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Fluor Corporation to Help Cobalt Technologies Produce Biofuels
Cobalt Technologies, a developer of the renewable fuel biobutanol, in Mountain View, California, has signed an agreement with Fluor Corporation, a global engineering and project management company. Fluor will provide engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services to help Cobalt gear up for commercializing its biobutanol production technology, as well as for Cobalt’s demonstration and commercial-scale…
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Patent Awarded for Low Testosterone Treatment
Repros Therapeutics Inc. in the Woodlands, Texas announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has issued a patent for Androxal, the company’s lead treatment for low testosterone in men. This patent claims methods and materials for the treatment of testosterone deficiency in men with secondary hypogonadism, when the sex glands produce little or no hormones.…
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Alectos Therapeutics, Merck Collaborate on Alzheimer’s Drug
Alectos Therapeutics Inc. in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada will collaborate with global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. to identify and develop compounds that modulate O-linked N-acetylglucosaminidase (O-GlcNAcase) an enzyme believed to be involved in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders. The agreement provides Merck with a worldwide, exclusive license to research, develop, and…
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Sanofi-aventis, Scripps to Partner on Personalized Medicines
Sanofi-aventis (U.S.) in Bridgewater, New Jersey and Scripps Genomic Medicine in San Diego, California announced today an alliance to advance research initiatives in individualized medicine. Sanofi-aventis is a French pharmaceutical company, but with a U.S. subsidiary. Scripps Genomic Medicine is a division of Scripps Health, a private not-for-profit community health system in San Diego. In…
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Nanomaterial Can Turn Ordinary Window Glass into Solar Power
EnSol AS, a company in Bergen, Norway, working with the University of Leicester (U.K.) Department of Physics and Astronomy has developed and patented a thin film solar technology that can generate electric power when applied to common glass windows. The material developed by EnSol is composed of metal nanoparticles embedded in a transparent composite matrix.…
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New iPhone App Tracks Side Effects in Clinical Trials
The Center for Biomedical Informatics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia converted all the reference information in the National Cancer Institute’s Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) into a software application, or “app”, for the Apple iPhone. With this iPhone app, physicians can replace the 200-page CTCAE manual, with a four-ounce iPhone or iPod…
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Biotech Company Awarded Grant for Melanoma Immunotherapy
Lentigen Corporation, a biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, Maryland has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to advance an immunotherapy for melanoma invented by Michael Nishimura, Professor of Surgery, at the Medical University of South Carolina. In this program, Lentigen will collaborate with Nishimura. Melanoma is the most dangerous…
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CE Mark Awarded for Male Urinary Health Device
American Medical Systems (AMS) of Minnetonka, Minnesota, announced today it has received the Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for AdVance XP, an implant for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The CE marking certifies that a product has met EU health, safety, and environmental requirements, which ensure consumer safety. Male SUI is a common…
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We’re in Alltop
We got some good news today. Science Business has been selected for Alltop, the “aggregation without aggravation” service that collects headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. Sarah Perez in ReadWriteWeb calls Alltop “a valuable resource for anyone wanting to research a certain subject or industry.” You…
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Awards to Honor Postdoc Entrepreneurs
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) have opened the call for nominations for the 2011 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs working to commercialize research. The deadline for nominations for both awards is 27 September 2010, and the deadline for submission of…