Scientists work toward a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for Lyme disease

18-Oct-2019 - A study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology describes a new rapid assay for Lyme disease that could lead to a practical test for use by healthcare providers. The researchers found the assay, which uses several biomarkers to detect Lyme disease infection, was more sensitive than ...

Lack of sleep may be linked to risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

17-Apr-2018 - Losing just one night of sleep led to an immediate increase in beta-amyloid, a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a small, new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. In Alzheimer's disease, beta-amyloid proteins clump together to form ...

Scientists adopt new strategy to find Huntington's disease therapies

Large, international NIH-supported study uses precision medicine to tackle neurological disorders

11-Aug-2015 - Scientists searched the chromosomes of more than 4,000 Huntington's disease patients and found that DNA repair genes may determine when the neurological symptoms begin. The results may provide a guide for discovering new treatments for Huntington's disease and a roadmap for studying other ...

Polyplus-transfection and the National Institute of Health sign a research license agreement

19-Feb-2014 - Polyplus-transfection SA announces that it has granted two agencies of the United States National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) a non-exclusive, research license to use Polyethylenimine (PEI) for in vitro transfection applications. The two agencies are the National Institute of Allergy and ...

Researchers eyeing new way to measure elusive zinc

29-Jan-2010 - A team of Florida State University researchers will use a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a way to measure levels of the trace metal zinc in the human body. Scientists have long known that zinc plays a critical role in numerous biochemical ...

$1.6 million grant to lead development of resistance-detecting field kit

13-May-2009 - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded a £1.1m grant by the US National Institutes of Health to lead a five year project to develop a Field Applicable Screening Tool (FAST) kit to detect resistance to public health insecticides in mosquitoes. The two principal methods for ...

Existing Anti-Obesity Drugs May Be Effective Against Flu, Hepatitis and HIV

06-Oct-2008 - Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and inhibit viral infection, according to a study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Metabolism refers to all the reactions by which living ...

Affymetrix Selected to Genotype More Than 9,000 Framingham Heart Study Samples

SHARE Project to Help Identify Genetic Variants Associated With Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders

07-Sep-2006 - Affymetrix Inc. announced that it has been selected by the SHARE (SNP Health Association REsource) project for a large-scale whole-genome association study. As part of the project, Affymetrix will collaborate with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Center for ...

Celera Genomics Receives NIH Grant to Develop and Commercialize Avian Flu Diagnostic Test

24-Aug-2006 - Celera Genomics, an Applera Corporation business, announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Celera approximately $900,000 to develop and commercialize an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) test for the highly pathogenic influenza A/H5 virus (Asian lineage, H5N1). The test Celera ...

Corgenix to develop diagnostic tests for bioterrorism agents under multi-million dollar NIH contract

Company expands presence into BioDefense

14-Nov-2005 - Corgenix Medical Corporation, in partnership with Tulane University, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) and two corporate partners, will develop and manufacture improved diagnostic tests for viral hemorrhagic fevers under a $3.8 million grant awarded by the ...