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RTI Biologics Breaks Ground on New Facility in Alachua

RTI Biologics celebrated the ground breaking of its new 41,165-square-foot Logistics and Technology Center on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Occupancy is expected in early 2014.

RTI, headquartered in Alachua, Florida., is one of the leading providers of sterile biologic implants. Its Logistics and Technology Center, a $14 million investment, will be home to [...]

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Breath test could diagnose tuberculosis infection

In Detecting bacterial lung infections: in vivo evaluation of in vitro volatile fingerprints, published in Journal of Breath Research, researchers at the University of Vermont successfully distinguish between different types of bacteria, as well as different strains of the same bacteria, in the lungs of mice by analysing the volatile [...]

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Potential New Drug Target to Block Cell Death in Parkinson’s Disease

Oxidative stress is a primary villain in a host of diseases that range from cancer and heart failure to Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Now, scientists from Scripps Research Institute Florida have found that blocking the interaction of a critical enzyme may counteract the destruction of neurons [...]

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