Biotech Business Week articles from October 2008

Biotech Business Week archives from October 2008

Is rebamipide enema in treating left-sided ischemic colitis with ulcer effctive?
October 6, 2008... According to Reeders et al, ischemic colitis involves the left colon in 75% of the cases and the right colon in 8%. While surgery is indicated for the treatment of the gangrenous type of ischemic colitis, many patients with the transient or...

Simple, inexpensive and objective tools for the assessment of mucosal inflammation: fecal markers.
October 6, 2008... UC and CD, the two major forms of IBD are chronic, idiopathic inflammatory conditions of the gut with a typically relapsing and remitting course. A prominent feature in mucosal biopsies from patients with active IBD is infiltration by...

What is the best strategy for treating Helicobacter pylori?
October 6, 2008... The most popular treatment for H pylori is triple therapy but resistance to Clarithromycin is reducing its effectiveness. Courses using four drugs have been known to be more successful but are used less popular because of their side-effects....

Which is more accurate on diagnosis of rectal carcinoma?
October 6, 2008... The depth of transmural tumor invasion along the rectal wall layers and involvement of the regional lymph nodes constitute major factors in the prognosis of rectal cancer. Therefore accurate preoperative staging of rectal cancer carries a...

Why does Gecko, a chinese traditional medicine, have anti-tumor effects?
October 6, 2008... The incidence and mortality of tumor keep ascending all over the world. Gecko had definite effect on malignant tumor in clinical practices reports. However, there was no study on the pharmacological studies of Gecko and its mechanisms of...

AdvanSource Biomaterials to Formally Launch International Marketing at MedTec Ireland September 24-26.
October 6, 2008... AdvanSource Biomaterials Corporation, which develops advanced polymer materials for medical device design and development, will formally launch its international marketing effort as an exhibitor at MedTec Ireland in Galway, Ireland from...

CSMG Technologies Updates Shareholders on Key Developments, Including Recent U.S. FDA and European CE Mark Clearance for Live Tissue Connect Surgical Device, Targets Initial Sales.
October 6, 2008... CSMG Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: CTGI) President and CEO, Donald S. Robbins issued the following letter to shareholders (see also CSMG Technologies, Inc.). Dear Shareholders, We are very pleased to report a number of extremely positive...

Curemark Appoints Dr. Elisa J. Zinberg as Vice President of Operations.
October 6, 2008... Curemark is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Elisa J. Zinberg as Vice - President of Operations, and member of Curemark's management team, effective immediately. Dr. Zinberg will be responsible for the day-to-day management of...

Enhance Skin Products Acquired by Zeezoo Software.
October 6, 2008... Pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement by and between the Zeezoo Software Corp. (OTCBB:ZEEZ), a Nevada corporation ("Zeezoo"), and Enhance Skin Products Inc., a privately owned Ontario corporation ("Enhance"), on August 14, 2008, Zeezoo...

HealthTronics Announces Departure of CFO.
October 6, 2008... HealthTronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTRN) announced the departure of Ross Goolsby, Chief Financial Officer, effective on September 30, 2008, to pursue other business opportunities. Mr. Goolsby agreed to provide consulting services to the Company until...

Lumidigm Signs Agreement with Brand New Technologies.
October 6, 2008... Lumidigm, Inc., a provider of world-class biometric sensors, announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Brand New Technologies, a South African firm that specializes in biometrics security solutions (see also Lumidigm Inc.). ...

Prescient Medical, Inc. to Present at 2008 UBS Global Life Sciences Conference.(Conference news)
October 6, 2008... Prescient Medical, Inc. announced it will be among the leading healthcare and life sciences companies presenting at the Annual UBS Global Life Sciences Conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Patricia K. Scheller, Chief Executive...

New Dose Calibrator Standard for Fluorine-18 F-18.
October 6, 2008... RadQual, LLC an Ohio based company is excited to announce the availability of the only direct traceable dose calibrator standard cross reference to Fluorine-18 (F-18) (see also RadQual, LLC). The standard, using Germanium-68 and its...

