Green wave for “gene cabs”

Leap in knowledge of peptide nanofibrils

03-Jun-2022 - Viruses help researchers to introduce genes into cells so that they can produce active pharmaceutical ingredients, for example. Special peptides stimulate the process. Until now, however, the efficiency increase was poorly understood. A team of researchers from the MPI for Polymer Research, the ...

Precision engineering of glycoproteins

LenioBio together with EnginZyme and Wageningen University awarded prestigious Eurostars grant

11-May-2022 - LenioBio GmbH announced that the company has been awarded a 2.75M Euro Eurostars grant to lead a consortium comprising one academic and two industrial partners spanning three European countries. Under the project name HiT-GlyP, the consortium comprising LenioBio (Germany), Wageningen University ...

Large bacterial populations develop stronger resistance to antibiotics

In large populations, mutants that evolve relatively late resist antibiotic treatment more effectively, while smaller populations rely on less effective mutations that appear at an earlier point in time

09-Mar-2022 - An international team of scientists at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne (Germany) have shown that small and large bacterial populations follow qualitatively different evolutionary paths: Larger populations develop stronger ...

Gene therapy start-up VectorY and Wageningen University sign strategic collaboration

Two-part project to develop novel baculovirus genome seeds and bioprocess technologies for the scalable production of AAV gene therapies

27-Jan-2022 - VectorY Therapeutics, a biotech company focusing on the development of innovative gene therapy approaches for the treatment of muscular and neurodegenerative disorders through vectorized antibodies, announces a collaboration with Wageningen University to develop novel baculovirus-based ...

Training bees to smell the coronavirus

A trained bee can detect an infected sample within a few seconds

12-May-2021 - Start-up InsectSense and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have trained bees to extend their tongues when they smell the coronavirus. The coronavirus, like other diseases, causes metabolic changes in the body that causes a smell. Bees can be trained within minutes to recognize the scent of ...

So long lithium, hello bacteria batteries?

08-Apr-2016 - As renewable energy sources grow, so does the demand for new ways to store the resulting energy at low-cost and in environmentally friendly ways. Now scientists report in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters a first-of-its-kind development toward that goal: a rechargeable ...

How plants become zombies

11-Apr-2014 - Scientists of John Innes Centre and Wageningen UR have shown how a specific bacterial parasite, causing developmental problems in crops, e.g. oilseed rape, is able to manipulate plants in such a way that they produce leaves instead of flowers. This manipulation improves the chances of the ...

Taste of ‘smoky’ tomatoes is caused by one missing enzyme

09-Oct-2013 - The absence or presence of one specific enzyme causes tomatoes to be described as ‘smoky’ or not by taste experts. This is the result of research by Wageningen UR, which studied the taste of 94 tomato varieties using expert taste panels. The tomatoes were also evaluated for their metabolite ...

Maths can carry weight in the battle against obesity

04-Oct-2013 - A study at the Biometris group of Wageningen UR shows that the ‘drive’ to lose weight peaks several months before people actually start following a diet in practice, while it is low a few months before they stop dieting. The scientists used a mathematical computer model that combines all kinds of ...

A pentavalent inhibitor for cholera toxin

27-May-2013 - Research reports the first pentavalent inhibitor for cholera toxin that exactly matches the pentavalent structure of the cholera toxin binding domain. Cholera still represents a serious health problem in areas of the developing world where there is a lack of clean water and proper sanitation. It ...