Ipsat Announces Positive Clinical Trial Results for the Prevention of Serious Infections Associated with Antibiotic Resistance

24-Oct-2003 - Helsink - Ipsat Therapies, focused on developing products to prevent the spread of serious infections associated with antibiotic therapy and resistance, today presented positive Phase I clinical trial data for its lead product, P1A, at the BioPartnering Europe Conference in London. This product ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon

08-Oct-2003 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes", with one half of the prize to Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA "for the discovery of water ...

Nanogen and Prodesse to develop infectious disease diagnostics

12-Sep-2003 - Nanogen, Inc. and Prodesse, Inc. announced the signing of a collaboration agreement to develop automated, highly sensitive microarray- based products to detect a number of infectious disease agents, including influenza, pneumonia, adenovirus, herpes, West Nile Virus, and SARS. The Companies will ...

Cooperation is a No-brainer for Symbiotic Bacteria

Humans may learn cooperation in kindergarten, but what about bacteria, whose behavior is preprogrammed by their DNA?

11-Sep-2003 - Some legume plants, which rely on beneficial soil bacteria called rhizobia that infect their roots and provide nitrogen, seem to promote cooperation by exacting a toll on those bacterial strains that don't hold up their end of the symbiotic bargain, according to a team of researchers at the ...

Scientists Crack Secret Strength of Silk

Tufts University Bioengineers figured out how spiders and silkworms spin such strong silk, which could have far-reaching implications for everything from hospital dressings to body armor.

08-Sep-2003 - While humans have relied on silk for more than 2,000 years, scientists have never been able to unravel the mystery of how spiders and silkworms produced their incredibly strong fibers - until now. In a newly published study, Tufts researchers discovered the mechanism for production of strong ...

Danisco Venture invests in Profos AG

04-Sep-2003 - Regensburg, Germany - Profos AG and Danisco Venture announced that they have agreed to an equity financing of several million euros, of which some are subject to milestones being met. Certain patent rights, which Danisco Venture has secured from third parties, have also been transferred to Profos ...

Social mobility: Study shows bacteria seek each other out

Findings could suggest new ways of attacking harmful bacteria

29-Jul-2003 - A study by Princeton University scientists has shown that bacteria actively move around their environments to form social organizations. The researchers placed bacteria in minute mazes and found that they sought each other out using chemical signals. Biologists have become increasingly aware of ...

Henogen S.A. acquires 4C Biotech S.A.

02-Jul-2003 - Henogen, located at Charleroi in Belgium, has recently closed the acquisition of 4C Biotech, Seneffe, a Contract Manufacturing Organization dedicated to the development of mammalian cell culture processes for the production of biotherapeutics. This acquisition extends the existing services ...

"Bacteria-eating" viruses may spread some infectious diseases

Phage may be new therapeutic target

10-Jun-2003 - A strep-infected child in a daycare center plays with a toy, puts it in her mouth and crawls away. Another child plays with the same toy and comes down with strep. Until now, scientists thought that disease-causing bacteria left on the toy was the culprit in transferring the disease from the ...

New System To Accurately Detect Potentially Fatal Bacteria In Donated Blood Launched In U.K. By Pall Corporation

03-Sep-2002 - East Hills, N.Y. (August 29, 2002) - Pall Corporation introduced a new Bacteria Detection System (Pall (R) BDS) in the United Kingdom today to detect bacterial contamination in donated blood. The system analyzes bacteria in platelets, a blood component crucial in helping the blood to clot. ...