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Sports Doping Researchers to Tackle Mount Everest (05/28/2008)
In the run-up to the Olympics scientists use live mice for the first time on the "roof of the world" to develop new tests for gene doping
In the run-up to the Summer Olympics, scientists are taking an innovative approach to develop new molecular testing methods for performance manipulation on the genetic level. A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania is attempting to ...

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Pharmaceutical breakthrough may make a range of drugs cheaper and more available (02/04/2008)
Scientists use gene therapy to cause goats to produce therapeutic proteins in their milk
A new study published in the February 2008 print edition of The FASEB Journal describes a scientific advance that should reduce the cost and increase the availability of a wide range of drugs. In the report, University of Pennsylvania researchers ...

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New clinical results support telomerase vaccination in breast cancer (11/06/2007)
A group of prominent scientists from the Abramson Cancer Center and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has published new clinical data on vaccination with the telomerase peptide I540 in 19 metastatic breast cancer patients. The ...

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New understanding of COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes could lead to revised classification of pain meds, Queen's study shows (05/31/2006)
COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes may be blocked by pain medications such as Advil and Vioxx in a more complex manner than was previously understood, a Queen's University study has found."The results of the study have potential implications for how we ...

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Metal atom dictates the structure: new concept for the construction of enzyme inhibitors (01/27/2006)
Complex natural products usually adopt precisely defined spatial structures that are of critical importance to their biological function. A substrate must fit precisely into the "pocket" of an enzyme in order to be converted. The same is true of ...

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New Study Published in PNAS Confirms Potential Utility of Marillion�s Nanoparticle Technology for Tumor Targeting Agents (11/30/2005)
Marillion Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology company developing cancer therapeutics, announced that the science underlying its core technology was published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS). Marillion�s ...

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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Gives Old Animals Youthful Immune Cells (07/01/2005)
Cloned Stem Cells Show Important Advantage Over Adult Stem Cells
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and its collaborators reported the long-term transplantation of clone-derived stem cells in an animal model of aging. Cells generated by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) offer the potential for treatment of a wide ...

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Penn Awarded Major Grant for Collaborative Initiative to Help Understand Genes' Effects on Medications (10/05/2004)
New Interdisciplinary Field of Human Pharmacogenomic Epidemiology to be Established
Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has been awarded a major grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring together researchers from different disciplines to study gene-drug interactions. The three-year, ...

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