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Gene Therapy Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . January 20th, 2005

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Dermatology - Ultraviolet light selection assay can optimize oligonucleotide-based therapy

Gene Therapy - Nuclear factor-kappaB decoy ameliorates endotoxic shock in mice

Oncology - Highly selective adenoviruses show specificity for melanoma cells

Physiology - Diazoxide affects regulation of transporter genes and proteins in hippocampus

Vectors - Scientists achieve nonviral gene delivery in vitro and track it in real-time

Autism - Multimedia product for children with autism launched

Business & Finance - Bacterio-Therapeutics company closes financing, announces new board member

Business Update - Pharma company acquires intellectual property right in immunotherapy

Business Update - Roche renews license agreement for gene targeting technologies

Business Update - Roche selects two antibiodies for clinical development

Cancer Research - Cancer centers get $13.4 million for research

Cancer Research - Investigational new drug application filed for pro-apoptotic cancer candidate

Cancer Research - New drug fights blood cancer patients' mouth and digestive tract mucositis

Cancer Therapy - Company expands oncology pipeline with product candidates from the NCI, PHS

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia - Tyrphostin AG1024 may be basis of novel therapy for STI571 refractory CML

Drug Development - Pharma companies partner on Cationic Cardiolipin-based NeoPhectin technology

Finance - Cancer-focused pharma company announces sale of 15M shares of common stock

Finance - Company completes call of first tranche of warrants from January 2004 financing

Finance - Hawaii-based biopharma company awarded $15.5 million in NIH funding

Finance - Japanese therapeutics company raises $11.3 million in series C financing

Gene Synthesis - Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances

Genomics - Genetics of marine microbe give scientists insight on bacterial life in the ocean

Infection - Cryoelectron microscopy imaging of vaults localizes two proteins

Microarray - GeneSifter Data Center launched

Multiple Myeloma - Results of 2 clinical trials of T cells in multiple myeloma presented

Oncology - DNA chips to become 'identity cards' for cancer tumors

Oral Mucositis - U.S. FDA approves Kepivance for oral mucositis in marrow-transplant patients

Parkinson Disease - AV201 clinical trials commence

Patent - Drug development company issued patent for regulation of mismatch repair

Personnel - Biotechnology company appoints senior vice president of clinical development

Personnel - Timothy J. Kinsella, MD, joins bioscience company's scientific advisory board

Pulmonary Medicine - Coordinated RhoA and Rac1 is needed for bronchial epithelial wound repair

Smallpox Vaccine - Protein and genome analysis company awarded grant to develop smallpox vaccine

Suicidal Behavior - Serotonergic system genes implicated in vulnerability to suicidal behavior

Transgenics - Transgenic mouse mimics human disease

Tuberculosis - Genome sequencing technology used to understand tuberculosis drug resistance

Vaccine Development - Dendritic cell recruitment may broaden the value of DNA vaccines

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