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BIO INNOVATION: febrero 2011

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Jueves, 10 de febrero de 2011. Malay scientists use tropical fruits to make batteries. Malaysian engineers are harnessing the country's biodiversity to find alternative raw materials for high-tech electronic products such as electric vehicle batteries. They have discovered that bamboo, coconut shells and durian fruit skins can be converted into an activated form of carbon used to make the components of electric batteries known as 'supercapacitors'. A lot of our tropical fruit are very good material for s...

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BIOPHARMACY: Microchip 'could improve detection of substandard drugs'

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Martes, 14 de agosto de 2012. Microchip 'could improve detection of substandard drugs'. A new way of detecting substandard drugs will be put to field tests soon. A microchip tailored to detect a specific active ingredient in a drug that costs only a few US cents to produce could help in efforts to detect counterfeit and substandard medicines in the developing world, researchers say. Zaman said the new approach is better than a one-size-fits-all strategy, because the probes for each type of drug are more ...

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BIOPHARMACY: Thousands of possible malaria drugs found

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Sábado, 29 de mayo de 2010. Thousands of possible malaria drugs found. Scientists have discovered thousands of potential new drug compounds for tackling malaria. Malaria, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, with the highest disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa, and resistance to existing drugs threatens to make it even deadlier. But now, two papers in. Some 8,000 worked well against multi drug-resistant. From today, the structures of the compounds ...

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BIOPHARMACY: Promising microbicide can be produced by plants

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Martes, 23 de junio de 2009. Promising microbicide can be produced by plants. Fields of genetically modified tobacco could produce large quantities of microbicide. Scientists have developed an anti-HIV microbicide that can be mass-produced in plants — in quantities large enough to make it affordable for people in developing countries, they say. The researchers also showed that the microbicide can be mass-produced by transferring the gene constructed for the microbicide into tobacco plant cells. But the r...

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BIOPHARMACY: For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human's Veins

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Domingo, 13 de noviembre de 2011. For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human's Veins. Artificial blood may become a common reality, thanks to the first successful transfusion of lab-grown blood into a human. Luc Douay, of Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, extracted hematopoietic stem cells from a volunteer's bone marrow, and encouraged these cells to grow into red blood cells with a cocktail of growth factors. This is great news for international health care. Other attempts to syn...

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BIOPHARMACY: agosto 2012

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Martes, 14 de agosto de 2012. Microchip 'could improve detection of substandard drugs'. A new way of detecting substandard drugs will be put to field tests soon. A microchip tailored to detect a specific active ingredient in a drug that costs only a few US cents to produce could help in efforts to detect counterfeit and substandard medicines in the developing world, researchers say. Zaman said the new approach is better than a one-size-fits-all strategy, because the probes for each type of drug are more ...

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BIOPHARMACY: junio 2009

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Lunes, 29 de junio de 2009. First promising TB drug in decades, say researchers. The first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years has successfully treated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients in a clinical trial in South Africa. Diarylquinoline TMC207 works differently from other anti-tuberculosis drugs by targeting an enzyme of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent that causes TB. The researchers gave the drug to 20 patients in addition to standard therapy for MDR-TB for eight weeks. What we sa...

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BIOPHARMACY: African countries should unite for drug development

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Domingo, 9 de mayo de 2010. African countries should unite for drug development. African nations must pool resources to promote local pharmaceutical innovation, say. Africa bears a quarter of the world's disease burden, yet accounts for less than one per cent of global expenditure on health. About half of the continent's population lacks access to essential medicines and the few drugs that are available often come from outside — Sub-Saharan Africa imports nearly 90 per cent of its medicines. Both approac...

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INNOVADOR AMBIENTALISTA: La conciencia verde, un negocio rentable

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Domingo, 20 de diciembre de 2009. La conciencia verde, un negocio rentable. Los 8,2 billones de euros que costará la transformación energética logró que más de una compañía comenzara a hacer también suyo el discurso ecologista. Jim Rogers preside Duke Energy, tercera compañía eléctrica de EE.UU. y tercera empresa más contaminante del país y duodécima del mundo. Uno no esperaría encontrarlo en los pasillos de la cumbre del clima, entre ecologistas que piden reducir el CO2 drásticamente. Entre 2010 y 2030.

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INNOVADOR AMBIENTALISTA: noviembre 2009

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Domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2009. Por la llegada de polémicos fondos, cayó la sesión del Consejo Superior de la UNLP. El órgano máximo de decisión de la UNLP debía decidir si aceptaba o no el dinero de la minera que por ley le corresponde a las universidades públicas del país, además de votar el presupuesto 2010 y un nuevo sistema de becas para investigación. Los derechos de exploración y explotación de La Alumbrera pertenecen a Yacimientos Mineros de Aguas de Dionisio (YMAD), una sociedad integrada por ...