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		<title>See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/26/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from George Washington University have published in Animal Cognition that monkeys make character judgments based on reputation. In the past research has suggested that primates use eavesdropping and third-party interactions to help judge character, now Dr. Francy&#8217;s Subiaul believes that his work provides further evidence that a primate system exist similar to human social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquito Repellent Haywires Neurons</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/14/mosquito-repellent-haywires-mosquitos-neurons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Rockefeller University have published in Science the first chemical mechanism on how DEET, mosquito repellent, works on mosquito&#8217;s preventing them from biting humans. According to the paper DEET inhibits signals from the olfactory co-receptor  OR83b. This receptor responds to 1-octen-3-ol, a chemical secreted by humans. When DEET is sprayed on human skin it competitively binds to OR83b [...]]]></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>Building Small Molecules using a DNA Program</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/10/building-small-molecules-using-a-dna-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main function of DNA is to encode the building blocks of proteins, and molecular biologists have become quite adept at cutting and pasting stretches of DNA to make nearly any protein they can envision. Unfortunately, small molecules, which are some of the most effective drugs, cannot usually be built so readily. Rather, synthetic organic chemists must [...]]]></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>mircoRNAs Help Develop Skin</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/03/mircornas-help-develop-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MicroRNA&#8217;s are short single stranded ribose nucleic acids which regulate gene expression. They have been found in heart and muscle tissue, and some exclusively in the brain. The term was first introduced in 2001 in Science. Researchers at Rockefeller University have discovered that microRNA&#8217;s also help create our skin to protect us from bacteria and possible prevent skin cancer.
The lead authors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacteria Battle Royale</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/28/bacteria-battle-royale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you pit two bacteria in a death ring match? Researchers at MIT did this for their amusement, which they claim was research, and found out the winner uses a unique weapon to dominate its opponent.
Professor Anthony Sinskey&#8217;s laboratory at MIT was doing a weekly bacteria battle royale fight when they noticed that the soil-dwelling bacteria, Rhodococcus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genentech Announces Accelerated Approval of Avastin</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/25/genentech-announces-accelerated-approval-of-avastin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genentech announced on Friday that the FDA has granted accelerated approval for Avastin, a VEGF inhibitor that has been previously discussed here, for treatment of metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. The approval is based on a phase III study done by Genentech which showed a 52% reduction in death or disease progression compared to the current medical treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullfrogs, The New Anti-Aging Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/25/bullfrogs-the-new-anti-aging-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Pukyong National University have claimed that they have isolated a new antioxidant from the skin of bullfrogs.
The research team, lead by Kim Se-kwon, claims that the isolated chemical can reduce the effects of oxidation of skin cells by 73 percent. Currently, most skin products contain tocopherol, a powerful antioxidant. Dr. Kim claims that the new material discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Blood Vessel Formation Pathway, Companies Ask Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/02/21/new-blood-vessel-formation-pathway-companies-ask-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have published in Nature today results that identify a new pathway for Angiogenesis, new blood vessel growth.
Previously Angiogensis was believed to only occur due to oxygen deprivation which activates Hypoxia Inducible Factors, ultimately stimulating production of vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF. However the newly discovered pathway is regulated by estrogen-related receptor-alpha and is completely independent of [...]]]></description>
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