1.2.2016 | Press monitoring
A soy isoflavone derivative that goes by the scientific moniker, (S)-equol, has proven potent for mitigating menopausal symptoms. However, it has been impossible to produce in quantities sufficient for widespread commercial nutraceutical production. But now, a team of Korean researchers reports having constructed a recombinant bacterium which...
31.1.2016 | Press monitoring
Basel, January 31, 2016 - On World Leprosy Day 2016, the Novartis Foundation calls for a greater global commitment to the fight against leprosy to support efforts towards zero transmission of the disease and to reduce stigma. The Novartis Foundation continues to work with partners around the world on early detection and treatment of leprosy,...
29.1.2016 | Press monitoring
ALLSCHWIL, SWITZERLAND - 29 January 2016 - Actelion (SIX: ATLN) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), issued a positive opinion for the use of the orally active, selective IP prostacyclin receptor agonist Uptravi (selexipag), originally...
29.1.2016 | Press monitoring
International team sequenced a seagrass genome: that of the eelgrass Zostera marina, taken from the Archipelago Sea off Finland. Despite the name, eelgrasses aren't true grasses but rather completely submerged marine flowering plants, or angiosperms, and members of an ancient monocot family. To better understand the adaptations the plant made in...
28.1.2016 | Press monitoring
LONDON, Jan. 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LivaNova, PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (LSE:LIVN) (the "Company"), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the approval of its new generation of full body MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) conditional pacemakers by PMDA in Japan. KORA 250 SR and DR pacemakers allow patients to undergo MRI scans...
27.1.2016 | Press monitoring
A few simple products, such as hand sanitizer and antifreeze, can preserve DNA in samples collected by lay people for scientific research, a new University of Florida study shows. "This is great news because unlike high-concentration chemicals, such as 95 percent ethanol or pure propylene glycol -- which are expensive and hard to access -- these...
25.1.2016 | Press monitoring
Heidelberg, Germany, January 25, 2016 - Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies, announced today that it has entered into a clinical research collaboration in immuno-oncology with Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States...
25.1.2016 | Press monitoring
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineers from the Melbourne School of Engineering have discovered a new way to deliver carbon dioxide to microalgae, which in turn, can be harvested to make renewable fuels such as biodiesel. Carbon dioxide is well known to speed up the growth of microalgae. However, the carbon dioxide has to be free of contamination or...
22.1.2016 | Press monitoring
Oslo, 22 January 2016 - PCI Biotech (PCIB) reported today that the treatment evaluation of the fourth dose cohort in the Phase I/II study of fimaporfin (Amphinex®) in patients with inoperable bile duct cancer has been completed. The Cohort Review Committee (CRC) of clinical experts and company representatives has recommended that the study...
22.1.2016 | Press monitoring
A German-Israeli team led has discovered a gene trigger in the moss Physcomitrella patens which leads to offspring without fertilization. The researchers assume that this mechanism is conserved in evolution and holds the key to answer fundamental questions in biology. "Just like humans and animals, mosses possess egg cells and motile sperm. That...
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