25-11-2009

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs. One strategy for mitigating greenhouse gases is to inject compressed ...

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18-09-2008

DSM and LibraGen announced that they have signed an agreement to co-develop new omega-transaminases for production of chiral amines. Under the terms of the partnership, LibraGen will use its proprietary enzyme discovery and development to identify new enzymes for efficient conversion of a ...

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13-06-2008

A team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer components, could have considerably more uses than scientists had thought. The findings are important because they reveal previously unknown ...

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23-04-2008

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has presented the 2008 Manfred Donike Award for scientific excellence in sports doping testing to Ulrich Flenker, research scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany. Flenker was honored for his continuous ...

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10-04-2006

Thermo Electron Corporation has concluded a licensing agreement with the University of Virginia for Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD), an new ion fragmentation technology that provides sequence information not available from conventional methods currently in use on ion trap mass ...

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Miscibility not required: chemical reactions "on water" faster than in organic solvents

17-05-2005

We all know what it means to put something "on ice", but what is a chemical reaction "on water"? This new expression has been coined by a team headed by K. Barry Sharpless, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for chemistry, to describe reactions of organic substances that are not water-soluble, ...

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31-03-2005

Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bottles for infants, can impair brain function, leading to learning disabilities and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, according to Yale ...

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06-08-2004

PerkinElmer Inc., a leading provider of drug discovery, life science research, and analytical solutions and Vivascience AG, leading supplier of products and technology solutions for protein purification and analysis and member of the Sartorius Group, today announced that they have entered ...

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Innovation Integral to Increased Adoption of Oligonucleotide Technologies

01-08-2004

London, UK. Poised on the brink of phenomenal growth, the oligonucleotides market offers a plethora of opportunities to the enterprising investor. Recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan (http://pharma.frost.com) estimates that the total global market for oligonucleotides is likely to grow from ...

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Smithfield Facility Will be Closed

30-07-2004

Dowpharma, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, has announced plans to close its biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing facility in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Dowpharma will continue to develop its biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing business by building on promising new ...

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