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		<title>Only Two Percent of Children Drug Trials Have Independent Saftey Checks</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/18/only-two-percent-of-children-drug-trials-have-independent-saftey-checks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review published in Acta Paediatrica has found that from 1996 to 2002 only 2 percent of 739 children drug trials had independent safety monitoring. Independent safety monitoring gives an unbiased review of the drugs side affects and can determine if a drug trial should be stopped due to unwanted and harmful results. This is particularly important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crabby Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported yesterday in LiveScience, Mark Briffa, a behavioral ecologist published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that hermit crabs have different personalities. In the past he has examined how they behave in combat and the value they place on a shell. 
Dr. Briffa&#8217;s method for determining a crab&#8217;s personality was to flip crabs upside down and measure how long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem Cells Used to Create Kidneys and Pancreas in Mice</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/12/stem-cells-used-to-create-kidneys-and-pancreas-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from the University of Tokyo have announced they have successfully grown kidneys and pancreas in mice missing the ability to grow their own said organs. According to Japan Today, the researchers injected embryonic stem cells from healthy mice into eggs of genetically engineered mice that do not grow kidneys and pancreases three days after fertilization and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hormones from the Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/11/hormones-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us think of the heart as a highly sophisticated and durable pump. But another function of the heart is to secrete peptide hormones, which are small proteins that function as hormones. Multiple hormones are encoded by the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) gene that help to regulate blood pressure and volume. At the Experimental Biology 2008 conference in San Diego [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HemCon Medical Technologies Uses Shrimp to Save Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/10/hemcon-medical-technologies-uses-shrimp-to-save-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago if you had a car wreck and suffered deep lacerations the standard treatment would have been a tourniquet to prevent bleed out. While waiting to reach a hospital, the result of this treatment could have been loss of a limb or death. Now, it is the year 2008, and treatment procedures have slowly been changing to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menssana Research Takes Your Breath Away</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/07/menssana-research-takes-your-breath-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I told you in the future you will be able breath into a device and know if you have cancer, would you believe me or would you ask me what new science fiction book I was talking about? Menssana Research would tell you that the future is now. They have developed and tested a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sangamo Designing Proteins that Target DNA</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/06/sangamo-designing-proteins-that-target-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the drugs we use to fight cancer or ward off pain aim to inhibit the activity of proteins that the body naturally produces. Instead of inhibiting the activity of a protein, what if you could just instruct your body to stop making it altogether? Or instead of getting injected with a lab-produced protein that your body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDL BioPharma Couldn&#8217;t Sell Company, Announces Downsizing</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/06/pdl-biopharma-couldnt-sell-company-announces-downsizing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/06/pdl-biopharma-couldnt-sell-company-announces-downsizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported on Biospace.com, PDL BioPharma announced that due to the inability to sell the company or a portion of the company&#8217;s biotechnology and discovery assets they will instead remain independent and downsize, cutting 260 jobs. PDL BioPharma owns proprietary antibody humanization technology that has been licensed to numerous companies, including Biogen Idec, Inc. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncovering Apoptosis, Programmed Cell Death.</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/01/uncovering-apoptosis-programmed-cell-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigators at Saint Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital have announced new research which has advanced the understanding of how cells undergo Apoptosis. Apoptosis is intentional programmed cell death and is believed to be one of the main reasons for the existence of cancer which hijacks apoptosis and prevents it from occurring. A report on this work can be found in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution an Aphrodisiac&#8230;for Songbirds?</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/29/pollution-an-aphrodisiacfor-songbirds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/29/pollution-an-aphrodisiacfor-songbirds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of scientists from Cardiff University, University of London, and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology have reported in PLoS ONE, for the first time, that when birds eat small invertebrates contaminated with environmental pollutants, significant changes occur in both the bird&#8217;s behavior and their brain. Surprisingly, male European starlings that have been exposed to higher levels of natural and synthetic estrogen, [...]]]></description>
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