Green in Biological Technology

Sugarcane as a Key Element Against Global Warming to be Highlighted at Green Week in Brussels

SAO PAULO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- What does sugarcane have to do with Global Warming? Everything, when you consider Brazil's highly successful, 30-year experience with sugarcane as a feedstock for ethanol. In place since the mid-70s, the largest program in the world to replace a fossil fuel w...

CEM Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for the Sprint Rapid Protein Analyzer

MATTHEWS, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CEM Corporation has won a 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Greener Reaction Conditions category for its Sprint(TM) Rapid Protein Analyzer . The company will accept the award this evening during a ceremony at the Carnegie ...

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day could be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems, such as those that convert solar energy to electri...

White Paper Shows How to LEED the Way With Green Design

NEEDHAM, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry sources estimate that U.S. healthcare facilities spend approximately $5.3 billion annually for energy costs alone. Hospital administrators planning ahead for a new facility would face considerable escalation of such costs for the foreseeable future...

DNA 11 Unveils Modern-Day Family Portraits at The Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home: Green + WIRED Exhibit

Creator of custom DNA portraits is the newest participant of WIRED's sustainable "green" home showcase Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 24, 2009 -- DNA 11, the innovators and creators of custom portraits made from customers' DNA, has partnered with WIRED and the Muse...

Genencor Shows How Industrial Biotech Breakthroughs Contribute to the New Green Economy

Event showcases sustainable solutions for biofuels, biochemicals and textile processing PALO ALTO, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, hosted a private tour of its Bay Area Research and Development headquarters to a group of industr...

Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture of very powerful photodetectors needs to be improved before they can q...

FDA Meeting Provides Green Light for Cell Therapeutics Submission of Supplemental Filing for Zevalin(R) Label Expansion

Supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) on track for Q4 Submission SEATTLE, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq: CTICD and MTA: CTIC) announced today that following a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administr...

GEECF: Spectrum Launches Zero Waste Philippines and Gears Towards Cheap Green Energy

Ronald Shane Flynn, President of Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation announced through a press briefing that initially a 1200 MSW Biosphere facility shall be installed in Morong, Rizal generating about 6-700 MW of green energy per day. The generated green energy shall be sold to electric distribu...

Study Reveals Greatest Barrier to Green Supply Chain Initiatives

Companies Strive to Measure ROI, Balance Business Benefits with Environmental Responsibility FALLS CHURCH, Va., and ATLANTA, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies striving to "green" their supply chains are most constrained by the inability to justify cost of implementatio...

Battelle Earns 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Award

Pioneering work in bio-based toners earns highest environmental award from EPA COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Battelle, the world's largest non-profit research and development organization, today announced its work in developing bio-based toners and resins has earned a 20...

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Features Green Buildings and Sustainable Operations Initiatives and Tour at 2008 BIO

PASADENA, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE ) today will shuttle more than 100 life science executives from around the world on a tour of Green and LEED certified buildings and environmentally sustainable operations in the San Diego life science ...

Arpida Receives Green Light From US FDA for Phase II Efficacy Trial With Oral Iclaprim

REINACH, Switzerland, January 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arpida Ltd. (SWX: ARPN) today announced that it has received authorisation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a Phase II 'intravenous-to-oral' switch trial with iclaprim in patients with complicated Skin and Sk...

BioStorage Technologies Becomes Green Powered through the Use of 100% Certified Renewable Energy

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- BioStorage Technologies, Inc. (BST) announced that it has entered into agreement with Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) to purchase electricity generated by 100 percent renewable energy resources, through IPL's Green Power Option voluntary program....

Kiwa Bio-Tech Named Recommended Brand by the China Green Food Association

BEIJING and CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KWBT) announces that the China Green Food Association of the Agriculture Ministry ("CGFA") has certified six Kiwa bio-fertilizer products as "Green Food CGFA R...

OrthoSynetics(TM) Goes Green

Orthodontic/Dental Practice Management Company Launches Effort to Encourage Energy Conservation, Reduce Costs METAIRIE, La., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoSynetics(TM), the largest provider of business services to orthodontic and dental practices worldwide, has launched OSI Goes ...

The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers

SAN FRANCISCO Outside the convention hall, I stopped last week to chat with a protester whose sign read: Biotechnology is making poor farmers poorer. He was a young and pleasant enough guy just caught up in his own rhetoric. I told him biotechnology may be the last, best hope for the worlds po...

Paper technology transfer center opens in Green Bay

Green Bay, Wis. - The old Institute of Paper Chemistry might have left Appleton more than 15 years ago, but the Fox Valley can still feel the void. Organizers of the new Paper Technology Transfer Center hope to begin filling that void Wednesday with the PTTC's grand opening in downtown Gree...

Doyle, Green exchange stem cell salvos

Palo Alto, Calif. - Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle ventured into what could have been enemy territory Saturday, but the subject wasn't the controversial stem cell patent of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation . In an appeal for coalition building on stem cell research, Doyle went after his ...

Norlight will offer VoIP in Madison, Green Bay

Brookfield, Wis. - Norlight Telecommunications, Inc., which will spin off from Journal Communications , has announced that it will roll out its new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to small and medium-sized businesses in Green Bay and Madison. The facilities-based communications...

Measurement of Green Fluorescent Protein in the SpectraMax Gemini XS Spectrofluorometer (MaxLine Application Note #44)

Simon Lydford 1 and Thomas Giller 2 1 Molecular Devices Limited and 2 Axovan Ltd. INTRODUCTION GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) is an extremely stable protein of 238 amino acids produced by the jellyfish Aequorea victoria 1 that fluoresces in the lower green r...

measurement of green fluorescent proteins and a red fluorescent protein in live cells in the Analyst GT multimode reader

Evelyn McGown, Ph.D., Jinfang Liao, M.D., Ph.D., Mary Kassinos, Irina Osetinsky and Jayne Hesley, Molecular Devices Corporation, 1311 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Introduction Fluorescent proteins have become enormously popular as tools for monitori...

