http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/protein Blog Articles Tagged with 'protein' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bio-boom/1148754?rsstype=tag&tag=protein A new insight into the reason for aging has been gained by scientists trying to understand how resveratrol, a minor ingredient of red wine, improves the health and lifespan of laboratory mice. They believe that the integrity of chromosomes is comprom... Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:51:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bio-boom/1148754?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146348?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Should millions more people be taking Crestor? That s a real balancing act. You have a decrease in heart attacks, but from a fairly small incidence rate. So at a minimum, you ll need to balance the costs of those coronary events versus the cost o... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:25:15 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146348?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146241?rsstype=tag&tag=protein I wrote a while back about the problem of compounds sticking to labware. That sort of thing happens more often than you d think, and it can really hose up your assay data in ways that will send you running around in circles. Now there s a report ... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:24:09 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146241?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1145478?rsstype=tag&tag=protein AstraZeneca (AZN) took a pretty big risk in running a trial as big as the JUPITER one, but it seems to have paid off for them. As everyone has been reading, it appears that their Crestor (rosuvastatin) lowers the risk of cardiovascular events in pati... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:41:51 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1145478?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/seeking-alpha-biotech-stocks/1145582?rsstype=tag&tag=protein AstraZeneca (AZN) took a pretty big risk in running a trial as big as the JUPITER one, but it seems to have paid off for them. As everyone has been reading, it appears that their Crestor (rosuvastatin) lowers the risk of cardiovascular events in pati... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:41:51 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/seeking-alpha-biotech-stocks/1145582?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146242?rsstype=tag&tag=protein AstraZeneca took a pretty big risk in running a trial as big as the JUPITER one, but it seems to have paid off for them. As everyone has been reading, it appears that their Crestor (rosuvastatin), lowers the risk of cardiovascular events in patients ... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:12:09 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1146242?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/seeking-alpha-biotech-stocks/1144261?rsstype=tag&tag=protein I almost bought Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) today on the pullback to support (20 day moving average) to fill my 2 stock government as customers portfolio - but with earnings tonight I wanted to hold off. And what an earnings they are - EBS should b... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:19:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/seeking-alpha-biotech-stocks/1144261?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1144284?rsstype=tag&tag=protein I almost bought Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) today on the pullback to support (20 day moving average) to fill my 2 stock government as customers portfolio - but with earnings tonight I wanted to hold off. And what an earnings they are - EBS should b... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:19:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1144284?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1140018?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Monday was a brutal day for meat producers. While the Dow fell about 2%, Tyson (TSN) was hit eight times as bad, losing more than 17% on no news, while Smithfield Foods (SFD) stumbled 13%. Conventional wisdom dictates food processors normally shou... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:24:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1140018?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1136924?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Sebastian KaulitzkiScientists have identified a receptor molecule present in the intestinal wall called Gpr4, that, when activated by wastes of gut bacteria, controls the movement of food through the intestine, thus reg... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:36:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1136924?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1137395?rsstype=tag&tag=protein It s worth examining your own scientific prejudices and biases from time to time, to see if they re still valid. Of course, that begins with the difficult task of figuring out what they are it s hard to think of these things when you need t... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:27:12 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1137395?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1133657?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nancy NehringResearchers have found in a pilot study that Chlorella crude extract (CCE) may help in the treatment of short bowel syndrome, a condition characterized by diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, malab... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:24:54 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1133657?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1133414?rsstype=tag&tag=protein I ve spoken before about the acetylene-azide click reaction popularized by Barry Sharpless and his co-workers out at Scripps. This has been taken up by the chemical biology field in a big way, and all sorts of ingenious applications are start... Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1133414?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1132629?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nancy Ross80-year-old Osamu Shimomura of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lab had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Y. Tsien of the University of California, San D... Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1132629?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1132557?rsstype=tag&tag=protein So it was green fluorescent protein after all! We can argue about whether this was a pure chemistry prize or another quasi-biology one, but either way, the award is a strong one. So, what is the stuff and what s it do?Osamu Shimomura discovered the... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:40:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1132557?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1132558?rsstype=tag&tag=protein So we come upon Nobel season again. As I do every year, I'm going to throw the comments section open for nominations for who should (and who shouldn't!) get the prize in Chemistry this year. We may well have a trapdoor open on us again, since some ye... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:29:54 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1132558?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1130520?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Bradley MasonResearchers have identified five protein biomarkers for oral squamous cell carcinoma, a form of oral cancer,found in the saliva. Researchers collected saliva samples from 64 patients with oral squamous cell... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:58:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/biotech-weblog/1130520?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1128269?rsstype=tag&tag=protein The entire protein segment is getting crushed in sympathy with Pilgrim's Pride's (PPC) liquidity woes. Last Friday, Smithfield Foods (SFD) was subject to persistent rumors that it too, was close to suffering a similar fate. ... Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:32:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1128269?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1127255?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Want a hard problem? Something to really keep you challenged? Try protein folding. That'll eat up all those spare computational cycles you have lounging around and come back to ask for more. And it'll do the same for your brain cells, too, for that m... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:18:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1127255?rsstype=tag&tag=protein http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1126214?rsstype=tag&tag=protein Over the years, when some puzzling feature of a drug candidate s binding to a target came up, I ve often said Well, we re not going to know what s happening until some lunatic builds a femtosecond X-ray laser . Various lunatics are now p... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:10:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/1126214?rsstype=tag&tag=protein