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• Using plants for production of highly purified recombinant proteins

  Plants are emerging as important biotechnology tools for the production of highly purified recombinant proteins. The Plastomics network dissected the process of foreign gene insertion into plants and their potential use as protein production reservoirs.

  Transformation of the gene of interest in the plastid genome offers certain advantages compared to introducing [...]

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• UF veterinary researchers discover new virus linked to death of Australian snakes

  A University of Florida researcher and colleagues in Australia and Germany have discovered what might be a deadly new snake virus.

  Dubbed the “Sunshine virus” because of its discovery in Australia’s Sunshine Coast region, the organism causes nervous system and respiratory disease and is the first of its kind to be [...]

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• Anti-bacterial killing machine offers alternative to antibiotics

  Bacteriophages, viruses that specifically infect and kill bacteria using special proteins called lysins, have been investigated as possible treatments since 1919. However, with the discovery of antibiotics in the 1940s, ‘phage therapy’ was generally abandoned.

  Now, scientists from Monash University, The Rockefeller University and the University of Maryland have detailed [...]

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• “Diving Board” Sensors to Streamline DNA Detection

  A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine. Researchers from Drexel University are in the process of refining a sensor technology that they developed to measure [...]

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• CytoDyn to Acquire PRO 140 from Progenics Pharmaceuticals

  CytoDyn of Lutz, Florida, a development stage biotechnology company focused on the development of new therapies for combating infection with immune deficiency virus and other antibody applications, has entered into an asset purchase agreement, effective July 25, 2012, to acquire from Progenics its proprietary humanized monoclonal antibody HIV viral-entry inhibitor [...]

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• Biovest Advances Process Seeking European Marketing Approval for BiovaxID™ Personalized Lymphoma Vaccine

  Tampa’s Biovest International, a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, has received notification from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding the official designation of the Rapporteur and Co-Rapporteur for BiovaxID, a personalized cancer vaccine for the treatment of follicular non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

  The EMA has granted Orphan Medicinal Product designation to BiovaxID for [...]

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• Molecular cue that keeps quiescent stem cells from proliferating

  A team led by Stowers Investigator Linheng Li, Ph.D., report that Flamingo and Frizzled 8, a tag team best known for its role in establishing cell polarity, are crucial for maintaining a quiescent reserve pool of hematopoietic stem cells in mouse bone marrow. Their finding, Noncanonical Wnt Signaling Maintains [...]

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• Run entire drug discovery program from your laptop?

  Assay Depot has launched a virtual research laboratory developed in partnership with AstraZeneca. The virtual laboratory is a vendor relationship management (VRM) system that gives researchers easy access to a distributed network of thousands of research service providers.

  “We brought together features of today’s favorite consumer websites to create a virtual [...]

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• NIH-industry collaboration will match researchers with 58 compounds to test ideas for new therapeutic uses

  Five additional pharmaceutical companies have joined a National Institutes of Health-led effort to help scientists research promising new treatments for patients. Funding and molecular compound information is available now for the initial phase of the recently unveiled Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules program. This NIH-industry collaboration will [...]

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• New Research Method Provides Better Insights Into Microbes

  Biologists have long suggested that microbes in the human body can cause or contribute to some human diseases, such as diabetes. The new research method published in the ISME Journal, as A biomolecular isolation framework for eco-systems biology, might soon be able to prove this hypothesis.

  “In order for us to [...]

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