Biotech Business Week articles from December 2008

Biotech Business Week archives from December 2008

AFS Trinity Reports Its Battery/Ultracap Plug in Hybrid System Is 6 Times More Durable Than Lithium Batteries Alone.
December 1, 2008... AFS Trinity Power Corporation reported independent test results demonstrating that the company's "Extreme Hybrid" technology that utilizes batteries in combination with ultracapacitors will enable a plug in hybrid vehicle using the system to...

Studies from B.J. Wilicox et al further understanding of aging.
December 1, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "Human longevity is a complex phenotype with a significant familial component, yet little is known about its genetic antecedents. Increasing evidence from animal models suggests that the...

Research on altitude sickness discussed by T.E.A.H. Kupper and co-researchers.
December 1, 2008... "Headache, nausea, and sleeplessness at altitude [acute mountain sickness (AMS)] are major health problems for several million mountain recreationists who ascend to high altitudes each year. We aimed to test the efficacy of low-dose,...

Reports from R.J. Jankovic et al highlight recent research in anesthesia.(Clinical report)
December 1, 2008... According to a study from Serbia, "The inability to provide effective postoperative analgesia is one of the major disadvantages of intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA). We designed a prospective, randomized, double blind Study to evaluate the...

Study results from Leiden University provide new insights into aneurysm.
December 1, 2008... "A major challenge in surgery is the integration of evidence-based medicine and patient autonomy. The authors present a randomized trial studying the effect of an individualized evidence-based brochure (IB) on patients' autonomous behavior,...

Scientists at Tufts University, Department of Agriculture publish research in aging.(Report)
December 8, 2008... "This study investigated whether high-velocity high-power training (POW) improved lower extremity muscle power and quality in functionally-limited elders greater than traditional slow-velocity progressive resistance training (STR). Fifty-seven...

New findings reported from L. Caballeria and co-authors describe advances in alcoholism.
December 8, 2008... "Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFL) consists in the accumulation of fat vacuoles in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes. Many etiologic factors are associated with NAFL, such as, the metabolic syndrome factors, medications, bariatric surgery,...

Study results from University of New Mexico broaden understanding of alcoholism.(Clinical report)
December 8, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Alcohol dependence, frequently seen in medical settings, is a major problem that affects the health and well-being of many individuals and their families. The purpose of this study was to...

Studies from M. Milani et al add new findings in the area of allergies.
December 8, 2008... According to a study from Italy, "Sublingual specific immunotherapy (SLIT) is a valid treatment for allergies. However, there are few data on a large sample size regarding its clinical role in 'real life'." "Study aim: We performed a...

Physicians Anticipate Higher Prescribing Based on JUPITER Study.
December 8, 2008... Just three days after the JUPITER trial results were presented at the American Heart Association meeting and simultaneously published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, an AlphaDetail survey of more than 100 primary care physicians...

BIO-Europe 2008 Exhibitor and Presenter Profiles.
December 8, 2008... BIO-Europe 2008 takes place November 17, 2008 - November 19, 2008 at the Congress Center Mannheim in Mannheim. Listed below are the BIO-Europe 2008 exhibitor and presenter profiles. For in-depth information about the event, visit...

Prominent Business Developers Join HDR CUH2A.
December 8, 2008... HDR CUH2A is pleased to announce that Mary M. Williamson in New York and J. Louise McGinnis-Barber, CPSM in San Francisco have joined the firm as Directors of Business Development. With these key hires, HDR CUH2A expects to realize an increase...

VERIDIEN Updates 2008 Revenue Projections.
December 8, 2008... Veridien Corporation (OTCBB:VRDE) announced that it is updating previously reported Revenue estimates. As a result of (i) two anticipated major private label contract orders that did not materialize (one where the company had firm projections...

New study shows potential of rational drug design in schizophrenia.
December 15, 2008... In one of the first instances of targeted drug design in psychiatric treatment, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found an experimental agent that shows promise in addressing working memory impairments that occur in schizophrenia (see...

