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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Althea Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of development and manufacturing services for biopharmaceutical products announced the addition of customized Formulation Development to the company's platform of services, which will be overseen by the newly appointed Dr. James Matsuura, Director of Formulation Development. This investment in an experienced team of formulation and analytical scientists, along with new laboratory facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, enhances and complements Althea's existing expertise and capabilities in cGMP biologics manufacturing and aseptic filling of injectable products, and completes the full integration of development and manufacturing services available for clients from early-stage development through commercial supply.

While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation , the most common type of abnormal heart beat.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer.

Distinguished Computer Scientist and 1996 Turing Award Recipient succumbs to brain hemorrhage on November 2 NYU Department of Computer Science Professor Amir Pnueli died on November 2 of a brain hemorrhage.

(Science/AAAS) An old grey mare named Twilight has provided an international team of researchers with the entire genetic code of a domestic horse. The scientists say the genome sequencing has reveale...

Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse culprit in human-generated global warming , most scientists agree, but CO 2 itself, and a handful of other substances, are now being promoted as good alternatives to commonly used refrigerants that threaten Earth's atmosphere and climate. [More]

Nasa and Spaceward will award $2m (£1.2m) to a team that can send a lift a half mile into the skyNext stop: Space. Going up? Some engineers, science fiction writers and scientists say the future of space travel lies not in rockets and reusable spacecraft but in electrically powered elevators tethered to cables reaching tens of thousands of miles into space that can deliver huge payloads and groups of people.To jump-start development, Nasa and Spaceward, a private foundation, are holding a $2m (£1.2m) competition this week to prove the concept, offering a prize to the team that can send an elevator just over half a mile into the sky at an average speed of 5 metres (16.4 ft) per second, on a cable suspended from a helicopter. The climb must be powered by a high-powered ground-based light or laser aimed at a cell facing Earth, a concept known as power beaming.Yesterday a team qualified for at least the $900,000 second prize. LaserMotive's elevator climbed the cable in about four minutes,

Bears in a zoo in eastern Germany have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why.Three spectacled bears in Leipzig Zoo are in various states of baldness, with the worst being hairl...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed.

Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000 vertebrate species. The plan, proposed by an international consortium of scientists, is to obtain, preserve, and sequence the DNA of approximately one species for each genus of living mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.