Colorado

Colorado is a state in the south-west of the US, in the Southern Rocky Mountains. It is home to a fast growing and exciting biotechnology industry. The Colorado BioScience Association founded in 200...

California

In addition to the Silicon Valley, California on the west coast of the USA is home to a biotechnology hub. 26% of all American biotechnology firms are located in this state, but they count for over...

Retool drug discovery to increase development success

Aslepios Bioresearch chief scientific adviser Frank Sams-Dodd writes about the relative merits of disease-based and target-ba -More- 

Disease- vs Target-Based Drug Discovery

Pharmalot | The former head of psychopharmacology at Boehringer Ingelheim, Frank Sams-Dodd, talks about the reason for pharma's decreased productivity, and the ways drug discovery are done that contri...

Key West Injury Attorney Website Launched by the Law Offices of Berman and Berman

Key West, Florida (PRWEB) April 14, 2013 The Berman Law Firm is proud to announce a new Key West, Florida injury lawyer website helping the citizens of Key West. Key West, Florida, is located at...

Are mutant mosquitoes the answer in Key West?

KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - When Hadyn Parry, chief executive officer of the British biotechnology company Oxitec Ltd, appeared at a Key West town hall meeting to present his plan to use genetically...

ECOWAS, Germany, FAO launch Hunger-Free Initiative for West Africa

"A new project with the objective of eliminating hunger in West Africa has been launched by West African countries, Germany, and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)," BusinessDay reports.

West Announces First Quarter 2013 Dividend

LIONVILLE, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/27/12 -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST) today announced that its Board has approved the payment of a first-quarter 2013 cash dividend of $0.19 per...

Veterinarians recommend equine vaccine for alpacas to thwart west nile virus

Colorado State University veterinarians are recommending the use of equine West Nile Virus vaccines to help prevent West Nile Virus disease in alpacas. While llamas seem to be fairly resistant to deve...

Roche Increases Focus on West China with new Center

Roche has opened a sales headquarters in Chengdu, far away from Eastern provinces where multinational pharmas find their most lucrative markets. The company’s West China Management Center is p...

Rhodamine B aggregation in self-assembled multilayers induced by polyelectrolyte and interfacial fluorescence recognition for DNA.

Photophysical properties of Rhodamine B bound to water-soluble polyanion sodium poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) in solution and Quartz/APES/PSS/RB SAMs were investigated. Experiments showed that Rhodam...

Investigation of the mechanism of nickel electroless deposition on functionalized self-assembled monolayers.

We have investigated the seedless electroless deposition (ELD) of Ni on functionalized self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) using scanning electron and optical microscopies, X-ray photoelectron spectrosco...

The Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Copper Surfaces by Low-Temperature Plasma Mass Spectrometry.

We describe direct analysis of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on copper surfaces by low temperature plasma (LTP) mass spectroscopy (MS). Two kinds of SAMs formed from n-dodecylmercaptan (NDM) and l-...

Immobilization of acetylcholinesterase in lipid membranes deposited on self-assembled monolayers.

Human red blood cell acetylcholinesterase was incorporated into planar lipid membranes deposited on alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold substrates. Activity of the protein in the memb...

Generation of surface-confined catechol terminated SAMs via electrochemically triggered Michael addition: characterization, electrochemistry and complex with Ni(II) and Cu(II) cations.

In this paper, catechol, 1,4-dihydroxybenzene and dopamine are investigated as precursors of electrophiles for Michael addition reaction with the self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 4-thiouracil (4-TU)...