Genes determine whether sugar pills work.
December 15, 2008... It is a well-known fact in drug trials that individuals can respond just as well to placebos, sugar pills, as to the active drug. On the other hand, it is difficult to explain why only certain people get better from placebos. A team of...

Findings from C.Q. Su and co-authors provide new insights into adenovirus.(Clinical report)
December 15, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, "Conditionally replicating adenovirus (CRAd) has demonstrated to be safe in clinical studies. We generated a triple-regulated p53-armed CRAd, SG600-p53, in which the...

Studies from M. Dominguez and co-researchers yield new data on alcoholism.
December 15, 2008... "Prognostic stratification of patients with alcoholic hepatitis (AH) may improve the clinical management and facilitate clinical trials. We aimed at developing a scoring system capable of providing prognostic stratification of patients with...

New Study Identifies Link between Alzheimers Disease Biomarkers in Healthy Adults.
December 15, 2008... A study published in the November issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease provides an insight into normal, physiological levels and association between proteins involved in development of Alzheimer's disease. A group of scientists and...

Findings from University of Bayreuth advance knowledge in microbiology and biotechnology.
December 15, 2008... "Biogas plants continuously convert biological wastes mainly into a mixture of methane, CO2 and H2O-a conversion that is carried out by a consortium of bacteria and archaea. Especially in the municipal plants dedicated towards waste treatment,...

Investigators at University of Notre Dame release new data on microbiology and biotechnology.
December 15, 2008... "Membrane-aerated biofilms (MABs) are an effective means to achieve nitrification and denitrification of wastewater. In this research, microsensors, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and modeling were used to assess the impact of bulk...

Korea University details research in microbiology and biotechnology.(Report)
December 15, 2008... According to a study from Seoul, South Korea, "Glucose has been often used as a secondary substrate to enhance the degradation of primary substrate as well as the increase of biomass, especially for the inhibitory range of substrate...

New microbiology and biotechnology research has been reported by scientists at National University.
December 15, 2008... According to recent research from Singapore, Singapore, "The degradation pathways of benzoate at high concentration in Pseudomonas putida P8 were directly elucidated through mass spectrometric identification of some key catabolic enzymes....

Researchers at Dublin City University target microbiology and biotechnology.
December 15, 2008... "Supplementation of the divalent cations calcium and magnesium to submerged cultures of Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. geldanus greatly influenced morphological development and secondary metabolite synthesis," scientists in Dublin, Ireland...

Researchers from Karadeniz Technical University report recent findings in microbiology and biotechnology.
December 15, 2008... According to recent research from Trabzon, Turkey, "The gene, AbfAC26Sari, encoding an alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Anoxybacillus kestanbolensis AC26Sari, was isolated, cloned, sequenced, and characterizated. On the basis of amino acid...

Genetic change extends mouse life, points to possible treatment for ALS.
December 22, 2008... There are many ways to die, but amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease must be one of the worst. By the time a patient notices muscle weakness, the neurons that control the muscles have already begun dying, in...

The genetic heart of the lipids.(Report)
December 22, 2008... A new study presages a real aim of genetics: to look at whole populations to in order determine the significance of individual genetic variants for individual health. The research team, whose work is published in Nature Genetics, find six novel...

Recent findings from R. Jones and co-authors highlight research in acid reflux disease.
December 22, 2008... "Some patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) remain symptomatic despite proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment. There is a need to determine the most appropriate management of these patients," investigators in London, the United...

New alcoholism research from G. Tober and colleagues discussed.(Report)
December 22, 2008... According to a study from Leeds, the United Kingdom, "The aim of this study was to describe the development and validation of the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial Process Rating Scale (UKATT PRS), a manual based method for monitoring and rating the...

New alcoholism study findings have been reported from University of Massachusetts.(Clinical report)
December 22, 2008... According to recent research published in the European Journal of Neuroscience, "Clinical studies link disruption of the neuroendocrine stress system with alcoholism, but remaining unknown is whether functional differences in the...

