Without using animals: antibodies from algae for pregnancy tests

Start-up develops new process - DBU provides funding

19-Nov-2024 - It is not every day that young start-ups from Germany launch an innovation with industry-changing potential onto the market. But this is exactly what Phaeosynt, a company founded out of the University of Hanover, is planning to do with its diatom-derived antibodies for medical diagnostics. Until ...

WildDISCO: Visualizing Whole Bodies in Unprecedented Detail

AI Integration: Predicting Disease Progression Without the Use of Animal Models in Research

12-Jul-2023 - Researchers developed a new method called wildDISCO that uses standard antibodies to map the entire body of an animal using fluorescent markers. This revolutionary technique provides detailed 3D maps of structures, shedding new light on complex biological systems and diseases. WildDISCO has the ...

Waters and Sartorius Expand Collaboration to Deliver Comprehensive Bioanalytics for Downstream Biomanufacturing

06-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ ...

Highly potent and stable nanobodies stop SARS-CoV-2

Alpacas provide blueprints for mini-antibodies

30-Jul-2021 - A team of researchers has developed mini-antibodies that efficiently eliminate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and its dangerous new variants. The so-called nanobodies bind and neutralize the virus up to 1000 times better than previously developed mini-antibodies. In addition, the researchers were ...

Nanoscale ruler reveals organization of the cell membrane

Freiburg biologists measure distances and the arrangement of membrane molecules in nanometer range

27-Jun-2014 - After a ten-year effort, Prof. Dr. Michael Reth from the Institute of Biology III of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics has developed a method to investigate the cell surface's organization on a nanometer scale. This allows him to monitor how ...

MorphoSys Announces Acquisition of Sloning

Combination of Technologies Set to Increase Success Rates in Drug Development

11-Oct-2010 - MorphoSys AG announced the acquisition of Sloning BioTechnology GmbH. The transaction will make MorphoSys the sole source of Sloning's state-of-the-art Slonomics technology, which improves the assembly and quality of protein libraries. By integrating Slonomics into its existing antibody ...

Improved security for dairy products: Minilab identifies antibiotic residues in milk

12-May-2010 - No one wants antibiotic residues in their milk. But antibiotics are sometimes used even in the dairy barn. The routine tests conducted nowadays take hours to produce a result and do not test for all of the typical antibiotics. This gap can now be closed, thanks to a fully automated minilab ...

Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for 2010 granted to leading Italian scientist

Professor Torsi from the University of Bari receives Analytical Sciences distinction

06-May-2010 - Merck KGaA announced that the 2010 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Sciences will go to Luisa Torsi, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Bari in Italy. This marks the first time that the award has been given to a woman and to a scientist in Italy. The award, which is ...

F is for Fluoresence and Fluorine

New dyes for optical nanoscopy

30-Mar-2010 - The imaging of living cells at the molecular level was barely a dream twenty years ago. Today, however, this dream is close to becoming reality. In the Max Planck Institute for NanoBiophotonics in Göttingen, Stefan Hell has developed fluorescence microscopy methods for observing objects on the ...

New Mechanism for Cardiac Arrhythmia discovered

01-Oct-2008 - It has long been thought that virus infections can cause cardiac arrhythmia. But why has not been understood. Ulrike Lisewski, Dr. Yu Shi, Michael Radke and Professor Michael Gotthardt of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now discovered the molecular ...