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 ...

Analyze proteins and protein interactions with hitherto unseen performance

Life-science startup Actome announces release of first commercial products

09-May-2022 - Actome has released the first commercial products to the EU market based on the Protein Interaction Coupling (PICO) Technology. The PICO assay kits for measuring proteins and protein interactions are available throughActome's online webshop. Actome GmbH is a life-science startup form Freiburg ...

A free AI tool to quickly determine which protein labeling strategy works best for molecular interaction measurements

NanoTemper Technologies and PharmAI launch Proto

12-Apr-2022 - NanoTemper Technologies, in partnership with PharmAI, announced the launch of Proto, a free AI-based web application that reveals the best labeling strategy to help scientists more efficiently measure molecular interactions, a process that’s necessary to discover and develop new drugs. Proto is ...

Predicting the probability of death

"This is pretty cool but also scary and hopefully somewhat useful"

21-Jun-2021 - Scientists from deCODE genetics have developed a predictor based on protein measurements in blood samples that predicts the time to all-cause death better than traditional risk factors. In a paper published in Communications Biology, scientists from deCODE genetics,a subsidiary of Amgen, ...

New findings about anti-malaria drug

30-Jan-2019 - Artemisinin is derived from the leaves and flowers of the annual mugwort (Artemisia annua) and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. The effectiveness was investigated by the Chinese researcher Tu Youyou. Her research was 2015 rewarded with the Nobel Prize. Artemisinin and ...

New biomarker links cancer progression to genome instability

High level of specific protein in tumors indicates prognosis

14-Jan-2019 - Our DNA is under constant attack. The delicate molecule that contains our genetic information is extremely vulnerable to everything from environmental agents, such as radiation, to the chemicals in the air we breathe and the food we eat. Genome instability can lead to genetic disorders, chronic ...

Big results from small solutions

New method for analyzing metalloproteins

30-Nov-2018 - A new method only needs a tiny liquid sample to analyze metalloproteins. This breakthrough was achieved by a research team led by Associate Professor Eiji Ohmichi and Tsubasa Okamoto at the Kobe University Graduate School of Science. Metalloproteins (also known as metal-binding proteins) play ...

Expanding the optogenetics toolkit

22-Oct-2018 - Controlling individual brain cells using light-sensitive proteins has proven to be a powerful tool for probing the brain's complexities. As this branch of neuroscience has expanded, so has the demand for a diverse palette of protein tools. A multidisciplinary team of 14 researchers from the ...

In the fight against Alzheimer's, Down syndrome may hold vital clues

18-Oct-2018 - At first glance, Down syndrome (DS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), two severe brain abnormalities, may seem to have little in common. Down syndrome is a hereditary disease, the source of which has long been recognized--a triplication of chromosome 21. By contrast, the overwhelming majority of ...

New method measures single molecules from nanoliter of blood in real time

09-Oct-2018 - University of Groningen scientists, led by Associate Professor of Chemical Biology Giovanni Maglia, have designed a nanopore system that is capable of measuring different metabolites simultaneously in a variety of biological fluids, all in a matter of seconds. The electrical output signal is ...