From 28 to 29 September 2016 we participated in Home and Personal Care Ingredients Exhibition and Conference Central and Eastern Europe together with CosmeticBusiness Poland as a media partner. It was the biggest event of this kind. We made lots of short talks with companies we had known earlier and ...
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Like you can see, we are making series of articles from Vilnius International Summit on Communicable Diseases (26 June-1 July 2016) and the next part of it is an interview with retired virologist, Anders Widell (Lund University), who had there a presentation about Zika virus. We decided to focus on t...
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„The reason of displacement and refuge/migration are not insufficient protection of boarders but wars and exploitative systems of countries and inequitable redistribution of wealth” – that is how PD Dr med. habil. Johannes Hallauer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer Klinikum in Germany started his presentation...
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Biotechnologia.pl and Cebiotech.com, both belonging to Bio-Tech Media Sp z o.o. publisher, actively cooperate with Baltic Antiviral Network. Our journalists participate in conferences, run by organization. Last year we arrived to Moscow and this year (at the turn of June/July) we’re visiting the capi...
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The Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre (BMC) was founded in 1993 based on the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. That time it was the first integrated into the University of Latvia academic research institute. At present, BMC is recognized as a Centre of scie...
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Medical bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field which combines both technical, medical and biological sciences. The work of scientists carried out behind closed laboratory doors undoubtedly brings much benefit for humans, providing innovative solutions for everyday needs. However, it might make ...
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Inspired by prof. Saulius Caplinskas from Center of Communicable Diseases and AIDS in Vilnius during a conference ''Infections of regional importance’’ in Moscow we decided to go to Vilnius to meet him again and expand the knowledge of HIV problem. In this article you can learn how the current situat...
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– What do diamonds and HIV have in common? They are forever. We cannot survive without proper commercial management – young people cannot live without a computer – explained Saulius Caplinskas during a conference organized by Baltic Antiviral Network, „Infections of regional importance” (Moscow, Octo...
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Chikungunya is an Alphavirus which belongs to the Togaviridae family. It is transmitted by two species of mosquitoes. Its name means "to become contorted" or "that which is bent up" in the language of people in Tanzania (where the virus was described for the first time). It refers to the specific sta...
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In the Department of Plant Protection and Biotechnology at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG, a subject of a particular care is potato, one of the major players in European kitchen and economy. Currently ongoing projects are focused on pectolytic plant pathogens of Pectrobacterium a...
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Collaboration of the representatives of the Polish most prominent research institutes and pharmaceutical companies resulted in the establishment of the first innovative neuromedicine platform “InnoNeuroMed” in the country. Professor Leszek Kaczmarek from Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, the ...
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The Czech Republic biotechnology sector undergoes substantial changes, similarly as in other countries of CEE region. In an interview with Michal Schmoranz from the Technology transfer office of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, he describes how the biotechnology field is financed ...
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An effort to elaborate tests enabling early detection of Alzheimer’s disease is currently made in numerous research institutes all over the world. One of them is the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences. In an interview for cebiotech.com, Professor Hanna Ra...
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The Czech Republic biotechnology sector is still in the middle of development process. However, it possesses a strong potential to become one of the leaders in the central European region. One of the well-established Czech biotech companies is Bio Agens Research and Development – BARD Ltd. offering m...
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The most common vision of silicon valley that stays in people’s minds is the area of computer and electronic technology companies. In fact, such perception is no longer true as huge enterprises from other industry sectors are becoming more and more numerous. One of them is biotechnology cluster encom...
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Recent studies performed by the scientists from the “Center of Advanced European Studies and Research” have revealed that pulses of light might be used to control sperm functioning. Such an innovative approach can help in unraveling the mechanisms underlying the infertility pathology....
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Interactions between cells are of crucial importance for the proper functioning of tissues and the whole multicellular organisms. During pathological processes, such as cancer progression, alterations in cell-cell adhesion are very common. The molecular events underlying these changes must be deeply ...
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Estonia is one of the eastern Europe leading countries in the field of biotechnology with a strong research facilities. Eneli Oitmaa, the CEO of Estonian company Asper Biotech, describes a market of genetic testing and its future as well as depicts bright and dark sides of Estonian biotechnology area...
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Latvian biotechnology sector is still “under construction”, however, recent years can be considered as fruitful and instil optimism about the future of the biotech market. In an interview with Juris Vanags, Managing Director of Biotehniskais centrs, he presents the company’s services and explains cha...
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