• Drug Discovery Scientist – Orphagen Pharmaceuticals – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2009-12-31 07:49:38
    2 years of laboratory experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. Proficiency with data analytical software (such as MS Excel and... From BioSpace.com - 31 Dec 2009 07:49:38 GMT - save job, email, more...

  • Top Five Biotech Innovations of the 2000s

    Updated: 2009-12-31 05:05:27
    My list is brief, but the innovations that stood out for me in the past decade were first-in-class drugs that can treat or prevent major unmet medical needs. 1. Genentech’s ranibizumab... [[Click headline to continue reading.]]

  • Medical Sales Representative 6377 – Innovex – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2009-12-30 19:15:40
    s leading Contract Sales Organization (CSO), providing our pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device customers with innovative sales solutions, high... From Meddevicejobs.com - 30 Dec 2009 19:15:40 GMT - save job, email, more...

  • Biotech/Life Science – Instrumentation Sales Representative – San Diego, CA

    Updated: 2009-12-30 15:50:27
    Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology markets. Additional... equipment products to biopharmaceutical and biotechnology markets. They continue to grow at a rapid rate... From Monster - 30 Dec 2009 15:50:27 GMT - save job, email, more...

  • Top Five Global Health Innovations of the 2000s

    Updated: 2009-12-30 05:05:27
    During the past decade, we have seen tremendous technological advances in the field of global health. These innovations promise to bring us closer to a world where health is within reach for... [[Click headline to continue reading.]]

  • The Year in Biomedicine

    Updated: 2009-12-30 04:15:20
    Advances in antiaging drugs, acoustic brain surgery, flu vaccines–and the secret to IQ. via Technology Review: The Year in Biomedicine. (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Ginkgo Does Not Slow Cognitive Decline of Aging

    Updated: 2009-12-30 04:13:58
    For years, practitioners of alternative medicine have been touting the benefits of ginkgo, especially for maintaining brain health, but a new study finds that the centuries-old nostrum does little to slow the cognitive decline of aging. Researchers at six universities across the U.S., led by Dr. Steven DeKosky at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • The Hedonistic Imperative

    Updated: 2009-12-29 04:47:05
    The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture – a motivational system based on heritable [...]

  • Heart Risk of Obesity Greater Than Thought

    Updated: 2009-12-29 00:08:41
    The link between obesity and death from heart disease may be even worse than previously thought, but health problems associated with being underweight  may have been exaggerated, a new study shows. Previous studies have shown that a higher than normal body mass index (BMI), a barometer of unhealthy weight levels, is associated with higher rates of [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Genes Linked to Aggressive Brain Cancer

    Updated: 2009-12-29 00:07:53
    Two newly discovered genes may act as master control switches in the progression of the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma.Researchers say the two genes are active in about 60% of all glioblastoma patients and identifying these genes could help identify those with this type of aggressive brain tumor.Glioblastoma is among the most lethal [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • DutchNews.nl – Vaccine use halted after baby deaths

    Updated: 2009-12-28 04:19:10
    The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer’s Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.The vaccine has been labeled ‘do not use’ and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet [...]

  • Samuel S. Epstein: American Public Health Association: Ban Genetically Engineered Hormonal rBGH Milk, Meat Adulterated With Sex Hormones

    Updated: 2009-12-28 04:14:38
    The Cancer Prevention Coalition is pleased to announce that the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association has voted to oppose the continued sale and use of genetically engineered hormonal rBGH milk, and also meat adulterated with sex hormones. This decision is based on long-standing scientific and public policy information developed and published by [...]

  • Researchers Decipher Parts of the Neuronal Code

    Updated: 2009-12-27 15:47:09
    The human brain works at a far higher level of complexity than previously thought. What has been given little attention up to now in the information processing of neuronal circuits has been the time factor. “Liquid computing” — a new theory about how these complex networks of nerve cells actually work from computer scientists at [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Gene Therapy May Stall Inherited Emphysema

    Updated: 2009-12-26 21:56:05
    A new type of gene therapy may help stop the progression of emphysema in young people who have an inherited form of the deadly disease. Researchers say previous attempts to correct the gene mutation that predisposes young people to emphysema have failed to achieve lasting results. But a new study shows a different approach that targets cells known [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Nervy Repair Job

