Narrow Results

In investigating drug addiction and its side effects from a social health point of view, the attention is usually focused on the drug itself. Yet trace amounts of other elements may have side effects no less harmful than addiction itself. The knowledge of these elements can be of help in the cure of drug addiction. The purpose of this study is to determine the trace elements in some drugs by methods of nuclear analysis. In this study, the Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) techniques have been applied to measure the elemental composition and concentration of 55 opium, hashish and ecstasy pill samples. PIXE analysis shows the samples contain various elements including Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Ti, Fe, Cu, Zn, Rb and Sr.

Searching for a Cure to SARS.

SARS Virus may not be Coronavirus.

SARS Diagnostic Methods.

Australian Scientists to Infect Animals with Virus.

Thoughts on SARS Drug Development Strategies — And A Better Way to Manage SARS Patients?

Biota’s Antiviral Drugs and Diagnostic Kits Might Be an Answer to SARS and Avian Flu Infections.

Genetix Equipment Plays a Key Role in Determining SARS Genetic Code.

AUSTRALIA – Mosquito Parasite Could Control Dengue

CHINA – China has Twice the Global Average of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

CHINA – 80 000 Antibiotics Abuse-related Deaths Annually

CHINA – Bird Flu Found in Chicken from China

CHINA – China on Alert following Bird Flu Death

CHINA – Chinese Dairies to Compensate Tainted Milk Victims' Families

CHINA – New Insulin Resistance Tricks Found

CHINA – World's First Plant Chromosome Atlas

CHINA – Project Launched to Study Structure of Proteins

CHINA – Fake Diabetes Drug Linked to Two Deaths

CHINA – Birth Defects Rising in Polluted China

INDIA – India Culls Poultry in Darjeeling After Bird Flu

INDIA – India Introduces Second-Line Anti-retroviral Treatment in Eight States

INDIA – Indian Medical Tourism to Reach US$1.9 billion by 2015

INDIA – Canadian and Indian Ministers Sign Pact on Agriculture Cooperation

INDIA – 6000 year-old Rice Species Discovered in Meghalaya

INDIA – Genetics to Help Conserve Rare Bird Species

JAPAN – Coating the Protein Enhances Disease-fighting Capability

JAPAN – Scientists Isolate Genes that Made 1918 Flu Lethal

JAPAN – Researchers in Japan Develop All-round Flu Vaccine

PHILIPPINES – Ebola Reston Virus Found in Filipino Farm Worker

SINGAPORE – New Method to Create iPS Cells

SINGAPORE – Ray of Hope for Liver Cancer Sufferers

SINGAPORE – Bacteria Improve Energy and Cost Efficiency in Water Treatment

TAIWAN – Secrets of “Speciation” Gene Unravelled

TAIWAN – Initial Breakthrough in Poultry Vaccine Development

TAIWAN – Taiwan Gains Direct Access to WHO

VIETNAM – Doctors Report First Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome

VIETNAM – Public Advised Serious Caution Against Bird Flu

NORTH AMERICA – Kids of Pregnant Drinking Mums will Like Booze

NORTH AMERICA – High Functional Diversity in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Driven By Genetic Drift And Human Demography

NORTH AMERICA – Newly Discovered Tuberculosis Protein May Help Explain Bacterium's Resilience

NORTH AMERICA – U.S. Patent For Diagnostic Technology Awarded To URMC, Lighthouse Biosciences

EUROPE – Structure Mediating Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Discovered

EUROPE – New EU Pesticide Regulations Could Undermine Battle against Malaria

EUROPE – iPill – The Smart Drug Delivery that can “Call” the Doctor

EUROPE – What Drives Locusts to Swarm

World's Smallest and Longest-Lasting Rechargeable Neurostimulator Gets Australia's Nod.

Chip-On-Chip and Gene Expression Used to Study How Yamanaka Factors Trigger Pluripotency.

New Antiviral Drug Discovery to Combat Influenza Virus.

DuPont Crop Protection Sees Research Synergies in Syngene's 'One Box' Model.

Ono Enters into Drug Discovery Agreement with Xention.

Eisai and Teikoku To Develop and Market Transdermal Patch for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

Global Collaboration on Novel Atrial Fibrillation Compound.

Boston Scientific's Taxus Liberte Drug-Eluting Stent Launched in Japan.

Symansis Wins NZ Emerging Company Award.

Illumina's Entry Puts Singapore on Map as a Global Gene Chip Player.

Neste Oil's Renewable Biofuel Plant in Singapore Ready in 2010.

Singapore and US Collaborate—Leveraging Forma's Tranformative Chemistry Platform.

AUSTRALIA – New Leukemia Discovery.

AUSTRALIA – Scientists Identify Proteins to Fight Malaria.