Nearly All U.S. Hospitals Have Adverse Event Reporting Systems, but Problems Remain, Says New AHRQ-Funded Study.
December 29, 2008... More than ninety-four percent of U.S. hospitals have centralized systems for collecting reports of adverse events, but only 21 percent fully distribute and consider adverse event summary reports, according to a study funded by HHS' Agency for...

Findings from University of Kocaeli, Medical Department provide new insights into alcoholism.(Report)
December 29, 2008... "Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of abnormal hepatic steatosis in the absence of alcohol abuse worldwide. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most progressive form of NAFLD," investigators in Umuttepe,...

Scientists at University of London, Imperial College describe research in allergies.
December 29, 2008... "Studies from the UK and USA suggest that frequent use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) may increase the risk of asthma, but data across Europe are lacking. As part of a multicentric case-control study organised by the Global Allergy and Asthma...

Data on Alzheimer disease discussed by J.J. Sevigny and colleagues.(Clinical report)
December 29, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "In animals, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) increases clearance of beta-amyloid, a pathologic hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD), from the CNS. Serum IGF-1 level decreases with age, and...

Data on Alzheimer disease reported by researchers at Medical University of Graz.(Clinical report)
December 29, 2008... In this recently published study, investigators in Graz, Austria conducted a study "To study the feasibility of multimodal neuroimaging in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) and to estimate the size of possible treatment effects of...

Data from S. Tabakov and colleagues advance knowledge in biomedical engineering.
December 29, 2008... According to a study from Sofia, Bulgaria, "The present work describes fast computation methods for real-time digital filtration and QRS detection, both applicable in autonomous personal ECG systems for long-term monitoring. Since such devices...

New biomedical engineering study findings have been reported by K.B. Heraty and co-researchers.
December 29, 2008... According to a study from Galway, Ireland, "The objective of this work is to develop understanding of the local fluid dynamic mechanisms that underpin gas exchange in high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). The flow field during HFOV was...

New microbiology and biotechnology study findings recently were reported by researchers at Korea University.
December 29, 2008... "To reduce the pungency of Capsicum without the loss of its biological activity, a Capsicum sp. was fermented by Bacillus subtilis with the addition of Rapidase enzyme. At 1 day of fermentation, the capsaicin content of the Capsicum ferment...

Recent findings from I. Liaqat and co-authors highlight research in microbiology and biotechnology.(Report)
December 29, 2008... "This study investigated the effect of patulin and penicillic acid, two known quorum-sensing inhibitors, and the common biocide ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on the biofilm formation and auto-inducer (AI)-2 production of three isolates...

Research on microbiology and biotechnology detailed by X.Y. Wang and co-authors.
December 29, 2008... "Harpins encoded by many gram-negative phytopathogenic bacterial hrp genes induce hypersensitive response (HR) and associated defense responses on nonhost plants. Hpa1(Xoo) and Hpa1(Xoc), two harpin proteins from Xanthomonas oryzae pathovars,...

Research reports on microbiology and biotechnology from A. Chmura and colleagues provide new insights.
December 29, 2008... "An enrichment culture from saline soda soils, using acetate as carbon and energy source and 2-phenylpropionitrile as nitrogen source (PPN) at pH 10, resulted in the isolation of strain ANL-alpha CH3. The strain was identified as a...

Studies from H.B. Li et al further understanding of microbiology and biotechnology.(Report)
December 29, 2008... According to recent research from Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, "At present, more than 100 strains of Lentinula edodes are cultivated on a commercial scale in China. A simple, reliable, and effective method to distinguish some...

Studies from K. Isaka and co-researchers yield new data on microbiology and biotechnology.
December 29, 2008... "Methanol inhibition of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) activity was characterized. An enrichment culture entrapped in a polyethylene glycol gel carrier was designed for practical uses of wastewater treatment," investigators in Chiba,...