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BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 John Carey |
Gene-Based Therapy: Back To The Couch Recent setbacks show (again) that biotech needs more patience and less ballyhoo |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 William Looney |
Curative Powers of Collaboration Napoleone Ferrara's career in medicine is an illustration of the maxim that stretching the boundaries of science is a leap in the dark. |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2004 Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works. |
Chemistry World July 2010 Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Arlene Weintraub |
A Boost for Broken Hearts? The Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Barbados is convinced that stem cells from fetuses can repair cardiac damage. |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
The Race to Stop an Eyesight Stealer No magic bullet yet, but new drugs to fight age-related macular degeneration are near. |
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
BusinessWeek March 8, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
And When ImClone's Drug Doesn't Work... Physicians have greeted ImClone Systems Inc.'s (IMCL ) cancer drug, Erbitux, with a mixture of glee and grim realism. The drug dramatically shrinks colon tumors in some patients. But in others, it has little effect -- and no one knows why. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Janelle Weaver |
Leading a Double Life with CSF Lucky for us, the organs in our bodies come with a self-repair kit. Though regularly bombarded by harmful bacteria, more often than not they manage to heal themselves. How this happens has puzzled scientists, but now there may be some answers. |
BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Rob Waters |
Stem Cells That Save Big Pharma a Bundle Drugmakers hope to save big by using stem cells to test drugs for dangerous side effects long before costly human trials are needed. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
Fast Company November 2009 David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Make Money Even When Drugs Fail Biotech growth potential without as much risk can come from innovations that help drugmakers discover new drugs. |
Bio-IT World May 19, 2004 |
Special Delivery TAT tagging has aroused keen interest in biotech. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Brian D. Pacampara |
Next-Generation Drug Technologies Battle It Out Alnylam and Sangamo BioSciences have different ways to manipulate proteins to fight disease. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Take Your Medicine; Earn Your Profits Personalized medicine offers investment ideas. Let's take a look at what this new catchphrase in the medical community actually means, and how investors can benefit from it. |
Wired November 2003 Jennifer Kahn |
Regrow Your Own Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 |
Q&A With Bioengineer Tejal Desai Desai is a leader in a field with a big name -- biological microelectromechanical systems -- that deals with very small items. She uses the tools of semiconductor manufacturing to make minuscule medical devices, such as a miniature artificial pancreas and scaffolding for tissue regeneration. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Falling Into the Zaltrap Lung cancer out, colon cancer in phase 3 clinical trial for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' new drug. |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Less of a Poke in the Eye Regeneron Pharmaceuticals was up nearly 20% yesterday after the drugmaker announced the results for two phase 3 trials testing VEGF Trap-Eye in wet AMD patients. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
An Intentional Life Scientists have identified a number of genes associated with familial forms of ALS, and Arthur Horwich has homed in on one of them. |
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Arlene Weintraub |
Drug Development, Genentech Style Its promising colon cancer fighter Avastin is a prime example of how the biotech "keeps following the science." |
Chemistry World March 14, 2012 Helen Bache |
Diabetes reduces antioxidant benefits Scientists in China have discovered that the blood plasma proteins of type II diabetes patients reduce the beneficial effects of dietary polyphenols. |
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Julia Boguslavsky |
'Fingerprinting' a Single Cell Single-cell proteomics is finally within reach, thanks to a professor of analytical chemistry. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Mark D. Uehling |
Putting Proteins in Their Place Will a 'periodic table' of proteins help classify the ungainly beasts? |
Chemistry World June 27, 2012 Helen Bache |
Schizophrenia: a disease of the brain? Scientists in China have unearthed further evidence that a malfunction of the immune system contributes to the development of schizophrenia. |
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 |
Biotech, Then and Now Amgen's George Rathmann explains how Big Pharma's role has evolved from detractor to investor, and why R&D needs more respect. |
Wired July 2006 Kevin Kelleher |
Personalize It While Adidas offers customized shoes for your feet, the pharmaceutical industry is moving toward personalizing drugs based on your genes. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Another Blow to Gene Therapy The FDA shuts down a clinical trial, tripping up Targeted Genetics and possibly its competitors. A subject in the trial of their gene therapy arthritis medication died shortly after taking the drug. |
Scientific American March 2009 Elaine Schattner |
A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment |
Chemistry World January 4, 2007 Henry Nicholls |
Microscopic Lab Investigates Contents of a Cell It's small-scale science that could have a massive impact on research into cell biology. Scientists have produced a microscopic laboratory where they can count individual proteins in a single cell. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2014 Andy Extance |
Turing patterns show their hand in finger formation James Sharpe's team at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona has identified proteins that create a 'Turing network' that tells embryo limb cells what to become. |
Reason August 2002 Ronald Bailey |
Forever Young The new scientific search for immortality |
Chemistry World March 21, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
AstraZeneca partners with Moderna for $240 million Moderna has developed a way to use messenger RNA (mRNA), the molecule cells use to turn DNA into proteins, to stimulate the production of specific proteins in cells where disease has diminished or eliminated their ability to do so. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes. |
Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Malorye A. Branca |
Engines of Discovery It's what every biotech startup promises but few deliver, a turbo-charged discovery engine. Every now and then, however, a new company with fresh ideas starts hitting home runs. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 John Carey |
The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications. |
Chemistry World August 31, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Smallpox vaccine virus puts cancer in its sights The results of a human cancer therapy trial show for the first time that tumors can be targeted and infected by engineered viruses, without damage to surrounding tissues. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2012 Fiona McKenzie |
Protein sorting within cells US scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles with specific ligands to latch on to and visualize specific proteins in living cells. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed. |
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Fishing Chips The next generation of protein microarrays from the likes of Protometrix and Molecular Staging may threaten the early leads of Biacore and Ciphergen -- and work so well that drug companies won't want them. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Profit From Personalized Medicine Pfizer's drug works well, but consider these companies instead. |
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Genentech's Lessons For Big Pharma The biotech company focuses on science -- not marketing, acquisitions, or patents. |