AUSTRALIA – Organ Donation Rates up in NSW.

AUSTRALIA – Chlamydia Rates have Hit an All-time High in Australia, with Reports of Infections Tripling Over the Past Decade.

CHINA – Chinese Scientists Caught Faking Research Papers.

CHINA – New Findings for Cancer Treatment.

CHINA – A/H1N1 Flu to Keep Spreading in China.

CHINA – Scientists Discover Avian Influenza Outbreak Closely Related to Bird Migration.

CHINA – Vitamin C Boosts the Reprogramming of Adult Cells into Stem Cells.

CHINA – Georgia State Partners with Institutions in China and Taiwan.

CHINA – China a Rising Star in Regenerative Medicine Despite World Skepticism of Stem Cell Therapies.

HONG KONG – Hong Kong Discovers Pigs with H1N1 Virus.

HONG KONG – Two more Norwegian-like Mutations of Human Swine Influenza Virus Detected.

INDIA – India, Sweden to Boost Bilateral Ties in Healthcare.

INDIA – Agri-Biotech Focus at Bangalore India Bio.

PHILIPPINES – Biologist Finds New Vaccine for Malaria in Philippines.

SINGAPORE – EADS and A*STAR's ICES to Collaborate on Biofuels.

SINGAPORE – Singapore, France Collaborate to Further Scientific R&D.

SINGAPORE – Rare Neurological Complications of Cancer Successfully Treated by NCCS.

SINGAPORE – NUS Scientists Isolate Gene that Makes Plants Flower Faster.

SINGAPORE – A*STAR, EDB Partner with Stanford University to Nurture Next-generation Asian Leaders in Medical Device Innovation.

TAIWAN – Local University Sets Up Asia's First Animal Cancer Center.

TAIWAN – Green Tea Might Protect Against Lung Cancer.

TAIWAN – Embryo Screening Breakthrough to Give Healthy Babies to Parents.

NORTH AMERICA – Scientists Develop New Stroke Therapy.

Phosphagenics Collaboration to Develop Psoriasis Drug.

Yabao Pharmaceuticals and Frontage Laboratories Sign Collaboration.

QIAGEN Establishes Subsidiary in India to Accelerate Expansion.

Bayer and Zydus Agree on New Pharma JV.

Codexis Signs First Japanese Biocatalysis Collaboration with Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma.

Nitto Denko Acquires Avecia Biotechnology.

Particle Sciences and HORIBA Instruments Form Strategic Relationship.

New NUS Spin-Off to Develop Novel Electrocardiogram.

INDIA – Zinc Treatment for Infections in Children.

JAPAN – Japan Pharma Portfolio Finds Renewed Strength through Record Growth in 2012.

JAPAN – Joint Development of a Novel Lyophilized Dual Chamber Prefillable Syringe System.

JAPAN – A Genetic Alternative to Fertilizer.

SINGAPORE – Made-in-Singapore H5N1 Bird Flu Diagnostic Kit - Detects All Known Strains of H5N1 Virus with a Single Test.

THAILAND – KEEEN, Thai Bioremediation Product, Awarded Gold Medal for "Bioremediation Agent developed to Greenovation Product".

EUROPE – MorphoSys Antibody Reaches Major Milestone in Collaboration with Roche.

EUROPE – New Technique to Predict Heart Attacks.

USA – FEI Launches 'Living Lab' for Structural Biology Research at NIH.

USA – Synthetic Platelets Built to Treat Bleeding.

USA – Software Scans Tongue for Signs of Disease.

USA – US Legislation Will Ensure Tighter Checks on Foreign Drug Factories.

INDIA – A novel form of gene regulation in bacteria.

INDIA – Algal biofuels are no energy panacea.

JAPAN – Medical Data Vision enhances the quality of medical care with Actian Vectorwise.

SINGAPORE – Singapore heart surgeon to receive honour from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

SINGAPORE – ELGA^® to deliver innovative water purification at new Singapore General Hospital expansion.

AUSTRALIA – Specialised Therapeutics Australia: New drug to fight hospital superbug infection.

AUSTRALIA – Group of genes hold the clue in migraine cases.

AUSTRALIA – CT scans can triple risk of brain cancer, leukemia.

BRAZIL – Science can do more for sustainable development.

MIDDLE EAST – Particles and persecution: why we should care about Iranian physicists.

EUROPE – Medicyte coordinates EU-funded collaboration on Biomimetic Bioartificial Liver.

EUROPE – Selvita and Orion Pharma achieve a research milestone in Alzheimer's Disease Program.

EUROPE – Zinforo (ceftaroline fosamil) receives positive CHMP opinion in the European Union for the treatment of patients with serious skin infections or community acquired pneumonia.

