Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Neuropathic Pain Research Awards, an annual grant competition for independent research in the areas of basic biomedical, clinical and health service and ...
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Alltopics.com Has Launched New Section On Environment
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
(PRWEB) June 12, 2012 The environment is everything around us, both physical and organic, that creates the conditions in the biosphere in which we live and now environment.alltopics.com makes sure that no story connected to the topic will go unnoticed.
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Genzyme Submits Applications to FDA and EMA for Approval of LEMTRADA(TM ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Genzyme, a Sanofi company , today announced that the company has submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a marketing authorization ...
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Polyphor Signs MacroFinder(R) Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim
MarketWatch (press release)
ALLSCHWIL, Switzerland, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Polyphor Ltd today announced the signing of a research collaboration and license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim, under which Polyphor will apply its proprietary MacroFinder(R) drug discovery ...
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2012 Valedictorians: Jeff Anderson, Dylan Berger, Joelle Stangler, Brian Prigmore
Star News
By Bruce Strand on June 12, 2012 at 10:08 am by Bruce Strand Jeff Anderson displays a vacuum pump and bell jar used for a ping pong ball cannon, a bunsen burner with some beakers and an Erlenmeyer flask, a geodesic sphere he made, and the Van de Graaff ...
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Star News
Mosquitoes Bred to Be Incapable of Transmitting Malaria
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 12, 2012) — Mosquitoes bred to be unable to infect people with the malaria parasite are an attractive approach to helping curb one of the world's most pressing public health issues, according to UC Irvine scientists.
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Life Technologies and Cellular Dynamics International Partner for Global ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced a partnership with Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), the world's largest producer of human cells derived from induced ...
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Woolly Mammoth Extinction Has Lessons for Modern Climate Change
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 12, 2012) — Although humans and woolly mammoths co-existed for millennia, the shaggy giants disappeared from the globe between 4000 and 10000 years ago, and scientists couldn't explain until recently exactly how the Flintstonian ...
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Cytokinetics Announces Publication of Phase II Evidence of Effect Study of CK ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (NASDAQ:CYTK) announced today the publication of its Phase II Evidence of Effect (EoE) clinical study of CK-2017357, an orally bioavailable fast skeletal muscle ...
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SF State Again Among National Leaders in Awarding Degrees to Minorities
AsianWeek
By AsianWeek Staff – June 12, 2012 Posted in: Bay Area, Education, News SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco State University is again among the leaders for awarding bachelor's degrees to minority students, ranking 16th nationally in that category, ...
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AsianWeek
The Failed Synthesis: Eduard Kolchinsky on the Dangers of Mixing Science and ...
Scientific American (blog)
By Eric Michael Johnson | June 12, 2012 | 1 Science is social, but when political ideology takes precedence over experimental evidence the results can be fatal. The United States is in the midst of a partisan political battle over science.
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Scientific American (blog)
A Planet in Peril: Is Earth Approaching a Tipping Point?
TIME
By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, June 12, 2012 The Earth has never stood still. Change is built into the life of the planet, whether physical changes to the surface of the Earth — through the slow action of erosion or glaciation — orbiological changes to the ...
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Final UI research VP candidate spoke Monday
UI The Daily Iowan
BY ALY BROWN | JUNE 12, 2012 6:30 AM Mary JC Hendrix, the president and scientific director of the Children's Hospital of Chicago Research Center, promoted interdisciplinary collaboration and public transparency for research at the University of Iowa.
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Living Microprocessor Tunes in to Feedback
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 12, 2012) — MicroRNAs (miRNAs) -- tiny strands of non-protein-coding RNAs -- start off as long strands of precursor miRNAs. These long strands get chopped up by a special kind of machinery, the "Microprocessor" complex, to transform ...
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UK group: New embryo methods should be allowed
Huffington Post
MARIA CHENG | June 12, 2012 10:38 AM EST | AP LONDON — An influential British bioethics group says that couples who face the risk of having a baby with certain genetic diseases should be allowed to use eggs from two women to produce the embryo.
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Model Organisms Help Researchers Learn About Human Cancers
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — BETHESDA, MD – June 12, 2012 -- It's hard to imagine that a zebrafish, a small tropical freshwater fish that is often found in home aquariums, could help scientists solve complicated problems about melanoma, a type of human skin cancer.
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Church of England criticizes government plans for same-sex marriage
Episcopal News Service
By ENS staff | June 12, 2012 Leave a Comment | [Episcopal News Service] UK government plans to enable same-sex couples to have a civil marriage have come under attack by the Church of England, which says that “such a move would alter the intrinsic ...
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University of Delaware Research Foundation awards 11 projects
University of Delaware
11:36 am, June 12, 2012--The University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF), a private corporation chartered in 1955 to support UD research, has funded 11 new projects in science and engineering on the UD campus. Each project is supported by a...
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University of Delaware
Three bizarre tales of medical survivors, and what they can (and cannot) teach ...
Scientific American (blog)
By Ilana Yurkiewicz | June 12, 2012 | 2 What do a 15-year-old Milwaukee student bitten by a rabies-infected bat, a 45-year-old Berlin patient with HIV and leukemia, and a 17-year-old with a rare prion disease have in common?
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Scientific American (blog)
Evolutionary biologist: Humans evolved to need coercion
By News
In “Evolution's Sweet Tooth,” (New York Times, June 5, 2012) human evolutionary biologist Daniel E. Liebermanallows us to know – in defense of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on big gulp soda pop: We humans did not ...
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