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VGTI wants to suck your blood
Last year, VGTI researchers studied the effectiveness of flu shots in a range of demographics and discovered that the shot did not seem to work well in those over 65 years of age. So this year, the team is soliciting volunteers 18 to 35 years and 65+ to give blood before they flu shot, a [...]
IVAX buy out
IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: IVD), a fully integrated in vitro diagnostics company, announced that ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim GmbH purchased from a group controlled by Patrice Debregeas and Paul Kennedy all of the approximately 72% of the outstanding shares of IVAX Diagnostics owned by their group for $0.75 per share, or an aggregate purchase price [...]
Wisconsin approves official state bacterium
Nope, not joking. Wisconsin state legislators have named Lactococcus lactis, the bacterium used to make cheese, as the state’s official microbe in a bill passed in April. What should the official Florida state microbe be?
Economist Hank Fishkind on biotech clusters and Jackson Labs
If you’d ever take your nose out of that science book, you’d know that Hank Fishkind is a respected economist. In this Naples Daily News interview Fishkind says biotech sectors pay off two out of three places in Florida, and Jackson Lab is not really a big risk, just a risk…
New Research Demonstrates Safety of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments
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Beike Biotechnology and Medistem, Inc. Report on 114 Patients Treated With Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell Protocol; New Approach Opens Door to Expanded Uses of Cord Blood Stem Cells SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — In a new peer-reviewed article published by the Journal of Translational Medicine, scientists from Beike Biotechnology ( <a href=”http://www.beikebiotech.com/” target=”_blank” onc…
Simple technique to visualize atomic-scale structures
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Contact: Kathy Svitil ksvitil@caltech.edu 626-395-8022 California Institute of Technology PASADENA, Calif. – Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique – using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick – to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first dir…
Iowa State chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass
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Contact: Walter Trahanovsky wtrahan@iastate.edu 515-294-2886 Iowa State University AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers have found a way to produce high-value chemicals such as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol from biomass rather than petroleum sources. Walter Trahanovsky, an Iowa State professor of chemistry who likes …
UF Science Master’s Program in Translational Biotechnology launched
Grant funding has been received from NSF to establish a new interdisciplinary Masters Program called “Science Master’s Program in Translational Biotechnology”. It is a two-year non-thesis program that is interdisciplinary (biosciences and business), is research intensive, has deep industry involvement, and includes a formal internship at a company. Students will graduate with a major (Master [...]
Neuronal diversity makes a difference, says Carnegie Mellon study
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Contact: Jocelyn Duffy jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu 412-268-9982 Carnegie Mellon University Heterogeneous groups of neurons transmit twice as much information as homogeneous groups PITTSBURGH – Much like snowflakes, no two neurons are exactly alike. But it's not the size or shape that sets one neuron apart from another, …
