• Marketing Manager, Biotechnology – Laguna Source – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2010-04-30 05:49:37
    We are a successful biotechnology company and we have an immediate need for a Product Manager with expertise in immunology and cell biology product lines... From Laguna Source, LLC - 30 Apr 2010 04:49:37 GMT - job details - View all San Diego jobs

  • What can you learn from a whole genome sequence? [Genetic Future]

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:00:00
    Now on ScienceBlogs : The Island has been Lost Last 24 Hrs Life Science Physical Science Environment Humanities Education Politics Medicine Brain Behavior Technology Information Science Jobs Genetic Future Commentary on human genetics and evolution , direct-to-consumer genetic testing , and the personal genomics . industry Latest Posts Archives About Contact Subscribe Search Profile Daniel MacArthur I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation , and the companies trying to sell you information about your . genome Subscribe via RSS Follow me on Twitter Recent Posts What can you learn from a whole genome sequence Guest post : Kai Wang on the McClellan and King critique of genome-wide association studies Genomes , Environments , Traits Conference : following at a

  • Beyond the Electronic Health Record

    Updated: 2010-04-29 22:01:43
    With the passage of health care reform legislation last month, attention has now turned from arguing its merits to understanding its practical implications. In the world of health information... [[Click headline to continue reading.]]

  • Celladon Enjoys Early Success With Gene Therapy Trial, FDA Gives Digirad Green Light for a Nuclear Camera, Aragon Pharmaceuticals Gets $22M & More San Diego Biotech News

    Updated: 2010-04-29 15:49:17
    We saw a healthy mix of life sciences news over the past week, with a generous serving of device news, some venture funding, a dash of clinical trial results, and voila! Enjoy! —San... [[Click headline to continue reading.]]

  • Generex, Progress on Trials and Progress on Financing (GNBT)

    Updated: 2010-04-28 03:03:59
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog Generex Biotechnology Corporation (NASDAQ: GNBT) had already reported that it had found a financial backer earlier this month when it announced that it would sell up to 49.5 million shares, and it has an existing and effective shelf registration statement already.  The company has entered into a common stock purchase agreement [...]

  • Multiple personal genomes await

    Updated: 2010-04-28 00:58:45
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature. (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Ten-Bagger Chase Goes After Prana (PRAN)

    Updated: 2010-04-21 02:56:20
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog Prana Biotechnology Ltd. (NASDAQ: PRAN) is up over 100% today on some published data.  The share trading activity is indicative of traders and investors looking for the next biotech ten-bagger, or that search for a 1,000% Gainer. The report causing the run-up is new published analysis of its clinical trial excerpt taken [...]

  • Mice Study: Omega-3 DHA Reverses Male Infertility

    Updated: 2010-04-19 05:00:00
    © D'Arcy NormanA new mice study suggested that supplementation of omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may reverse infertility-related sperm abnormalities, thereby boosting male fertility. Researchers reported in the Journal of Lipid Research: "Mice engineered to lack a gene that codes for an enzyme that helps them produce DHA were found to have fewer sperm and more abnormalities in what little sperm they did have, but such effects were reversed in mice fed DHA". Omega-3 fatty acids already has a long list of ... (Source: The Biotech Weblog)

  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline

    Updated: 2010-04-16 20:48:09
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D is best [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable

    Updated: 2010-04-16 19:19:31
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Essentials of [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Mediterranean-Style Diet Improves Brain Health

    Updated: 2010-04-16 02:33:04
    © The Gifted PhotographerA food-brain study conducted by Columbia University scientists reported that a diet rich in salad dressing, tomatoes, nuts, fish, cruciferous vegetables, dark and green leafy vegetables, fruits, and poultry (Mediterranean-style diet) maybe improve brain health and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease by about 40 per cent. Rich in cereals, fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish and olive oil, the Mediterranean diet has been found to be beneficial to those with arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, hearth health and blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, ... (Source: The Biotech Weblog)

  • Chase for Ten-Baggers Keeps After Cancer (MIPI, ENMD)

    Updated: 2010-04-14 02:59:42
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPI) is surging this morning on solid news in the war on cancer.  Any time you have a gain of 100% or more in a single day, the term “surge” is an understatement.  The move is on the heels of results from a completed Phase II [...]

