StemCells, Inc. today announced that it has received a manufacturing license for its cell processing facility from the State of California Department of Health Services, Food and Drug Branch. This...
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The August 29 supplementary issue of The Scientist runs excellent feature on the automated DNA sequencer and the development of the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), the software that the...
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Filed in archive Microbiology
by ruth on August 30, 2005
Iran has announced that it has made a breakthrough in its nuclear programme using biotechnology to purify uranium ore in mines prior to mining. Such a process is termed as bioleaching: bacteria are...
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In an article published recently in Nature's Bioentrepreneur, a comparison of initial public offerings (IPOs) and trade sale exits through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) seems to suggest that...
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The make use of DNA, but their study can hardly be classified as genetics. In a paper presented yesterday at the same ACS meeting where the ryanodine-receptor-insecticides were presented, Cornell...
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In a paper published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigations, Max Planck researchers revealed the mechanism by which the new genetically engineered tuberculosis (BCG) vaccine functions....
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Filed in archive Stem Cells
by ruth on August 29, 2005
In a press release circulating everywhere, U.S. BioDefense, Inc. announced that it sponsored the successful launch of 1-800-STEM-CELLS.COM, a major success for the Stem Cell Industry Council, a newly...
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Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd., based in Japan, and Bayer CropScience AG in Germany have jointly developed Flubendiamide, the first example of the phthalic acid diamides, a novel class of insecticides that...
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Possibly the first to reap the profits from stem-cell research are the instittutions offering storage of stem cells. Cord Blood America is quick to expand its services and has announced yesterday its...
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It sound like some computer war game, but it's actually a blood test for detecting levels of expression of the UGT1A1 gene, which dictates the levels of a drug that enters into the bloodstream....
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Applied Biosystems has teamed up with DuPont Qualicon to develop a new system for detecting pathogens and other contaminating organisms in food and environmental samples. The new product being...
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Biosite Incorporated signed an exclusive license with Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany for Caspase-1, a potentially important cardiovascular disease biomarker. The financial terms of the...
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The Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) will hold its inaugural meeting at Rockefeller University on September 15-18. The meeting is sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences in...
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Profos AG has raised � 5 million in the first closing of its current financing round, with investments from:BioFund Management Ltd.Danisco Venture A/S, andCapital Stage AGProfos AG develops and...
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For the second day in a row, I' blogging about Paclitaxel. This time as a therapeutic against pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the...
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Filed in archive Microbiology
by ruth on August 24, 2005
After receiving an $80,000 award from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an industrial scale production of succinate from genetically...
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The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) and Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) launched the world's first online database of scientific...
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Parkinson's disease (PD) belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. According to the National Institutes...
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The three members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration-- GenBank (Bethesda, Maryland USA), European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute...
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In a recent report in Lancet (Hohlfeld J., et al. Lancet, Published online doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67107-3 (2005)), scientists were able to show how fetal cells can potentially replace traditional...
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