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Nanotechnology to provide portable genetic risk detection

...of applications for this system, although the main market is in biomedicine," explains OPTONANOGEN coordinator Laura Lechuga at the National Microelectronics Centre (CNM) in Spain. "Though commercial biosensing systems exist they are larger and designed to be used in laboratories. We are the first to develo...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...e process. Domestic animals and wild scavengers in market places and villages also consume the waste and remnants of infected trade animals providing further opportunity for cross-species transmission. Since 1980, at least 35 new infectious diseases, including HIV and Ebola Hemorraghic Fever, have emerged ...

Biota makes major antiviral discovery

...o have significant advantages and could expand the market to include treatment as well as prevention and to other 'at risk' patient segments, such as children, the elderly and people with underlying respiratory conditions. Latest results in two animal models also demonstrate that Biota's new RSV antivirals...

Aloe vera coating may prolong freshness, safety of fruits and vegetables

...or their gel. It could appear in the U.S. consumer market within a year, Valero estimates, noting that the gel is a natural product and is unlikely to face any major regulatory hurdles. Funding for this study was provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and the European Commission via FEDE...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

...duce the time it takes to bring pharmaceuticals to market and may have significant implications for an array of biotechnology applications, including bioprocessing, drug discovery, and proteomics, the study of protein structure and function. "Predictive modeling is a new approach to drug discovery that ta...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

...eate effective support services. 3. Improve fish market chains In many parts of Africa, post-harvest los...g and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still marketed as dried and/or smoked products. Inv...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

...eate effective support services. 3. Improve fish market chains In many parts of Africa, post-harvest los...g and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still marketed as dried and/or smoked products. Inv...

Gene Bridges And Covalys To Develop Restriction-Enzyme-Free SNAP-tag Gene Fusion Kits

...g in the fusion protein, are expected to be on the market in Q3/2005. The cloning kits will be developed and distributed by Gene Bridges, and the labeling kits for SNAP-tag fusion proteins as well as SNAP-tag cDNA are available through Covalys and its distributors. About Covalys Biosciences AG: Covalys pro...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

... about the prospects this project offers to meet a market need for the benefit of both institutions and American agriculture itself. We also appreciate the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for this work to create another high-value product from agriculture." Many researchers are trying to crea...

Scripps research scientists identify infertility molecule

... drugs. Indeed, about half of the medicines on the market target such GPCRs. In the last few years, Chun and his colleagues have been pursuing basic research on LPA and its receptors to try to understand their roles, particularly in the brain -- looking, for instance, at the effect of LPA on mammalian brai...

Researchers discover stem cell 'guide' that may be key for targeting neural stem cell treatments

...d that at least 40 percent of all medicines on the market act on this family of receptors. ...

Key to elephant conservation is 'in the sauce'

...aiding and then be harvested and sold on the world market through the trust." Osborn originated the idea of Elephant Pepper in 1997, when he found that chilli peppers could be used as a means of stopping elephants from destroying crops in the Zambezi Valley, which straddles the borders of Zimbabwe and Zamb...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...an fossil fuels, because there is a well developed market and you don't need expensive infrastructure like refineries and processing. So, while fossil fuels are in fact better for health and better for climate, they are more expensive and a lot harder to get out." Charcoal burns cleaner and produces less i...

Scientists discover odd-ball rodent

...by WCS researcher Dr. Robert Timmins in a hunter's market in Central Laos. WCS is working in Laos to help enact an aggressive program designed to halt illegal wildlife trade where poaching has devastated animal populations. "It was for sale on a table next to some vegetables. I knew immediately it was some...

Affymetrix and bioMerieux Extend Their Agreement on GeneChip(R) Technology to Breast Cancer Diagnostics

...ccess to its GeneChip(R) technology to develop and market in vitro diagnostic tests for breast cancer, as well as an option to expand the agreement into other cancer areas. The agreement, made under the Powered by Affymetrix(TM) program, gives bioMerieux non-exclusive rights to Affymetrix' patented arrays,...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

...healthcare product category. While quietly gaining market share for the treatment of chronic conditions such...sting prescription patches have increased consumer market acceptance.?/p>...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...es, researchers say. They can also provide another market for the nation's soybean farmers - the new adhesives use a tremendous amount of soy flour. ...

Designing vaccines by computer

... of new vaccines could bring new products onto the market quicker, benefiting patients and saving pharmaceutical companies millions of pounds. Researchers using informatics and computer modelling can help scientists to uncover and harness the hidden patterns in the wealth of DNA and protein sequences that ...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...eAnalytiX and QIAGEN. "We continue to see a strong market trend towards the correlation of gene expression p...) and QIAGEN N.V., is to develop, manufacture, and market integrated systems for the collection, stabilization, and purification of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA...

Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems

...nge in temperature. That is, much like a financial market that takes much longer to recover than to crash, a...systems, neurobiological systems, cardiac rhythms, market systems) and their dynamics and have been proven in small-scale ecological applications, medical app...

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