25 Current news from belgium
rss05-03-2012
Trinean NV announced the appointment of Philippe Stas as it’s new CEO, succeeding Dr. Marc Zabeau, who remains a member of the board of directors. Simultaneously, Trinean announced that the company has secured 2.7 million euro of growth financing provided by its existing investors. Prior to ...
01-30-2012
Pepric, a spin-off of imec, successfully concluded a EURO 1.4 million capital round. Pepric develops and commercializes equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.In other words, Pepric will develop equipment similar to ...
12-21-2011
Despite advanced genome technologies, it remains a major challenge to identify small variations between the hereditary material (DNA) of different individuals. VIB scientists connected to the K.U.Leuven and the University of Antwerp describe in Nature Biotechnology a method that makes it ...
11-04-2011
Eurofins Scientific announces the successful closing of the transaction for a 67% majority stake in each of the two subsidiaries of the Fondation Institut Pasteur de Lille (IPL), namely IPL Invest and IPL Santé Environnement Durable Nord (IPL SED Nord), on the 31st of October, 2011. As ...
09-16-2011
Photonics21 has announced its commitment to a proposed Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the European Commission in research and innovation in photonics. The proposal represents a total investment of 7 Billion Euros of which 5.6 Billion will be provided by the private sector and 1.4 ...
07-28-2011
Ablynx announced that it has been granted a Certificate of Good Laboratory Practise (GLP) from the Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health (IPH) for its new GLP unit at its headquarters in Ghent, Belgium, after having been inspected in May 2011.Having received this GLP certificate, ...
02-23-2011
Pronota NV announced that it has entered into an agreement with Molecuence Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, to discover and validate protein biomarkers in stroke. Pronota will apply its proprietary platforms for protein biomarker discovery ...
01-12-2011
In view of the dimensions of the dioxin food chain contamination in Germany,Euro Chlor has edited an Information Sheet on dioxins. This one-pager is factual and develops some basic but important facts on this group of substances. It is important to note that: incomplete combustion is ...
01-10-2011
The International Dairy Federation (IDF) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have developed a new test standard for the detection of melamine and cyanuric acid content in liquid milk, powdered milk products and infant formulae. The new standard, “Guidelines for the ...
Design and synthesis of rigid fluorophores
09-15-2010
Stable dyes with sharp absorption and fluorescence emission bands in the red or NIR region of the spectrum, combined with high molar absorption coefficients and high fluorescence quantum yields, may find extensive use in many different fields, such as optical engineering, analytical ...
