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St Paul, Minnesota, September 22, 2008 – MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations & neurology research will showcase its inflammations related pre-clinical services and research products at the 13^th Congress of The Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) in Japan on September 23 – 27, 2008. APLAR focuses on providing state of the art care to patients with arthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases through continuing professional development of members, increasing the awareness and understanding about rheumatic diseases, patient advocacy and empowerment, and fostering research in the field of rheumatic diseases.

MD Biosciences, with roots in the sales of rheumatoid arthritis research reagents, will feature it’s capabilities in preclinical outsourcing services such as the Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA), Collagen Antibody-induced Arthritis (CAIA), Adjuvant Induced arthritis (AIA), Monoarthritic Pain, along with general inflammation assays and the Senerga® Mode of Action Platform. MD Biosciences offers customization of all protocols as well as end-point readouts such as biomarker analysis, histology, and gene expression analysis. MD Biosciences research products featured at the conference include collagen related reagents and assays, ArthritoMab™ antibody cocktail, ELISAs, Aggrecan antibodies and T-cell antibodies.

In addition to the product and service offerings within Arthritis, MD Biosciences also offers products and services within other therapeutic areas such as Multiple sclerosis, Respiratory, IBD, Type I Diabetes, Endotoxic shock, Contact Dermatitis, Inflammatory and Arthritic Pain, Gliosis, and Parkinson's Disease.

Our Inflammations Discovery Service offers quick start dates and timely delivery of data, specialized scientists with experience using small molecules and biologicals, standard and specialized routes of administration, customized protocols and the development of novel models.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

St Paul, Minnesota, September 15, 2008 – MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations & neurology research will showcase its inflammations related pre-clinical services and research products at the Inflammation Research Association (IRA) International Conference, September 21-24, Chantilly, VA. Capabilities featured will be pre-clinical efficacy disease models and research products for drug discovery and research.

MD Biosciences will be hosting a lunch and learn session titled “Discovery of novel therapies for asthma requires suitable and relevant disease models”. Conference attendees are invited to register for this free session upon arrival of the conference. This session will focus on the OVA-induced Asthma model and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) as well as the OVA-IgE specific ELISA for measuring OVA specific IgE levels in murine serum samples.

MD Biosciences services that will be featured throughout the conference include the Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA), Collagen Antibody-induced Arthritis (CAIA), Adjuvant Induced arthritis (AIA), Monoarthritic Pain, OVA-induced Asthma along with general inflammation assays. Products include collagen related reagents and assays, ArthritoMab™ antibody cocktail, OVA-IgE ELISA, Aggrecan antibodies and T-cell antibodies.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations and neurology research, is expanding its line of arthritis and pain preclinical services with the addition of the CFA-induced monoarthritic pain model. The model offers advantages over traditional arthritis models in that disease develops in only one joint allowing a comparison to the healthy joint. The quantification of pain associated with arthritis can be useful in elucidating the mechanisms of arthritis as well as evaluating the efficacy of anti-arthritic drug compounds in the discovery phase.

The monoarthritic pain model is a 28-day model with arthritis and subsequent pain present in a single joint. Pain response develops 1 day post-induction. Readouts available are clinical signs and scoring, body weights, mechanical and thermal stimuli, weight bearing, histology and cytokine analysis.

In addition to the monoarthritic pain model, MD Biosciences offers the traditional Adjuvant-induced arthritis model that allows for traditional pain measurements as well as a record of spontaneous pain using the Foot Print of Pain method. Other Arthritis models and research reagents include the Collagen Induced Arthritis (CIA) and Collagen Antibody Induced Arthritis (CAIA), ArthritoMab™ Arthritogenic Antibody Cocktail, Collagen Reagents, Collagen Antibodies and Collagen-related ELISA Kits and Assays.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

Zurich, Switzerland, August 12, 2008 - MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations & neurology research will showcase its pre-clinical capabilities at the 12^th World Congress on Pain (IASP) in Glasgow, Scotland, August 17^th - 22^nd, 2008. Capabilities included in the showcase are efficacy disease models within Nociceptive, Neuropathic, Post-operative and Inflammatory Pain.

Nociceptive Pain is part of a rapid warning relay instructing the motor neurons of the central nervous system to minimize detected physical harm. Disease models include the Tail Flick Model – used to measure the response to noxious stimuli, the Visceral Pain Model – used to measure the effectiveness of analgesic agents, the Caspaicin model – used to evaluate response mediated by the VR1 pathway, and Post-operative pain models for screening the pathophysiology of hyperalgesia.

Neuropathic Pain is produced by damage to the neurons in the peripheral and central nervous systems. Disease models include the Chronic Constriction Injury (CCI, Bennett & Xie) model - involves inflammation around the nerve, the Taxol induced Neuropathic Pain model – causing peripheral nerve ending injury, the Spinal Nerve Ligation (Chung) Model – nerve ligation between L5 & L6, and the STZ Diabetic Neuropathy model – direct destruction of the nerve associated with high levels of glucose.

Inflammatory Pain is associated with tissue damage and the resulting inflammatory response. Disease models include the Carrageenan Induced Inflammatory Pain, Adjuvant (CFA) induced Inflammatory Pain and Arthritic Pain.

Additional models are offered as requested along with end-point readouts such as biomarker analysis, histology, and gene expression analysis. MD Biosciences will also be showcasing its capabilities at additional events this fall including the Inflammations Research Association (IRA) in September and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in October.

