Agreement Advances Allergy Vaccine for Cats
Monday February 23, 2009
As a cat lover allergic to my tabby, I'm overjoyed to report that Novozymes and ALK-Abello have entered into a collaborative agreement to develop a new oral vaccine for cat ... Read More
In Vitro Error Inevitable
Thursday February 19, 2009
I am not at all surprised to read this morning, that a woman in Japan undergoing in vitro fertilization, was impregnated with the wrong egg. The reason I'm not surprised ... Read More
Obama to Promote Green Technologies
Thursday February 19, 2009
Barack Obama is in Ottawa today on his first international appearance since the inaugaration. Word is that he will be initiating a Clean Fuels agreement with Prime Minister Harper, which ... Read More
Bioremedi-What?
Tuesday February 17, 2009
It's not a really complicated word, but whenever I talk to people about what I did for my doctorate, I get all sorts of confused responses and a lot of ... Read More
Rhinovirus DNA Sequences Reported
Friday February 13, 2009
A gene sequencing study was presented online in Science this week, describing the genomes of all known rhinoviruses. The study was published by researchers from the Universities of Wisconsin and ... Read More
Plantigens and Plantibodies - Plant Pharmaceuticals
Wednesday February 11, 2009
Recombinant plants are plants which carry genes from other plants or organisms and can be used to produce certain proteins in large amounts, for lower costs, than in traditional fermentation ... Read More
Will Biodesulfurization Ever Work?
Monday February 9, 2009
As a Post-Doctoral Fellow, I researched ways to improve desulfurization of crude oil using biological systems. Traditionally, chemical processes for sulfur removal required extreme reaction conditions of heat and pressure ... Read More
Survey Shows Willingness to Pay for Efficient Expression Systems
Thursday February 5, 2009
In a recent survey of the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry, by BioPlan Associates, over 80% of respondants said they considered rate of development of established cell lines important or very important. ... Read More
The Dose Makes the Poison
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Part of a risk assessment document for a bioremediation program caught my eye yesterday, and I read a statement that is equally applicable to both evaluation of environmental contaminants and ... Read More