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UK scientists win funding for new kind of anticoagulant drug
ReutersLONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - British scientists have won early financial backing for a new kind of anticoagulant drug they believe may prevent dangerous blood clots without causing bleeding - a previously unachievable goal. Index Ventures, working with...Tags: Science and Technology, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Johnson & Johnson Inc., Investments, Pradaxa (drug)
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Sanofi MS drug nears green light after pass-the-parcel marathon
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's longest running drug development sagas may draw to a close this month as French firm Sanofi hopes for a European green light for its new multiple sclerosis medicine Lemtrada. The drug's quarter-century journey from a...Tags: Thomson Corporation, Biogen Idec Incorporated, Drug Trafficking, Medical Specialization, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Diligent attention to detail paying off at online travel agency
Just after finishing college in England, Barney Harford was a finalist for a job at Mars Inc., which makes chocolate bars and other food products. "Ultimately, they said, 'You were close, but we decided not to offer you a job,'" Harford recalled. "'...
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Fanged, carnivorous plant pals up with swimming ants
It ain't exactly a match made in heaven, but it's a friendship forged in the steamy peat swamp forests of Borneo. That's where the fanged pitcher plant, or Nepenthes bicalcarata, teams up with a plucky, fluid-diving ant that makes its home nowhere...
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AstraZeneca closes in on site for new home in Cambridge
Reuters* Drugmaker eyes Cambridge Biomedical Campus - sources * Relocation centrepiece of new CEO's restructuring plan * New research centre and corporate HQ to cost some $500 mln By Ben Hirschler and Tom Bill LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca is...Tags: Biology, Research, AstraZeneca Plc, Cheshire, MedImmune Inc.
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Jackson Lab Names Scientific Director For Farmington Location
The Hartford CourantA Harvard genetics expert has been named scientific director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the campus of the UConn Health Center, the company announced Monday. Charles Lee, who starts Aug. 1, is currently director of the molecular...Tags: Biology, Colleges and Universities, Autism, University of Connecticut Health Center, Education
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Honey may hold the sticky solution to bee colony collapse
This post has been corrected, as noted belowHoneybees that live off the same sweetener found in soft drinks could be more vulnerable to the microbial enemies and pesticides believed to be linked to catastrophic collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide, a new study suggests. Researchers...Tags: Honey, Dining and Drinking, Disasters and Accidents, Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure
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News of the Weird: Chocolate Toothpaste and 'Holy Crap' Cereal!
The Precocious Tots of Finland: A University of Kansas professor and two co-authors, in research in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Finance, found that children age 10 and under substantially outperformed their parents in earnings from stock trading...
Tags: Clemson University, Environmental Issues, Windham (Windham, Connecticut), The New York Times, Human Rights
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Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest 'blunder'
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Humans are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in Los Angeles. The renowned theoretical physicist made his name studying black holes, massive structures that...Tags: Biology, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, Applied Physics, Science
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...Tags: Biology, Charity, Brown University, Education, University of California, Los Angeles
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Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk
NEW YORK (AP) — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer,...Tags: Biology, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Research, Prostate Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses
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