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• Emergent Technologies Fund IV Raises $27 Million, Focuses Unique Commercialization Model On Biotechnology Within The University Of Texas System Campuses

  - 2007-05-07

  AUSTIN, Texas -- Emergent Technologies, Inc. ETI announced today the final closing of Emergent Technologies Fund IV, L.P. Fund IV, a fund intending to commercialize technologies derived within the University of Texas System institutions. ETI plans to utilize the $27 million fund to commercialize up to 30 different technology applications.

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• University of Texas obtains United States patent.(cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 protein)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-01

  University of Texas (Austin, TX) has patented a new polypeptide and the gene encoding therefore, said gene being regulated in cardiac tissue by the transcription factor MEF2C. This polypeptide, CHAMP (cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 protein), bears striking resemblance to a number of other helicase proteins...

  Tags: Biotechnology, patent, protein, University of Texas

• LifeCell Corporation

  - 2006-01-01

  LifeCell Corporation 1 Millennium Way Branchburg, New Jersey 08876 U.S.A. Telephone: (908) 947-1100 Toll Free: (800) 367-5737 Fax: (908) 947-1200 Web site: http://www.lifecell.com Public Company Incorporated: 1986 Employees: 196 Sales: $61.1 million (2004) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ Ticker Symbol: LIFC ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, FINANCE, financial, Houston, Investment, University of Texas

• Dharmacon and 10 Leading Research Institutes Establish Global Initiative to Advance Research Using the World's First Human-Genome-Wide siRNA Library.

  - 2005-10-06

  LAFAYETTE, Colorado, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- - Founding Members Include Leading Biomedical Research Institutes in Six Countries Dharmacon, Inc., the world's leading supplier of innovative RNA and RNA interference RNAi research products, today announced the formation of the Genome-Wide RNAi Global...

  Tags: biomedical, Biotechnology, Dr., gene, HEALTHCARE, Hospital, professor, researcher, RNA, scientist, University of Texas

• Harnessing the strength of a natural process that repairs damage to the human genome, doctors at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have helped establish a method of therapy that can correct mutations in the IL-2R gene that is as

  - 2005-06-01

  Harnessing the strength of a natural process that repairs damage to the human genome, doctors at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have helped establish a method of therapy that can correct mutations in the IL-2R gene that is associated with the immunodeficiency disease SCID. Children with SCID...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Dallas, genome, therapy, University of Texas

• Texas Research Park might sell 200 acres to fund venture capital.

  - 2004-08-21

  By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 21--The Texas Research Park Foundation is considering selling 200 acres and using the proceeds to set up an early-stage venture capital fund of up to $10 million and create an incubator...

  Tags: acre, Biotechnology, board, FINANCE, Investment, University of Texas

• Biotech Boosters Expect Research Center at University of Texas to Be Announced.

  - 2004-05-11

  By Purva Patel, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Purva Patel, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• Solutions: Gene Expression Challenges.

  - 2004-04-01

  Staff On November 19, 2003, Genomics & Proteomics hosted a live interactive panel discussion broadcast over the Internet concerning quantitative polymerase chain reaction qPCR and the typical gene expression difficulties faced by researchers. Senior editor Vivien Marx was the moderator; the...

  Tags: Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., Biotechnology, director, RNA, University of Texas, variability

• Flu next bioterrorism threat.

  - 2003-07-29

  Jul 29, 2003 (Pharmacy News - ABIX via COMTEX) US scientists have warned that influenza could be used as a weapon of bioterrorism. A team of scientists, at the University of Texas, are working on sequencing the genome of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. The...

  Tags: Biotechnology, bioterrorism, outbreak, scientist, University of Texas

• In memoriam

  - 2003-07-01

  In reviewing the Issues archives to find articles to revisit in this anniversary edition, we came across several authors whose insights we would dearly like to read again but who have died.David E. Rogers was a member of the Issues editorial advisory board and wrote articles about reforming medical education...

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