25-04-2013

For three days, high-quality laboratory equipment and the latest analysis devices were the focus of the third analytica Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. 114 exhibitors from ten countries presented their exhibits to more than 3,400 trade visitors. The content in the program of related events, ...

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06-02-2013

Using Laser Technology, Aleksandr Ovsianikov from the Vienna University of Technology wants to create microstructures with embedded living cells. This project will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant. The behavior of cells strongly depends on their environment. If they are to be researched an ...

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18-01-2013

SYGNIS Pharma AG has been granted the European and US patent for a new basic technology for the detection of protein-protein interactions, a screening platform for the development of novel drugs. Protein-protein interactions falls within the scope of proteomics, a field that is growing in ...

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18-01-2013

De Montfort University (DMU) has come together with Ithaka Life Sciences Ltd (Ithaka), to market new technology designed to speed up and reduce the cost of the development of new drugs and medicines. A leading expert at DMU, Professor Bob Chaudhuri, has invented the technology which will ...

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03-12-2012

to-BBB has been awarded the 2012 European CNS Targeted Drug Delivery Technology Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan that is based on extensive research carried out by a team of healthcare analysts.CNS disorders are a major cause of mortality and debilitation. With increasing prevalence of ...

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21-11-2012

Marinomed Biotechnologie GmbH announced that it has been granted Chinese Patent No. CN101678040, entitled ‘Antiviral polymer’, by the Chinese patent office. The patent covers the use of a specific polymer for the prevention and treatment of rhinovirus infections.Dr. Andreas Grassauer, CEO and ...

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07-11-2012

GlaxoSmithKline clinched the top prize at the IChemE 2012 Awards in recognition of its radical change in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The organisation won the Outstanding Achievement in Chemical Engineering Award alongside project partners GEA, Siemens, Sagentia and the Universities of ...

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A room full of electronics - from QTM A to LAS 4.2

05-11-2012

Fifty years ago the development of modern image analysis began. These early systems used to fill a whole room with electronics, very different from today’s elegant, distinctive desktop set-up. In 1962, the first automated system for the analysis of microscope images was developed by the ...

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16-10-2012

Robert J. Lefkowitz from Duke University, along with Brian Kobilka from Stanford University, were just awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research and discovery of the receptor protein that binds to adrenaline, that is the beta-adrenergic receptor. A receptor protein crosses ...

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24-09-2012

Cardiolynx Ltd., specializing in the development of improved cardio-metabolic therapies, announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a patent covering a new chemical entity, CLC-1280, developed using Cardiolynx' nitric oxide technology. CLC-1280 is based on an established late ...

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