Silent running: The race to the clinic

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The US biotechnology companies are planning to invest in a method for silencing genes in the clinic, which claims to treat everything from viral diseases to cancer. The technique, known as RNA interference or RNAi, might offer a safe and effective way of turning off a gene and two well-funded companies, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sirna Therapeutics of Boulder, Colorado, are forging corporate alliances to bid to capitalize on RNAi's potential.

United States, Financial management, Science & research, Research, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Company investment, Investments, RNA interference

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Vaccine claim lifts company's stock but angers researchers

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A press claim that the small pox vaccine could increase immunity to HIV has boosted share prices of the vaccine's manufacturers, but raised anger among the researchers at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Researchers are annoyed because such unconventional method of announcement without substantial data has potential implications on future of smallpox-vaccination programmes.

Virginia, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, Influence, Demonstrations and protests, Biological products industry, Market trend/market analysis, Smallpox vaccine, Smallpox vaccines

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Left behind

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Two researchers, Ruth Berggren and Tyler Curiel, who survived the worst of Hurricane Katrina, share their experience of caring for sick patients in a flooded hospital in New Orleans. Both husband and wife were waiting for rescue for days and were hoping to save the patients of Charity Hospital's Ward 9 West.

Louisiana, Environmental aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Disaster victims, Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Berggren, Ruth, Curiel, Tyler

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