Bionity.COM Newsletter No. 27/2010, 07/14/2010

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Outperformance meets cost control - arium® pro Ultrapure water systems
The arium® pro system defines the latest benchmarks for operating performance and cost control. The innovative glass display with touch screen functions and graphic support enable users to control and activate all procedures with total efficiency...

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Connecting weighing components over Ethernet
This futuristic theme is already being addressed by Sartorius today in the implementation of process container scales, with the presentation two new products: the X3 process indicator and the PR5220 process transmitter...

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Complete traceability and excellent reliability of your measurement results
With UV/Vis calibration standards from Hellma´s accredited calibration laboratory
Regular calibrations of spectrophotometers are vitally important for securing measurement results. With UV/Vis calibration standards from an accredited DKD calibration laboratory (DIN 17025) you are always on the safe side...

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6th European Downstream Technology Forum, September 7-8, 2010 in Göttingen, Germany
Meet Experts from the Industry

This Forum focuses on an advanced, integrated approach to meet the biomanufacturing challenges of today and tomorrow. Biotech industry experts will specifically address current needs and innovations in Purification Technologies for the production of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals.

A major focus will be on bridging the gap between upstream productivity and downstream processes.
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Pipette Tips That Ensure Perfect Pipette Connection
Developed by INTEGRA VIAFLO - GripTip^TM are a next generation range of pipette tips that ensure the perfect connection between pipette and tip. GripTips have been engineered to provide unmatched high lateral resistance. As a result, pipette tips will never fall off while pipetting....

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The "smart" anion exchange chromatography resin: Eshmuno^TM Q
Eshmuno^TM Q combines proven tentacle structure with hydrophilic polyvinyl ether base matrix.
Thanks to the proven tentacle structure combined with hydrophilic polyvinyl ether base matrix superior productivity and maximum performance in downstream processing are possible. Eshmuno^TM Q offers outstanding results in typical anion exchange applications ...

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Manually operated high performance 96 channel pipetting device
Liquidator⁹⁶ - a highly efficient solution for the pipetting of multiwell-plates
With its 96 separate pipetting channels and the fully manual operated Liquidator96 will considerably facilitate and speed up your daily work. The pipetting of 96 well and even 384 well plates becomes a matter of seconds...

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PHAZIR R_x:Handheld NIR Raw Material Analyzer
The Polychromix PHAZIR R_x ^TM is the first of its kind handheld NIR material analyzer engineered to provide an innovative solution for portable raw material identification testing and at-line process monitoring applications for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry...

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Biotech News

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Latest News from Biotechnology and Pharma from 07/07/2010 to 07/13/2010

