• Scientific Associate, Medicinal Chemistry – Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2010-06-30 08:06:05
    with 2-7 years of research experience in the pharmaceutical or a biotechnology industry with a proven scientific track record (e.g. clinical candidates, patents... From BioSpace.com - 30 Jun 2010 07:06:05 GMT - job details - View all San Diego jobs

  • Scientist – Behavior, Neuropharmacology, and Neurogenomics – Dart Neuroscience LLC – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2010-06-30 01:05:43
    significant opportunity to develop scientific and managerial skills in a biotechnology environment. The selected candidate will work in a creative, fast-paced... From Naturejobs.com - 30 Jun 2010 00:05:43 GMT - job details - View all San Diego jobs

  • Avanir Pharmaceuticals Up Following No Recent News

    Updated: 2010-06-28 21:01:36
    Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNR) was up $0.11 (4.12%) this morning to $2.78. Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharm company that specializes in the development and commercialization of therapeutic products primarily for the treatment of central nervous system disorders.  The company’s main products include Zenviatm, used for the treatment of pseudobulbar affect and diabetic peripheral neuropathic [...]

  • OraSure Technologies Up Following FDA Approval for New Product

    Updated: 2010-06-26 12:17:14
    OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR) was up this morning $0.41 (8.45%) to $5.26 following FDA approval for its OraQuick® Hepatitis C (“HCV”) Rapid Antibody Test, making the test the first rapid HCV test approved for sale in the U.S. OraSure Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and sells oral fluid diagnostic products and specimen collection devices, including [...]

  • Molecular Insight Shoots Up Overnight On Promising Cancer Trials

    Updated: 2010-06-24 22:41:05
    Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPI) was up $0.66 (41.25%) to $2.26 this morning on news that mid-stage trials of their cancer drug, Azedra, were going exceptionally well. Azedra would be used to treat neuroblastoma, a type of cancer which affects nerve tissue in children. Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, [...]

  • HGS Lupus Drug, Submitted For FDA Approval

    Updated: 2010-06-11 06:11:58
    © cameronneylonOn Thursday, Human Genome Sciences filed for the marketing approval of BENLYSTA® (belimumab) to the US FDA as treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). When approved by the US FDA, Human Genome Sciences' BENLYSTA® (belimumab) would be the first new lupus drug in more than 50 years. An investigational human monoclonal antibody drug, BENLYSTA® (belimumab) is the first in a new class of drugs called BLyS-specific inhibitors that recognize and inhibit the biological activity of B-lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS). In lupus, rheumatoid arthritis ... (Source: The Biotech Weblog)

  • Genetically Engineered Crops Benefit Many Farmers

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:58:58
    Terry D. Etherton Many U.S. farmers who grow genetically engineered (GE) crops are realizing substantial economic and environmental benefits — such as lower production costs, fewer pest problems, reduced use of pesticides, and better yields — compared with conventional crops, says a new report, [...]

  • Food Security for a Billion Poor

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:52:51
    Uma Lele Science Volume 327;1554,  2010 Published 26 March 2010 THERE ARE AT LEAST 1 BILLION POOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH CHRONIC UNDERNOURISHMENT, and the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal of substantially reducing the world’s hungry by 2015 will not be met. The developing world’s poor are experiencing the effects of higher commodity prices, and [...]

  • Half-Baked Statistics on GE Crops

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:51:02
    Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff Posted, March 16, 2010 When surveys don’t give you the overwhelming result you’re looking for, there’s only one thing left to do — cook your numbers. This was the tactic employed by the Consumers Union (CU), the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, after it conducted [...]

  • Global Status of GM Crops – 2009

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:48:11
    The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released their annual report on global adoption of genetically modified (GM) on February 23, 2010. An executive summary of Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2009 – The first fourteen  years, 1996 to 2009 presents highlights of the amazing growth in [...]

  • Guilt-Free Animal Abuse

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:45:21
    Chad Dechow Associate Professor, Dairy Cattle Genetics Department of Dairy and Animal Science The Pennsylvania State University “Instead of redesigning the factory farm to suit the animals, they are redesigning the animals to suit the factory farm” Matthew Scully. The American Conservative, May 23, 2005. My most memorably painful experience occurred when I was a teenage farm kid [...]

  • Not Grass-Fed, but at Least Pain-Free – An Experiment in Social Media

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:42:12
    Terry D. Etherton The Opinion-Editorial published in the New York Times was passed along to me earlier today.  As readers of Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology appreciate, I have written about a variety of topics across the landscape of science and agriculture; defending science, as well as attempting to counter attacks on, [...]

  • Big Concerns Regarding the PEW Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:38:35
    FASS Shares AVMA’s Concerns Regarding Pew Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production Posted January 5, 2010 The Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) has analyzed the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production’s report Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America as well as the American Veterinary [...]

  • Sea Sponge-Derived Drug, Fights Advanced Breast Cancer

    Updated: 2010-06-07 03:20:02
    Photo CreditEribulin - a chemotherapy drug derived from sea sponge - has been found to extend the lives of women with metastatic breast cancer by about 2.5 months. According to study author Dr. Christopher Twelves, who is a professor of clinical cancer pharmacology and oncology and head of the Clinical Cancer Research Groups at the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and St. James' Institute of Oncology in Leeds, U.K.: "We have a major need for new therapies. We see a statistically significant benefit ... (Source: The Biotech Weblog)

  • Streptomyces book

    Updated: 2010-06-06 23:00:00
    Home Books Conference Streptomyces book from Microbiology Blog : The weblog for microbiologists Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics Bacteria Biotechnology Book Review Books Classification Conferences DNA Ecology Environmental Microbiology Evolution Fungi Gene Expression Gene Regulation Genomics Immunology Metagenomics Microbiology Conference microRNA Mycology Pathogens PCR Phylogenetics Phylogeny Plant Plant Science qPCR Real-Time PCR Regulation RNA RNAi RT-PCR Seminars Technology Vaccines Virology Virulence factors Water Jun 2010 May 2010 Apr 2010 Mar 2010 Feb 2010 RSS Feed Streptomyces book Category : Books Bacteria Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics Biotechnology Paul Dyson Institute of Life Sciences , School of Medicine , Swansea , UK presents a new book on Streptomyces : Molecular

  • Details on the Oil Eating Bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

    Updated: 2010-06-04 03:02:23
    Log in InsideSurgery Medical Information Blog Home Privacy Policy Terms of Use Selected as one of the 10 best surgery sites on the web by the Wall Street , Journal March 20, 2006 Inside Surgery BP Oil Spill Health Risks Details on the Oil Eating Bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis Dr . Vincent Tuohy Reports Breast Cancer Vaccine Works In Mice American Medical Association Launches Ad Campaign Against Senate for Medicare Mess” Details on the Oil Eating Bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis June 3rd , 2010 Officials and responders are hoping that the oil that is not able to be gathered from the BP oil spill sites will eventually be broken down by the environment . One species of bacteria that is extremely rare in the open ocean but that multiplies exponentially at sites of oil spills is Alcanivorax

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