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• Harvard Grows Heart Tissue, Watches it Beat

  
  Biosingularity — Authority: 131
  It’s Alive! Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in taking embryonic stem cells from mice and growing cardiovascular tissue. The research team, led by Dr. Kenneth Chien, believes that a similar process may one day serve to repair cardiac damage in humans. The work was ...
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• Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Concepts and Applications by Gary Walsh

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 161
  Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Concepts and Applications | Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470012455 | edition 2007 | PDF | 498 pages | 10,1 mb Pharmaceutical Biotechnology offers students taking Pharmacy and related Medical and Pharmaceutical courses a comprehensive introduction to the fast-moving area of ...
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• (MNKD) MannKind Pharma Beats – Awaiting FDA Review

  
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  MannKind Pharma’s ( MNKD ) third quarter loss per share came in at 42 cents, better than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 49 cents and loss of 67 cents reported in the year-ago period. The company does not have any revenue stream at present — its lead product, Afresa (inhaled insulin for the treatment of type I ...
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• (GENZ) Genzyme Corporation – Bear of the Day

  
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  Genzyme ( GENZ ) reported third quarter earnings of 31 cents per share, in-line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate but well below the year-ago earnings of 53 cents per share. Moreover, revenues declined 9% to $1.06 billion. The company has been under significant pressure following the shutdown of its Allston ...
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• (ONXX) Onyx Pharmaceuticals Beats Estimates

  
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  Onyx Pharmaceuticals ( ONXX ) reported third quarter earnings of 28 cents per share, well above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 22 cents as well as 21 cents reported in the year-ago period. The company, along with Bayer AG (BAYRY.PK), developed Nexavar (sorafenib) tablets, an anticancer therapy currently approved ...
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• Early Life Hedged Its Bets to Survive | Wired Science | Wired.com

  
  Biosingularity — Authority: 131
  By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills.Technically known as “stochastic switching between phenotypic ...
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• Eating Slowly May Help Weight Control

  
  Biosingularity — Authority: 131
  Eyeball your food a little longer if you’re looking to shed some pounds, because wolfing it down too fast may make you prone to overeat, a new study shows.So savor those aromas, relish the meal’s presentation, and don’t just dig in like you’ve got to finish it off in a hurry, researchers report in The [...]
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• Gene Patents: Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO

  
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  A federal court case in New York might be one of the biggest landmark cases in modern legal history. The ACLU is challenging Myriad Genetics’ patents on the BRCA genes, which are related to breast and ovarian cancer.  In recent years, major biotechnology companies have sequenced and patented about 20% of the human ...
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• Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Concepts and Applications

  
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  Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Concepts and Applications Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470012455 | edition 2007 | PDF | 498 pages | 10,1 mb Pharmaceutical Biotechnology offers students taking Pharmacy and related Medical and Pharmaceutical courses a comprehensive introduction to the fast-moving area of ...
  21 hours ago

• GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Formally Launch Company To Develop New HIV Treatments

  
  Pharmainfo.net — Authority: 164
  Pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer on Tuesday formally launched ViiV Healthcare, a company focused on the development of new HIV treatments, Dow Jones Newswires/SmartMoney.com reports (11/3). Advertisement: read more
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• Is the practice of medicine impeding medical innovation?

  
  Biotech Blog — Authority: 103
  Copyright © BiotechBlog.com , a product of thinkBiotech.com At a recent event on the comparative advantages of small molecule vs. biologic drugs, several themes emerged which led me to re-examine the question of whether the practice of medicine is capable of keeping pace with medical innovation. As ...
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• Experts Propose Global Health Accellerator To Help New Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines Reach Distant Markets

  
  Pharmainfo.net — Authority: 164
  Research firms in developing countries have a medicine cabinet full of affordable and innovative drugs, diagnostics and vaccines on shelves or in development to address "neglected tropical diseases" but need help to get such products to more potential users. Advertisement: read more
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• Flemish Researchers Develop Revolutionary Technology For Use In Plant Breeding (Science Daily / VIB)

  
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  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103102353.htmFlemish Researchers Develop Revolutionary Technology For Use In Plant BreedingScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2009) — One of the greatest challenges of this century is making the food supply secure in a world that finds itself under increasing ...
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• Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight ‘neglected’ diseases of poor: study

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 127
  Experts propose ‘Global Health Accellerator’ to help new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines reach distant marketsResearch firms in developing countries have a medicine cabinet full of affordable and innovative drugs, diagnostics and vaccines on shelves or in development to address “neglected tropical diseases” but ...
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• Open Source and Biotechnology: Whither or Whether Ideology?

  
  IP finance ... where money issues meet intellectual property rights — Authority: 491
  I venture to say that most of us are well aware of the fault lines between proprietary and open source software. Proprietary software is characterized by keeping source code secret together with contractual restrictions on the use of the software, plus a reliance on the negative right aspects of copyright and other ...
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• Molekulare Biotechnologie: Grundlagen und Anwendungen von David P. Clark

  
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  Spektrum Akademischer Verlag | 2009 | ISBN: 3827421284 | 707 pages | PDF | 24,4 MB Um Biotechnologie in der medizinischen Forschung, der Arzneimittelentwicklung, der Lebensmittelindustrie oder im Umweltschutz einsetzen zu können, müssen Studierende, Wissenschaftler und technisches Personal die Grundelemente der ...
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• Fired Up: Challenging the Constitutionality of the Patent Act

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 575
  The Plaintiffs allege that because human genes should not be patented.  Hardly something that anyone can argue.  The only trouble is that this is not what the US Patent Office allows, and it is not what Myriad Genetics has been granted a patent on.  Nevertheless, the frivolous ACLU lawsuit that seeks to use the US ...
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• Honorable Mention: Nanobots – An Invention of the Future

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 575
  Inventors Digest, in cooperation with IPWatchdog, is showcasing several essays deserving of honorable mention.  The first in this series appears below.Inventors Digest held a youth innovation essay contest, in part to celebrate National Inventors Month, last August. The four winning essays are at ...
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• Golden Nanocages Could Deliver Cancer Drugs to Tumors

  
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  Cancer treatment in the future could have dramatically reduced side effects if new nanotechnology research proves useful. Heat-sensitive nanoparticles might be able to deliver drugs to a targeted location in the body — to a tumor, say —and release them on cue, a sought-after goal of biomedical research. ...
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• Could Gene Patents Become a Thing of the past?

  
  The IP Factor — Authority: 425
  U.S. Federal Judge Robert Sweet (Manhattan) has agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The lawsuit has been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged patents held by Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research ...
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