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• Enzyme that acts as innate immunity sensor

  Two studies by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center could lead to new treatments for lupus and other autoimmune diseases and strengthen current therapies for viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections. Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase is a cytosolic DNA sensor that activates the type I interferon pathway. and Cyclic GMP-AMP [...]

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• “Bionic proteins”

  Physicists of the University of Vienna together with researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system, thanks to the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), a [...]

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• Few Negative Reactions to the Results of Genetic Testing for Cancer Mutations

  A 23andMe study of consumers’ reactions to genetic testing found that even when the tests revealed high-risk mutations in individuals, those individuals had few negative reactions to the news. Instead of inducing serious anxiety, the test results prompted people to take positive steps, including follow-up visits with a doctor and [...]

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• FDA Panel Recommends FDA Approval for Retinal Prosthesis System

  On Friday September 28th, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel unanimously voted 19-0 that the probable benefit of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System outweighs the risks to health, an important step toward the FDA market approval of this product manufactured by Second Sight Medical [...]

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• Starve ‘em Out: Strategy to control resistant genes in the environment

  Rice University researchers “cured” a strain of bacteria of its ability to resist an antibiotic in an experiment that has implications for a long-standing public health crisis. Rice environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and his team managed to remove the ability of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa microorganism to resist the antibiotic medication tetracycline by [...]

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• Miami’s Heart Genomics Receives Loan Funding from Institute for Commercialization of Public Research

  Florida’s Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research has finalized a funding agreement with Heart Genomics, LLC, a Miami-based early-stage biotechnology company focused on providing non-invasive, genomic-based, clinical diagnostic tests for patients with heart failure. The ICPR works with Florida’s research universities and institutions to support new company creation and [...]

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• Genetic circuits in bacterial cells perform logic functions and remember

  Synthetic circuits integrating logic and memory in living cells: MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the cell’s DNA and passed on for dozens of generations.

  The circuits, described in the Feb. 10 [...]

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• New strategy prevents rheumatoid arthritis in mice

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated a new strategy for treating autoimmune disease that successfully blocked the development of rheumatoid arthritis in a mouse model. They say it holds promise for improved treatment of arthritis and other autoimmune disorders in people.

  Amelioration of arthritis through mobilization of peptide-specific CD8+ regulatory [...]

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• Old drug may point the way to new treatments for diabetes and obesity

  Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute have found that amlexanox, an off-patent drug currently prescribed for the treatment of asthma and other uses, also reverses obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in mice.

  An inhibitor of the protein kinases TBK1 and IKK-ɛ improves obesity-related metabolic dysfunctions in mice, [...]

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• Jill Diodato to AssureImmune

  Jill Diodato, previously Program Manager, Banner Center for Life Sciences at Palm Beach State College, has a new position in Corporate Development for AssureImmune in Boca Raton. AssureImmune is a science-based cell preservation industry leader specializing in the collection, testing and banking of cord blood and adult stem cells.

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