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Genzyme and Alnylam Expand Collaboration on Rare Genetic Diseases
2014-01-13 12:01:01| Biotech - Topix.net
Genzyme, a Sanofi company , and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they have significantly expanded their strategic agreement to develop and commercialize treatments for rare genetic diseases.
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Genetics are best resistance to soilborne soybean diseases
2014-01-05 03:42:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Host resistance trumps other tools The only way to eliminate yield-robbing pathogens like Phytophthora and white mold from the soil is a 15-year soybean rotation, but its obviously not practical. Fortunately, recent soybean-genome sequencing has accelerated finding resistance within the plant itself. read more
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America's hidden epidemic of tropical diseases
2013-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: WHEN the letter arrives, it must come as a shock. Would-be blood donors are politely rejected because they've tested positive for a deadly tropical infection and their doctors aren't much help. Kristy Murray at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, recalls one doctor telling a patient: "The test is wrong. That disease doesn't exist in the US!" But an estimated 330,000 US citizens, and possibly as many as a million, carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease. It is a chronic, silent...
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Stop seedling diseases
2013-12-20 21:28:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Soybeans are a magnet for seedling diseases and seed rot. That makes seedling disease management a top-priority issue for many producers, especially when planting conditions are cool and soybean prices are hot. read more
These Infectious Diseases Are a Concern for the U.S
2013-12-18 03:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News and World Report: Several infectious diseases, including whooping cough, have reemerged in the U.S. recently. The U.S. may be one of the most powerful countries in the world, but when it comes to protecting their health, Americans may be more vulnerable than one might think. "There's a whole host of diseases that we all just assume is a part of our past and they're actually reemerging as very much part of our present," says Dr. Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Trust for America's...
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