  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab

    Updated: 2010-04-11 19:34:54
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to successful bone implants: how to grow new bones in [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon

    Updated: 2010-04-11 02:55:45
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give sight to blind eyes, merging retinal nerves with electrodes [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as Much as Hard Drugs

    Updated: 2010-04-10 21:05:27
    Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel good, like drug users who need to up [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer

    Updated: 2010-04-10 20:59:29
    specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting and gene-silencing in humans. Researchers haven’t yet revealed the clinical [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Gene flaw found in induced stem cells

    Updated: 2010-04-10 20:54:00
    Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed in humans, the finding could help clinicians to select only the heartiest [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Study: Chocolate may reduce heart risk

    Updated: 2010-04-10 20:52:16
    The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40%. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questionnaires about their diet and exercise habits. They [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Prostate drug may work as a preventive

    Updated: 2010-04-10 20:49:13
    Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking a drug already on the market. In research reported Wednesday, the drug dutasteride, currently used to shrink enlarged prostates, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by about a quarter in high-risk men. [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Cancer vaccines may be on the verge of wider use

    Updated: 2010-04-10 19:26:30
    One of the persistent frustrations in cancer treatment has been the way that tumors can evade our immune systems as they grow and multiply inside our bodies. Even though cancer cells have special surface markers, known as antigens, the body often doesn’t seem to be able to mount a full-fledged attack against the tumors, and the [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic Mice

    Updated: 2010-04-09 03:37:15
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report online in Nature April 4. The study, done in mice, is the first to [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Prostate Cancer Results While You Wait

    Updated: 2010-04-09 03:24:42
    In an office park in Woburn, MA, a volunteer presents his fingertip for a quick finger stick. A phlebotomist wicks up the small drop of blood with a specially made square of plastic, then snaps the plastic into a credit-card sized microfluidics cartridge and feeds it into a special reader. Fifteen minutes later, the device [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • To starve a tumor

    Updated: 2010-04-08 01:00:04
    Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researchers flocked to study newly discovered cancer-causing genes. Now a new generation of researchers [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Smart Pill Reports Back

    Updated: 2010-04-08 00:49:31
    The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and for reminding patients to take [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C

    Updated: 2010-04-08 00:47:06
    Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, about half of patients who had failed previous treatment [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer

    Updated: 2010-04-03 11:50:24
    Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. Now [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human gene

    Updated: 2010-04-03 00:10:08
    Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a Nobel [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • When Biotech Analysts See Exponential Price Gains (OXGN, INO, NVAX, OREX, SQNM, VNDA)

    Updated: 2010-04-02 16:11:45
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog If you have been a reader of BioHealth Investor for very long, you know what the quest for ten-baggers happens to be.  The chase for 1,000% gains is hard to find outside of biotech stocks.  In fact, looking for ten-baggers is a very risky business venture because it is no different [...]

  • ArQule’s Ten-Bagger Chase, Actually a 3-Bagger (ARQL)

    Updated: 2010-04-02 16:10:48
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog ArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQL) may not quite be representative of the quest for ten-baggers, but this is something that should be watched by biotech traders and investors.  When you see biotech and BioHealth stocks up 100% in a day you just have to assume that it will be on the trading [...]

  • 10-Bagger Quest Chases ARCA biopharma (ABIO)

    Updated: 2010-04-02 16:09:54
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog ARCA biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABIO) was not just the big winner of the trading day.  It was an exponential gainer.  You rarely see this unless there is a major biotech announcement regarding cancer or other other disease cures.  But in the quest for ten-baggers in biohealth, ARCA Bio at least formed [...]

  • Major Short Selling Changes in Biotech (AMGN, BIIB, GILD, CELG, GENZ, GERN, DNDN, HGSI, AMLN, CTIC)

    Updated: 2010-04-02 16:07:49
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog We have now seen the changes in short selling in biotech stocks via the Mid-March short interest report from NASDAQ.  This marks the changes seen at the March 15, 2010 settlement date versus a prior February 26 settlement date.   We took a look at Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), Biogen Idec Inc. [...]

  • Biosante Scores, Trial News and Orphan Drug Designation (BPAX)

    Updated: 2010-04-02 16:05:49
    Submitted by BioHealth Investor Blog Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) is not your normal big mover, and it does not yet emulate what we would pen as the “chase for the next ten-bagger” where investors are looking for 1,000% gainers.  But the company is seeing a surge in shares this morning after releasing additional positive Leukemia [...]

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