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Yale Team Identifies Key To Potential New Treatment For Allergy-Induced Asthma
In research that could lead to new asthma drugs, scientists at Yale School of Medicine, Hydra Biosciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that a protein may be a trigger of allergy-induced asthma in mice. They also demonstrated how a drug known to reduce inflammatory and neuropathic pain may also inhibit asthma symptoms in mice. Their paper is published in the May 18-22 online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Midget Plant Helps Researchers Learn How To Design New Crops
A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and new medicines. The genes, proteins, and other traits of this fast-growing, tiny mustard plant reside in a vast database dubbed the Arabidopsis Information Re (TAIR), which has over 1.6 million page hits each month. The TAIR group, headed by Dr. Eva Huala at Carnegie"s Department of Plant Biology, just released a new version of the genome sequence of this model plant, which includes an array of improvements and novel features that promise to accelerate this critical research.
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Medivation Selects ProTrials To Conduct International Phase III Clinical Trials
ProTrials Research, Inc.TM, a leader in the clinical research organization industry, announced Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) has chosen the company to conduct separate international Phase III clinical trials for two novel treatments. ProTrials will test MDV3100 for treating prostate cancer and the investigational drug Dimebon TM as a treatment for Huntington"s disease. Due to the complex nature of these Phase III trials, Medivation again selected ProTrials as its contract research organization partner because of ProTrials" successful past performance with the company"s Phase I, II and III trials.
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Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center To Host Showing Of 'The Alzheimer's Project'

The Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center will host a screening of HBO"s "The Alzheimer Project" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in the lower level auditorium of the Riley Outpatient Center, 601 West Drive, on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Following the screening, IADC faculty members from the Indiana University School of Medicine will be available to answer questions about Alzheimer disease, current diagnosis, treatment and promising areas of research. The Alzheimer"s Project is a presentation of HBO Documentary Films and the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health in association with the Alzheimer"s Association, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, and Geoffrey Beene Gives Back Alzheimer"s Initiative. The series" producer is John Hoffman; the executive producers are Sheila Nevins and Maria Shriver. Indiana University School of Medicine


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