SafeStitch Medical, Inc. to Present at UBS 2008 Global Life Sciences Conference.(Conference news)
October 6, 2008... SafeStitch Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:SFES) (the "Company" or "SafeStitch") announced that senior management will present at the UBS 2008 Global Life Sciences Conference on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 4:00 PM EDT. The conference will be held at the...

Site used by sodium to control sensitivity of certain potassium ion channels.
October 13, 2008... Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have uncovered how sodium is able to control specific potassium ion channels in cells, according to new study findings published online this week in Nature Chemical Biology (see...

Surgical treatment provides new option for some colorectal cancer patients.
October 13, 2008... Research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that a surgical technique not traditionally used in advanced abdominal cancer may be a viable treatment option for some patients previously thought to be untreatable, offering...

2 novel histone deacetylase inhibitors against human pancreatic cancer: NVP-LBH589 and NVP-LAQ824.
October 13, 2008... Pancreatic cancer is the fifth to sixth leading cause of cancer death in Europe and the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the USA. The lethality of this malignancy is demonstrated by the fact that the annual incidence is approximately...

A promising approach in the prevention and treatment of pancreatic cancer.
October 13, 2008... Many gastrointestinal tumors, including pancreatic cancer, have been shown to overexpress the EGFR. The overexpression of EGFR correlates with rapidly progressive disease and poor prognosis. Targeting EGFR pathway as a potential therapeutic...

How to diagnose biliary atresia with ultrasonic technique?
October 13, 2008... Biliary atresia (BA) is a common progressive and obstructive pathological change of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic duct, often causing cirrhosis immediately and leading to death. Prompt and accurate early diagnosis determines its optimal...

Blood Cell Storage and CaridianBCT Sign Option Agreement.
October 13, 2008... Blood Cell Storage, Inc., Seattle WA, announces that it has signed an option agreement to supply pH testing inserts to CaridianBCT for manufacturing into platelet storage bags for their blood collection systems (see also Blood Cell Storage,...

Ultraviolet Water Treatment Systems Becoming the Solution for More Consumers at eWaterOnline.net.
October 13, 2008... Ultraviolet water treatment systems are becoming the solution for more and more online consumers each month at popular water softener and water treatment destination eWaterOnline.net, a division of CAI Technologies (see also eWaterOnline.net)....

Fluidigm Withdraws Its Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering.
October 13, 2008... Fluidigm Corporation announced that due to the historic instability in the market, the company is withdrawing its registration statement for its initial public offering of shares of common stock (see also Fluidigm Corporation). "We went...

Orthofix Successfully Amends Credit Facility.
October 13, 2008... Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) (the Company), Orthofix Holdings Inc. and certain subsidiaries of the Company announced that they have completed the first amendment to their existing credit agreement dated September 22, 2006 (see...

CDISC Interchange Promises New Views into Healthcare's Interoperability with Medical Research.
October 13, 2008... The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) announced an authoritative line up of keynote speakers and the promise of a robust information exchange forum at this year's CDISC International Interchange (26-31 October 2008). The...

Study unveils structural details of enzyme vital to DNA repair.
October 20, 2008... The findings suggest new strategies for targeting Mre11 protein for cancer therapies, particularly when combined with other inhibitors of DNA repair. Mre11 is a key component of cellular systems used for sensing, processing, and coordinating...

International drug study shows rapid improvement in overactive bladder symptoms.(Clinical report)
October 20, 2008... Patients with overactive bladders who took part in a multi-centre study to measure the effectiveness of solifenacin noticed improvements in as little as three days, according to research published in the November issue of BJU International (see...

What is the influence of tumor removal on the serum level of carbohydrate's antibody?
October 20, 2008... Cancer immune surveillance is considered to be important in the anti-tumor protection of the host. The growing tumor escapes the immune control under the immunosuppressive conditions. The surgical removal of the tumor may reverse the...

New research on acid reflux disease from Boston University summarized.(Clinical report)
October 20, 2008... "Previous studies suggest that elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone, either through endogenous or exogenous sources, increase gastroesophageal reflux. To evaluate the relationship between symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease...

New acne vulgaris research reported from Johnson & Johnson.
October 20, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Facial acne is common in adolescents and can have a significant psychosocial impact. Treatments prescribed should not add stress by causing excessive localized irritation." "To...

