http://www.netvouz.com/spisio/tag/bioscience?feed=rss spisio's bookmarks tagged "bioscience" on Netvouz http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/23/500000-londoners-prepare-for-the-worlds-largest-medical-experiment/ London scientists will soon be carrying out the biggest medical experiment in the world. It will consist of collecting DNA samples from 500,000 British citizens that are between the ages of 40 and 69. The plan is to use the samples they collect over four spisio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:24 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/19/ancient-viral-dna-may-be-essential-to-mammal-reproduction/ A recent experiment supports the theory that certain DNA sequences in mammals, which originated from ancient retroviruses, played a key role in the evolution of the placenta. spisio Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:12:09 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/18/angiotech-develops-product-to-reduce-vascular-graft-failures/ For those unfamiliar, hemodialysis is a method of filtering waste from a patient’s blood when their kidneys are no longer able to function. But before a patient can undergo hemodialysis, a vascular graft must be implanted in order to allow a connection spisio Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:06:30 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/10/06/archon-x-prize-for-genomics-announced/ The contestants are challenged with the task of creating a process that can successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. No small feat considering that the first human genome to be sequenced took 13 years and cost around $3 billion. spisio Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:41:45 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/20/biodiesel-from-bacteria/ Alexander Steinbuchel and his colleagues from the University of Munster in Germany have created a strain of bacteria that is able to produce biodiesel from plant oils. Biofuels from bacteria could greatly increase the efficiency of using them as an alternate energy source. spisio Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:31:20 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/29/biophage-pharma-inc-developing-alternative-treatment-for-drug-resistant-bacteria/ The Montreal based Biophage Pharma Inc. announced that it is developing a method to treat bacterial infections without the use of antibiotics. Their treatment consists of using Biophage PDS Biosensors to diagnose the infection and phage therapy to treat i spisio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:22 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/09/27/canadian-biotech-leaders-looking-for-tax-breaks/ Over 50 Canadian biotech leaders will be calling on federal politicians this week to increase funding and decrease taxes for their industry. They are hoping that the tax breaks will be an incentive for emerging biotech companies to spur an increase in medical developments. spisio Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:17:08 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/28/diagnosis-of-a-virus-with-a-microchip/ A microchip with the ability to rapidly diagnose illness-causing viruses has recently been developed by the University of Colorado and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The FluChip is able to distinguish the type and subtype of 72 infl spisio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:22 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/08/24/embryo-safe-stem-cells-still-not-good-enough/ With recent stem cell laws grinding research to a crawl, scientists have made a welcoming discovery. A new procedure is able to extract stem cells from an embryo while leaving it viable. Researchers are hoping that this method will help avoid any restrict spisio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:23 GMT http://biotech.blogs.ca/2006/10/11/fast-healing-gel-derived-from-maggot-enzymes/ Stephen Britland from the University of Bradford and his research team have discovered that removing dead flesh is not the maggot’s only secret to speeding up the healing process. It turns out that they also secrete a combination of enzymes that accelerate tissue repair in patients. spisio Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:52:00 GMT