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Physorg (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, which may now allow for the production of environmentally conscious plastics, is published in two papers in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering to mark the journal's...
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ForestTalk (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
If so, soon you may have your answer! 24 willow saplings from derived from clones of trees in Fredericton, New Brunswick and Truro, Nova Scotia are now in space!! The saplings were launched into space last Monday via NASA's space transport shuttle - Atlantis. They are on their way to the international space station. Rodney Savidge , a professor in the faculty of forestry and environmental management...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A new study suggests that naturally occurring bacteria on the skin of salamanders could help protect other amphibians, including some species of endangered frogs, from a lethal skin disease.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Resurgence of thalidomide use in Africa and South America raises the urgent need to isolate the negative side effects by identifying the drug's "common mechanism."
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A recent experiment has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Scientists have published the largest nematode phylogenetic tree up until now. It contains over 1,200 species and is entirely based on the analysis of DNA sequence data.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by engineers could lead to carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors that could do just this.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Researchers have developed a new measurement technology that makes use of optical resonances in nanoparticles. The method, which opens new possibilities in the field of catalytics.
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Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It has been almost exactly a century and a half since Darwin's Origin of Species was first published, and half a century since the conference at the University of Chicago where the "triumph" of the "modern evolutionary synthesis" was celebrated. So, isn't it a little odd that some well-respected scientists and historians of science are proclaiming in this celebratory year that the...
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The engineer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Angel Biotechnology Holdings has been named as the contractor for three independent grants awarded to UK companies in the fields of regenerative medicine.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Spain and Latin American countries have an opportunity to take the lead in two small biotechnology sectors. Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV), working together with the IDICHUS Foundation, have studied the productive fabric of the Spanish biotechnology industry.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology is experiencing a surge of interest and rapid expansion as a result of advances such as instrumentation that pushes capacity to 1,536 wells and optimization-free multiplexing, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN).
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
National Science Foundation to cut support for resource.
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Stewart Brand's latest book, " Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto ," contains a dagger in its subtitle. To write a manifesto on behalf of "ecopragmatism" is to imply that the current environmental movement has become dangerously impractical. In his Big Think interview today, Brand--one of the intellectual godfathers of the modern green movement--confirmed that the...
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Biotech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Copyright © BiotechBlog.com, a product of thinkBiotech.com This is my initial response to the Kyoto Prize, which I was able to attend on a fellowship from Point Loma Nazarene University. For more details on the Kyoto Prize see my previous post. I had an opportunity to interact with each of the laureates, and focused on the question [...]
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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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