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• Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicates new research laboratories

  90 guests toured UM’s Miller School Biomedical Research Building, now home of the Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute’s research headquarters, to see firsthand how scientists and clinicians are working together to advance breast cancer research, treatment and care.
  As University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala commented to guests crowded [...]

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• Scripps lands $50,000 grant

  The Scripps Research Institute has announced a $50,000 gift from Palm Beach residents Judy and J. John Goodman, M.D., to Scripps Florida. The gift will support both the work of Professor Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., in the development of a new approach to detect and treat Type I diabetes, as well [...]

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• Low-power RF energy deactivates renal sympathetic nerves, lowers blood pressure

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  The Symplicity Catheter System is used to perform a procedure termed renal denervation (RDN). In a straight-forward endovascular procedure, similar to an angioplasty, the physician inserts the small, flexible Symplicity Catheter into the femoral artery in the upper thigh and threads it into the renal artery. Once in place [...]

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• My Prediction is…

  People will be talking about “precognition” this week.

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• National Research Council reviews tech transfer after 30 years

  Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they sponsor. Before the Act, if government agencies funded university research, the funding agency retained ownership of the knowledge and [...]

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• Dengue fever in Miami, GM bugs in Cayman

  Miami-Dade County Health Department officials received confirmation of the first locally acquired case of Dengue Fever in Miami-Dade County. The patient was diagnosed with Dengue Fever based on symptoms and confirmed by laboratory tests. The individual fully recovered from this illness.

  Meanwhile, the Brits are genetically modifying mosquitoes, releasing [...]

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• Florida’s GPI launches new Stem Cell Action Coalition supporting embryonic stem cell research

  

  The Genetics Policy Institute of Wellington, Florida today announced the launch of a new advocacy coalition of 30 organizations to foster public awareness and advance the cause of embryonic stem cell research in the United States.

  “In light of the recent and ongoing court challenge in the [...]

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• Scripps Research scientists identify new mechanism regulating daily biological rhythms

  Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified for the first time a novel mechanism that regulates circadian rhythm, the master clock that controls the body’s natural 24-hour physiological cycle. These new findings could provide a new target not only for jet lag, shift work, and [...]

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• Pitching investors at the Miami Medical Investors Conference

  The following companies are signed up to pitch Friday, November 12th as part of the Miami Medical Investor’s Conference…

  Access Pharmaceuticals (ACCP)
  ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals (ANX)
  Biomoda Inc. (BMOD)
  Cardium Therapeutics (CXM)
  Echo Therapeutics (ECTE)
  Genspera Inc. (GNSZ)
  Idenix Pharmaceuticals (IDIX)
  InfuSystem Holdings Inc. (INHI)
  Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO)
  Marina Biotech (MRNA)
  NABI [...]

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• Prepare for a flood of Yankee resumes

  Massachusetts-area biotechs are slimming down and cutting jobs in a tight economy. Non-existent credit, focus on short-term returns and takeover pressures contributing to a layoff bubble. Meanwhile, Novartis and Sanofi bucking the trend and expanding in MA. From the Boston Globe.

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