Thursday, February 28th, 2008
MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu is passionate about tackling problems that pose threats to human health. His current mission: to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The 27-year-old M.D. candidate and Ph.D. in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Corgenix Medical Corporation (OTCBB: CONX), a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, has received notification of European Patent Office (EPO) approval for technology to which Corgenix holds exclusive worldwide licensing rights.
McMaster University (McMaster) of Hamilton, Ontario, is the owner of the patent covering the aspirin resistance measurement method. ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Diabetes is often characterized by a failure of insulin production by pancreatic Beta-cells to properly regulate glucose homeostasis. Insulin resistance can lead to ?-cell failure, and our studies have focused on elucidating the mechanisms involved in this postnatal failure.
This week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Katsuya Tanabe, James Woodgett, ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
A research team from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, examining bacterial isolates obtained in hospital and non-hospital clinical settings between 2000 and 2006, has identified drug-resistant strains of E. coli and Klebsiella bacteria in more than 50 blood, urine and respiratory samples. These resistant strains, ...
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