    Updated: 2009-12-21 22:54:30
    In a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a plastic dish holds two rows of tiny black dots, pairs of them connected by dozens of thin, hairlike filaments. Each dot is a cluster of thousands of neurons, explains Douglas Smith, who is a professor of neurosurgery and the director of Penns Center for Brain Injury [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Addressing Drug, Biotechnology, and Device Companies' Payments to Physicians: the Thai National Health Assembly

    Updated: 2009-12-21 19:13:00
    We have frequently discussed how financial relationships among physicians, other health care professionals, and health care academics, on one hand, and drug, biotechnology, medical device and other health care corporations may have adverse effects on patient care and medical teaching and research. A first step towards addressing these relationships would be their full disclosure. Here in the US, Senators Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kohl (D-Wisconsin) have been pushing for a Physician Payments Sunshine Act which would require all such companies to disclose all such payments. Whether it will become law, as part of health care reform legislation or independently, is now anyone's guess.Since we are based in the US, we tend to discuss such issues from a US viewpoint. Just to s...

  • Artificial Platelets Catalyze Clotting

    Updated: 2009-12-19 00:41:07
    Platelets can quickly stanch the bleeding from a cut in your finger, but the hemorrhaging caused by a car crash or a battlefield injury might overwhelm the blood-clotting abilities of these cell fragments. Now, researchers report that they have designed a potential helper for such situations, a synthetic platelet that they show can curtail blood [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, other illnesses – washingtonpost.com

    Updated: 2009-12-18 04:17:28
    Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They’re identical twins, with identical DNA So what accounts for the differences? It turns out that their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between nature and nurture known as [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Scientists crack ‘entire genetic code’ of cancer

    Updated: 2009-12-18 03:27:10
    Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers – skin and lung – a move they say could revolutionise cancer care. Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, says the Wellcome Trust team. Scientists [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Technology Review: Making Drugs Survive Longer in Blood

    Updated: 2009-12-18 02:36:22
    Taking a hint from natural antibiotics, a startup spun out of Stanford University is developing a way to chemically alter existing drugs to dramatically improve their half-life By sequestering the drugs within cells, the researchers hope to protect them from the bodys efforts to destroy them. So far, the company has developed long-lasting versions of a [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • 2009 Year in Review: Scientists give their Opinion of Top News Stories in Agricultural Biotechnology

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:16:17
    Council for Biotechnology Information Published December 16, 2009 With so many stories to choose from, it was hard for us to determine the top agricultural biotechnology story of 2009. Therefore, we turned to the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) experts and let them choose the top three stories that stood out in terms of their significance and [...]

  • Biotech Improves Sustainability

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:13:52
    Biotech Crops Help Reduce Agriculture’s Pesticide Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions PG Economics Research Summary (The UK) December 7, 2009 In light of ongoing debates on global food security, agricultural sustainability and climate change, it is important to recognize the benefits biotechnology brings to world agricultural production. According to several research summaries released by PG Economics in the UK, [...]

  • Here a Clone there a Clone–More “Word Play”

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:11:55
    Terry D. Etherton Some groups still continue to spread information about animal cloning and whether food from clones is safe to enter our food system. Groups opposed to cloning use communication tactics that are designed to scare consumers about the safety of food from cloned animals.  These attacks continue even though in 2008 the Food and Drug [...]

  • Will Animal Agriculture Continue to Exist?

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:10:29
    Chad Dechow Associate Professor, Dairy Cattle Genetics Department of Dairy and Animal Science The Pennsylvania State University If Activists, Government, and Global Business Unite I got my first bumper sticker (for my bicycle) as a 10 year old kid showing cows at the county fair. It said “Farmers Feed You Three Times a Day” and it resonated with me because, [...]

  • Global Study Debunks Food Sustainability Myths

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:09:22
    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, PORTLAND, Ore., GOTHENBURG, Sweden, November 23, 2009 – Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems. Rather than pushing for organic or land-based production, or worrying about simple metrics such as “food [...]

  • The Food System and Feeding the World

    Updated: 2009-12-17 08:06:44
    Terry D. Etherton Much has been written about the “Food System” and how we should go about feeding the world.  To put “much” into context, I ran a Google search using the phrases “food systems” or food system; got 906,000 returns for the former and 759,000 returns for the latter phrase. Why the keen interest in the [...]

