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Project Will Advance Promising New RNAi Cancer Therapies

Kylin Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of next-generation RNAi therapeutics, announced the expansion of its research and development efforts. The project will advance promising new RNAi cancer therapies. This expanded...

23 Oct 2008

An Innovative Way to Make and Pattern Nanoscale Wires and Other Devices

By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers have created an innovative way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive lithographic to...

23 Oct 2008

RNA Interference Company to Present at Discovery on Target Conference

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an RNA interference company developing novel therapeutics in multiple disease areas, today announced that Bob D. Brown, Ph.D., senior vice president of research, Dicerna, and Dicerna co-fou...

22 Oct 2008

Research Agreement to Better Understand How Proteins Interact in Cancer and AIDS

National Cancer Institute contractor SAIC-Frederick, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation, and Silicon Kinetics, Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology company with research la...

22 Oct 2008

Nano-Fiber Gel Release Drugs on Target Without Toxic Residue

Two teams of scientists from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (HST) at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new self-assembling hydrogel drug delivery system that is biocompatible, effic...

22 Oct 2008

TaqMan OpenArray Genotyping System Simplifies Workflows

Applied Biosystems Inc., today announced that it has commercialized a new analysis system to enable researchers to perform high-sample-throughput genotyping studies that are faster, easier and more cost effective than ot...

21 Oct 2008

State-of-the-Art Chemical Libraries Help Identify New Compounds for Future Drug Research

Scientists from three Chicago-area universities have joined forces to develop new ways of building state-of-the-art chemical libraries that will help identify new compounds for future drug development and basic biomedical research.

21 Oct 2008

Harnessing Unique Properties of Boron to Develop New Drugs and Diagnostics

Researchers are on the verge of unleashing the power of the element boron in a new generation of drugs and therapies, as decades of research begins to bear fruit. Boron has to date far been one of biology's best kept...

21 Oct 2008

The Future Rise of Proton Therapy

Despite the fact that proton therapy has been around for years, it is still a relatively uncommon way to treat cancer. Currently there are only five operating proton therapy clinics in the United States -- one each in Bo...

21 Oct 2008

MEMS for Implantable Medical Devices

Over the last 10 years, researchers and clinicians have begun to use microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which combine electronics technology with tiny mechanical devices like sensors and valves embedded in semiconduc...

21 Oct 2008