News: [Entry posted at 30th June 2008 05:30 PM GMT] A former US army biodefense researcher who was a "person of interest" in the still-unsolved case of the 2001 anthrax letters and who sued the government, claiming the investigation ruined his reputation, will receive a $5.8 million settlement from ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th June 2008 07:56 PM GMT] Biotech tools company Invitrogen has appointed a team charged with integrating the company's operations with those of Applied Biosystems (AB), another biotech tools company, which Invitrogen ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th June 2008 07:55 PM GMT] Glial cells, long thought to be supporting actors to neurons, play a crucial role of their own in regulating neuronal activity, according to a study published in Science this week.
The study's results suggest that glial cells provide the link ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th June 2008 03:04 PM GMT] Chimeric mice generated from cells reprogrammed for pluripotency (induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells) show significant health problems, pointing to further challenges that must be overcome before such cells can be used in the clinic, noted ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th June 2008 03:57 PM GMT] The US Senate today (June 11) plans to introduce a biosafety bill that takes small steps towards resolving some controversial aspects of the system regulating research with agents that could be used for bioterrorism.
The regulations, called the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th June 2008 09:53 PM GMT] With blockbuster drug patents set to expire in the next few years, big pharma is looking hard for ways to pack the discovery pipeline.
One approach: the biotech model. Patrick Vallance, the head of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline, said at a ... Click to continue
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