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MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

...s operate could yield significant breakthroughs in biotechnology and genomics worldwide, resulting in advances in h...ife-support system. It is an attractive target for biotechnology because it produces many different molecules important to agriculture and human health, such as vege...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

... may have significant implications for an array of biotechnology applications, including bioprocessing, drug discov...om its structure has considerable implications for biotechnology processes," said Steven Cramer, professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer. "The...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...f species." Growing value of products from marine biotechnology The world's oceans host 32 of the 34 known phyla on Earth, the report says. Species diversity is known to be as high as 1,000 per square meter in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Significantly, the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds is higher in m...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...f species." Growing value of products from marine biotechnology The world's oceans host 32 of the 34 known phyla on Earth, the report says. Species diversity is known to be as high as 1,000 per square meter in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Significantly, the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds is higher in m...

New discovery blurs distinction between human cells and those of bacteria

...rganisms. If microcompartments can be engineered, biotechnology applications potentially could arise from this research, Yeates said. ...

Nighttime Dying Linked To Sleep Apnea From Brain Cell Loss

...rganisms. If microcompartments can be engineered, biotechnology applications potentially could arise from this research, Yeates said. ...

Field tested: Grasslands won't help buffer climate change as carbon dioxide levels rise

...rganisms. If microcompartments can be engineered, biotechnology applications potentially could arise from this research, Yeates said. ...

On a wing and a prayer - Alaska researchers seek clues to bird flu

...president's professor of bioinformatics, Jim Long, biotechnology computing technical leader, and Buck Sharpton, UA president's professor of remote sensing plan to create the first Web site of georeferenced avian influenza data. "We knew about (bird) flu because Kevin Winker has been talking about flu for years," ...

Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys

...th, who, in conjunction with UF, has interest in a biotechnology company that may seek to market some of the research technology. "It may take two to five years before we try this in human patients because of the need for safety studies, but we feel based on success so far, we will be able to provide formal eviden...

Plant wounds trigger bacteria

...grobacterium are also widely used in agricultural biotechnology for their ability to create transgenic plants cont...xploited to get more effective delivery of DNA for biotechnology uses." He is the senior author of a paper published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the Na...

Mammalian Transcriptome Mapped

...r the future of biological research, medicine, and biotechnology because antisense genes are likely to participate in the control of many, perhaps all, cell and body functions. If correct, these findings will radically alter our understanding of genetics and how information is stored in our genome, and how this in...

Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs

...all RNAs are "one of most important discoveries in biotechnology in the last 10 years" because they play an important role in regulating genes in both plants and animals. Deficiencies in small RNA production can have a profound effect on development, and small RNAs have been associated with other important biolog...

New technique multiplies life span in simple organisms

...to anti-aging drug development programs at several biotechnology companies. Now, molecular geneticists at the University of Southern California suggest that SIR2 instead promotes aging. Their study, "Sir2 Blocks Extreme Life-Span Extension," appears in the Nov. 18 edition of the biology journal Cell. The lead au...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

...cted with Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, a USF-spinout biotechnology company developing cell therapies for deadly and debilitating disorders. Dr. Sanberg is a cofounder of Saneron CCEL, and Dr. Willing is a consultant. ...

Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants

...es, began teaching at UCF in 1998. He has formed a biotechnology company called Chlorogen to apply his work in chloroplast genetic engineering. In 2004, he won UCF's Pegasus Professor Award, the top honor given to a faculty member who excels in teaching, research and service. Last year, he also became only the 14t...

Mouse study: New muscle-building agent beats all previous ones

...veloped, with pharmaceutical company Wyeth and the biotechnology firm MetaMorphix, an agent that's more effective at increasing muscle mass in mice than a related potential treatment for muscular dystrophy now in clinical trials. The new agent is a version of a cellular docking point for the muscle-limiting prote...

GlycoFi announces the first production of antibodies with human glycosylation in yeast

...of the largest selling products to emerge from the biotechnology industry. Monoclonal antibodies often achieve their therapeutic benefit through two binding events: 1) the binding of the variable domain of the antibody to a specific marker protein, such as the CD20 receptor on the surface of cancer cells, followed...

The closest look ever at the cell's machines

... S. cerevisiae (baker's yeast). The study from the biotechnology company Cellzome, in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), appears in this week's online edition of Nature. "To carry out their tasks, most proteins work in dynamic complexes that may contain dozens of molecules," says...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

...eld of environmental biotechnology. Environmental biotechnology has been around for almost a century, first adapte...to achieving success through microbial ecology and biotechnology is to take advantage of microbial diversity as much as possible, particularly having different micro...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

...EN, Inc. in California in 1991. SUGEN is the first biotechnology company with roots in the Max Planck Society. The ...ncer researchers in the world. He has founded four biotechnology companies, three of them on the campus in Martinsried. Since 1988 he has led the Department of Molec...

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