News tagged with biotech company

Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK

A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify gene crucial to normal development of lungs and brain

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a gene that tells cells to develop multiple cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move fluids through the lungs and brain. The finding ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NJIT receives patent for new shunt to aid brain-injured patients

NJIT Professor Gordon Thomas and NJIT Research Professor Reginald Farrow, both in the department of physics, and NJIT alumnus Sheng Liu, formerly a doctoral student of both researchers and now an engineer at a biotech company, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vatican, biotech firm host adult stem cell meeting

(AP) -- The Vatican has entered into an unusual partnership with a small U.S. biotech company to promote using adult stem cells for treating disease, rather than focusing research on embryonic stem cells.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe's first human embryonic stem cell trial approved

A US biotech company said Thursday it will soon begin the first-ever European trials using human embryonic stem cells in an experimental treatment for people with a form of juvenile blindness.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google Has More Than Android On Its Platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last several weeks, we've read a bit about how Google is getting restless just being the world’s largest search engine and a proud cloud computing parent. In fact, Googleland is growing ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Debate over speed vs. deliberation in developing vaccines heats up

One week into the race to catch up with the swine flu virus, here's the score: Virus, hundreds. Vaccine, zero. While the virus has moved with lightning speed to four continents, U.S. authorities are debating whether to make ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FluChip technology licensed to combat deadly flu virus

InDevR, a small biotech company in Boulder, CO, announced today that they have licensed the FluChip technology from the University of Colorado. The FluChip was invented by a joint team of scientists at the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0