Downstream Processing Featured Articles

  1. Roche And BioLamina Start Collaboration To Develop Novel Cell Culture Systems 3/6/2013

    BioLamina, Stockholm, Sweden and Roche recently announced the signing of a research and development agreement to jointly develop new cell culture systems for various applications, including stem cell research.

  2. Novel Protein May Help Detect Lou Gehrig's Disease And Dementia, Mayo Clinic Finds 2/12/2013

    Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brains of many patients affected with two common neurodegenerative disorders — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and frontotemporal dementia.

  3. GeoVax Announces Enrollment Completion For Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial For HIV/AIDS Therapeutic Vaccine 1/10/2013

    GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB: GOVX), an Atlanta-based biopharmaceutical firm developing vaccines to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, announced it has completed enrollment in a nine-patient Phase 1/2 clinical trial testing the safety, immunogenicity and ability of its DNA/MVA vaccine to elicit protective immune responses in HIV-infected individuals.

  4. Sanford-Burnham Research Projects Selected To Go To Space 11/29/2012

    We’re excited to announce recently that two of our research teams have won Space Florida’sInternational Space Station (ISS) Research Competition. Eight teams were selected from a pool of international applicants to send experiments to space in late 2013.

  5. Studies Put Kibosh On Statins For Breast Cancer Prevention 12/10/2012

    New data from the Women’s Health Initiative dash cold water on the idea that statin therapy reduces breast cancer risk.The updated WHI findings showed no association between prior statin use and breast cancer risk in nearly 155,000 postmenopausal study participants followed prospectively for an average of 10.8 years.

  6. 'Patch on a Chip' under development by Axon Instruments 11/1/2000
    New fabrication method will allow thousands of simultaneous patch clamp recordings...
  7. Major Cancer Protein Amplifies Global Gene Expression, NIH Study Finds 9/27/2012

    Scientists may have discovered why a protein called MYC can provoke a variety of cancers. Like many proteins associated with cancer, MYC helps regulate cell growth.

  8. Bionengineers Introduce "Bi-Fi" — The Biological Internet 9/26/2012

    If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. By Andrew Myers

  9. Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Next-Generation Benchtop LC-MS System At ASMS 2012 5/21/2012

    Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently announced the Thermo Scientific Exactive Plus system, the company’s latest benchtop liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) system for high-throughput screening, identification and quantification of compounds in complex matrices.

  10. Unraveling The Molecular Roots Of Down Syndrome 3/24/2013

    What is it about the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome—chromosome 21—that alters brain and body development? Researchers have new evidence that points to a protein called sorting nexin 27, or SNX27.