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University of Parma Researchers Lead International Team for Sequencing of B. Dentium

Bifidobacteria, one of the relatively dominant components of the human intestinal microbiota, are considered one of the key groups of beneficial intestinal bacteria (probiotic bacteria). However, in addition to health-promoting taxa, the genus Bifidobacterium also includes… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on January 4, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Learn Anatomy with Hello Kitty!

Three prominent brands in today’s fashion and streetwear world, Dr. Romanelli, Hello Kitty, and MEDICOM TOY CO., have come together to release three vinyl figures in addition to an apparel capsule collection. Dr. Romanelli will work with Sanrio on three separate Hello Kitty figures that will be… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 30, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

THE US AWARDS ITALIAN RESEARCHER ON EPILEPSY STUDIES

Italian researcher Annamaria Vezzani (in the photo) - Director of Neurology at the Neurosciences Department of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, has been awarded the prestigious Epilepsy Research Recognition Award - Basic Science Investigator, from the American Epilepsy Society. The award was given to her for the "studies on the role o… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 24, 2009 at 1:48pm — No Comments

IL CARNEVALE DELLA FISICA

The Carnival of Physics has been launched this week by our Media Partners GRAVITA' ZERO along with the Spanish Gravedad Cero. This ini… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 24, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Newron Raises 7.9m Swiss Francs in a Private Placement to International Institutional Investors

Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A., a research and development company focused on novel CNS and pain therapies, announced that it has raised gross proceeds of 7.9m Swiss Francs through a private placement to institutional investors. The private placement was conducted without preferential subscription rights to institutional investors and was managed by Jefferies International. The subscription price was set at 18.00 Swiss Francs per share, represen… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 18, 2009 at 3:19pm — No Comments

Good News Italy-India

2010 will be an exciting year for EU biotech companies interested in taking advantage of the great business and research opportunities arising from the Indian market. The European Business and Technology Centre, the new point of reference for EU companies and researchers wanting to enter the Indian market with a focus on climate change technologies, has drown up a full calendar of biotech sector specific events and activities: B2B matchmaking events, seminars, workshops and trade fair pa… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 18, 2009 at 3:13pm — No Comments

Genextra Raises Over € 36 Million in Equity Financing

Genextra S.p.A, a privately held holding of companies active in the biotechnology sector, announced the successful completion of a € 36.18 million equity financing. The round was led by current investor, Francesco Micheli Associati S.r.l. The proceeds of this round of financing will be applied towards the clinical development of Intercept’s INT-747 and DAC’s DAC060, and the advancement of preclinical programs in metabolism with Interce… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 18, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

BioInItaly Report 2010

We have received the welcome news that Assobiotec, the Italian association od Biotechnolgoy Industries, and Ernst & Young, in collaboration with Farmindustria (the association that represents the pharmaceutical industry operating in Italy), will publish the BioInItaly Report 2010, to be released in Spring 2010. The purpose of the Report is to focus on the evolving Italian biotech industry, to increase global attention to the progresses made by Italian biotech companies… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 18, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Italian Treatment Could Cure 90% of Multiple Sclerosis Cases

Dr. Paolo Zamboni, a former vascular surgeon and professor at the University of Ferrara in northern Italy, began asking questions about the debilitating condition a decade ago, when his wife Elena, now 51, was diagnosed with MS. Watching his wife Elena struggle with the fatigue, musc… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 8, 2009 at 9:50pm — No Comments

Robotic Hand: An Italian Innovation Life-changer for Amputees?

The first hand prosthesis created by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa team with funding from a EU grant. This first in its kind prosthesis allows the patient's brain to direct the robotic hand's movement directly. This video (in Italian) shows how this hand is guided by thought of the Italian-Brazilian amputee who lost his hand in a car accident 3 years ago and has volunteered in this experiment which, he says, will not only help him but s… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 7, 2009 at 2:55pm — No Comments

A New Breed of Bureaucracy?

