Press monitoring
Biotech industry wants better implementation of EU regulations
10.11.2005 | Press monitoring
Healthcare biotech industry representatives say that the inadequate implementation of EU regulation on the biotech sector hinders innovation and blocks SMEs' access to the market.
Biotech Research Helps Create Knowledge-based Economy
8.11.2005 | Press monitoring
Plant biotechnology is helping to create a vibrant knowledge-based economy throughout the United States, according to a study by a University of Minnesota professor.
New discovery in cancer cell communication
8.11.2005 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Monash University and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York uncovered the structure of a cell-surface protease called ADAM10 that controls communication between tumour cells.
European Technology Platforms and Eureca Cluster
4.11.2005 | Press monitoring
EUREKA Czech Chairmanship and Technology Centre AS CR organize workshop: Increasing Czech participation in European Technology Platforms and EUREKA Clusters Prague, 9 November 2005 Venue: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Karmelitska 7, Prague 1 Conference room - Building C
Monolith Summer School
31.10.2005 | Press monitoring
Monolithic media are already employed in a number of different areas, ranging from high throughput screening to industrial purification under cGMP conditions. It is therefore only appropriate that the issues regarding these novel and efficient chromatographic media are discussed at a dedicated event. The 2006 Summer School on Monolith Technology...
Certain bacteria to orientate themselves towards light
21.10.2005 | Press monitoring
All works of the three series are products of a special procedure, based on the property of certain bacteria to orientate themselves towards light. Using this dependency on light, Lissel subjected bacterial cultures that were kept in transparent petri dishes filled with agar solution to pictures. As a result, the bacteria grew and aligned...
Dendrimer-based MRI contrast agents
18.10.2005 | Press monitoring
Laboratory (NCL) to improve the discovery and development of dendrimer technologies. This collaboration may give a new licencing opportunity for DNT's dendrimers, as macromolecular dendrimer-based medical resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents for non-invasive cardiovascular diagnostics.
High-volume vaccine against avian influenza is a step closer
18.10.2005 | Press monitoring
Clinical trials for new effective culture-based vaccine against avian influenza viruses should begin in Norway in Spring 2006. Sanofi Pasteur's novel flu vaccine using Crucell's PERC6 cell-culture technology is going to be the first one developed using human cell production technology to enter clinical trials in Europe.
Proteus has been granted a US patent for new biocatalyst technology.
18.10.2005 | Press monitoring
This biocatalyst technology, called L-Shuffling, is an enabling gene shuffling technology and is used as a recombination-based protein engineering technology to accelerate the development of new or improved products and processes.
Financial relief for innovative companies- indirect support for R&D
18.10.2005 | Press monitoring
In the Czech Republic at the moment, companies cannot rely on any great support from the state for their own research and development. Hence the setting up and running phases of an enterprise with a high requirement for research is one of the most difficult areas to finance.
