KTH Royal Institute of Technology: World record in DNA analysis

21-Mar-2011 - To date, scientists have been limited to running a small number of DNA samples at a time at a cost of SEK 100,000 per sample. KTH researchers have now come up with a new method which means that 5,000 samples can be run simultaneously for the same price. This cuts the cost per test result ...

Proteros and University of Cincinnati, Drug Discovery Center establish collaboration to offer high-throughput screening services

15-Mar-2011 - Proteros Biostructures GmbH announced that it has entered into an agreement with University of Cincinnati, Drug Discovery Center (UC DDC), under which Proteros will provide biotech and pharmaceutical companies with access to UC DDC’s ultra-high-throughput and high-content screening platform ...

Oxford Nanopore Announces Licence Agreement with Harvard University for Graphene DNA sequencing

15-Mar-2011 - Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd announced an exclusive agreement with Harvard University's Office of Technology Development for the development of graphene for DNA sequencing. Graphene is a robust, single atom thick ‘honeycomb’ lattice of carbon with high electrical conductivity. These ...

Second round of financing of SAW Instrument with KI Kapital, HTGF and KfW successfully completed

04-Mar-2011 - SAW Instruments has completed in early February its second financing round of one million EUR and is aiming to reach break-even in fiscal year 2012. “The funds will be invested in particular in the expansion of sales & marketing activities and extending our product portfolio.” says Managing ...

Nitto Denko to Start-up Prototyping Centre in Singapore Research Institute

24-Feb-2011 - Nitto Denko Asia Technical Centre (NAT) will be expanding its Singapore base to include a prototyping centre in Singapore. The centre will be pioneered at A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) under a unique Lab-in-RI programme. NAT can leverage on existing ...

Entire T-cell receptor repertoire sequenced revealing extensive and unshared diversity

23-Feb-2011 - T-cell receptor diversity in blood samples from healthy individuals has been extensively cataloged for the first time in a study published in Genome Research, setting the stage for a better understanding of infectious disease, cancer, and immune system disorders. Adaptive immunity is mediated by ...

PEPperPRINT wins 30th German Industry’s Innovation Award

22-Feb-2011 - PEPperPRINT has won German Industry’s Innovation Award 2010 in the startup category. The biotech company from Heidelberg, Germany, was awarded in line of 30th German Industry’s Gala at the Congress Center Frankfurt by Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr. Annette ...

2011 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award honours Carol V. Robinson

British chemist recognized as leader in mass spectrometry

21-Feb-2011 - The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Carol V. Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK, as the winner of the 2011 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor Robinson has been recognized for ...

ACEA Biosciences, Inc. Announces New Patent

Broad Claims Granted for Cytotoxicity Profiling and Chemical Compound Testing

18-Feb-2011 - ACEA Biosciences, Inc. reported the issuance of a new U. S. Patent for chemical compound screening, with important applications in the development of new pharmaceutical products. Testing and profiling of these candidate compounds by means of ACEA's real-time, label-free microelectronic technology ...

Analytik Jena Reports Sales and Earnings Growth in First Quarter of 2010/2011

Incoming orders reach record level in first quarter

02-Feb-2011 - Analytik Jena AG reported sales of EUR 23.7 m in the first quarter of the current financial year 2010/2011 (previous year: EUR 21.6 m). This corresponds to sales growth of 10.1 %, meaning that, as in previous years, the Group again achieved record sales. Earnings were also up on the previous ...