Findings from Tohoku University provide new insights into biomedical engineering.
October 20, 2008... "Integration of ultrasonic measurement and numerical simulation is a possible way to break through limitations of existing methods for obtaining complete information on hemodynamics. We herein propose Ultrasonic-Measurement-Integrated (UMI)...

Findings from University of Oxford provide new insights into biomedical engineering.(Report)
October 20, 2008... "Computing the numerical solution of the bidomain equations is widely accepted to be a significant computational challenge. In this study we extend a previously published semi-implicit numerical scheme with good stability properties that has...

New biomedical engineering research has been reported by scientists at Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical College.
October 20, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering, "A Finite Element Model (FEM) of the young adult human cervical spine has been developed as a first step in studying the process of spondylotic...

New data from Z. Heydari et al illuminate research in biomedical engineering.
October 20, 2008... "A new approach, based on Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), is presented for the classification of arthrometric data of normal/ACL-ruptured knees, considering the insufficiency of existing criteria. An ANFIS classifier was...

Recent studies by T. Pawar and co-authors add new data to biomedical engineering findings.(Report)
October 20, 2008... According to a study from Bombay, India, "Ambulatory ElectroCardioGram (ECG) analysis is adversely affected by motion artifacts induced due to body movements. Knowledge of the extent of motion artifacts could facilitate better ECG analysis."...

Reports outline biomedical engineering research from J.J.A. Ferreira and colleagues.(Report)
October 20, 2008... According to recent research from Sao Carlos, Brazil, "This study aimed at evaluating the thermographic changes associated with localized exercise in young and elderly subjects. An exercise protocol using 1 kg load was applied during 3 min to...

Reports summarize biomedical engineering study results from Brown University.
October 20, 2008... "Simulation of blood flow in three-dimensional geometrically complex arterial networks involves many inlets and outlets and requires large-scale parallel computing. It should be based on physiologically correct boundary conditions, which are...

Research from La Trobe University yields new data on biomedical engineering.
October 20, 2008... "The contractile behavior of a single half-sarcomere has been calculated from the lattice model with dimeric myosin and extensible filaments, using the model cycle with two working strokes, explicit Pi-release transitions and faster binding for...

Research in the area of biomedical engineering reported from University of Bath.
October 20, 2008... "This paper describes the design of a multi-frequency Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system, which provides a flexible mechanism for addressing up to 48 electrodes for imaging conductivity and permittivity distributions. A waveform...

Studies from Shanghai Jiao Tong University update current data on biomedical engineering.(Report)
October 20, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering, "Phenotype transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) has been reported to be directly influenced by the frequency of mechanical strain. This...

Studies from University of South Carolina yield new data on biomedical engineering.(Report)
October 20, 2008... "In this study, the desiccation kinetics of aqueous trehalose solutions were investigated numerically by solving the coupled heat and mass transfer problem with a moving interface using the finite element method. The free volume models for...

Study results from University of Texas, Medical Department in the area of biomedical engineering published.
October 20, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering, "Intensity non-uniformity (bias field) correction, contextual constraints over spatial intensity distribution and non-spherical cluster's shape in the...

Research from M.M.W. Etschmann and colleagues has provided new data on microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... "Yeasts can convert amino acids to flavor alcohols following the Ehrlich pathway, a reaction sequence comprising transamination, decarboxylation, and reduction. The alcohols can be further derivatized to the acetate esters by alcohol acetyl...

Researchers from China Agricultural University describe findings in microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... "The efe gene encoding an ethylene-forming enzyme from Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea has been expressed for the first time under the control of Trichoderma reesei cbh1 promoter in Trichoderma viride. Reverse transcription polymerase chain...

Researchers from Department of Agriculture discuss findings in microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... "The goal of this investigation was to determine the effect of a xylose transport system on glucose and xylose co-consumption as well as total xylose consumption in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We expressed two heterologous transporters from...

