Science and Enterprise

Tag: biotechnology

  • Life Science Commercialization Grants Awarded

    The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) in Seattle, Washington awarded some $600,000 in grants for the commercial development of technologies to improve the diagnosis and management of health conditions. LSDF is a Washington state agency that makes grant investments in life sciences research to benefit Washington state citizens. Christopher Bernards at Benaroya Research Institute at…

  • Gates Grants Fund Malaria Modeling Device, Culture System

    The University of South Florida in Tampa received $5.45 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research on devices related to malaria. The first grant is to create advanced devices that mimic the human liver to better study the life cycle of the malaria parasite. The second grant aims to develop…

  • Math Techniques Developed to Aid HIV Drug Discovery

    Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland have developed mathematical methods for discovering new drugs for HIV and eventually for a range of diseases. Their results were published in a recent issue of Biophysical Journal. The new methods forecast the effectiveness of potential medicines by…

  • New Techniques Developed to Bind Peptides, Proteins

    Research chemists at University at Buffalo in New York have devised two new ways of binding peptides to helix-shaped proteins, making the peptides more resistant to enzymes and more valuable in therapies. One of those binding techniques, called photoclick stapling, is described in a paper published online last month in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal…

  • National Lab, University to Certify Flu Screening Machine

    Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the UCLA School of Public Health in Los Angeles will test and certify a key component of the High-Throughput Laboratory Network (HTLN) to be built by HighRes Biosolutions of Boston, Massachusetts. The company will design the automated extraction and screening system for a prototype compact…

  • Endo Pharma, Orion Corp. to Advance Cancer Drugs

    Endo Pharmaceuticals in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Orion Corporation in Espoo, Finland said today they have a collaboration agreement for drug research and development in oncology. The partnership aims to advance eight discovery-phase cancer drug candidates by combining their relevant R&D programs. The collaboration also gives each company exclusive licensing rights to the other’s development-ready…

  • Pathology Lab, Institute Partner on Cancer Drug Services

    Flagship Biosciences, a pathology lab in Flagstaff, Arizona and TGen Drug Development (TD2), in Scottsdale, Arizona, have teamed up to provide drug discovery and development services to cancer researchers. Flagship Biosciences is a pharmaceutical services company that offers digital pathology to test diseased tissue samples for biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device customers. TD2 is a…

  • Paper Strip Technique Devised for Complex Diagnostics

    Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana have developed a technique using inexpensive paper to make test strips for more complex medical diagnostics and chemical analysis. The team from Purdue’s engineering school published their findings online this week in the journal Lab on a Chip (paid subscription required). The researchers say this innovation provides…

  • Grant Awarded to Company for Kennedy’s Disease Research

    AndroScience Corp., a drug discovery and development company in San Diego, California, said it received a $3.8 million translational research grant to help develop a treatment for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, also called Kennedy’s Disease. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health awarded the grant. The…

  • Research Spin Off Company to Tackle Superbug Infections

    Fixed Phage Limited in Glascow, Scotland has been launched to commercialize a technology for tackling bacterial infection and contamination, including superbugs such as MRSA. That technology was developed at the University of Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in Scotland. Fixed Phage’s technology is based on research for treatment and prevention of infection and…