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Researchers develop simple blood test to track Alzheimer's disease

Using a new technology that relies on thousands of synthetic molecules to fish for disease-specific antibodies, researchers have developed a potential method for detecting Alzheimer's disease with a simple blood test.

6 Jan 2011

Metabolon announces publication of 'Metabolomic Distinction and Insights into the Pathogenesis of Human Primary Dilated Cardiomyopathy'

Metabolon, the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and analysis, announces the publication of "Metabolomic Distinction and Insights into the Pathogenesis of Human Primary Dilated Cardiomyopathy", in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.

6 Jan 2011

Presence of PML molecules could serve to diagnose condition of tumor: Researchers

Cancer cells reproduce by dividing in two, but a molecule known as PML limits how many times this can happen, according to researchers lead by Dr. Gerardo Ferbeyre of the University of Montreal's Department of Biochemistry.

6 Jan 2011

New technique to analyze and quantify changes in protein

A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has devised a new method of analyzing and quantifying changes in proteins that result from a common chemical process. The new findings could provide new insights into the effects of a highly destructive form of stress on proteins in various disease models, particularly cancer.

6 Jan 2011

JMD publishes results of Tissue of Origin Test validation, reproducibility study

Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc., a privately held molecular diagnostics company focused on oncology, announced today that The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics has published the results of a significant Tissue of Origin Test validation and reproducibility study.

6 Jan 2011

Novel AAV gene therapy offers various advantages

A new, simplified method for producing large amounts of viral vector cassettes capable of shuttling genes into host cells will help advance the promising field of gene therapy as applications move into large animal studies and human clinical trials.

6 Jan 2011

JAX, Tufts University unveil new mammalian genetics track for PhD students

The Jackson Laboratory, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, and Tufts University School of Medicine have unveiled a new mammalian genetics track for PhD students. The joint track offers students in-depth research and training at both JAX and Tufts.

6 Jan 2011

Punch card study reveals link between high-density lipoprotein particles and heart disease

A stack of punch cards from a landmark study published in 1966, and the legwork to track down the study's participants years later, has yielded the longest analysis of the effects of lipoproteins on coronary heart disease.

6 Jan 2011

Mutated TDP-43 can cause neurons to die: Study

Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration are characterized by protein clumps in brain and spinal-cord cells that include an RNA-binding protein called TDP-43. This protein is the major building block of the lesions formed by these clumps.

6 Jan 2011

Scientists identify prognostic biomarker to treat patients with HCV

Scientists at Inserm and Institut Pasteur have performed biomarker discovery on patients being treated for chronic hepatitis C infection. Their work, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, demonstrates that the plasma levels of the protein IP-10 predict, prior to treatment initiation, the efficacy of treatment with pegylated-interferon and ribavirin.

6 Jan 2011

Cardiologists identify blood protein fragment that can predict heart attack

Cardiologists at the University of Connecticut Health Center have identified a protein fragment that when detected in the blood can be a predictor of heart attack.

6 Jan 2011

Researchers regenerate complete shoulder joint surfaces using patient's own cells

Artificial joint replacements can drastically change a patient's quality of life. Painful, arthritic knees, shoulders and hips can be replaced with state-of-the-art metal or ceramic implants, eliminating pain and giving a person a new lease on life.

6 Jan 2011

Avaxia Biologics generates compelling pre-clinical data in animal models of IBD

Avaxia Biologics, Inc., a privately-held biotech company developing an innovative platform technology to deliver orally-active antibodies to the gastrointestinal tract, announced today that it has generated compelling pre-clinical data in animal models of inflammatory bowel disease.

6 Jan 2011

Study provides new insights into how viruses establish chronic infections

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have discovered how a key viral gene helps viruses evade early detection by the immune system. Their finding is providing new insights into how viruses are able to establish chronic infections, leading scientists to reevaluate their approaches to viral vaccine development.

6 Jan 2011

Transposagen, CDI enter license agreement for iPS cell line production

Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, a leader in genetic modification technology, announced today that it has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Cellular Dynamics International, the world's largest producer of human induced pluripotent stem cell lines and tissue cells for drug discovery and safety.

6 Jan 2011

Bacteria adopt defence strategy to promote antibiotic resistance

Genetic resistance to antibiotics is not the only trick bacteria use to resist eradication- they also have a second defence strategy known as persistence that can kick in.

6 Jan 2011

Scientists discover that skin cancer can spread to lungs through cell blocking activity

CANCER RESEARCH UK-funded scientists have discovered that skin cancer can spread to the lungs when a gene in an important cell communication pathway is blocked. The research is published in Cancer Cell.

6 Jan 2011

Researchers say women with multiple sclerosis have more HLA genes than men

Women who have multiple sclerosis (MS) are more likely to have a gene associated with multiple sclerosis than men with the disease and it is this gene region where environment interacts with the genetics, according to a study published in the January 5, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

6 Jan 2011

Odyssey Thera granted U.S. Patent for high-throughput screening of proteins

Odyssey Thera, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent No. 7,855,167. The invention describes technologies and high-throughput methods for identifying bimolecular interactions in vivo based on protein-fragment complementation assays.

6 Jan 2011

Omeros receives exclusive license for new series of antifibrinolytic agents

Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER) today announced that it has obtained an exclusive license from The Regents of the University of California to a new series of antifibrinolytic agents. These optimized agents represent a significant potential advance in the control of surgical and traumatic bleeding.

6 Jan 2011