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U.S. funding drop threatens San Diego life sciences industry
The life sciences job juggernaut in metro San Diego expanded through the ongoing economic downturn and will produce another 6,000 jobs through 2014, according to a new report. But a big drop in
NINDS is close to launching its first NeuroNEXT neurobiomarkers study
The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is getting ready to launch the first of the studies through NeuroNEXT, the
Gene therapy boost in mice blocked HIV virus
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and elsewhere may have found a way to prevent HIV. They used a form of gene therapy to successfully block mice from contracting the deadly virus,
New class of drugs may kill tumors by altering structure of crucial enzyme
A new class of cancer drugs under development by startup Amitech Therapeutic Solutions has shown promise in recent lab and animal research by binding to and altering the structure of an enzyme known...
Research groups scramble to head off deep cuts to NIH budget
With Congress focused on finding new ways to slash the federal budget, worries have been growing among the research groups which rely on the NIH that leaner times are in store for the future. The
NIH buddies with Afraxis to escort Fragile X program through "valley of death"
San Diego-based Afraxis is getting some key support from the National Institutes of Health as it journeys through the dreaded "valley of death" with an experimental program for Fragile X syndrome--a
NIH launches $140M drug tox project, hunts for translational R&D chief
As the White House helps boost the efforts of NIH chief Francis Collins to create an ambitious new center for translational biomedical research, the agency has struck a deal with the FDA and the
NIH awards $500,000 to various miRNA biomarker studies
GenomeWeb updates us on a few biomarker projects that have attracted the attention, and funding, of the National Institutes of Health, which gave them a combined total of about $500,000. They all
New drug-discovery center lost in translation
When last we left NIH chief Francis Collins' ambitious plans to build a new center for translational medicine, the project seemed to be "moving at light-speed" by NIH standards, with an October
NIH looks for pediatric biomarker proposals
It has been estimated that 70% of the medicines given to children have only been tested in adults . The same is true when it comes to biomarkers. So, the NIH has opened up a new funding program aimed
