Alnylam Awarded Continued Funding to Develop RNAi Therapeutics for Biological Threats 07 August 2008 Commitment for continued funding of $7.5 million supports Alnylam biodefense™ efforts and broad technology development.
Metabolon and LS9 Partner to Apply Metabolomics to Biofuel Research and Production 30 July 2008 Applying Metabolon’s global biochemical profiling services, researchers will seek to identify changes in metabolites occurring during biofuel production.
Alnylam Grants New InterfeRx™ Intellectual Property License to Calando 22 July 2008 New target-specific license provides non-exclusive access to Alnylam intellectual property for an RNAi therapeutic product.
MorphoSys and Integrated BioTherapeutics Provide Update Regarding USAMRIID Biodefense Project 16 July 2008 IBT receives a five-year, NIH research grant to develop human antibody therapeutics against staphylococcal enterotoxin B.
Codon Devices and Algenol Biofuels Announce Partnership for Development of Biofuels from Algae 11 July 2008 The multi-year partnership will utilize Codon’s proprietary BioLOGIC™ protein engineering platform.
GENEART Receives a Grant for the Targeted Design of Vaccine Candidates 10 July 2008 GENEART participates in a joint project to develop a novel vaccine technology by designing a vaccine against the H5N1 avian influenza virus as a test case.
UT Southwestern Researchers Identify New Targets for RNAs that Regulate Genes 09 July 2008 RNA experts found that RNA can interact with a non-gene region of DNA called a promoter region.
Automating DNA Isolation from Cereal Crops with Tecan’s Magnetic Bead Technology 04 July 2008 Researchers have developed a semi-automated procedure for extracting and isolating high quality DNA from cereal crops Te-MagS™ platform.