Cytosolic expression of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and its derivatives in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Detection in vivo using the Varian Cary Eclipse

Cytosolic expression of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and its derivatives in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae : Detection in vivo using the Varian Cary Eclipse Paul Gavin# and Mark Prescott # , Ph.D Daren J. Fyfe, Ph.D * # Department of Bi...

Laser Capture Microdissection of Cells Labeled with Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

Vasker Bhattacherjee, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Saurabh Singh, Robert M. Greene and M. Michele Pisano, University of Louisville Birth Defects Center, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Craniofacial Biology, Louisville, KY 40202 Abstract This application note describes a Las...

Measuring Intracellular Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein With the VersaFluor Fluorometer

Contributed by Jeff Wilson, and Andrew Segal, M.D., Genitrix, LLC, Cambridge, MA Introduction The Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) derived from Aqueorius victoria has recently become a popular choice as a reporter gene. GFP can be used...

Real-Time Quantification of Genomic DNA Using DyNAzyme II DNA Polymerase and SYBR Green I Dye

Mimi Amutan and David Batey, Ph.D. Abstract Real-time quantification was performed for lambda and human genomic DNA on the DNA Engine Opticon system (MJ Research). DyNAzyme II DNA polymerase* was used for amplification, and SYBR Green I fluoresc...

Detection of Genetically Modified Soybean in Processed Foods Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR with SYBR Green I Dye on the DNA Engine Opticon 2 System

Surekha Karudapuram, Ph.D. and David Batey, Ph.D. MJ Research, Inc., South San Francisco, CA Abstract We present a real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) protocol for the detection and quantitation of soy genetically modified to b...

QuantiTect SYBR Green RT-PCR Kit

In one-step quantification of RNA using the QuantiTect SYBR Green RT-PCR Kit, sensitivity is enhanced by combining HotStarTaq DNA Polymerase with a unique blend of Sensiscript and Omniscript Reverse Tra...

Transfection of Green Fluorescent Protein into Human Adrenalcarcinoma Cells

Comparison of liposome-based transfection reagents D.J. Lowrie Jr. Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267 Transfection of mammalian cell lines is enhanced by the use of liposome-based reag...

Ratcliff Adds Architect John Sealander to Healthcare Practice Group

...s a certificate from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and is a LEED(R) Accredited Professional under the program of the U.S. green Building Council. Sealander earned both his master's degree (1979) and his bachelor's degree in architecture (1969) from the University of California,...

BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Antimicrobial Proven To Be Completely Inert to Steel In Independent Corrosion Testing

...mula Germ Control 24; Clorox(R) Anywhere Hard Surface Daily Sanitizer Spray; Lysol(R) Disinfectant Bathroom Cleaner 4N1; Clorox(R) Regular Bleach; and green Works(TM) Natural Bathroom Cleaner. Careful steps were taken to treat all the formulations quantitatively equal to maintain standards for independent ...

VIASPACE Pursuing Renewable Energy Business in Asia

...plants by offering substantial subsidies for using green energy sources and guaranteeing that all electricity generated from green sources will be purchased by the national power gr...e liquid biofuels, such as cellulosic ethanol, and green gasoline, which are collectively known as grassoli...

America's Organic Home-Fueling Movement Begins in Los Angeles

... green Celebrities Attend World's First E-Fuel MicroFuele...ed company and founder of the L.A. Center Studios. green industry leaders and celebrities who walked the &q... GreenHouse is a leader in delivering cutting-edge green technology to homes and businesses, and is the exc...

Cornerstone Therapeutics Announces Closing of Chiesi Transaction

...(when available) and other relevant documents may also be obtained free of cost by directing a request to Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc., 1255 Crescent green Drive, Suite 250, Cary, North Carolina 27518, attention: Chief Financial Officer. Participants in Solicitation Cornerstone and its direct...

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on July 30, 2009

... needs of patients and physicians. The Company's strategic alliances with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., green Cross Corporation and Mundipharma International Holdings, Ltd. validate its scientific foundation and the utility of its product candidates. For more...

GreenHouse Debuts the World's First E-Fuel MicroFuelerTM in Los Angeles

... Basketball Great Shaquille O'Neal, green Celebrities and Other Investors to Attend July 30...isades, CA with basketball great Shaquille O'Neal, green industry leaders, and investors in attendance. ... GreenHouse is a leader in delivering cutting-edge green technology to homes and businesses and is the excl...

Informex Rebrands Into Separate Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemical Segments to Better Serve Exhibitors and Attendees

... by the Licensing Executives Society (LES). * green Chemistry Exchange showcasing sustainable and green chemistry products, technologies and services. * green Chemistry Breakfast Briefing developed in partner...

Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route

...tandard Biological Parts, which are available for use by the larger synthetic biology community, including the newly split red fluorescent protein and green fluorescent protein genes," said Jordan Baumgardner, recent graduate of Missouri Western and first author of the research paper. "The research provide...

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Signs Biopharmaceutical Company, Lilly, as Anchor New York City Tenant at the Alexandria Center for Science and Technology

...major boost to our efforts to diversify New York City's economy. In recent months, we have announced initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, develop green jobs, support nonprofits, grow the media industry and add industrial jobs, and today's announcement affirms our belief that bioscience is another indu...

Regado Biosciences Expands Medical Advisory Board

...Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden Harvey White, DSc , Honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Auckland and Director of Coronary Care and green Lane Cardiovascular Research Unit, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand About Regado Biosciences, Inc. Regado Bios...