Fermentation revolution?

Trash becomes treasure as bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol

07-Feb-2024 - In a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, has unveiled pioneering advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. The study, published in ...

Innovative Research on Manufacturing of Viral Vaccines and Gene Therapies

"Innovation Prize 2021 of the German BioRegions" awarded to ContiVir

01-Dec-2021 - ContiVir, a planned spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Magdeburg, has been awarded the 2021 "Innovation Prize of the German BioRegions" with regard to their research on and development of a purification tool to tackle vaccine bottlenecks. This ...

Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits

03-Mar-2017 - Scientists from the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC) successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using 'molecular bait'. Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women, with prostate and breast cancer the most common ...

Fluorescence dyes from the pressure cooker

01-Feb-2017 - The laboratory of Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has just reported the synthesis of more than 20 different perylene bisimide dyes. This is not impressive per se. The way they prepare these compounds is though: Conventionally, perylene bisimides are ...

Turning straw into gold?

10-Aug-2016 - What should we run our cars with in the future? The need for an alternative to fossil fuels is an issue that is elaborated heatedly all over the world. At present, one option is using biofuels. However, the so-called first-generation technology depends widely on sugar, starch or oil crops. These, ...

VIB and UGent researchers identify key mechanisms of cell division in plants

New technology can be applied to boost crop yields

12-Aug-2010 - Scientists from VIB and Ghent University have developed a technology that may contribute to the increase of crop yields in agriculture. The technology platform based on ‘Tandem Affinity Purification (TAP)’ was developed to map the basic machinery of cell division in plants much faster than ...

Pall Expands Line of Proteomics Technologies for Full Range of Drug Discovery and Development Solutions

Opens Proteomics Service Centers to Optimize Research and Manufacturing Efficiency

11-Jan-2005 - Pall Corporation launches a comprehensive line of chromatography sorbents at PepTalk 2005. These advanced industry-proven sorbents from Pall greatly simplify protein separation and purification for biotechnology drug discovery, development and production. The integration of this broad range of ...