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  • Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator Named Finalist for International Award

    The Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator of Alachua, Fla., a program of the University of Florida, has been named a finalist for the National Business Incubation Association’s 2013 Dinah Adkins Incubator of the Year award in the technology focus category.

    The winner of the prestigious award will be announced April 9 at [...]

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  • Lord appointed to VGTI Board

    Robert L. Lord, Jr., J.D., B.C.S., F.A.C.H.E. has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI Florida), a leading nonprofit immunological research institute. Mr. Lord is Senior Vice President, Legal Services and Chief Legal Officer of Martin Health System, which serves the [...]

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  • Scaffold coated with long-sugar molecules enhances stem-cell cultures

    Stem cells have the unique ability to turn into any type of human cell, opening up all sorts of therapeutic possibilities for some of the world’s incurable diseases and conditions. The problem facing scientists is how to encourage stem cells to turn into the particular type of cell required to [...]

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  • Roche allows third party researchers to access clinical trial data

    Roche is expanding access to its clinical trial data for third party researchers. Roche will work with an independent body of recognised experts to evaluate and approve requests to access anonymised patient-level data. Roche will support the release of full clinical study reports (CSRs) for all its licensed medicines via [...]

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  • FIU, Agilent collaborate to identify “designer drugs”

    Florida International University’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and its International Forensics Research Institute is collaborating with Agilent Technologies to further advance the identification and characterization of so-called designer drugs.

    This work is currently focused on developing and validating new methods for rapid forensic screening and analysis based on advanced chromatography [...]

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  • Analytical trick accelerates protein studies

    Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to accelerate a workhorse instrument that identifies proteins. The high-speed technique could help diagnose cancer sooner and point to new drugs for treating a wide range of conditions.

    Proteins are essential building blocks of biology, used in muscle, brain, blood [...]

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  • Algorithm predicts how much can be learned in a large-scale DNA sequencing

    Two USC scientists have developed an algorithm that could help make DNA sequencing affordable enough for clinics – and could be useful to researchers of all stripes.

    Andrew Smith, a computational biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, developed the algorithm along with USC graduate student Timothy [...]

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  • Reprogramming alpha cells into beta cells to Fight Diabetes

    For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited success. The “reprogramming” of related alpha cells into beta cells may one day offer a novel and complementary approach for treating type 2 diabetes. Treating human and mouse cells with [...]

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  • One Week and Counting: Don’t Cut the Research That Fuels the U.S. Economy

    With only one week left before sequestration is to take effect, America’s research community sustained its call for an end to the across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending that will severely restrict the nation’s ability to invest in the basic scientific research that drives innovation and produces economic growth.  Sequestration will [...]

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  • Protein ‘Passport’ That Helps Nanoparticles Get Past Immune System

    The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like pacemakers or artificial joints, are just as foreign and subject to the same response.

    Now, researchers at the University of [...]

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