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Agilent to Develop Salmonella, Fish Species Tests for FDA

By Alan, on March 19th, 2012%

Salmonella typhimurium, in red, invading cultured human cells. (Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH)

Agilent Technologies Inc. in Santa Clara, California, a developer of instrumentation for chemical and life science analysis, unveiled its agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop new tests for the agency’s regulation of food. One set of . . . → Read More: Agilent to Develop Salmonella, Fish Species Tests for FDA

Research Institute, XCOR Partner on Suborbital Test Flights

By Alan, on February 27th, 2012%

Lynx suborbital spacecraft (XCOR Aerospace Inc.)

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio says it will conduct suborbital space missions with SwRI payload specialist astronauts flying aboard one or two test missions in the XCOR Aerospace Lynx Mark I vehicle. The flights are expected to test capabilities of the Lynx vehicle with actual . . . → Read More: Research Institute, XCOR Partner on Suborbital Test Flights

Analytics Company, Johns Hopkins to Study Asthma Genomes

By Alan, on January 9th, 2012%

(Genome.gov)

Knome Inc., a genomics analysis company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it received a contract from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore to provide its software and services for a study of genetic variants that contribute to asthma in African American and African Caribbean populations. Financial terms of the contract were . . . → Read More: Analytics Company, Johns Hopkins to Study Asthma Genomes

Industry Consortium to Fund Fracturing Pollution R&D

By Alan, on December 28th, 2011%

Marcellus shale gas well in West Virginia (dep.wv.gov)

A consortium of businesses, universities, and national labs has made funds available for research on technologies to address environmental and safety concerns of hydraulic fracturing — a.k.a. fracking — methods to extract natural gas from shale rock. The $35 million in funding from the Research . . . → Read More: Industry Consortium to Fund Fracturing Pollution R&D

Contract Awarded for Atlantic Salmon Genome Sequencing

By Alan, on November 23rd, 2011%

Atlantic salmon (U.S. Fish and Wildife Service)

An international business and scientific consortium from salmon-producing countries has awarded a contract for the second phase of sequencing and analysis of the Atlantic salmon genome to the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland. The International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG) . . . → Read More: Contract Awarded for Atlantic Salmon Genome Sequencing

University Spin-Off Lands Radiation Countermeasure Contract

By Alan, on November 8th, 2011%

(EPA)

RxBio Inc., an early stage biotech company spun off from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, has received a contract from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for the company’s radiation countermeasure drug. The contract has a potential value of $24 million over the next two years.

The . . . → Read More: University Spin-Off Lands Radiation Countermeasure Contract

Contract Awarded to Test Nerve-Agent Protection Drug

By Alan, on October 24th, 2011%

Manisha Patel (University of Colorado)

An NIH program to develop countermeasures against chemical weapons has awarded a contract to a University of Colorado researcher to evaluate a commercial drug’s ability to protect against nerve agents. The $736,000 contract from NIH’s Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Research Network to Manisha Patel (pictured left), at . . . → Read More: Contract Awarded to Test Nerve-Agent Protection Drug

NIH Awards Infectious Disease Therapy Contracts

By Alan, on October 14th, 2011%

Anthrax spores (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded contracts totaling $37.5 million to five companies to develop therapies for diseases caused by multiple types of bacteria or viruses. The five-year orders, with a potential total value of . . . → Read More: NIH Awards Infectious Disease Therapy Contracts

Contract Awarded for Magnets Made Without Rare Earth Metals

By Alan, on October 13th, 2011%

(U.S. Geological Service)

Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond has received a $2.9 million contract from Department of Energy to develop a new class of permanent magnets for energy-efficient electric car motors and generators. The project is funded through the department’s Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies program (REACT) under the Advanced Research Projects . . . → Read More: Contract Awarded for Magnets Made Without Rare Earth Metals

Study to Assess Regulations’ Impact on Tobacco Users

By Alan, on October 7th, 2011%

(National Institute of Mental Health)

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health today announced a joint national study of tobacco users to gauge the behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations. The Tobacco Control Act National Longitudinal Study of Tobacco Users is the first large-scale collaboration on tobacco . . . → Read More: Study to Assess Regulations’ Impact on Tobacco Users

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