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Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery

Strasbourg, France (Ulrich Oestringer, WikiTravel)

Alsace BioValley, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, a health science cluster and Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery in Nuns’ Island, Québec, Canada, signed in Paris today an agreement for a bilateral partnership to benefit Alsatian and Québec research centers and industries in the health and life sciences.

The agreement calls . . . → Read More: Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery

New Process Developed for Bio-Plastic Feedstocks

George Huber (Anellotech)

Chemical engineers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks from biomass, such as waste wood, agricultural waste and non-food energy crops. This method, that the authors say is economically competitive to current processes using fossil fuels, can produce industrial materials such as . . . → Read More: New Process Developed for Bio-Plastic Feedstocks

Review Ordered of Research Protections for Human Subjects

(USA.gov)

President Barack Obama yesterday (24 November) asked Amy Guttman, chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, to review protections afforded human subjects taking part in federally-funded research. The review stems from disclosures of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies on sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala from 1946 to . . . → Read More: Review Ordered of Research Protections for Human Subjects

Science Business Named to Top 50 Researcher Blogs

(Photos8.com)

We received a holiday goodie from Samantha Reno and Alba Collazo, when they named Science Business as one of their Top 50 Blogs by Scientific Researchers. Samantha and Alba published the top 50 list in their Clinical Research Blog earlier this month. It’s gratifying to get recognition, particularly from fellow bloggers, for . . . → Read More: Science Business Named to Top 50 Researcher Blogs

University Licenses Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Technology

(National Institute of Standards and Technology)

The University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), both in Vancouver, Canada, said today that Covidien, a Dublin, Ireland provider of health care products, has licensed a drug-delivery platform technology invented by UBC researcher, Pieter Cullis. CDRD provided the development . . . → Read More: University Licenses Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Technology

U.S., Greece Collaborate on Invasive Weed Defense

Silverleaf nightshade (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

One U.S. export not appreciated overseas is the silverleaf nightshade, an invasive weed from the Americas that has spread to southern Europe, Africa, India, Australia, and elsewhere. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Benaki Phytopathological Institute in Athens, Greece . . . → Read More: U.S., Greece Collaborate on Invasive Weed Defense

Testing Labs Score Well Finding Heavy Metals in Seafood

(A. Kotok)

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Brussels, Belgium released results today of a study that benchmarks the abilities of laboratories around the world to measure heavy metals in fish and seafood. The labs, located mainly in Europe but also in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries, took part voluntarily in . . . → Read More: Testing Labs Score Well Finding Heavy Metals in Seafood

Pfizer, Diagnostics Company to Collaborate on Sepsis Tests

SIRS-Lab,a molecular diagnostics company in Jena, Germany and Pfizer Pharma GmbH in Berlin said today they plan to collaborate in the field of sepsis. The collaboration aims to develop molecular diagnostic tests for early and accurate targeting of anti-infection therapy.

Sepsis is a life-threatening illness caused by the body’s response to a bacterial infection. The . . . → Read More: Pfizer, Diagnostics Company to Collaborate on Sepsis Tests

FDA Clears Protein Test for Heart Failure Prognosis

(Yale School of Medicine/Wikimedia Commons)

BG Medicine Inc., a Waltham, Massacusetts developer of molecular diagnostics using biomarkers, says that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s galectin-3 test to help assess the prognosis of patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure. The company says this 510(k) clearance is the first . . . → Read More: FDA Clears Protein Test for Heart Failure Prognosis

Institute Developing Autonomous Underwater Robots

(Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Ilmenau, Germany, with colleagues at other Fraunhofer facilities, are working on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that are smaller, more robust, and less expensive than underwater robots now in use. With current technology, underwater robots need to be directed . . . → Read More: Institute Developing Autonomous Underwater Robots