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• Biscayne Pharmaceuticals Closes $1.5 Million Financing

  Biscayne Pharmaceuticals has closed a $1.5 million financing deal.  The new company is developing novel growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) drugs based on recent discoveries by the company’s scientific advisor, Dr. Andrew V. Schally, a world-renowned drug researcher and Nobel laureate who pioneered the field of hypothalamic peptide drugs.  Biscayne also [...]

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• Novel Technique to Boost Antibiotic Effectiveness

  Amid a growing incidence of antibiotic-resistant infections and dearth of new drugs to treat them, new strategies are urgently needed to bolster the world’s antibiotic arsenal. One approach, strongly advocated by a special U.S. Food and Drug Administration task force launched in September, is to develop new antibacterial drugs, but [...]

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• Questions about DIYbio safety? Ask a Biosafety Expert!

  The rapid decline in costs associated with many common laboratory techniques, such as DNA sequencing and synthesis, has led to their adoption by individuals outside of traditional university or industrial settings, giving rise to a rapidly growing Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) community.

  DIYbio.org and the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow [...]

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• Shedding Light on the “Dark Matter” of DNA

  Genome sequences store the information about an organism’s development in the DNA’s four-letter alphabet. Genes carry the instruction for proteins, which are the building blocks of our bodies. However, genes make up only a minority of the entire genome sequence – roughly two percent in humans. The remainder was once [...]

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• Bacteria generate stem cells naturally during infection

  Leprosy is a bacterial disease that spreads to muscles and other tissues in the body, causing neurodegeneration and muscle weakness. Reprogramming Adult Schwann Cells to Stem Cell-Like Cells by Leprosy Bacilli Promotes Dissemination of Infection, published in the journal Cell, reveals that the bacteria responsible for leprosy spread infection by [...]

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• Revealed: How the Flu Tells Time

  Scientists have discovered that the flu virus can essentially tell time, using an internal clock. This gives scientists a new target; “hacking” the virus’ clock and causing it to go off schedule. According to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the flu knows how much time [...]

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• Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies Initiates Research Collaboration with Takeda

  Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies announced the initiation of a research collaboration with Envoy Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited.

  Torrey Pines Institute will supply Envoy with compound libraries for evaluation and validation of Envoy’s assays to identify new tools and lead compounds for future drug development. Over [...]

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• Brain Bee Challenge registration now open

  Registration is now open for the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience’s (MPFIN) 2013 Brain Bee Challenge on Saturday, February 9. This will be the second year for the annual event, which brings together Palm Beach and Martin County students in grades 9-12 for a “different kind of brainstorm.” Sponsored by [...]

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• UM Growth Hormone Study Could Lead to New Drug Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease

  UM Miller School and Miami VA Medical Center researchers have developed a synthetic antagonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) that holds promise for a new drug therapy to reverse or stop the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. “Beneficial effects of novel antagonists of GHRH in different models of Alzheimer’s disease,” led by Andrew [...]

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• 25 new disease specific pluripotent stem cell lines placed on the NIH registry

  Genea Stem Cells Pty Ltd (GSC), a supplier and developer of disease-specific human stem cells, today announced that 25 of its disease specific embryonic pluripotent stem cell lines have been placed on the USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) human stem cell registry. These embryonic stem cell lines are now [...]

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