Scientists at Huazhong Agricultural University target microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... "Vegetative insecticidal protein (VIP) is a class of insecticidal proteins produced by some strains of Bacillus thuringiensis during the vegetative stage of their growth and has toxicity against a wide spectrum of lepidopteran insects. Unlike...

Studies from University College yield new data on microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, "Here, we report the use of petrochemical aromatic hydrocarbons as a feedstock for the biotechnological conversion into valuable biodegradable plastic...

Study data from Pennsylvania State University provide new insights into microbiology and biotechnology.
October 20, 2008... "A medium-scale (0.77 l) air-cathode, brush-anode microbial fuel cell (MFC) operated in fed-batch mode using xylose (20 mM) generated a maximum power density of 13 +/- 1 W/m(3) (673 +/- 43 mW/m(2)). Xylose was rapidly removed (83.5%) within 8 h...

Study results from H. Ravalason and colleagues in the area of microbiology and biotechnology published.
October 20, 2008... "Proteomic analysis was performed to determine and differentiate the composition of the secretomes of Phanerochaete chrysosporium CIRM-BRFM41, a peroxidase hypersecretory strain grown under ligninolytic conditions and on softwood chips under...

IntriCon to Introduce New Wireless Product Family at EUHA Congress in Germany.
October 20, 2008... IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN), a designer, developer, manufacturer and distributor of body-worn medical and electronics devices, announced that it will introduce its new wireless nanoLink(TM) product family at the European Union of Hearing...

Microfluidics Introduces New Services Designed to Enhance Customer Success.
October 20, 2008... Microfluidics, a division of Microfluidics International Corporation (OTCBB: MFLU), announces the availability of several new services designed to enhance customer success and assist in customer innovation. These new services build on the deep...

Novozymes Awarded USD 12.3 Million Contract From the U.S. Department of Energy.
October 20, 2008... Novozymes was awarded a USD 12.3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) today to improve the enzymes necessary to produce cellulosic ethanol. Novozymes' project DECREASE (Development of a Commercial-Ready Enzyme Application...

OrthoScan, Inc. Closes $7.5 Million Series B Financing.
October 20, 2008... OrthoScan, Inc., a privately held medical device company based in Scottsdale, Arizona announced that it has closed a $7.5 million Series B financing led by River Cities Capital Funds ("RCCF"). Additional participants include existing investors...

Study finds stroke-prevention surgery safe in growing 80-plus population.(Report)
October 27, 2008... New research published in the October issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the current opinion that patients in their eighties, who are often deemed "high-risk" due to their advanced age, should not undergo carotid...

A new alternative in treating short bowel syndrome.(Report)
October 27, 2008... SBS is a clinical condition characterized by diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, malabsorption, and progressive malnutrition related to a wide resection of the small intestine. The most important therapeutic objectives in the...

Studies from University of Amsterdam in the area of abdominal hysterectomy published.
October 27, 2008... In this recent study, researchers in Netherlands conducted a study "To compare the effects of bipolar vessel sealing versus conventional clamping and Suturing in women undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy. A randomized controlled trial was...

Studies from University of Florence update current data on acute leukemia.
October 27, 2008... According to recent research from Florence, Italy, "We evaluated the efficacy of piperacillin-tazobactam monotherapy as empiric therapy of fever in acute leukemia patients in a total of 80 consecutive febrile episodes. The overall success rate...

Research from Harvard University in the area of acute pancreatitis published.
October 27, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "Little is known regarding the impact of hospital-acquired infection (HAI) in acute pancreatitis (AP). We conducted a population-based assessment of the impact of HAI on outcome in AP." "Patient...

Orthofix International Benefits From Recent Agreements and FDA Approvals.
October 27, 2008... Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) (the Company) commented today on recent events expected to enhance the Company's financial strength and outlook, and announced its participation at the Annual Meeting of the North American Spine...

Jim Holmes, CEO of Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc., and Dr. Louis Keith, president of First Warning Systems, Inc. are the Featured Guests in an Audio Interview at SmallCapVoice.com.
October 27, 2008... SmallCapVoice.com, Inc. announces that a new audio interview featuring Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets: LLBO), and its subsidiary, First Warning Systems(TM), Inc. is now available at SmallCapVoice.com. The interview can be heard...