USA – Vein grown from girl's own stem cells transplanted.

USA – Hidden vitamin in milk yields remarkable health benefits - Weill Cornell researchers show tiny vitamin in milk, in high doses, makes mice leaner, faster and stronger.

USA – New report finds biotechnology companies are participating in 39% of all projects in development for new medicines and technologies for neglected diseases.

USA – TriReme Medical receives FDA clearance for expanded matrix of sizes of Chocolate PTA balloon catheter.

USA – New data show investigational compound dapagliflozin demonstrated significant reductions in blood sugar levels when added to sitagliptin in adults with type 2 diabetes at 24 weeks, with results maintained over 48 weeks.

USA – Zalicus successfully completes Phase 1 single ascending dose study with Z944, a novel, oral T-Type Calcium Channel Blocker.

USA – Study provides clues to clinical trial cost savings.

Yak genome provides new insights into high altitude adaptation.

Gentris and Shanghai Institutes of Preventative Medicine expand collaboration.

Chinese researchers identify rice gene enhancing quality, productivity.

Quintiles opens new Center of Excellence in Dalian to support innovative drug development.

BGI demonstrated genomic data transfer at nearly 10 gigabits per second between US and China.

Quintiles deepens investment in China - New Quintiles China Headquarters and local lab testing solution announced.

Beike earns AABB Accreditation for cord blood and cord tissue banking.

Epigenomic differences between newborns and centenarians provide insight to the understanding of aging.

German biotech innovator Altona Diagnostics launches BioNexus-certified regional hub in Malaysia: ADT Biotech Sdn Bhd.

FEI launches "Explore the Unseen" image contest in partnership with National Geographic.

BIO applauds Representative Kaptur's Energy Investment Act of 2012.

Cytori to utilize Sistemic's SistemQC™ to strengthen understanding of mechanisms & support design of Next-Generation Cell Therapies.

Bosch packaging technology and Sartorius Stedim Biotech introduce PreVAS.

CellCentric and ZoBio enter into partnership to develop lead compounds against epigenetic drug targets.

AUSTRALIA – Successful FDA end-of-Phase-2 for Hatchtech head lice product DeOVO^™

AUSTRALIA – Senz Oncology secures seed funding for promising cancer drug.

AUSTRALIA – Geneworks develops DNA barcodes for international security.

INDIA – Stress hormones: Good or Bad for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder risk?

SINGAPORE – New study shows fertility knowledge gaps may exacerbate Singapore's declining birth rate challenge.

SINGAPORE – World's first wearable robotic device for stroke rehabilitation comes to Singapore.

SRI LANKA – Conflicting reports highlight scientific data gaps in Sri Lanka's chronic kidney disease.

EUROPE – InDex Pharmaceuticals strengthens IP position for Kappaproct.

EUROPE – Novozymes and Terranol to market advanced biofuel yeast.

EUROPE – The world's first (official) biosimilar antibody goes to… Rheumatoid Arthritis.

USA – MRI reveals brain's response to reading.

USA – Novozymes partner Chemtex receives USDA commitment to build advanced biofuels plant in United States.

USA – Fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies on the rise.

INDIA – Bioven starts BV-NSCLC-001 Phase III trial in NSCLC.

INDIA – Initiative in Chemical Biology and Therapeutics.

PHILLIPPINES – Asia–Pacific Analysis: The slow road to green energy.

SINGAPORE – Takeda progressing well in Asia with New Drug Applications.

SINGAPORE – NTU and University of Warwick boost brainpower in global neuroscience research.

THAILAND – Thai PhD. student awarded Monsanto's Beachell–Borlaug International Scholarship for rice improvement research.

EUROPE – Open access will change the world, if scientists want it to.

UNITED STATES & CANADA – Verisante places Aura Beta Units for safety, verification testing in B.C., Alberta and Ontario clinics.

UNITED STATES & CANADA – Life Technologies sets new worldwide standard for criminal forensic testing with introduction of GlobalFilerTM Express Kit.

UNITED STATES & CANADA – How immune cells can nudge nerves to regrow.

UNITED STATES & CANADA – Improved Genomic Target Selection Using IDT Oligos.

UNITED STATES & CANADA – US team uncover non-invasive method for diagnosing epilepsy.

BG Medicine announces agreement with Kindstar Diagnostics which will provide Galectin-3 testing services in China.

MicuRx lands $9.6 Million to fund China trials of antibiotic.

AstraZeneca and Ironwood announce linaclotide collaboration for China.

BGI-Shenzhen extends tender offer for Complete Genomics, Inc.

China Cord Blood Corporation continues share repurchase program.

NCKU, Science Park join hands to boost academia-industry collaboration.

