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Treatment of Brain Tumours Using Common Viruses
30.5.2008 | Press monitoring
According to findings of a new study published in Nature, tenacious brain tumours called glioblastomas could be easily beated using cytomegaloviruses, common viruses known from immunocompromised patients.
Cancer vaccine target pinpointed
29.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Scientists may be one step closer to producing a specific targeted vaccine for killing cancer cells. UK researchers have pinpointed a protein on immune cells which they hope will help them harness the body's defences to attack a tumour.
UF researchers develop improved gene therapy agent
28.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Replacing one amino acid on the surface of a virus that shepherds corrective genes into cells could be the breakthrough scientists have needed to make gene therapy a more viable option for treating genetic diseases such as hemophilia, University of Florida researchers say.
Scientists back the use of maize as an efficient ‘factory’ for protein-based pharmaceutical products
27.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Scientists from the Universidad de Lleida (University of Lleida) have published a study confirming that maize seeds are an effective and sure platform within molecular agriculture to alleviate diseases.
Sequenced genome of a fungus that produces biofuels from plants
26.5.2008 | Press monitoring
The fungus Trichoderma reesei optimally breaks down plants into simple sugars, the basic components of ethanol.
New Hope in Development of Artificial Corneas
25.5.2008 | Press monitoring
An hydrogel-based artificial cornea, which could restore the vision of more than 10 million blind people worldwide, is finally moving toward clinical reality.
Fluorescent nano-barcodes could revolutionize diagnostics
24.5.2008 | Press monitoring
A new technology with research and clinical application including the early detection of disease has been invented and developed by University of Queensland researchers.
Czech Republic is No. 3 for genetically modified corn
23.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Czechs are at the top of the list when it comes to cultivating genetically modified corn, Právo wrote on Thursday. Between 2005 and 2008, the amount of farmland devoted to GM corn has risen from 207 to 8,000 hectares, putting the Czech Republic in third place in Europe in terms of GM corn production, behind France and Spain...
Biotech companies rush to patent plant genes
22.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Biotech seed companies are behind a wave of patent claims on dozens of 'climate-ready' genes.
First Evidence That Bacteria Get 'Touchy-feely' About Dangerous Biofilms
21.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Researchers in Massachusetts report for the first time that bacteria use a sense of touch in deciding where to form biofilms. Those colonies of microbes grow on medical implants and other devices and play a key role in the multi-billion-dollar-per-year problem of antibiotic resistant infections.
