BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
... on understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology to improve plant and biological conversion systems for production of fuels from biomass. A peer-reviewed, open access journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels will begin accepting article submissions this summer. The journal is being edited by some of...DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...single-organism studies to revealing the potential biotechnology applications embedded in communities of microbial genomes, or metagenomes. The field of metagenomics is still in its infancy -- the equivalent of the early days of the California Gold Rush, with labs vying to stake their claim. Amidst the prospe...Ronald Cape to receive 2007 Biotechnology Heritage Award
...etus Corporation is widely recognized as the first biotechnology company," said James C. Greenwood, president of BIO. "Ron Cape saw the potential of biotechnology even before recombinant DNA. He helped to create a new kind of company and with it launched the crea...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 2, 2007
...sustained the early stages in drug discovery among biotechnology start-up firms, "venture philanthropists" have quietly stepped up to fill the gap, according to an article scheduled for the May 2 issue of Chemical & Engineering News ( C&EN ) ACS' weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN associate editor Li...Developed/emerging market biotech firms convene at largest-ever meeting with global health focus
...erence May 2-4 of 30 leading North American health biotechnology firms with over 30 counterparts from developing co...from the global health community and executives of biotechnology firms from India, China, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, and the United States, creating opportunity f...Clemson bioengineer gets national boost
...ercialization of Clemson's biomedical sciences and biotechnology intellectual property. "We are always looking at opportunities to commercialize our technology and transition it from the laboratory into the operating room. The technology transfer process includes companies willing to step forward to develop p...Researchers develop technique for bacteria crowd control
...K. This device could have enormous applications in biotechnology and biomedical engineering including use in miniaturized medical diagnostic kits and bioanalysis. The technique is based on the transmission of tiny electric current in a very thin film sample cell containing a colony of bacteria. The current produ...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...ucated workforce, India is poised to revolutionize biotechnology just as it did the information technology industry. Indias biotech sector is like a baby elephant when it matures, it will occupy a lot of space. The biotech industry is globalizing rapidly and the impact of Indias market entry and contribution t......tor Takuzo Aida, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biotechnology at the University of Tokyo. Chemists and bioche...nbara, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biotechnology at the University of Tokyo and co-investigator of the study. Thus, by using a multi-photon excitatio...Pioneering approach to wastewater treatment earns Stanford engineer the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
...sor McCarty has defined the field of environmental biotechnology that is the basis for small-scale and large-scale pollution control and safe drinking water systems," according to a citation written by the prize nominating committee. "[He] is a pioneer in the development of the understanding of biological processe...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...eat difficultly staying abreast of developments in biotechnology and developing legislation to cope with social, le...ndigenous peoples of the Pacific." Genetics and biotechnology are not going to solve the fundamental problems facing the Pacific Region says Mead. "Climate change...Biologists develop large gene dataset for rice plant
...re considered one of most important discoveries in biotechnology in the last 10 years. Because they are so much smaller than mRNAs, small RNAs went unnoticed for many years, or were considered biologically unimportant, said Meyers. Small RNAs are now known to play an important role in gene regulation, he said, a...Researchers find suntan's 'master regulator'
...se dont tan. Fisher said he is involved in a small biotechnology company that is working to develop such a product....NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...is planned as a world center for nutrition-related biotechnology research. The NCRC is the states second major research park development -- a 350-acre biotech hub currently under construction in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a former center for the textile industry, just north of Charlotte. A cooperative venture be...DNA nanoparticles hold promise in gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
...nology comes from Copernicus Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company in Cleveland, Ohio. Yurek, whose laboratory is one of the first to apply this technology to central nervous system disorders, said this relatively new gene therapy strategy holds potential to help repair faulty genes. It entails transduction,...BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
...esearch institutions as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Honorable mentions in the field of medicine were given to: Diane Scutt, University of Liverpool, "Breast asymmetry and predisposition to breast cancer" Katarina Slynkova, University of Kentucky Medical Center and Veteran's Admi...Human trial results show excellent safety data, from Geovax's DNA/MVA AIDS vaccines
GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC BB: GOVX), an Atlanta-based biotechnology company, today reported successful early results from two ongoing AIDS prevention Phase I human vaccine trials. Results from the first low dose trial indicate a good safety profile as well as positive immune responses in human volunteers receiving 1/...Powerful ally in life sciences: UH research head to give keynote
... region as a global competitor in life science and biotechnology commercialization and technology transfer to gener...her Texas Medical Center institutions and regional biotechnology companies. Birx, vice chancellor for the UH System and vice president for research for UH, advocate......in resonate strongly with those within the applied biotechnology fields. Topics for the 2007 conference include: protein design and computation catalytic promiscuity mutant library creation and analysis fundamentals of directed evolution new industrial applications of biocatalysis meta...Researchers from the CIMA have discovered a possible cause of thrombosis
...oratory. Based on this advance, Digna Biotech, the biotechnology firm that develops the patents obtained by the CIMA, has signed an agreement with the pharmaceutical firm Ferrer Internacional. This alliance will permit the commercialization, perhaps this year, of the new diagnostic test. Thrombosis is a disease p...