Blogs Posts in Biotechnological category; 26 blog posts

Silk Screening Business

Are you interested in staying at home and starting a business working out of your garage or basement, doing something that you love and enjoy? Do you want to set your own schedule and manage your life out of your home? If you answered yes t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Mammogram scan technology faulted

An increasingly popular technology that uses computers to scan mammograms actually produces worse results than human reviewers using their eyes and experience, according to a new study yesterday. Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Break [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

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Flu Fighters Tamiflu, Relenza Could Be Less Effective Against Certain Viral Strains, Study Find Tamiflu and Relenza, two anti-viral drugs commonly used to treat influenza, may be losing their effectiveness as the flu virus adapts, Japanese [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

New Screening Mammography Guidelines For Women Age 40 To 49

The clinical guidelines and related articles appear in today's edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.The ACP recommends that for every woman aged between 40 and 49 in their care clinicians should:$HOME$ The American College of Physici [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

FDA panel Oks prostate drug

Federal health advisors have endorsed an experimental vaccine to treat advanced prostate cancer as safe and effective. The Food and Drug Administration advisors voted unanimously to say Provenge is safe. They then voted 13 to 4 to say the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Study: Alcohol, Tobacco Worse Than Drugs

landmark" research finds that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than some illegal drugs like marijuana or Ecstasy and should be classified as such in legal systems, according to a new British study. In research published Friday i [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

FDA seeks to limit conflicts of interest

The federal government proposed new rules yesterday that would make it tougher for scientists with industry ties to offer advice about approving new drugs and medical devices. The Food and Drug Administration said that most scientists wit [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Insect Can Resist Disease

A genetically-engineered mosquito could be the key to stopping humans catching malaria.Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, have created a mosquito which carries a gene that prevents it being infected by the malari [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2007 | Comments : 0

FDA Approves Rapid Meningitis Test

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new test Friday to detect viral meningitis that can give results in less than three hours. Currently, tests can take up to a week to get results. The Xpert EV test, developed by Cepheid of Sunnyv [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

US alert over strange effects of sleeping pills

The most widely prescribed sleeping pills can cause strange behaviour like driving and eating while asleep, the US Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.It will now require strong new warnings to be placed on the labels of 13 drugs, w [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2007 | Comments : 0

Scientists identify 120 new cancer genes

An international research team has identified around 120 new genes that contain mutations promoting cancer growth. The discovery by a team of more than 60 scientists led by Michael Stratton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

New Success In Engineering Plant Oils

Science Daily — Using genetic manipulation to modify the activity of a plant enzyme, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have converted an unsaturated oil in the seeds of a temperate plant to [...]