Tag: Europe
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Laser Measurement Device Deployed for Europe Wind R&D
Denmark’s National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, known as Risø DTU, has developed a laser-based instrument package to measure conditions at wind power farms, and that device will now be used across Europe at European Energy Research Alliance research stations and commercial installations. Just one of the devices, called a WindScanner (pictured right) , can produce…
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Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery
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 for co-financing of R&D collaborative projects in…
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U.S., Greece Collaborate on Invasive Weed Defense
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 are working together to find a natural way to…
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Testing Labs Score Well Finding Heavy Metals in Seafood
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 the study and generally…
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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…
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Institute Developing Autonomous Underwater Robots
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 by humans, which…
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U.S., Europe Patents Issued for RNAi Drug Delivery
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. in Vancouver, Canada, a developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, says that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and European Patent Office (EPO) have issued patents covering elements of Tekmira’s lipid nanoparticle technology for delivering nucleic acid therapeutics, including small interfering RNA (siRNA). RNAi therapeutics have the potential to treat…
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USA, EU, Japan Patent Offices Vow To Improve Work Sharing
Leaders of the patent offices in the United States, European Union, and Japan agreed to speed the process of examination of patent applications by better sharing materials on common filings. The three organizations met this week at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia for their 28th annual conference. The three…
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Engineered Bacteria Process Converts Bio-Wastes to Plastics
A Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has discovered a process for engineering bacteria to more efficiently convert agricultural wastes into industrial-quality plastics. Jean-Paul Meijnen presented the findings in his dissertation, which he defends at TU Delft on Monday 22 November. Lignocellulose, the complex combination of lignin and cellulose…
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New Process Breeds Resistance to Potato, Tomato Blight
Researchers have discovered a process that offers an alternative to combating resistance to late blight, a disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry £5 to £6 billion ($8.0 to $9.6 billion) a year worldwide. Late blight of potatoes and tomatoes is caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans), and was responsible for…