Collaboration - December 19, 2017
More clinical-academic collaborations are in the future for Odense
With a new hospital being built near a university, more clinical-academic collaborations are in the future for Odense. The picturesque old town of Odense features the home of Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous fairy tale writer from the 1800s. But only 10 km away, an ambitious, modern life sciences enterprise is developing. The New University Hospital […]
Business article - November 30, 2017
Antibiotic advances from New Drugs 4 Bad Bugs
Public-private partnerships are addressing the major challenges of microbial drug resistance. In 2016, a woman in the United States died from a bacterial strain resistant to 26 antibiotics. Recently, The Lancet reported on a dangerously resistant strain in China. The World Health Organization says that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global emergency. Countering this worrying trend is the public-private program New Drugs 4 Bad Bugs […]
Science article - October 12, 2017
Spinning silk – without the spiders
Spider silk proteins have medical and research uses and are remarkably soluble. Spider silk is lightweight, strong, and nontoxic. It has biomedical applications in surgery, transplants, and as a matrix for culturing cells. The genes for spidroins, which are spider silk proteins, are known. Generating fibers is challenging, however. To make spider silk in vitro, […]
Profiles in Biotech - October 6, 2017
Next-generation biotech entrepreneurs
For young scientists and engineers, a startup can be part of early training and education.
Science article - July 7, 2017
Boosting CHO cell production with a systems approach
A new public resource for optimizing a common biofactory Biotherapeutic proteins including antibody therapies are often produced in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. A Cell Systems paper has novel insights about these cells and a new model for improving their productivity. The senior author is Nathan Lewis, who codirects systems research on CHO cells for […]
Biotech Business - June 16, 2017
Creating a more mature European biotech ecosystem
What can researchers, investors, and funding agencies do to unlock biotech’s potential? The European life science industry has great potential to improve patient care, solve public health challenges, and drive economic growth. Europe is a leader in life science research, but is behind the United States, in particular, in translating discoveries into medical therapies and […]
