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Engineered skin and muscle produced like spools of tape might sound like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed... Read More »
In... and out. In... and out. Air flows through the narrow channel carved into the small silicon chip, blood pumping, the miniature lung embedded inside breaths... Read More »
Vaccines are designed to mimic aspects of the microbe they hope the help the body build immunity to. Typically, this means dead or weakened versions of the microbe... Read More »
Recently, Washington University at St. Louis researchers employed a novel holographic technique to see inside tissue. By recording what happens to scattered light... Read More »
Fireflies utilize a relatively well-understood chemical process to produce light -- but they can only glow certain colors. In an upcoming issue of Nano Letters... Read More »
This week saw some changes in the Patexia’s content. One of the main changes is that your truly will be covering the bulk of the news developments -- this also... Read More »
Stanford University researchers Jerome Bonnet, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Drew Endy have developed a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Using a new technology, scientists have created a ‘nanoslinky’ that manipulates and measures DNA molecules and other nanoscale materials. On the nanoscale ... Read More »
New biotechnological and chemical methods will facilitate efficient production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable natural resources. The Academy of... Read More »
Monsanto's newest drought-tolerant corn system, as part of on-farm trials, will be available to growers under the new DroughtGard™ Hybrids name. DroughtGard ... Read More »
The VIB Department for Plant Systems Biology at Ghent University and BASF Plant Science announced today a cooperation agreement in plant biotechnology. ... Read More »
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Sofia IzquierdaI expect to see more corn in grocery store ;)
Feb 8, 2012
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University are developing elastic electronics -- technology which could revolutionize... Read More »
For many decades, innovation and government support have had a close relationship. Lately, however, obtaining government support for innovation has become more... Read More »
Janssen Biotech announced today that it has negotiated an agreement with Pharmacyclics to develop and market PCI-32765, an anti-cancer compound. Janssen Biotech, a... Read More »
Ixmyelocel-T cell therapy proved safe in a mid-stage clinical trial by Aastrom BioSciences, according to data presented today at the annual meeting of the American... Read More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian biotech firm Ablynx said on Friday that it had regained the rights for its TNF-Alpha targeting nanobodies from Pfizer, which... Read More »
The late 1950s saw mass prescription of a sedative called thalidomide for morning sickness. Unfortunately, it was later discovered that one enantiomer of thalidomide... Read More »
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA was abuzz with coffee-fueled conversation the weekend of Oct. 21-22nd as a very diverse bunch -... Read More »
When we think of patent law, we often think of technology, engineering, and intellectual property. Rarely do we think of living organisms. In 1980, however, the... Read More »