 

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland under Morwell Diagnostics and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

St Paul, MN March 4, 2008 – MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations research, announces the recent launch of its new line of Mouse anti-Collagen Type II (anti-mouse CII) ELISAs. The new Mouse anti-collagen CII ELISAs allow you to measure antibodies generated against the species of collagen used in the induction of arthritis in mice (bovine, human, mouse, rat, chicken, porcine). IgG and two subclasses (IgG2a and IgG2b) are now available as ready-to-use ELISAs that provide fast, accurate and reliable results.

 

The Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model is one of the most widely used models for the study of RA. Collagen type II (CII) in adjuvant is used to induce arthritis by triggering autoreactive B cells, which play an important role in the development of arthritis. This B cell response to CII is strictly T cell dependent, where the B cells predominantly switch isotype to IgG.

 

The anti-Type II Collagen ELISAs offer many improvements over other commercially available anti-Collagen Type II ELISAs. The kits come ready to use eliminating any plate coating or blocking as well as eliminates lengthy sample incubations. The assays can be completed in under 3 hours using only 100 uL of sample. Performance characteristics such as precision CVs less than 10%, recovery and linearity averaging at 82% and 102% respectively, and cross-reactivity with other collagen types of less than 0.004% provide reliable, accurate and sensitive assays for the detection mouse Collagen Type II antibodies.

 

The addition of these assays enhances the arthritis products and services currently offered by MD Biosciences. Research products include assays for measuring type II collagen and antibodies, assay for staining type II collagen, induction reagents such as collagen, adjuvant and ArthritoMabÒ antibody cocktail. Pre-clinical services include collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), Antibody induced arthritis (CAIA), Adjuvant Induced Arthritis as well as in vitro disease models providing the researcher a well-rounded approach for using MD Biosciences products in-house as well as outsourcing other areas of their drug discovery platform.

 

 

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland under Morwell Diagnostics and has specialized laboratories located in Minnesota, Glasgow, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

 

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

 

 

MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations research, announces the recent launch of its new Mouse OVA-IgE ELISA. The OVA-IgE ELISA offers researchers sensitive, reproducible, accurate and reliable results for the measurement of OVA specific IgE in mouse serum and cell culture supernate samples. The kit is ready-to-use with all necessary reagents and can be completed in under 2.5 hours, requires small sample sizes and measures levels down to 7.8 ng/mL with a sensitivity of less than 3.8 ng/mL.

Ovalbumin is widely used in inducing an allergic response in mouse models of allergic asthma. Through T cell and B cell signalling, IgE production is stimulated and released into the bloodstream where IgE attaches to cells such as mast cells and basophils. These cells are then activated after the IgE is cross-linked with antigen, initiating the allergic cascade.

In addition the Mouse OVA-IgE ELISA, MD Biosciences also offers other reagents such as T1/ST2 antibodies, in vitro assay services and efficacy disease models for the study of allergic asthma.

About MD Biosciences

MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland under Morwell Diagnostics and has specialized laboratories located in Minnesota, Glasgow, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

MD Biosciences releases histology results from an 18-day model of arthritis induced using the ArthritoMab(TM) cocktail of arthritogenic antibodies in Balb/c mice. Results show significant histological changes in the joint of the arthritis group as compared to the normal control group after just 18 days, providing researchers valuable data quickly compared to the traditional collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model, which can take several weeks or more to produce similar histological results.

Results show significant histological changes in the joint of the arthritis group as compared to the normal control group after just 18 days, providing researchers valuable data quickly compared to the traditional collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model, which can take several weeks or more to produce similar histological results. Figures 1-3 show the effectiveness of the arthritogenic antibodies, with mean histology scores and staining sections indicating the degree of erosion, hyperplasia and infiltration in the joint of the arthritis group as compared to the control group.

 

 

 

The ArthritoMab^TM Arthritogenic Antibody Cocktail is comprised of 4 monoclonal antibodies to collagen type II (CII) that have been chosen for their epitope specificity. An antibody response to certain epitopes is better associated with arthritis than a response to other epitopes. In the CIA model, the antibody response correlated with arthritis was mainly associated with binding to the epitopes C1, J1, and U1. The ArthritoMab^TM monoclonal antibodies were selected to bind to the epitopes C1, J1, U1 and D3 - which are spread over the entire CII region (fragments CB8, CB10 and CB11) encouraging better immune complex formation on the cartilage surface for the initiation of arthritis. The antibody-induced arthritis model using the ArthritoMab^TM Arthritogenic Antibody cocktail is a rapid alternative the CIA model.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland under Morwell Diagnostics and has specialized laboratories located in Minnesota, Glasgow, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

 

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

St Paul, MN, January 9, 2007 - MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations research, accounces the launch of its new and improved Collagen Type II (CII) ELISA for the study of collagen metabolism. CII is a triple stranded pro-molecule that is found predomiinantly, but not exclusively, in cartilage. It's promary role is to provide cartilage with tensile strength and elasticity. Autoimmunity to CII is thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of many autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

This ELISA offers many improvements over other commercially available CII ELISAs such as increased sensitivity, reproducibility, and accuracy for the reliability of results. The ELISA is designed to quantify the amount of collagen type II produced by cells or present in tissue across a variety of species. The ELISA is also highly specific to CII offering no cross-reactivity to other types of collagen providing reliable results.

In addition to performance improvements, user-friendly improvements such as pre-coated microplates and ready-to-use reagents increase the usability and decrease the preparation time allowing researchers to obtain rapid results in less than 5 hours.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services to companies engaged in inflammation and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland under Morwell Diagnostics and has specialized laboratories located in Minnesota, Glasgow, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies' in-depth expertise and technologies to provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.