  • Artificial Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery

    Updated: 2009-12-17 05:31:41
    Since the 1950s, researchers have been trying to mimic the abilities of red blood cells. These flexible discs carry oxygen throughout the body, squeezing through the smallest capillaries to do so. But the physical characteristics of red blood cells, including their doubly concave shape, have made them difficult to copy with precision. In research published Monday [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Coffee, Tea May Stall Diabetes

    Updated: 2009-12-17 05:28:34
    Every cup of coffee a person drinks per day may lower the risk of diabetes by 7%. A new review of research on the link between lifestyle factors, like coffee and tea consumption, and diabetes risk suggests that drinking regular or decaffeinated coffee and tea all lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. via Coffee, Tea May [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • New evidence links sirtuins and life extension

    Updated: 2009-12-16 22:29:42
    Ever since he first discovered the lifespan-extending effects of proteins called sirtuins 15 years ago, MIT Professor Leonard Guarente has been accumulating evidence to demonstrate a link between sirtuins and the effects of calorie restriction on lifespan. For decades, it has been known that cutting normal calorie consumption by 30 to 40 percent can boost lifespan [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • A Stimulating Treatment for Sleep Apnea

    Updated: 2009-12-14 16:00:39
    Unlike most researchers, the engineers at ImThera Medical just might consider it a compliment if someone called their product a “snooze.” The experimental device is designed to treat sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that can disrupt sleep and trigger serious complications, including an increased risk for heart disease and stroke, as well as daytime sleepiness [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Researchers show ‘trigger’ to stem cell differentiation

    Updated: 2009-12-14 15:56:47
    gene which is essential for stem cells’ capabilities to become any cell type has been identified by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco. The discovery represents a further step in the ever-expanding field of understanding the ways in which stem cells develop into specific cells, a necessary prelude [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain

    Updated: 2009-12-14 15:47:54
    Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain. Although delusions and hallucinations characterize the illness, people with schizophrenia also struggle to sustain attention or recall information in a particular order, difficulties that interfere with [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable’ blood disorder

    Updated: 2009-12-13 08:34:26
    A previously incurable blood disorder – sickle-cell disease – has been successfully treated in 9 of 10 adults who received stem cells transplanted from tissue-matched siblings. via Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable’ blood disorder – health – 10 December 2009 – New Scientist. (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

    Updated: 2009-12-11 16:33:06
    A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has “gone wrong,” giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible new, more targeted therapies for patients. “For a very long time, cancer therapies have been developed by trial and error to essentially kill a broad [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • How Can a Genetic Mutation Cause Muscle to Turn into Bone?

    Updated: 2009-12-11 16:24:59
    What would happen if some soft tissue cells in your body randomly got the message to transform into stiff bone cells? Patients born with a disease called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) are locked into this fate, often becoming severely disabled before adulthood. The disease first manifests itself at birth, when a baby appears normal but has [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Alcohol Ups Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence

    Updated: 2009-12-11 12:17:32
    If youve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may want to cut down on alcoholic beverages.Thats the suggestion of researchers who found that cancer is 34% more likely to come back in breast cancer survivors who drink more than three drinks a week, compared with those who abstain or drink less.Drinking more than three drinks [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Drug-Free Method of Blocking Fear Memories

    Updated: 2009-12-10 05:22:10
    Scientists at New York University report they have developed a drug-free, noninvasive way to temporarily block the return of fearful memories in people. The technique, the researchers contend, could eventually change the way scientists view how the brain’s memory storage process works and perhaps even lead to new ways to treat anxiety disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder. Researcher [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • New skin stem cells surprisingly similar to those found in embryos

    Updated: 2009-12-10 05:08:37
    Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells. These newly-described dermal stem cells may one day prove useful for treating neurological disorders and persistent wounds, such as diabetic ulcers, says Freda [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Testosterone link to aggression all in the mind

    Updated: 2009-12-10 01:33:07
    Giving women more of the male hormone testosterone can turn them into fairer and more amiable game players, according to tests.A single dose of testosterone was enough to have this effect, European scientists found, but only if the woman was oblivious to the treatment.If she realised she had received the hormone and not a dummy [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Antidepressant Paxil Also May Affect Personality Traits

