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Tekes takes part in an extensive stem cell project

Tekes has allocated three million euros to financing a project by the Tampere-based Regea Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the goal of which is to use stem cells in tissue-related technological applications.

6 Jan 2006

New human embryonic stem cells grown in animal cell-free cultures

Scientists working at the WiCell Research Institute, a private laboratory affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have developed a precisely defined stem cell culture system free of animal cells and used it to derived two new human embryonic stem cell.

2 Jan 2006

New drug shows promise in fighting Tuberculosis (TB)

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have determined how a promising drug candidate attacks the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the finding may help scientists optimize the drug candidate, PA-824, which targets Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb).

28 Dec 2005

New drug shows promise in fighting Tuberculosis (TB)

28 Dec 2005

Blue-green algae shows promise as a natural weapon against Alzheimer's

A compound isolated from a cyanobacterium, a type of blue-green algae known as Nostoc, shows promise of becoming a natural drug candidate for fighting Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, according to an in vitro study by researchers in Switzerland.

28 Dec 2005

Micro-gyroscopes could detect, monitor and provide therapy guidance on cancer

A vibrating disc no bigger than a speck of dust could help to diagnose and monitor common types of cancer and provide specialists with information about the most appropriate therapy.

22 Dec 2005

New rapid test can identify bird flu in 15 mins

The diagnostic test maker Inverness Medical Technology Inc. says its Binax Inc. unit has been granted U.S. regulatory approval to add a bird flu claim to a rapid flu test.

19 Dec 2005

Microfluidics chips for simplifying medical imaging biomarkers of disease

A collaboration between scientists at UCLA, Caltech, Stanford, Siemens and Fluidigm have developed a new technology using integrated microfluidics chips for simplifying, lowering the cost and diversifying the types of molecules used to image the biology of disease with the medical imaging technology, Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

15 Dec 2005

Stem cells provide new way to sneak drugs into brain

One of the great challenges for treating Parkinson's diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain.

15 Dec 2005

DNA strands for biologically based electronics and medical devices

Ohio State University researchers have invented a process for uncoiling long strands of DNA and forming them into precise patterns.

15 Dec 2005

Australian bionic ear pioneer awarded science medal

University of Melbourne Laureate Professorial Fellow and bionic ear pioneer Professor Graeme Clark has been awarded the 2006 Ian Wark Medal from the Australian Academy of Science.

15 Dec 2005

Chronic pain sufferers may be able to reduce pain levels by studying their own live brain images

Chronic pain sufferers may be able to reduce pain levels by studying their own live brain images, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report in a new study.

15 Dec 2005

New bike seats help those with erectile dysfunction

Competitive Technologies has announced that it has obtained exclusive rights to a new bicycle seat technology. The patent pending technology encompasses a bicycle saddle designed to minimize erectile dysfunction in men as well as sexual dysfunction in women.

15 Dec 2005

MorphoSys signs agreement with Merck

MorphoSys AG announced today that it has signed a five-year license agreement with U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. for the use of MorphoSys’s HuCAL GOLD and AutoCAL technologies in research and development of human therapeutic antibodies.

14 Dec 2005

Technology News and Research

Tekes takes part in an extensive stem cell project

New human embryonic stem cells grown in animal cell-free cultures

New drug shows promise in fighting Tuberculosis (TB)

New drug shows promise in fighting Tuberculosis (TB)

Blue-green algae shows promise as a natural weapon against Alzheimer's

Micro-gyroscopes could detect, monitor and provide therapy guidance on cancer

New rapid test can identify bird flu in 15 mins

Microfluidics chips for simplifying medical imaging biomarkers of disease

Stem cells provide new way to sneak drugs into brain

DNA strands for biologically based electronics and medical devices

Australian bionic ear pioneer awarded science medal

Chronic pain sufferers may be able to reduce pain levels by studying their own live brain images

New bike seats help those with erectile dysfunction

MorphoSys signs agreement with Merck

Retinal imaging technology helps heart

Researchers learn to detect DNA mutations

Finding how water channels - aquaporins - open and close may lead to new drugs

Dog gene map may help explain human diseases

Altering the composition of fats of every-day foods

Effects of mobile phones on attention

Breaking Barriers: ANDYSMANCLUB's Fight for Men's Mental Health on World Mental Health Day

Arrayed CRISPR Screening for Revolutionizing Target Discovery

Innovations in baculovirus–insect cell expression systems

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