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Posted on: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) (www.myriad.com) today announced the selection of H. Lundbeck A/S for European commercialization of Flurizan(R), Myriad's lead therapeutic candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Myriad and Lundbeck have...
How does a stem cell decide what specialized identity to adopt - or simply to remain a stem cell? A new study suggests that the conventional view, which assumes that cells are "instructed" to progress along prescribed signaling pathways, is too simplistic.
New research by the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has revealed the genetic determinants of fat storage in cells, which may lead to a new understanding of and potential treatments for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
New research in the Society of Chemical Industry's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that oregano oil works as well as synthetic insecticides to combat infestation by a common beetle, Rhizoppertha dominica, found in stored cereals.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal In the past year, the world has witnessed the unintended effects of diverting food crops like corn and palm to make biofuel: In part because of competition from the hot biofuels market, food prices are skyrocketing and food stocks vanishing.
Terence Witt is poised to change the face of modern physics Scholars are cynical scientists are shocked and readers are addicted Witts first book Our Undiscovered Universe Introducing Null Physics challenges current cosmological paradigms such as the Big Bang In doing so the book directly answers...
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (AMEX:ILI), expressed praise for the passage into law of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The bill was approved unanimously in the Senate on April 25, 2008, and signed into law by President George W. Bush today.
Fish Scales, Mollusk Shells Play a Role in Fishery Management Fishery biologist Sandy Sutherland looks through the lens of the microscope at tiny sections of fish earbones, known as otoliths, each showing annual bands of growth. Known as an age reader, Sutherland is one of a small team at NOAA's...
PHILADELPHIA -- The current study, which appears in the journal Nature, demonstrates that faulty RNA, the blueprint for the toxic polyglutamine protein, also assists in the onset and progression of disease in fruit fly models. "By recreating in the fly various human diseases, we have found that,...
The pipes that rise from oil fields, topped with burning flames of natural gas, waste fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the air. In new work, researchers have identified the structure of a catalytic material that can turn methane into a safe and easy-to-transport liquid. The insight lays...
