28-02-2013

Copley Scientific’s Swiss office is currently celebrating its tenth highly successful year of providing expert sales and technical support to customers across Europe. Based in Therwil, the office delivers high quality, local language services to France, Germany, Italy, Austria and ...

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28-02-2013

Definiens announced the appointment of renowned surgical and anatomical pathologist Dr. Ralf Huss as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Professor Huss brings significant expertise in pathology and will play a key role in expanding Definiens’ leading position in image and data analysis for Digital ...

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Scientists have developed an algorithm to predict how much can be learned in a large-scale DNA sequencing experiment

28-02-2013

Two USC scientists have developed an algorithm that could help make DNA sequencing affordable enough for clinics – and could be useful to researchers of all stripes.Andrew Smith, a computational biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, developed the algorithm along ...

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Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury

28-02-2013

Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence is reported in Nature ...

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28-02-2013

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, unexpectedly found the mechanism by which tiny single molecules spontaneously grow into centimeter-long microtubes by leaving a ...

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Freiburg Chemists determine the structure of an enzyme that breaks down dyes

28-02-2013

Fungi serve as a kind of natural cleaning crew for the ecosystem. They form enzymes that can degrade hazardous substances, converting natural as well as man-made toxins into harmless compounds. For instance, they can help to break down synthetic dyes, which accumulate in great amounts during ...

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27-02-2013

Quinten announced the identification of two discriminating biological marker candidates which are indicative of a favorable response to treatment in women suffering from triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). In the sub-group with both markers in combination, 86 per cent of women responded to ...

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27-02-2013

AMRI announced that it has promoted Takeshi Yura, Ph.D., to Vice President of Discovery and Development Services, Asia. Dr. Yura will report directly to Thomas E. D'Ambra, Ph.D., Chairman, President and CEO. Dr. Yura joined AMRI in January 2011 and most recently served as Senior Director of ...

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27-02-2013

4SC AG announced that its fully-owned research subsidiary 4SC Discovery GmbH has entered into an exclusive research and license agreement with LEO Pharma A/S, Ballerup, Denmark with the primary aim of jointly researching, developing and commercialising an oral treatment for inflammatory skin ...

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27-02-2013

Researchers from the Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Teva pharmaceutical industries LTD. have engineered a natural immune system receptor into a promising drug candidate for the ...

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