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By Alan, on April 3rd, 2014% Poplars (Luciano/Flickr)
3 April 2014. Researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a consortium of University of Wisconsin in Madison and Michigan State University in East Lansing, created a genetically modified poplar tree variety with weakened lignin bonds, making it easier to process into commercial biofuels and wood pulp. The team from the . . . → Read More: Poplar Trees Engineered to Produce More Biofuels, Wood Pulp
By Alan, on April 3rd, 2014% Adeno-associated virus (LBL.gov)
3 April 2014. Baxter International, a pharmaceutical and medical products company in Deerfield, Illinois is buying Chatham Therapeutics LLC, a developer of gene therapy to treat hemophilia. Under the agreement, Baxter will acquire outstanding LLC interests in Chatham for $70 million, but future milestone payments are also possible.
The acquisition . . . → Read More: Baxter Acquiring Hemophilia Gene-Therapy Biotech Company
By Alan, on April 2nd, 2014% (Mikael Häggström/Wikimedia Commons)
2 April 2014. Allegro Diagnostics Corp. in Maynard, Massachusetts says results from a clinical trial testing its genomic technique for diagnosing lung cancer more accurately predicts development of the disease among former smokers than standard bronchoscopies working alone. The company plans to discuss the findings next month at an American . . . → Read More: Trial Shows Gene Test Improves Lung Cancer Diagnostics
By Alan, on April 2nd, 2014% U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (A. Kotok/Flickr)
2 April 2014. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent for a technology that connects antibodies and cancer drugs to target and deliver treatments directly to tumor cells. Patent number 8,685,383 was awarded yesterday to nine inventors and assigned to Mersana Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical . . . → Read More: Patent Awarded for Cancer Antibody Delivery Technology
By Alan, on April 1st, 2014% (Tony Alter/Flickr)
1 April 2014. A new start-up enterprise founded by biomedical engineers at University of Texas in San Antonio offers individualized stem cell therapies for animals at veterinarians’ offices. Mobile Stem Care LLC is the creation of doctoral students Tony Yuan and Ramon Coronado that began in August 2013.
Mobile Stem Cell . . . → Read More: Texas Spin-Off Company Offers Stem Cell Therapy for Pets
By Alan, on April 1st, 2014% Nir Hacohen (BroadInstitute.org)
1 April 2014. EMD Serono, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Merck in Rockland, Massachusetts, is joining with the drug maker Pfizer and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to identify genomic biomarkers of two types of lupus. The research is funded by EMD Serono and Pfizer, but financial aspects . . . → Read More: EMD Serono, Pfizer, Broad Institute Partner on Lupus Markers
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