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Table of Contents . . . February 17th, 2005
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BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical firm reports 2004 product performance
CalbaTech, Inc. - Chief technology officer discusses reports on company status
Icoria, Inc. - Biotech company signs CRADA with U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Illumina, Inc. - BeadLab to be installed at Mayo Clinic's Rochester, Minnesota, location
Abgenomics, Taipei - P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 cross-linking induces activated T cell death
Acambis Inc. - Yellow fever/St. Louis encephalitis chimeric virus constructed
Ark Therapeutics Group plc - Pharmaceutical firm provides trading update, preliminary 2004 results
Boston Scientific Corporation - Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system launched in 18 countries
CHU Hotel Dieu, Nantes - Results suggest modifying decompression rate on diving tables to 9 m.mn-1
CHU Jean Minjoz, Besancon - MRSA isolates become susceptible to antimicrobial of minor use
CSIC, Barcelona - Nuclear factor deregulation may be involved in Toxic Oil Syndrome pathogenesis
Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health - Marmoset intraspinal inoculation test determines mumps virus neurovirulence
Chiba University - Cardiomyocytes fuse with surrounding noncardiomyocytes and reenter cell cycle
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - By age 6, children of overweight mothers are also prone to obesity
Chinese Academy of Sciences - Metabonomics differentiates liver cancer from chronic liver disease
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Raf-1 causes radiation resistance in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Clocheville Hospital, Tours - Guide for palivizumab to prevent RSV infections in children reported
Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Infection control practices should be guided by surveillance results
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeo - Reports describe recent advances in virology research
Columbia University, New York - Research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists - Investments in public health paying off, but more funds needed
Diabetes India - Prevalence of diabetes in India reported
Disease Threat - U.N. says warnings helped avert major disease outbreak in tsunami
Genzyme Corp. - Transplanted neural progenitor cells decrease lysosomal storage pathology
Germany Govt Health Service Institute, Dillenburg - Foodborne S. enterica spp enterica serovar Madelia outbreak affected 44
Global Dosimetry Solutions - Radiation-monitoring company relocates to new corporate headquarters
GlobeImmune - Companies enter Tarmogen technology collaboration for antifungal therapeutics
Harvard University - Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
Health Forum - Hospital information technology survey initiated
Healthcare Costs - Arkansas leader says his agency needs help
Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Platelets undergo a state of oxidative stress in thalassemia patients
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. - TEPITOPE used to identify promiscuous HLA-II-restricted T cell epitopes
Hospital Univer of Germans Trias & Pujol, Badalona - EIA is acceptable for HIV surveillance in urine samples of high-risk populations
Hospital de Cruces - Researchers' findings advance mutagenesis research
Hyogo Medical University - Gene expression after polysaccharide-K therapy in colon cancer cells reported
INSERM U580, Paris - Non-class IIH2-linked loci for type 1 diabetes mapped
Imperial College London - Passive smoking in childhood may increase risk of lung cancer in later life
Imperial College London - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of tuberculosis vaccines
Imperial College London - Supermarket bakery workers risk developing asthma
Indiana University - Lafora disease studied, saccharide-mediated phosphatase inhibition revealed
Influenza - Flu season going well in islands of Hawaii
Inst. for Agriculture & Trade Policy, Minnesota - Antibiotic overuse in food animals linked to complications of food poisoning
Joeyaid - Healthcare worker HIV, hepatitis C protection procedures launched
Keio University, Tokyo - CYP genotypes power the pharmacokinetics and dynamics of anti-epileptic drugs
Korea National Sport University - Exercise improves glucose transporter 4 protein expression in older men
Korean National Cancer Center - Protective effectiveness of hantavirus vaccine reported
Kyoto University - New research in the area of diabetic nephropathy detailed
Kyung Hee University Hospital - Recent findings in gynecology provide new insights
Kyushu University - Analysis reconfirms susceptibility locus for diabetes on 11p13-p12
Leiden University - Molecular and cellular immunity against mycobacteria and salmonellae reviewed
Medical University of Vienna - Dietary lipid hydroperoxides boost the production of proangiogenic protein
Michigan State University - Sarcocystis neurona surface antigen gene evolved under selection pressure
Molecular Cardiol. & Neuromusc. Inst., New Jersey - SERCA1 overexpression triggers apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
Montreal General Hospital - Findings in cancer genetics provide new insights
National Taiwan University, Taipei - Velogenic NDVs of different genotype/antigenic types co-circulating in Taiwan
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo - DNA ploidy analysis sheds light on genetic changes involved rare tumors
Ponce School of Medicine - Env quasispecies evolve from host-selective pressure despite viral suppression
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center - Text mining supports knowledge discovery for vaccine development
Rockefeller University - Critical "checkpoint" suggests new therapy for complex autoimmune disease
SW Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio - Chronic hepatitis C virus infection alters gene expression in chimpanzees
Saarland University - Recent studies add new data to cancer vaccines research
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel - Distinct gene signatures characterize the prognosis of Ewing sarcoma
Seattle Genetics - Genetics company issued two U.S. patents for cancer treatment
SeqWright, Inc. - Genomics-focused company celebrates 10 years with new labs, equipment, IT
St. George Hospital, London - Soluble P-selectin levels lower in whites, South Asians with Thr715Pro C allele
St. Louis University - Replication-competent adenoviruses are safe gene and vaccine vectors
Stanford University - Open-source program for microarray data visualization released
Technical University of Munich - Genetic changes observed in aging cells may foreshadow tumorigenesis
Technical University of Munich - Thirty-seven genes identified that are up-regulated in Ewing family tumors
University College of London - Collagen II analyzed, binding site for discoidin domain receptor revealed
University Hospital Essen - AHSCT outcome in atypical CML not worse than in patients with BCR-ABL+ CML
University Medical Center, Geneva - Mutations in PAK3 modify synapse formation and plasticity in the hippocampus
University of Alabama - siRNA targeted to the HIV-1 primer binding site can inhibit virus replication
University of Bern - Reports advance knowledge in cancer vaccines research
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