German companies to revolutionise lab plastics market
Plastic consumables used in pharmaceutical and biotechnological research must meet high quality standards. A German start-up has now launched the...
Obesity: reseachers switch on brown fat cells
The new discovery could herald a revolution in obesity research. If the principle discovered in male mice also applies in humans, therapeutics...
Scientists create non-digestible aptamer
The synthetic TNA nucleic acid analogues created by a biochemists at University of Cologne hrepresent a so called threofuranosyl nucleic acid...
Bioplastics production capacity to quadruple by 2028
Global production capacity for bioplastics will almost quadruple within the next five years, according to estimates of the Nova Institute on behalf...
Seabelife SAS to develop next-gen dry AMD drug
French drug developer SeaBeLife SAS has bagged a €1.5m fund within the i-Nov 2024 innovation competition, which is part of the French government’s...
Protein flags Car-T cells for digestion by NK cells
The protein B7H6, which is highly expressed on activated human T cells, can flag the cells for clearance by natural killer (NK) cells, weakening the...
Electrochaea sells biomethane reactor to Again A/S
Like German bio-CH4 producer Electrochea GmbH, Danish Again A/S is using CO2-fxing archaea, but to manufacture carbon-negative chemicals such...