Dana Farber

Type: Person

Name: Dana Farber

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

La Jolla, CA-based Fate Therapeutics has rounded up $30 million in a Series B to help advance its work on a pipeline of stem cell modulators. OVP Venture Partners led the round, joined with a syndicate that includes Astellas Venture Management, Genzyme ... [FierceBiotech - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Fate Therapeutics, Stem Cell, Arch Venture Partners, Dana Farber

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 8 Documents (in Biology)

Breast cancer: poor nations hit

Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned. 'We used to think breast cancer was a problem of only wealthy ... [Health24 - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Nationalism, Developing World, Lawrence Shulman

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)

Breast cancer project targets world's poor

Washington -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" -- ... [Detroit News - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Lawrence Shulman, Mexico, Harvard University

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)

The Forest and the Trees: Pathways and Proteins As Colorectal Cancer Biomarkers [Editorials]

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10.1200/JCO.2009.24.8013This ArticleGoogle ScholarSocial BookmarkingMonica M. BertagnolliBrigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MACiteULikeComplore Connotea Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Reddit ... [Journal of Clinical Oncology - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Proteins, Colorectal Cancer, Dana Farber, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Google Scholar

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents

Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker to Call for Focusing on the Practical and the Possible in Global Breast Cancer Fight

Susan G. Komen for the Cure$ Founder to Provide Morning Keynote to Global Conference of Researchers, Advocates and Policy Makers at Harvard BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a morning address to a global breast cancer conference meeting this week at Harvard ... [Business Wire UK - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Susan G Komen, Eric Winer, Dana Farber

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents

InteRNA Inks Sponsored-Research Deal with Dana Farber for miRNA Cancer Rx Discovery

Dutch microRNA drug developer InteRNA Technologies this week announced that it has formed a sponsored-research agreement with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to develop cancer therapeutics targeting the small, non-coding RNAs.Under the deal, InteRNA’s ... [GenomeWeb - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Dana Farber, RNAi, Roel Schaapveld, Radboud University Nijmegen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 1 Documents

New findings from S.N. Weingart and co-researchers in the area of internal medicine described

- (NewsRx.com) According to recent research from the United States, 'While electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems with drug interaction and allergy alerts promise to improve medication safety in ambulatory care, clinicians often override these ... [Pharmacy Choice - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Internal Medicine, Dana Farber, Patient Safety

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents

Speaking of Talks - Next NERD Club is 11/19/09 [Transcription and Translation]

When I was a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, I was a founding member of the New England RNA Data Club. We organized a monthly meeting, where RNA researchers from around the New England Area would get together and present data. Over three years, we ... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Harvard Medical School, RNA, Harvard University, Craig Mello

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

CRi Launches Advanced Tissue Image Analysis Software

Automated Image Processing Breakthrough Offers Speed and Ease-of-Use WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--. (CRi), a leader in biomedical imaging, today announced the launch of inForm", advanced image analysis software based on the companys proprietary Machine ... [Business Wire - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Biologist, Protein, Dana Farber, Machine Learning, Image Processing

First Reported 07/30/2009 - Updated 07/30/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)

Blog - Researchers Make Energy-Burning Fat

Reers have developed a recipe for making , an energy-burning type of fat found mostly in infants and hibernating animals, and discovered that when injected into mice, it caused the cells to develop into tissue that burned excess energy. However, it's ... [Technology Review - 07/30/2009]

Entities: Dana Farber, Protein, tomography, Engine, Calorie

First Reported 10/16/2009 - Updated 10/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)

BU School of Medicine shares in $11M lung research grant

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded Boston University School of Medicine and four other institutions an $11 million, two-year grant, part of the federal stimulus program for the National Institutes of Health. This grant will allow ... [Mass High Tech - 10/16/2009]

Entities: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, fibrosis, Lung

First Reported 10/18/2009 - Updated 10/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)

Boston University shares in $11M lung research grant

Entities: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Boston Univ, fibrosis, Lung

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Breast cancer: poor nations hit [Health24 - 11/03/2009]
Poor Countries See Troubling Rise in Breast Cancer [ABC News - 11/03/2009]
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Cambridge Research & Instrumentation launch... [News-Medical.Net - 11/03/2009]
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Stigma part of breast cancer's grip on poor [New Zealand Herald - 11/02/2009]
Canadian leads global breast cancer task force [Canada.com - 11/02/2009]

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