items about biotechnology 251 Biotechnology 2010-09-03T02:54:23 Science Guy barry.david.adams@gmail.com BioHealth Investor 2010-09-03T02:52:29

Intendis, Bayer Healthcare’s dermatology sector, has signed a deal with Los Angeles-based biopharma company Kythera Biopharmaceuticals in which the company receives rights to Kythera’s lead product candidate, ATX-101, in areas outside of the United States and Canada.  Kythera, in return, will receive $43 million upfront and up to $330 million beyond their initial payment.  ATX-101 is used [...]

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Inhibitex Inc. (NASDAQ: INHX) was up $0.16 (11.27%) this morning to $1.58 on news that the company had completed a Phase1a, single ascending dose trial of its nucleotide polymerase inhibitor, INX-189.  The drug is currently being developed for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.  Tests of the drug have, at this point, been positive with [...]

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Swiss drugmaker Roche took a blow this past Friday after the U.S. FDA denied the company’s request for accelerated approval regarding trastuzumab-DM1, or T-DM1.  The drug, according to Reuters, “comprises ImmunoGen’s DM1 cancer-cell-killing agent linked to the HER2-targeting antibody trastuzumab, or Herceptin,” as a means of combating cancer.  The FDA’s decision will now setback the [...]

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Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSTI) is up 12.87% this morning after it announced that its PLX therapeutic stem cell line, derived from the material of a human placenta, would be the only type of cell selected for a study designed to prevent inflammatory heart disease, also called diastolic heart failure. Shares of PSTI is up [...]

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AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO) was up $0.75 (9.14%) this morning to $8.96 following reports that by introducing an experimental drug during chemotherapy the company had succeeded to wipe out brain cancer cells in mice.  This news provides hope for a new treatment for the disease in humans, and testing in humans has already begun. [...]

2b34b37cf36e4bc9bde53588eeffece5 San Diego Biotechnology Network: Biotech Events, Jobs, News, Companies, Directory, Blog, & Calendar 2010-09-02T12:40:23

The life sciences news over the past week was almost all about deals. Money came out of INC Research, a contract research organization in North Carolina that was founded in San Diego. Money went into... [[Click headline to continue reading.]]

a6f6651c988a88cae006c4d6b02247e7 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:20:32

Terry D. Etherton Increasing agriculture productivity to meet growing global demand for food must be accompanied by an intense, innovative effort to enhance the environmental imprint of farming to be sustainable. “We face the daunting challenge of nearly doubling agriculture production to meet the demands of the estimated 9 billion people [...]

a7eb28119333df5a755d3e7fb2c778ca Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:19:15

Paul Patterson Professor of Poultry Science Penn State University For those readers who have been following the news about eggs and salmonella, here is a very informative Op-Ed article written by Dr. Patterson that was published online in the New York Times on August 25. ## The American food system, and in particular egg producers in [...]

8f8fc6d4302d97c798aa21ae729b1a13 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:15:42

By COLLEEN BARRY Bloomberg Business Week August 18, 2010 PORDENONE, Italy Giorgio Fidenato has made a habit of carrying a raw ear of yellow corn and taking a hearty bite whenever a camera is in sight. It’s a provocation. The Italian farmer’s corn is genetically modified, grown surreptitiously in fields in the northeast not far from [...]

70128bf9fe7b9a826d0e707efced82e8 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:14:12

Virginia Ishler Dairy Complex Manager Department of Dairy and Animal Science Penn State University News media has a tendency to portray certain aspects of agricultural production either positively or negatively. Doug Powell, an associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University co-authored a paper on “Coverage of organic agriculture in North American newspapers: Media – [...]

5d02a80396cf6c915cf13331a0077016 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:02:02

Terry D. Etherton Scientists at Stanford University have published provocative new findings that agriculture’s “Green Revolution” has greatly reduced forest clear-cutting and resulting climate-warming emissions.  This is a remarkable (but not unexpected) benefit of contemporary production agriculture, and the application of technologies (and biotechnologies) that have boosted efficiency of food [...]

c9ccdd6c51eea77962d8dbdafccfd108 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T17:00:15

Terry D. Etherton I never cease to be amazed at the political process in Europe that keeps hindering adoption of safe and effective ag biotechnologies.  The latest folly occurred on July 7, 2010 when Members of the European Parliament (MEP) renewed their appeal for a ban on food from cloned animals [...]

1b9b903807621787e94618bce1a4ceb3 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T16:58:35

Terry D. Etherton An interesting news release from Europe came across my desk.  A group of farmers from Spain, Portugal and Romania traveled to Brussels, Belgium to convey to the European Commission that they are upset that they can not us genetically modified (GM) crops.  They urged that laws be passed to [...]

742f73fb6aacdc7cf16c0d6697e516d4 Terry Etherton's Blog on Hormones, Biotechnology, and Food Safety 2010-08-26T16:55:13

Chad Dechow Associate Professor, Dairy Cattle Genetics Department of Dairy and Animal Science The Pennsylvania State University Several high profile undercover videos of animal abuse on dairy farms have increased the pressure to implement welfare guidelines, much like the United Egg Producers’ certification program. We’re all appalled with what we have seen in some videos, and [...]

ead2178bd7faba91438d6023d33cf3ab MedWorm Tags: biotechnology 2010-08-15T22:22:12

© FeatheredTarToday, most people are aware of the benefits of Lasik eye surgery for the treatment of an eyesight condition better known as double vision. However, there is a new procedure called laser blended vision surgery. Lasik eye surgery became a popular treatment procedure because of its success in treating the eye's difficulty in focusing up-close objects. This is done by correcting the vision of one eye for distance while the other, for close vision. What is not covered by Lasik however, is the ... (Source: The Biotech Weblog)

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