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Researchers discover new fat-fighting pathway

03-Apr-2009 - Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a process that controls the amount of fat that cells store for use as a back-up energy source. Disruption of this process allows cellular fat to accumulate — a key factor in age-related metabolic diseases ...

autophagy blood lipids diseases +14

Intercell Announces FDA Approval of IXIARO, a Novel Vaccine to Prevent Japanese Encephalitis

02-Apr-2009 - Intercell AG announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IXIARO®, a new vaccine for the prevention of Japanese Encephalitis (JE). The initial target for use of Intercell's vaccine will be adult travelers and military personnel who visit or are deployed to affected ...

biotechnology China clinical trials +6

New images of marine microbe illuminate carbon and nitrogen fixation

01-Apr-2009 - Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both "breathes" carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen gas from the air and "fixing" it into a fertilizer of the seas. How Tricho does both these things has long puzzled researchers, since the two processes don't work well ...

carbon carbon dioxide carbon fixation +11

Plastic protein protects bacteria from stomach acid's unfolding power

25-Mar-2009 - A tiny protein helps protect disease-causing bacteria from the ravaging effects of stomach acid, researchers at the University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered. Stomach acid aids in food digestion and helps kill disease-causing bacteria. One way that acid kills ...

acids bacteria biology +4

Symyx announce partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific

25-Mar-2009 - Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced the signing of a partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. The partnership will focus on delivering to scientists improved workflows meeting their experiment documentation, decision support, and laboratory information management system (LIMS) needs. ...

chemicals documentation Fisher Scientific +7

Cognis licenses further active ingredients for weight management and heart health from InterMed Discovery

23-Mar-2009 - Cognis and InterMed Discovery (IMD) announced that Cognis has exclusively licensed two further product candidates from IMD: one is a new functional ingredient, which shows promise in the area of weight management and the other provides beneficial effects for heart health. Using its unique ...

Cognis food

DSM and ROQUETTE to commercialize bio-based succinic acid as of end 2009

11-Mar-2009 - Royal DSM N.V. and ROQUETTE confirmed that its bio-based succinic acid demonstration plant in Lestrem (France) will be operational by the end of 2009. The pilot scale production has proven that this biological route for producing succinic acid can be commercially viable. The first tests for ...

carbon dioxide chemicals DSM +9

InterMed Discovery and Axxam Announce Joint Research Agreement for the Identification of Novel Natural Functional Ingredients

10-Mar-2009 - InterMed Discovery (IMD) and Axxam SpA announced that their joint research efforts have proved to be successful in providing a technology platform that offers, in addition to screening solutions, the discovery of natural bioactive compounds. These bioactive compounds are particularly valuable to ...

food Life Sciences research agreements +1

Number of cardiovascular risk factors could determine safety of intravenous gammaglobulin treatment

10-Mar-2009 - New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine identifies the presence of cardiovascular risk factors as an indicator of how likely it is that elderly, hospitalized patients who receive intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment will have a stroke or heart attack. The study ...

AGES antibodies autoimmune diseases +7

New student team aims to create biomachines that destroy pollutants, cancer cells

19-Feb-2009 - Microscopic, living machines that sense toxins in the air or deliver drugs in the body - the stuff of science fiction? A new Cornell student project team is working to make such things the stuff of reality. The Cornell International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team, formed this year, ...

antioxidants bacteria biology +10