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Inovio Pharmaceuticals Showcases its Broad Pipeline of DNA-based Immunotherapies, Vaccines and dMAbs at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
(Source. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc). Worldwide Scientific Forum Selects Inovio's Ebola Vaccine Challenge Results for its Presidential Symposium. PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., May 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc ... Inovio's Ebola results will be offered on Friday, May 6, at 2.50 p.m ... Dr. J ... May 5 ... 440 - Extreme Polyvalency Induces Potent Cross-Clade Cellular and Humoral Responses in Rabbits and Non-Human Primates ... May 6....

GeoVax Reports 2016 First Quarter Financial Results (GeoVax Labs Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
(Source. GeoVax Labs Inc). GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB. GOVX), a biotechnology company developing human vaccines, today announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Financial Review ... Management Commentary ... Dr ... The NIH and HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) also continue planning for the next clinical trial for our Clade B HIV vaccine for the Americas and Western Europe, which we expect will begin later this year.'....

Becoming Acculturated

Edit The Scientist 01 May 2016
If you take a sample of seawater and plate it on a typical petri dish, colonies of bacteria will flourish. Each of those colonies springs from a single cell; counting those colonies provides an estimate of the number and variety of organisms in the water sample. But count the cells in that same sample directly, and you’ll find you’ve only scratched the surface ... MICROBE ... bacteria of the SAR11 clade (Nature, 418.630-33, 2002)....

Bearded dragons show REM and slow wave sleep (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
(Source. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV). Brain sleep appeared early in vertebrate evolution. April 28, 2016. Behavioral sleep is ubiquitous among animals, from insects to man. In humans, sleep is also characterized by brain activity ... © MPI f. Brain Research/ S ... Birds, reptiles and mammals are all amniotes, a clade of tetrapod vertebrates, whose eggs could survive outside water, hence enabling land colonization....

Existence of ancient Himalayan wolf in Nepal confirmed

Edit The Times of India 26 Apr 2016
KATHMANDU. Scientists have confirmed the presence of the critically endangered Himalayan wolf — the most ancient wolf lineage known — in Nepal's largest protected area ... Researchers note that recent studies have already showed that these wolves have split as a separate branch within the "tree of life" so long ago that they are divergent from the whole globally distributed wolf-dog clade ... ....

Ancient Himalayan wolf still present in Nepal, confirm scientists

Edit The Times of India 26 Apr 2016
KATHMANDU. Scientists have confirmed the presence of the critically endangered Himalayan wolf — the most ancient wolf lineage known — in Nepal's largest protected area ... Researchers note that recent studies have already showed that these wolves have split as a separate branch within the "tree of life" so long ago that they are divergent from the whole globally distributed wolf-dog clade ... ....

Dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by that meteorite after all

Edit Ars Technica 19 Apr 2016
A new study from a group of UK researchers reveals that most dinosaur clades were already in decline long before the Chicxulub impact that changed Earth's ecosystems forever ... The researchers show that dinosaurs from three major sub-clades—Ornithischia, Sauropodomorpha, and Theropoda—reached a deadly tipping point about 90 million years ago....

Origins of consciousness [Perspectives]>

Edit PNAS 19 Apr 2016
How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal phylogenetic tree. Here we propose that at least one invertebrate clade, the insects, has a capacity for the most basic aspect of consciousness. subjective experience. In vertebrates the... ....

Dinosaurs were in decline long before the Chicxulub asteroid finished them off

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 2016
Sixty-five million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, a global winter and the end of the age of the dinosaurs. But what if the asteroid had glided safely past our planet? Would dinosaurs still be here today?. New research suggests the answer is probably not ... Advertisement ... This allowed them to study extinction and speciation rates in the three clades of dinosaurs through time ... ....

GeoVax Awarded $1.4M NIH Grant (GeoVax Labs Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
National Institutes of Health for a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant in support of its clade B HIV vaccine development program for the Americas ... The grant, entitled 'Enhancing Protective Antibody Responses for a DNA/MVA HIV Vaccine', will support preclinical studies testing the ability of a bivalent (two component) protein boost to enhance the efficacy of the GeoVax Clade B HIV vaccine (GOVX-B11)....

York student wins prestigious research award (University of York)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. University of York). Posted on 15 April 2016. A University of York postgraduate has won The American Naturalist 2016 Student Paper Award for his research into insect evolution. James Rainford ... His paper, Diet Evolution and Clade Richness in Hexapoda ... James Rainford said ... Judith L ... His re-examination of insect clade richness in relation to diet is bold, ambitious, and important ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33088202) ....

NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist indigenous and climate change stories

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 14 Apr 2016
Tony Birch has been many times a bridesmaid, but there is one literary prize he wouldn't mind losing – the new standalone prize for indigenous writers announced as part of the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards' shortlist on Thursday ... James Bradley's Clade​ and Mireille Juchau's The World Without Us. Merlinda Bobis' Locust Girl ... Clade, James Bradley, Penguin Random House  ... ....

Diet affects the evolution of birds (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. Universiteit van Amsterdam). 12 April 2016. How diet has affected the evolution of the 10,000 bird species in the world is still a mystery to evolutionary biology ... Diet dataset ... Together with the low speciation rates and high extinction rates, these high transition rates indicate that omnivores originate from more specialized birds that expand their diets, rather than directly through speciation of omnivorous bird clades ... 11250....
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