Industrial Technologies 2014 | April 9-11 2014 | Athens, Greece
Industrial Technologies 2014 Conference - Smart Growth through Research and Innovation – towards Europe 2020 Joint Organisers: FORTH/ICE-HT, Spinverse Ltd., SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, The...
View ArticleNexavar to Treat Differentiated Thyroid Cancer on FDA’s Approval
The prevailing drug Nexavar is once again approved by FDA on 22nd November 2013 to treat yet another type of cancer, the metastatic Thyroid cancer (highly differentiated). This is the third approval...
View ArticleHepatitis C drug Simeprevir wins FDA approval
Previously on this forum we reported that a group of experts had recommended FDA approval of the Johnson and Johnson experimental Hepatitis C drug simeprevir...
View ArticleEuro-Mediterranean Conference on Natural Products | January 4-6 2014 | Cairo,...
3rd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Natural Products: From BioTechnology to NanoMedicine Organisers: BioNaters Dates: January 4th-6th, 2014 Location: Conference Hall, The National Research Center,...
View ArticleNitric oxide synthase inhibitors enhance antibiotic-mediated bacterial killing
Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor compounds, originally developed as experimental drugs for neurodegenerative disorders, may have unexpected extra applications in assisting antibiotics in the fight...
View ArticleMM-121 fails primary end-point in Phase II breast cancer trial
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi have announced that its drug MM-121, an ErbB3 antibody, did not meet the primary endpoint in a Phase II trial on women with ER/PR+, HER2- breast cancer. This...
View ArticleFDA Approves the First Adjuvant Based H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine
Pandemrix, the first adjuvant based vaccine is approved by FDA to be used against the H5N1 Bird flu viral infection. The vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline’s subunit ID Biomedical is decided to be...
View ArticleEMBL Microfludics Conference | July 23rd to 25th 2014 | Heidelberg
EMBL Conference: Microfluidics 2014 Organisers: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL): Scientific Organisers: Christoph Merten, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany; Stephen Quake, Department of...
View ArticlePros and Cons of Biological degradation - Need Help !!
Can someone tell me something about good and bad sides of Biological degradation. I need that information for my seminar on biotechnology. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleHepatitis C drug sofosbuvir: FDA approval imminent but legal challenges loom
Recently on this forum, we have been following the intense on-going research efforts among pharmaceutical companies to address the problem of interferon-based treatments for hepatitis C patients....
View Article10th Malaysia Genetics Congress | 3-5 December 2013 | Putrajaya, Malaysia
10th Malaysia Genetics Congress (MGC10) Organisers: Persatuan Genetik Malaysia (Genetics Society of Malaysia) Dates: December 3rd-5th 2013 Location: Palm Garden Hotel IOI Resort, Putrajaya, Malaysia...
View ArticleRadioimmunotherapy provides hope of HIV cure
A patient process of establishing proof-of-principle for the effectiveness of targeting radiolabelled monoclonal antibodies to virally infected cells and then identifying monoclonal antibodies that...
View ArticleTransgenic animals in fertilized egg .. Need Answer
For making transgenic animals in fertilized egg,the best place to insert thr "trans gene " is in the female pronuclei or male pronuclei? and why?
View ArticleBiotech Showcase™ 2014 | January 13-15 2014 | San Francisco
Biotech Showcase™ 2014 Organisers: EBD Group; Demy-Colton Life Science Advisors Dates: January 13th-15th 2014 Location: Parc 55, Wyndham, San Francisco-Union Square, USA Website:...
View ArticleAvian flu virus re-emergence would present potential risk to under-50s
Often public health guidelines stress the vulnerability of older people to influenza infections and vaccine programmes are targeted towards elderly people and other vulnerable groups. However, a new...
View ArticleCancer drug vorinostat shows promise in GVHD phase 1/2 trial
A drug currently approved for treatment of refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma has given promising results in reducing the incidence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in bone marrow transplant...
View ArticleSucessful inheritance of transgenic material in mouse sperm
A research group from The Royal Veterinary College, North Mimms in the UK has just published a ground-breaking transgenics paper. The paper, published in in The FASEB Journal, reported the results of a...
View ArticleCell Based Assays Congress 2014 Europe | February 27-28 2014 | London UK
Cell Based Assays Congress 2014 Europe Organisers: Paradigm Global Events Dates: February 27th-28th 2014 Location: Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London, UK Website:...
View ArticleNew method for scoring tumour infiltrating cells and ovarian cancer prognosis
A new study from researchers in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA and the University of Washington, Seattle has developed a DNA-based assay, in order to reliably count...
View ArticleCamelid single domain antibody (sdAb) service by GenScript
The use of camelid heavy chain antibodies (HCAbs) in antibody engineering is becoming popular. It differs from standard IgG antibodies in that it is significantly smaller, with 6 total domains that...
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