GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business has entered into an agreement with Sealed Air to further develop new films for bioprocessing applications. The companies will develop novel films for single-use bioprocess systems, as part of ...
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The 2013 Horse Scandal (in UK referred as Horsegate) first came into light on 15 January 2013 when horse DNA had been discovered in frozen beefburgers sold in several Irish and British supermarket. Though horse meat is not harmful for human ...
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Humanization is significant for reducing the immunogenicity of monoclonal antibodies derived from rodent sources and for improving their activation of the human immune system. Rodent antibodies are highly immunogenic in humans, which ...
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The fight against the Ebola virus will get $5.7 million to boost production and evaluation of convalescent plasma and similar products, thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The effort will also evaluate drugs, according to a ...
A protein microarray (or protein chip), according to Wikipedia, is a high-throughput method used to track the interactions and activities of proteins, and to determine their function, and determining function on a large scale. The main ...
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Mutant libraries are a powerful tool for creating a protein with desired properties. Mutant libraries constructed using the In vitro molecular optimization method, a very efficient means of generating mutant proteins with improved or novel ...
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Scientists and regulators investigating the mysterious spread of a deadly virus plaguing the U.S. pork industry are stepping up their scrutiny of what the nation's hog herd eats. With a dearth of solid leads, investigators are exploring ...
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Many who suffer from allergies think moving would help them but U.S. researchers say people with allergies would have them no matter where they lived. "Before this study, if you would have asked 10 allergy specialists if allergy ...
PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDL) (NASDAQ: PDLI) today announced that the Company will release its fourth quarter and full year 2013 financial results for the period ended December 31, 2013, on Monday, March 3, 2014, after market close. PDL's ...
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AMSBIO has launched CancerSeq™ - a new range of genetically characterised FFPE tissue samples. CancerSeq™ samples are prepared from genomic DNA extracted from the FFPE tumour tissues and validated by Next Generation ...
DTect-All(TM) platform will be used to screen for GPCR-directed allosteric modulator antibodies Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research and development of new drug candidates targeting G ...
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German biotechnology company Miltenyi Biotec has received the US Food and Drug Administration's(FDA)approval for its CliniMACS CD34 reagent system to prevent graft-versus-host disease(GVHD)in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia(AML). ...
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DiaSorin, a biotechnology company, has received all the marketing approvals for hepatitis, retroviral and syphilis assays on its Liaison XL platform for the Chinese market. DiaSorin is now entering the hepatitis B, hepatitis C and ...
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An anti-malaria drug combination might be useful in helping to prevent pregnancy complications in women with lupus and the related disorder antiphospholipid syndrome, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found in a new study published ...
Although vaccination against infectious disease is a routine component of horse care, many owners still voice concerns about their horse's risk of having an adverse reaction to these injections. For this reason, veterinarians sometimes ...