Since at least twenty years ago – in the beginning of the Internet Era in Italy - one of the favorite topics has been how to use the Net to improve the efficiency of the State’s administrative machine. The pre-Internet experiences of big cities like Rome or Milan (and those of smaller while tech-savvy ones) showed a clear path that has never been pursued. Digital Public Administration, in Italy, is still a dream (or a nightmare, better). Just to name a few examples, on-line healthcare-re… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 4, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Double Whammy for Areta

Areta International, an Italian biotech company for the contract development and manufacturing of new biologicals, enters the 10th year of activity and celebrates the AIFA authorization for the new multipurpose GMP plant. One year after the announcement of the new multipurpose GMP plant, that has doubled the surface and applies innovative production techniques in compliance with the new European Regulation, Areta obtained the authorization from AIFA (Italian Agency for Drug) for the production… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on December 4, 2009 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Genovax Receives a Grant to Hire a Young Researcher

Genovax will receive a grant from the Turin Provice's initiative “YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN COMPANIES“ – to help SME in the Turin area hire young researchers in the biotechnology and biomedical fields. The grant will support a young researcher who will work in Genovax's lab at the Canavese Bioindustry Park. The researcher’s project will be the “pCons “ protein, which will be developed for the vaccination of patients affected by systemic Lupus Erithematosus. For further information:… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on November 2, 2009 at 6:16pm — No Comments

PRA Adds Milan Office as Italian Research Spending Grows

PRA International has opened a new office in Milan, Italy, boosting visibility in the country’s competitive contract trials sector. The office, which is fully operational and already overseeing the act6ivities of cl… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on October 27, 2009 at 5:59am — No Comments

Italian Team Found that Blood Test Could Predict Development of ALzheimer's

Elderly people exhibiting memory disturbances that do not affect their normal, daily life suffer from a condition called "mild cognitive impairment" (MCI). Some MCI patients go on to develop Alzheimer's disease within a few years, whereas other cases remain stable, exhibiting onl… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on October 24, 2009 at 10:40am — No Comments

More on the Italian Antitrust investigation upon Google News

Andrea Monti, (in the photograph) an Italian attorney specialized in technology issues, describes in his blog the situation regarding the Italian investigation on antitrust issues with Google. Here is the case he makes in his… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on October 23, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Superfluid Light Is Born

An Italian-French "quantum optics" team, has just published an article on the superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities in Nature Physics UPMC's Alberto Bramati and… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on October 23, 2009 at 1:52pm — No Comments

The US Food and Drug Administration Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Molmed's New Antitumor Drug

MolMed S.p.A. (Milan:MLM) recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Orphan Drug designation of MolMed’s investigational new antitumour drug NGR-hTNF for treatment of liver cancer (reference code #05-20044). Orphan Drug designation of NGR-hTNF for liver can… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on October 23, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

EARTHQUAKES: The Secrets is in their Vibrations

Vibrations are known to affect frictional sliding and the associated stick-slip patterns causing sometimes a drastic reduction of the friction force. This issue is relevant for applications in nanotribology and to understand earthquake triggering by small dynamic perturbations. An all Italian team studies the dynamics of repulsive particles confined between a horizontally driven top plate and a vertically oscillating bottom plate. The Italian team working at two INFM-CNR centers, led by… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on September 21, 2009 at 7:51pm — No Comments

bcs Biotech Launches Detection Kit for Influenza A H1N1

bcs Biotech S.p.A., a biotech company based in Cagliari (Italy), recently launched a quick and precise method for the detection of respiratory viruses (ProDect® CHIP RV). The kit discriminate virus H1N1 from other Influenza A viruses, and in the same time, can also reveal other causal agents of acute respiratory syndromes, such as Influenza B, Avian Influenza (H5N1), Parainfluenza I-II-III, Respiratory Syncytial Viru… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on September 21, 2009 at 7:23pm — No Comments