Category Archives: Molecular Medicine

Automation to Push Molecular Diagnostics Markets to New Level, Avers Frost & Sullivan

LONDON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The potential for enhanced clinical efficiency and reduced costs is fuelling the interest of healthcare stakeholders in preventive medicine.  Molecular diagnostics …Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=molecular+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Hazen Receives Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award

Newswise Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., was recently honored with an inaugural Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from an organization comprised of the nation’s most acclaimed academic medical centers and other groups, in recognition of Dr. Hazens Nature article, Gut flora dependent metabolism of dietary phosphatidylcholine contributes to cardiovascular disease Continue reading

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Molecular alternatives to DNA, RNA offer new insight into life's origins

Living systems owe their existence to a pair of information-carrying molecules: DNA and RNA. Continue reading

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Cleveland researcher receives Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award

Public release date: 19-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Jessica Studeny jessica.studeny@case.edu 216-368-4692 Case Western Reserve University Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., was recently honored with an inaugural Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from an organization comprised of the nation’s most acclaimed academic medical centers and other groups, in recognition of Dr. Hazen’s Nature article, “Gut flora dependent metabolism of dietary phosphatidylcholine contributes to cardiovascular disease.” The discovery promises to bring about new diagnostic tests and therapeutic approaches for the detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Continue reading

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Strange cousins: Molecular alternatives to DNA, RNA offer new insight into life’s origins

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Packaging therapeutic RNAs for targeted treatment of breast cancer

Combination of antibody fragment and packaging peptide addresses siRNAs to breast tumor cells BOSTON, Mass., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –Researchers in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Immune Disease Institute (PCMM/IDI) have developed a molecular delivery platform that overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to using RNA-based gene silencing technologies to treat cancer: Making sure the treatment gets to the right place and stays there. Judy Lieberman, PhD, of the PCMM/IDI, and a former fellow from her laboratory, Erwei Song, MD, PhD, now at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital in Guangzhou, China, reported today in Science Translational Medicine that their platforma combination of an antibody fragment and a packaging peptidecould successfully stabilize and deliver RNA-based molecules to tumors, silence them and prevent tumor growth and metastasis in a mouse model of breast cancer Continue reading

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The World Molecular Imaging Society & Cambridge Healthtech Institute Partner on New Conference Program

The World Molecular Imaging Society and Cambridge Healthtech Institute have partnered on a short course taking plan June 6, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA that will also be streamed over the internet to cater to the international marketplace.Washington DC (PRWEB) April 18, 2012 The World Molecular Imaging Society and Cambridge Healthtech Institute have partnered on a short course taking plan June 6 … Continue reading

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Sequenom Announces National Agreement with Provider MultiPlan, Inc.

SAN DIEGO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM – News), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced an agreement with MultiPlan, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of healthcare cost management solutions (PHCS). Continue reading

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MolecularHealth's Use of Clinical-Molecular Informatics™ for Oncology Treatment Decision Support Presented at Meeting …

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –MolecularHealth, a leader in clinico-molecular informatics, today announced that Stephan Brock, Ph.D., the company’s president, showcased the use of clinico-molecular informatics for oncology treatment decision support at the SWOG Spring 2012 Group Meeting in San Francisco. SWOG (formerly Southwest Oncology Group) is one of the five cooperative groups that together comprise the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) National Clinical Trials Network. Continue reading

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Richard T. Kloos, M.D., Joins Veracyte as Senior Medical Director

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Veracyte, Inc. , a molecular diagnostics company pioneering the emerging field of molecular cytology, today announced the appointment of Richard …Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=molecular+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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SK Capital Closes on IBA Molecular

SK Capital Partners, a U.S. based private investment firm, and IBA announced that they have closed on their previously announced agreement to create IBA Molecular, a jointly-owned company derived from IBA’s worldwide radiopharmaceutical division.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=molecular+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Coordinating the circadian clock: Molecular pair controls time-keeping and fat metabolism

( University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ) Disruption in circadian rhythms leads to increased incidence of many diseases, including cancer. Each cell of the body has its own internal timing mechanism. A clock protein, called Rev-erb alpha, was thought … Continue reading

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Molecular imaging links systemic inflammation with depression

( Society of Nuclear Medicine ) New research published in the April issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reveals that systemic inflammation causes an increase in depressive symptoms and metabolic changes in the parts of the brain responsible for … Continue reading

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Molecular mechanism contributing to cardiomyopathy elucidated

ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2012) Cardiomyopathy comprises a deterioration of the heart muscle that affects the organ’s ability to efficiently pump blood through the body. Previously researchers have tied forms of the disease to the alternative splicing of titin, a giant protein that determines the structure and biomechanical properties of the heart, but the molecular mechanism remained unknown Continue reading

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HTG Molecular Diagnostics and Sanofi US Collaborate to Identify B-cell Malignancy Biomarkers

SOURCE: HTG Molecular Diagnostics Development of Tests That Help Identify Patients Most Likely to Respond to Targeted Therapy Is a Key Step Toward the Personalization of Medicine TUCSON, AZ–(Marketwire – Mar 30, 2012) – HTG Molecular Diagnostics has established a collaborative program with Sanofi US to identify biomarkers that may lead to the development of a molecular companion diagnostic test to help identify patients most likely to respond to a novel Sanofi investigational agent. HTG Molecular Diagnostics’ qNPA technology measures mRNA and/or miRNA expression in formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor samples, allowing clinicians to verify the presence of certain biomarkers relevant to patient selection and therapy Continue reading

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Two NY Biologists awarded top prize in medicine

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Two molecular biologists who performed pioneering research on how cells express their genetic information have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. James E. Continue reading

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2 molecular biologists win medical prize in Albany

Posted at: 03/28/2012 10:52 AM | Updated at: 03/28/2012 12:35 PM By: AP ALBANY, N.Y. Continue reading

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Molecular Motor Coupled to High Sensitivity Nanopore Promises Cheap DNA Sequencing

Lately we have been covering some of the recent developments in nanopore sequencing that are targeted to enable affordable personalized medicine. Continue reading

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2 molecular biologists win medical prize in NY

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Two molecular biologists who performed pioneering research on how cells express their genetic information have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. James E Continue reading

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Molecular Response, Transparent Ink Pact to Market 3D Cell Culture System

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) Transparent and Molecular Response today announced the extension of validation studies and the execution of a long-term collaboration agreement. Under the terms of the extension, the two firms will jointly introduce a three-dimensional cell culture system based on Transparent’s 3D cell culture plate design and manufacturing technologies, and Molecular’s bank of “living” tumor cells and qualitative high-content platforms, they said. The platform will be marketed under Transparent’s Cell-able Oncology brand with contract research support for preclinical and clinical trial applications by Molecular. Continue reading

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