2011-10-28 Charleston, SC - SCRA, on behalf of its SC Launch program, today announced that Portfolio Company Immunologix has been acquired by Virginia-based synthetic biology company Intrexon Corporation. The Charleston-based Immunologix team is now part of Intrexon’s Protein Production Division. “We congratulate Immunologix on this next stage of growth and welcome Intrexon Corporation to South [...]
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WASHINGTON — The engineering profession’s highest honors for 2011 will be presented by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) during a black-tie dinner event at Union Station in Washington, D.C. at 6:30 p.m. this evening. Earlier today, the prize winners were scheduled to have a discussion with middle school students participating in the National Engineers [...] I saw an interesting summary (here at Biotechniques.com) about a recent research paper (here on PLoS Genetics) on ants and their microbiome and how it may have implications for biofuels. The paper is the joint product of researchers from all over the Americas, but it was lead by a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [...] The following video gives us a new meaning to the above 1970s greeting. More at CNET A long-gone mattress factory wedged between an off-ramp and an on-ramp on Meeting Street returns to life this week as a place where scientists will study new ways to kill cancer and create alternative fuel. The Innovation Center, a collaborative project of the S.C. Research Authority, Medical University of South Carolina and city of Charleston, [...] The Economist is figuring out that research into synthetic biology and related areas has tremendous potential to make, among other things, better plastics in fewer steps. In a brief article that does not really do justice to the subject, they note that Dr. Sang Yup Lee and his colleagues have genetically engineered E. coli to [...] Using a new combination of imaging techniques, researchers have discovered a possible method to break down the protective protein coat surrounding the HIV genome and render the virus less infectious. Rest at BioTechniques.com. Probably lots of things but one of them clearly is scientist Eric Schadt, the new Chief Science Officer for Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and co-founder of nonprofit Sage Bionetworks. I learned this from a recent NYTimes article about Dr. Schadt, but almost immediately decided I needed to read more about PacBio and Sage at their websites. PacBio [...] The following is a quote from a recent report entitled Taking the pulse of bioscience education in America: A State-by-State Analysis. The national average scale score for 8th grade public school students in the NAEP science assessment for 2005 was 147, which has changed little from prior years. In its summary of NAEP science results, [...] I have written and posted about the work of Angie Belcher before so it is no surprise to hear this latest announcement. A team she leads has taken another step in the process of using a simple virus (millions of them) to develop key parts of battery technology. Now it is the cathode (Fabricating Genetically Engineered [...] |
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