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Domainex, Ark Therapeutics extend drug discovery pact
Published July 9, 2009, 3:48 am, PharmaBiz
Domainex Ltd (Domainex), a UK-based specialist provider of drug discovery solutions, announced an extension of its research agreement with Ark Therapeutics Group Ltd (Ark). Under the terms of the agreement Domainex will continue to provide Ark with hit-finding and lead optimisation services for drug discovery against novel and exciting therapeutic targets nominated by the company.
Genome project leader is selected to head NIH
Published July 9, 2009, 12:12 am, Los Angeles Times
Dr. Francis Collins is named to run the vast research agency. He guided the U.S. drive to map the human genetic code and wrote a book linking God and science. Dr. Francis S. Collins, the geneticist who discovered the causes of half a dozen diseases, oversaw the government's efforts to map the human genome and wrote a now-famous book presenting scientific evidence for a belief in God, will be ...
Obama Picks Francis Collins as New NIH Director
Published July 8, 2009, 9:00 pm, Washington Post
President Obama yesterday nominated Francis S. Collins, a physician and scientist who helped guide the Human Genome Project to completion, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
Human genetics: One gene, twenty years
Published July 8, 2009, 2:05 pm, Nature
When the cystic fibrosis gene was found in 1989, therapy seemed around the corner. Two decades on, biologists still have a long way to go, finds Helen Pearson.
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New UK-Built Vauxhall Astra Set to Raise Bar in C-Segment
Published July 7, 2009, 5:10 am, The Auto Channel
LUTON, UNITED KINGDOM – July 7, 2009: The new Vauxhall Astra will mark the sixth generation of the model in the last 30 years and from launch will be built at the company’s Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire, UK.
Discovery of new gene associated with diabetes
Published July 5, 2009, 4:16 pm, News-Medical-Net
Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes.
Obituary: Jean Dausset
Published July 5, 2009, 9:28 am, Guardian Unlimited
French immunologist, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the human genome Few people have contributed as much to science and the human good as Jean Dausset, who has died aged 93. In 1980 he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and George Snell for his work on tissue-typing, which allows the best matching of donor and recipient in organ-transplantation. Dausset ...
Federal OK sought for tree clones
Published July 3, 2009, 9:32 pm, The Post and Courier
SUMMERVILLE—They don't like to call them clones. The quarter million eucalyptus trees that ArborGen wants to flower are a "variety," genetically engineered duplicates of a single Brazilian tree.
'Jumping gene' diminishes the effect of a new type 2 diabetes risk gene
Published July 2, 2009, 5:13 pm, EurekAlert!
Research has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes. A genomic fragment that occurs naturally in some mouse strains diminishes the activity of the risk gene Zfp69. The researchers also found that the corresponding human gene (ZNF642) is especially active in overweight individuals with diabetes. The results of ...
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