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• VGTI Florida Opens 100,000 Square Foot Facility at TCI

  The Tradition Center for Innovation (TCI) and the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) Florida today announced the grand opening of a new, 100,000 square foot facility within TCI’s 150-acre research park located in the planned community of Tradition in Port St. Lucie. Since breaking ground in 2006, TCI [...]

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• Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded $3 Million to Develop New, More Effective Pain Treatments

  Scripps Florida scientists have been awarded $3.1 million by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study and develop several new compounds that could prove to be effective in controlling pain without the unwanted side effects common with opiate drugs, such as [...]

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• Florida Biologix to fill 3,000 vials

  NanoSonic Products and Florida Biologix have signed a contract for the formulation and fill of the sterile liquid form of its Trappsol Cyclo product, an FDA and EMEA designated orphan drug for the treatment of Niemann Pick Type-C disease, also known as Childhood Alzheimer’s, which affects children and adults and [...]

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• Implantable medical device can propel itself through bloodstream

  Ada Poon, assistant professor at the Stanford School of Engineering, has demonstrated a tiny, wirelessly powered, self-propelled medical device capable of controlled motion through a fluid—blood more specifically. The era of swallow-the-surgeon medical care may no longer be the stuff of science fiction.

  Poon is developing a new class of medical [...]

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• Gene that increases lifespan of mice identified

  A team led by Dr. Haim Cohen, of Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and including researchers from Hadassah Medical Center, the Hebrew University, and Carnegie Mellon University, has discovered a gene that increases survival in mammals. The discovery increases the likelihood that similar activity can [...]

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• Structure of Control Element Behind Protein Misfolding Identified

  As important as protein folding is to virtually all biological systems, the mechanisms behind this process have remained a mystery. The fog, however, is being lifted.

  A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), using the exceptionally bright and powerful x-ray beams [...]

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• Scripps Florida Team Awarded Nearly $1.5 Million to Develop Potent New HIV Inhibitors

  A Scripps Florida team has been awarded nearly $1.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to identify and develop novel potent inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

  A. Donny Strosberg, a professor on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute, is the principal investigator for the new [...]

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• Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover Inflammatory Circuit That Triggers Breast Cancer

  Although inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the progression of cancer, little is known about its role when normal cells become tumor cells. Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shed new light on exactly how the activation [...]

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• World’s First Drug Development Company Based on Crowdsourcing

  Transparency Life Sciences launched with the introduction of a prototype of a crowdsourced web platform that allows patients, physicians, researchers and other stakeholders to contribute to the design of clinical studies. The goal of the new company is to develop therapies for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising [...]

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• New blood types revealed

  You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you’re Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these.

  Yet this knowledge could be “a matter [...]

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