Pharmaron forms strategic partnership with AstraZeneca to accelerate drug discovery.

Regulatory mechanisms of an acid-activated type VI secretion system in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Seasonal plasticity of peripheral auditory sensitivity associated with vocal communication in frog.

Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes: Current Asian Perspectives.

A Crisis in the Development of Antibiotics.

The Marketing of Unapproved Stem Cell Products: An Industry-wide Challenge.

Draining the Goodwill of Science – The Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Industry in East Asia.

Biodiesel – From Lab to Industry.

The Appearance and Development of Commercial Laboratories in China.

Cord Blood Banking – To Go Public or Stay Private.

Open Source – The Future of Drug Discovery.

VACCINES – Where are we headed?

Leveraging on External Expertise.

NCKU researcher develops new use of reservoir sediment.

WILEX Inc. and GeneDiagnostics Inc. enter into partnership for the IVD approval and distribution of the serum HER-2/neu test.

Celsion Corporation and Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Company enter into technology development agreement for ThermoDox® for the Greater China Territory.

SFDA grants approval for clinical studies to benapenem.

UroFlex now CE-marked; Chinese SFDA approval for Cellvizio.

China National Genebank and Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History collaborate on biobanking to advance biodiversity research.

New analytical method for uleine alkaloids having anticancer activity.

Zhifei Biological's vaccine approved for clinical test.

EntreMed files new drug clinical trial application for ENMD-2076 with China SFDA to advance global development strategy.

The Biotechnology Incubation Center of Academia Sinica: A Gateway to Innovative Taiwan.

Cancer Targeting Nanomedicine: An Opportunity for Drug Development in Asia with Emphasis on Taiwan.

Recombinant Lipoproteins for the Development of Novel Subunit Vaccines.

Discovery of Therapeutic Human Monoclonal Antibodies through B-cell Immortalization Technology.

When the West meets the East.

AUSTRALIA – HIV trial validates novel drug mechanism.

SINGAPORE – IBN engineered artificial human livers for drug testing and discovery.

SINGAPORE – Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore catch evolving germs and cancer cells early.

SINGAPORE – DocDoc and Chatter Buzz Media enter strategic partnership to launch Asia's first healthcare Content Marketing Network.

UNITED STATES – New method developed to expand blood stem cells for bone marrow transplant.

UNITED STATES – Fibrocell/UCLA study on human skin cells yields promising results.

UNITED STATES – Metal stents are effective treatment for blocked bile ducts.

UNITED STATES – Pain drug may prevent preemie lung damage.

UNITED STATES – Gene x3 helps corn grow in acidic soil.

UNITED STATES – Cancer Genetics selected by Gilead Sciences, Inc. to provide clinical trial services for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

UNITED KINGDOM – DaTSCAN™ SPECT imaging demonstrates impact on the diagnosis of patients with clinically uncertain dementia.

AFRICA – Failing vaccine strategies need to be revamped.

AFRICA – RegeneCure's membrane implant shows 40% accelerated healing time of severe bone fractures.

Quality Issues in Pharmaceuticals: An overview into root cause investigation.

Generic Drug Product Development Using QbD Approaches.

Biosimilars: where we stand today?

INDIA – Rice diplomacy in South Asia.

INDIA – Indian court's Novartis ruling keeps door to cheap drugs open.

INDONESIA – A blueprint for changing diabetes in Indonesia.

SINGAPORE – Understanding abnormal proteins in degenerative diseases.

SINGAPORE – Singapore scientist wins coveted Chen New Investigator Award 2013.

SINGAPORE – Singapore single-cell research center opens door for Asian biological discoveries.

THE PHILIPPINES – Wild parent spawns super salt-tolerant rice.

AUSTRALIA – Women: Hormone therapy won't harm your head.

AUSTRALIA – QLD government's removal of "green tape" will achieve results for all.

AUSTRALIA – Chinese herbs help cut diabetes symptoms.

AUSTRALIA – iSonea launches new Asthmasense™ cloud technology.

EUROPE – Bone Therapeutics and Erasme University Hospital start Phase IIa trial in osteoporosis.

NORTH AMERICA – Medicago and IDRI reports positive results for its Phase I clinical trial for an H5N1 vaccine.

NORTH AMERICA – Civitas Therapeutics announces positive Phase II clinical results an inhaled L-dopa for Parkinson's disease.

NORTH AMERICA – Impel NeuroPharma completes industry's first nose-to-brain human imaging study.

NORTH AMERICA – A new treatment option for alcohol dependence: Reduced consumption rather than abstinence.

NORTH AMERICA – Targacept completes recruitment in Phase IIb schizophrenia trial.

UNITED KINGDOM – ID deadly pathogens without growing bacteria.