Mouse stem cell study offers new insights into body fat distribution
07/13/2010 - New research presented at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham shows that adding fat to mouse stem cells grown in the lab affects their response to the signals that p...
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Transgene Announces Opening of First Clinical Site for its Phase II Trial of TG4040 for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C
07/13/2010 - Transgene S.A. announced the opening of the first clinical site for the phase II trial (named HCVac) of TG4040 (MVA-HCV) for the treatment of naïve genotype 1 hepatitis C infected patients in combina...
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Novartis obtains licences to develop and commercialise two Ablynx Nanobodies
07/13/2010 - Ablynx announced that Novartis has obtained licenses to further develop and commercialise Nanobodies against two complex targets. This has triggered a total of €1 million in upfront fees and license p...
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Biochrom appoints Sam Luke as the new Group Managing Director
07/13/2010 - Biochrom Ltd, the UK based subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience Inc.has announced the appointment of Sam Luke as its new Group Managing Director.
Sam holds an Engineering degree from Clare College, th...
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Prostate cancer risk variant found to be in a functional DNA sequence linked with disease
07/13/2010 - Recent genetic association studies have uncovered a number of DNA variants associated with prostate cancer. However, some of these risk variants lie outside of genes, posing a challenge to researcher...
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Flemish researchers provide the first experimental evidence of dynamic allostery in protein regulation
07/12/2010 - The brand-new Jean Jeener Bio-NMR Center at the VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has already played a role in a scientific breakthrough that made it i...
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The Biotechnology Industry over 30 Billion in Revenue
ASEBIO presented its annual report "Informe ASEBIO 2009"
07/12/2010 - The Spanish Bioindustry Association (ASEBIO) introduced the ASEBIO Annual Report 2009 with the most recent data from the biotechnology industry, with the attendance of the Minister for Science and Inn...
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Positive Results from Phase II VTE Prophylaxis Study with TB-402 (Anti-Factor VIII)
Study demonstrates TB-402 superior antithrombotic activity to enoxaparin
07/12/2010 - ThromboGenics NV and co-development partner BioInvent International announced that the positive results from a Phase II trial of TB-402 (Anti-Factor VIII antibody) were presented at the 21st Internat...
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Phagenesis appoints Chairman and CEO
07/12/2010 - Phagenesis Limited has appointed Henry Hyde-Thomson as Chairman and Daniel Green as Chief Executive Officer. They will lead Phagenesis in the development of a new class of treatments for stroke victim...
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Smaller and Sharper: Nanoscale Metal–Organic Frameworks (NMOFs) as MRI Contrast Agents
07/12/2010 - Developing more sensitive methods of biomedical imaging that are effective with minimal amounts of contrast agents is an important challenge in the early and accurate diagnosis of illnesses. A new cla...
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Empa researchers «design» therapeutic coatings of silver
07/09/2010 - Empa researchers have demonstrated how they can adjust process conditions to influence the properties of novel plasma polymer coatings containing silver nanoparticles. Tailor-made films can be generat...
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BioCurex Announces Positive First Results for Monitoring Cancer Therapy Using its RECAF Blood Test
07/09/2010 - BioCurex Inc. announced its first set of results supporting the use of the BioCurex RECAF blood test to monitor cancer therapy. The test included samples from 27 human patients with early stages of b...
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Selvita And Orion Pharma Will Collaborate on SEL103 - Alzheimer’s Disease Program
07/09/2010 - Selvita sp. z o.o. and Orion Corporation from Espoo, Finland announced that they have entered into a global collaboration to jointly develop and commercialize SEL103, Selvita’s proprietary program for...
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InteRNA Technologies announces establishment of Scientific Advisory Board
07/09/2010 - InteRNA Technologies B.V. announced the establishment of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB will further guide the Company in the development of cancer therapies based on the unique function...
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Biologists identify a new clue into cellular aging
07/09/2010 - The ability to combat some age-related diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, may rest with scientists unlocking clues about the molecular and cellular processes governing aging. The underlying theory...
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Written in Red
Red-Emitting Dyes for Optical Microscopy and Nanoscopy
07/08/2010 - Far-field optical nanoscopy methods, especially STED (stimulated emission depletion), pose very strict and, at times, contradictory requirements on the utilized fluorescent markers. Photostable fluore...
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Noxxon to initiate phase Ib clinical trial of MCP-1 inhibitor NOX-E36
07/08/2010 - NOXXON Pharma AG announced that it has permission to commence a multiple ascending dose study of its Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) targeting anti-inflammatory Spiegelmer, NOX-E36. NOXXON ...
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Aquapharm and AMRI enter into a novel marine chemistry collaboration
07/08/2010 - Aquapharm Biodiscovery announced it has signed a research agreement with Albany Molecular Research to identify novel drug-like compounds and scaffolds with anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory activi...
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evocatal GmbH Closes New Financing Round
07/08/2010 - evocatal GmbH has closed € 2 million in growth financing. Thus the industrial biotech company puts itself in a position to continue successfully started projects rigorously to market readiness.
The...
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Proximagen enters into a Collaboration Agreement with the NIH for a Phase II clinical trial on naluzotan
07/08/2010 - Proximagen Group plc announced that it has signed a Collaboration Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National In...
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Our brains are more like birds' than we thought
UC San Diego researchers find structural similarities in the neocortices of humans and chickens
07/07/2010 - For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so were presumably better). This belief was ...
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Roche Applied Science Industrial Business” Now Is "Roche Custom Biotech
07/07/2010 - Effectively July 1, Roche Applied Science Industrial Business was relaunched under the name Roche Custom Biotech. The switch will be accompanied by a complete makeover of the Industrial Business appea...
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MorphoSys Receives Research Grant to Advance Anti-CD38 Cancer Program MOR202 and Explore Relevant Biomarkers
Project is Part of Munich's Cluster Initiative "m4 - Personalized Medicine and Targeted Therapies"
07/07/2010 - MorphoSys AG announced that it has been awarded a grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF. The funding of approximately EUR 1 million supports MorphoSys in accelerating th...
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Depression symptoms show little change during the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease
Study suggests depression is a risk factor and not an early sign of Alzheimer's disease
07/07/2010 - Depression is commonly reported in people with Alzheimer's disease and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, with several studies suggesting having a history of major depression may nearly double ...
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Intana Announces Agreement to Provide Proprietary Spectroscopy Technology
07/07/2010 - Intana Bioscience GmbH announced that it has entered an agreement with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Beerse, Belgium. Under the agr...
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Catalogues and Brochures

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New Fisher BioReagents Handbook 2010
On more than 200 pages the new Fisher BioReagents Handbook 2010 contains more than 1,200 bioreagents for Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis, Purification, Hybridization, and Sequencing, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Protein Purification and Electrophoresis, Buffers and Detergents, Cell Biology/Cell Culture, Microbiology/Immunology...

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Bürkle Catalog 2009/10: Filling Machines - Sampling - Plastic Labware
As in previous years, the specialist for sampling and safe liquid transfer has really lived up to its reputation for developing innovative products for use in the laboratory, industry and science: many innovative products can be found in the handy and informative sales catalogue 2009/10...

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