http://www.netvouz.com/spisio/tag/bio?feed=rss spisio's bookmarks tagged "bio" on Netvouz http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/13/advancis-increases-amoxicillins-effectiveness/ Amoxicillin is a wide spectrum antibiotic used to treat many common infections, including strep throat. The usual prescription for treatment requires three 500mg amoxicillin doses daily. Advancis Pharmaceutical just released positive phase III trial resul spisio Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:08:24 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/15/arthritis-drug-receives-expanded-fda-approval/ The Food and Drug Administration expanded its marketing approval for Remicade on Monday. Remicade is a psoriatic arthritis treatment produced by Centocor that first received FDA approval in May of last year. spisio Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:53:33 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/08/chinese-biotech-company-reveals-positive-results-for-bird-flu-vaccine/ An experimental vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has produced an immune response in healthy people to the H5N1 avian flu virus. Sinovac Biotech Co. Ltd. released early trial results in The Lancet medical journal today. spisio Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:01:56 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/08/chinese-biotech-company-reveals-positive-results-for-bird-flu-vaccine/ An experimental vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has produced an immune response in healthy people to the H5N1 avian flu virus. Sinovac Biotech Co. Ltd. released early trial results in The Lancet medical journal today. spisio Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:05:06 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/15/if-you-dont-use-them-you-may-lose-immature-brain-cells/ Its already known that the human brain continues to produce new nerve cells throughout its life, but recent studies show that many of these new cells die before they have a chance to mature. An experiment performed by Fred Gage of the Salk Institute for B spisio Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:08:36 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/09/iran-claims-to-have-cloned-a-sheep/ Even without seeing any visual proof of their accomplishments, my congratulations go out to the Iranian researchers for almost being successful in an experiment that was already carried out a decade ago. spisio Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:23:11 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/09/med-biogene-inc-reports-promising-pre-clinical-results-for-lymphoma-diagnostic/ Vancouver based, Med BioGene Inc. announced August 3rd the results of its pre-clinical tests of its Diagnostic Lymphoma Bioarray. It will be used to detect if a patient has lymphoma. spisio Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:29:04 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/10/scientists-boost-rice-crops-already-impressive-water-resistance/ Even though rice is usually grown in ponds of water called paddies, floods can have a devastating impact on crop yield due to the plants drowning. This threat to farmers could soon change with the discovery of a gene that allows rice to live longer underw spisio Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:52:27 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/17/scientists-find-possible-weakness-in-bird-flu/ Scientists from London’s National Institute of Medical Research announced on Wednesday that they have discovered a possible weakness in the avian bird flu that they plan to exploit in order to create a treatment. spisio Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:16:36 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/16/test-for-alzheimers-using-skin-cells/ Scientists from the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) have created a biomarker which tests for a substance in skin cells that could lead to a quick and accurate diagnosis in early stages of the disease. spisio Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:26:51 GMT