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• Want to buy a bridge?

  A bridge between the bloodstream and the brain, that is. Interesting story in Nature:

  ArmaGen is $1 million in the red on AGT-190. A $3-million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded the drug’s development, and the company has spent a total of $4 million on the project, including $1.5 [...]

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• History as a biological phenomenon?

  In 2002, scientists carried out an amazing experiment, which showed that particles of light “photons” knew — in advance −- what their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication between pairs of photons — whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the [...]

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• USF researchers ask: Are there too many stem cell journals?

  

  Cesar Borlongan

  Paul Sanberg

  “Because stem cells have the ability to differentiate and proliferate, there has been a great increase in research into stem cell-based regenerative medicine over the last decade,” said Paul Sanberg. “Paralleling this trend in research is a similar differentiation and [...]

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• Why SE Florida, not the Panhandle?

  The Pensacola News Journal takes a look at how Scripps landed in Jupiter, what lifesciences companies are looking for, and what it means to places like the Florida Panhandle. Includes insight from Pam Dana, Gov. Bush’s head of Economic Development when the Scripps deal was underway, and how a Maine vacation [...]

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• Two heads are better than one

  Alzheimer’s research was in the news recently with reports that a protein signature in spinal fluid could be a biomarker for the disease. Now the New York Times has reported on the seven years of work that preceded the discovery.
  ADNI evolved into a massive collaboration where no one [...]

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• Is “virtual” the right way to go?

  According to the San Diego Union-Tribune “virtual companies now account for more than half of the biotech startups created in the region since 2005, according to some industry experts.” As usual, click the headline to read the entire story at the SDUT.

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• Jupiter biocluster attracts

  GHG Pharma of Lutz, Florida is moving to Jupiter to be closer to connections at Scripps and Max Planck. They project adding 50 to 60 jobs over the next few years.

  Last month, CHS Pharma announced they had moved their corporate HQ to Jupiter with the intention of expanding [...]

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• Oil-eating bacteria may determine environmental impact of Gulf oil

  The environmental impact of millions of gallons of oil still in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon incident may depend on microscopic helpers: Bacteria that consume oil and other hydrocarbons and could break down the spilled crude, making it disappear. That’s the topic of an article in the [...]

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• Energy storage system deals with sudden draws on the grid

  Researchers at the University of Leeds and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have now found a way to manage short-lived, daily peaks on the electricity grid that could halve the fuel needed.
  The key idea is to use excess electricity to run a unit producing liquid nitrogen and oxygen – [...]

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• Stimulus bill -> Florida budget -> Jackson Lab

  President Obama has signed a $26 billion stimulus bill. The details of this bill differ somewhat from the guesstimate Florida legislators made a few months ago when adopting the state budget.

  The Florida budget included $50 million earmarked for Jackson Lab. So now budget analysts are poring over the new figures [...]

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