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Results demonstrate ACE-011 increases bone formation, bone mass and bone strength
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical co...
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SAN DIEGO -- Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:MBRX) announced today that an article describing the potential benefits of its product candidate for...
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The study, published a month ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also notes a "high prevalence" of AIDS in Haitian immigrants in the United States soon after the infection was identified. Eventually health officials came up with the "four H club" to denote risk factors: hemophilia, homosexuality, heroin use and being Haitian. Dr. Art Fournier, associate dean of community health at the University of Miami, noted many Americans traveled to Haiti as sex tourists in the 1960s and '70s, and could easily have brought HIV back with them. "We have to move beyond medical 'detectivism,'" said Fournier, author of The Zombie Curse on HIV in Haiti. "It's not about nationality. It's that the people who were infected were poor, therefore exploited, therefore infected.
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OMRF scientists report cell division advances
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists describe how the same process that duplicates chromosomes also activates the molecular glue that keeps cell division working correctly. The research could have implications for understanding the processes that lead to birth defects and cancers.
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-Paper Confirms that Obatoclax Defeats Cancer Cell Survival Mechanisms -
MALVERN, Pa. & MONTREAL -- Gemin X announced today that a report published ...
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WASHINGTON - A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization.
A review of 141 archaeological sites across Europe shows habitual use of fire beginning between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago, according to a paper in today's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (www.dicerna.com), a second generation RNA interference company developing novel therapeutics utiliz...
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Caltech researchers are asking if microscopes might become obsolete - replaced instead by the tiny imaging sensor chips found in cellphone cameras.
Those chips are now serving as a "smart" petri dish platform, according to a Wednesday release from Caltech announcing a paper that appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Findings, Highlighted in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Support Reata's Preclinical Development for COPD
IRVING, Texas -- Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc...
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CSHL team finds evidence for the genetic basis of autism
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory recently announced their discovery that a genetic alteration commonly associated with autism causes autism-like features. The study appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' online edition last week.