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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Recirculating Marine Aquaculture: Farmed Fish Minus the Pollution Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming The dire state of global fish stocks is pretty well known by now - with costs of poor management of fish stocks running to $50 billion a year. Yet what’s the alternative? Sea-based fish farming c… Visit the original [...]
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
( University of York ) Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics. Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded £3.3 million ($5.4 million) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to find out how a family of proteins known as colicins...
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Biotech Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Copyright © BiotechBlog.com, a product of thinkBiotech.com Courtesy of DrugPatentWatch.com: Drug Patent Expirations in July 2009 *Drugs may be covered by multiple patents Tradename Applicant Generic Name Patent Number Patent Expiration LEVULAN Dusa aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride 5,422,093 Jul 28, 2009 LEVULAN Dusa aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride 6,710,066 Jul 28, 2009 OPTIMARK Mallinckrodt...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.Steps must be taken to create a regulatory environment that considers genetically modified trees on a...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
They're digging tunnels along the US border at a fast and furious pace, but not a single one of them has ever been discovered by US border patrol agents using technology. That's going to change.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Telecoms, healthcare and display technology will be the major beneficiaries of a new generation of semiconductor lasers developed in a massive research effort. Better cancer treatment, wider bandwidth and smaller, better displays could be on their way.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Physicists have announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b (Ω b ). The particle contains three quarks -- two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and has about six times the proton's mass.
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Departure raises questions over leadership at flagship centre.
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Framing Science (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Timed with the World Federation of Science Journalists meeting in London, Nature magazine has put together a selection of recent articles focusing on journalism and science communication. The selection includes our recent article at Nature Biotechnology ( PDF , news release ). Read the comments on this post...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
A new research center from Britain's Biotechnology Research Council (BBSRC) will decode the DNA of plants and animals used in agriculture in an effort to help farmers boost food production, BBC News reported.Economically and socially important plants such as wheat and ryegrass will be among the research conducted at the center.Experts also hope the research could present new ways of breeding livestock...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
In biomedicine and biotechnology the smallest, complex, compound sample quantities must be reliably processed. Microsystems with new mechanisms of action for pumping, filtering and separating will manage this task with great efficiency in the future.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
A revolutionary new protein stabilisation technique has been developed by scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which could lead to 30 per cent more proteins being available as potential targets for drug development - opening up exciting possibilities in drug discovery.
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Biotech Blog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Copyright © BiotechBlog.com, a product of thinkBiotech.com The July 2009 issue of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology is now available. The links below will take you to the abstract for each paper: Volume 15, Issue 3 Editorial: The impact of the global financial crisis on biotechnology development (free full-text) Yali Friedman Can genetic engineering prevent food-poisoning? Henry Miller Maturation...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Under the U.S.- Egypt Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement, scientists from Harbor Branch have signed an agreement to work with scientists from Egypt on a range of oceanographic projects including the development of state-of-the-art laboratories for research in aquaculture, coral reef biodiversity and conservation, and marine biotechnology, including the discovery of chemicals from marine organisms...
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ciesm news | 10/24/2008
The vast chemical diversity of the oceans, revealed in full by recent screening molecular tools [1], opens new, exciting scenarios for research at the interface between science and business. Since much of sea life, particularly in deep waters, is yet untapped [2], Marine Biotechnology (or “Blue Biotechnology ”) is a fast emerging sector, focused on exploiting ocean diversity for industrial / medical
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marc123 | 08/26/2008
Do-Coop Technologies Ltd. is a private company based in Israel . Its primal goal is to develop and commercialize novel water-based materials using Nanotechnology for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Do-Coop has developed a patented Nanotechnology to modify the properties of water, using nanoparticles, enabling the first ever introduction of water-based biomaterials. Do-Coop...
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