KALAMAZOO - NephRx Corporation Tuesday announced it was issued a U.S. patent for its peptide NX002 currently in preclinical development for the treatment of oral mucositis - a debilitating and often dose-limiting condition that affects more than 400,000 cancer patients who receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy in the United States each year. Current treatment options
DETROIT - The Detroit Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute is the first healthcare provider in Michigan to offer a new breakthrough technology designed to correct atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) in patients who struggle with this potentially life-threatening heart disorder. The new FDA-approved, state-of-the-art technology ? known formally as the "Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system" ?
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan chapter of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America will present its Take Steps Grand Rapids Walk fundraiser on May 7 at Grand Valley State University's Allendale campus. The event begins at 5 p.m. with registration/check-in, the walk starts at 6 p.m.. Take Steps Grand Rapids will feature a Kid?s Corral,
GRAND RAPIDS - In a recently-published study mapping the structure and function of the so-called orphan nuclear receptor TR4, Van Andel Research Institute investigators suggest that Vitamin A may play a more direct role than was previously known in certain physiological functions including sperm cell formation and the development of the central nervous system. Scientists
ANN ARBOR - Jeff DeGraff, the "Dean of Innovation," will keynote the MichBio Annual Meeting & Showcase April 18 when he talks about how he helped spur Domino's meteoric growth during the 1980s from a regional success story to an international franchise phenomenon. The MichBio Annual Meeting is scheduled for April 18 at the Inn
KALAMAZOO - For decades, researchers and scientists could either grow cell cultures in a Petri dish or use animal subjects to generate relevant data. In vitro - or Petri dish grown cells - don't develop the same as tissue in the human body. Tissue grown in animal subjects, called in vivo, has added costs and
PLYMOUTH - Nalini Motwani's professional career has certainly taken her on unexpected journeys. She graduated from the University of Bombay with a degree in microbiology at age 19, earned her doctorate at Wayne State University and received a National Institutes of Health fellowship to do postdoctoral research at Oakland University. She has also been a
DETROIT - A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician-researcher has developed a personalized therapy to treat a wide range of cancers based on a naturally occurring human enzyme that has been genetically modified to fool cancer cells into killing themselves. The unique concept, patented by Wayne State University, was successfully demonstrated on melanoma cells
ALLEGAN - Perrigo Tuesday announced that the Detroit office of the Food and Drug Administration has arrived to reinspect its facilities for equipment failures last spring that included inadequate handling of metal shavings in a batch of bottles to be filled with Ibuprofen tablets. In the case of the metal shavings, Perrigo caught the problem
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Biosciences Legislative Caucus kicks off 2011 with new leadership and scheduled quarterly meetings, MichBio, the state life sciences trade association reported. The body will be led by Sens. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor, a founding co-chair) and Tonya Schuitmaker (R-Kalamazoo), and Reps. Gail Haines (R-Waterford) and Roy Schmidt (Grand Rapids) in