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Nanoparticles Monitor Enzyme Activity – New Screen for Drug Discovery
20.6.2006 | Press monitoring
One way to stop malignant cells in their tracks is to interfere with the activity of enzymes required to produce uncontrolled cell division, angiogenesis, or metastasis. A new assay that uses nanoparticle release to detect and quantify changes in enzyme activity could greatly speed the search for molecules that can alter the activity of enzymes...
A liposome-PCR assay for the ultrasensitive detection of biological toxins
20.6.2006 | Press monitoring
We describe an ultrasensitive immunoassay for detecting biotoxins that uses liposomes with encapsulated DNA reporters, and ganglioside receptors embedded in the bilayer, as a detection reagent. After immobilization of the target biotoxin by a capture antibody and co-binding of the detection reagent, the liposomes are ruptured to release the...
New technique to create genetically modified chickens
20.6.2006 | Press monitoring
A US biotechnology firm said on Wednesday it had developed a new technique to produce genetically modified chickens that could be used to produce treatments for human diseases.
Oncoprevention for the Czech Republic
19.6.2006 | Press monitoring
Oncological prevention means prediction and prevention of undesirable events in relation to the occurrence and progression of malignant tumours. The preventive doctrine for fighting malignant tumours must be complex and must concern not only the origination and early detection of malignant tumours but also the implications of progression and...
GM Europe staff to protest over Portuguese plant
19.6.2006 | Press monitoring
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Motors (NYSE:GM - News) staff will go on strike at a Portuguese assembly plant on Tuesday and protest elsewhere after talks on Monday to save the Azambuja factory foundered, the carmaker's European works council said.
Proteins in metabolism and interaction of organisms with the environment
19.6.2006 | Press monitoring
The proposal is the follow up of the previous, in our view successful, long-term research plan "Structure-Function Relationships of Biomolecules and their Role in Metabolism" studied in 1998-2004, and partly the project "Laboratory of Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules" in the framework of program "250" studied in 1996-2000.
Virulence of Armillaria pathogens
18.6.2006 | Press monitoring
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ The genus Armillaria belongs to basidiomycetes and has been known to induce root rot disease and to cause extensive economic losses to a forest crop.
Environmental biotechnology
17.6.2006 | Press monitoring
Within a wide spectrum of the uses of biotechnology in the environment, we are engaged in biotechnological, physiological and environmental aspects of iron- and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria.
Study shows taste for meat and fish inherited
17.6.2006 | Press monitoring
Children inherit their taste for meat and fish but when it comes to vegetables and desserts it's more nurture than nature, according to a study on Wednesday. Scientists who compared the food preferences of identical and fraternal twins found that some tastes are inherited while others are acquired.
Integrated genome and proteome analysis of therapeutically important bacteriophages by combination of electrophoresis and mass spectrometry
16.6.2006 | Press monitoring
It is expected that selected bacteriophages (bacterial viruses), or even their specific proteins and/or peptides can be used as a new effective means to treat bacterial infections. For a rational development of phage therapy, without the adverse effects of current antibiotics, the relationship between the desired biological properties of suitable...
