APPLICATIONS: Food products Cosmetics Water and wastewater treatment Pharmaceuticals ABSTRACT: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Deepti Tanjore and researchers at HelioBioSys have developed a method of producing a polysaccharide gel comprising: (a) culturing or growing a cyanobacterium or a mixture of cyanobacteria species in a … [Read more...] about Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
Biotechnology and Medicine
Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) 2017-063
APPLICATIONS: Genomics research ABSTRACT: A team of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers including Trent northern, Benjamin Bowen, Oliver Reubel, and Markus De Raad have developed technologies for associating metabolites with genes that enable scoring and curating compound identities based on their biological relevance, and/or using compound identities … [Read more...] about Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) 2017-063
Peptoid-Based Chelating Molecules 2017-181
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Radiolabeling Metal separation Water treatment ADVANTAGES: Robust chelators High selectivity ABSTRACT: Researchers led by Rebecca Abergel have developed a new class of chelators – molecules that can bind metals – that incorporate peptoids into the chelator backbone, offering more control over the chelator’s structure and … [Read more...] about Peptoid-Based Chelating Molecules 2017-181
High-Throughput Methods to Characterize Phage Receptors and Rational Formulation of Phage Cocktails 2019-048
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Pharmaceutical / antibiotic discovery Phage therapy ADVANTAGES: Compared to current technologies Less expensive Less laborious Scalable Quantitative ABSTRACT: Researchers at the Berkeley Lab have developed two genetic technologies that enable fast and effective genome-wide screens for gene function. The LBNL … [Read more...] about High-Throughput Methods to Characterize Phage Receptors and Rational Formulation of Phage Cocktails 2019-048
EcoFAB 2.0: Device for Determining Plant-Microbe Interactions 2019-066
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture Biosciences research ADVANTAGES: Improved sterile, automated processing of EcoFABs Scalability of EcoFABs due to injection molding fabrication Compatible with typical automated platforms Smaller footprint and lower price than existing automated systems Adaptive system ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab’s … [Read more...] about EcoFAB 2.0: Device for Determining Plant-Microbe Interactions 2019-066