    Updated: 2009-12-09 20:23:06
    Besides treating depression, the antidepressant Paxil may affect personality traits in positive ways, a new study suggests. Researchers say Paxil and likely other antidepressants in the class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may improve higher levels of neuroticism and lower levels of extraversion that are commonly seen with depression. Neuroticism is characterized as being [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Coffee May Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2009-12-09 20:11:09
    Drinking coffee regularly may help lower the risk of advanced prostate cancer, a study shows. The study, presented this week at a conference of the American Association for Cancer Research in Houston, shows men who drank the most coffee were nearly 60% less likely to develop advanced prostate cancer than non-coffee drinkers. Researchers say it's too early [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Soy Appears Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors

    Updated: 2009-12-09 01:29:32
    Moderate intake of soy foods by breast cancer survivors appears to be not only safe but beneficial, according to a new study.Women who had a higher soy intake had a lower mortality and lower risk of relapse [than women with a low intake],” says researcher Xiao Ou Shu, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Vitamin D May Boost Lymphoma Survival

    Updated: 2009-12-07 22:31:45
    Healthy levels of vitamin D may help patients with a certain type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma live longer. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have discovered that patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and low vitamin D levels are two times more likely to die from the cancer than patients with optimal levels. Deficient vitamin D levels [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Hepatitis C Drug Targets RNA

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:42:07
    An experimental drug developed by Danish startup Santaris effectively controls the hepatitis C virus in chimpanzees without creating drug-resistant forms of the virus–a major advantage over other compounds in clinical development. The compound, a synthetic nucleic acid that binds to a microRNA molecule required for viral reproduction, is now in early-stage clinical trials. It is [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • How nutrition affects healthy aging

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:23:15
    A new study of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing could help to understand the positive effect of dietary restriction on healthy ageing. Previous evidence from different organisms (fruit flies and mice) have shown that dietary restriction increases longevity, but with a potential negative side effect of diminished fertility. So the female fruit [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Stem cells battle for space

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:21:46
    The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival is not as clear. A study on fruit flies [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Tiny RNA has big impact on lung cancer tumors

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:19:11
    Researchers from Yale University and Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., reversed the growth of lung tumors in mice using a naturally occurring tumor suppressor microRNA. The study reveals that a tiny bit of RNA may one day play a big role in cancer treatment, and provides hope for future patients battling one of the most prevalent and [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • How to read brain activity?

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:17:05
    The electroencephalogram (EEG) has been widely used in research and medicine for more than eighty years. The ability to measure the electric activity in the brain by means of electrodes on the head is a handy tool to study brain functions as it is noninvasive and easy to apply. However, the interpretation of the EEG [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Fit teenage boys are smarter

    Updated: 2009-12-07 19:14:53
    In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better cardiovascular health among teenage boys correlates to higher scores on a range of intelligence tests – and more education and income later in [...] (Source: Biosingularity)

  • Profit From the Looming Spike in Crude Prices That the U.S. Oil Lobby Doesn’t See Coming

    Updated: 2009-12-07 02:04:42
    Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks Posted on December 5th, 2009 in API, American Petroleum Institute, Leading Economic Indicators, Sarah Palin American Petroleum Institute, API, Leading Economic Indicators, Sarah Palin John Felmy has been the chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API) for years. He’s well respected. And I appreciate his experience. But the two of us disagree [...]

  • Is Government Debt the Next Crisis to Strike?

    Updated: 2009-12-07 02:00:09
    Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks While American investors were busy enjoying their Thanksgiving dinners, global markets were shaken by word that Dubai asked for a payment holiday on the $59 billion it owes via its investment vehicle, Dubai World. The move, which comes as oversized bets on Persian Gulf real estate sour, was considered a default by [...]

  • MS drugs scheme fails to deliver results

    Updated: 2009-12-05 03:01:07
    Submitted by THE HEALTH ECONOMICS BLOG The MS scheme was the first implemented Risk Sharing scheme in the UK, the article highlights nicely the difficulties with perforance based schemes in difficult disease areas.. from the Financial Times By Andrew Jack Published: December 3 2009 01:56 | Last updated: December 3 2009 01:56 A pioneering scheme designed by the government to [...]

  • New report on big pharmas’ reputation

    Updated: 2009-12-05 02:59:21
    Submitted by THE HEALTH ECONOMICS BLOG Dear All, just came across a report announcement from firstword. With all what is going on in the industry it sounds like an interesting piece of work looking at the various aspects in a somewhat different and holistic fashion. Cheers Ulf Posted by ustaginnus@hotmail.com at 12/03/2009

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