A Europe-wide project named “Piezo4Spine” sets the high goal of developing a novel therapy against spinal cord injuries (SCI). Based ...

Opiate alkaloids such as morphine and codeine are important pharmaceutical ingredients used to treat severe pain. Morphine is even classified ...

Petrochemical synthetic-based polymers are still everywhere in our daily lives, despite strict regulations and general awareness of their long-term risks ...

Carbon serves as the building block of life, as well as the goods and products we use every day. We ...

Viennese researchers from the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) and BOKU Vienna found a way to use the harmful ...

The MOOC “The new plastics economy: circular business models and sustainability”, realized within the Horizon 2020 BIO-PLASTICS EUROPE project

One of the greatest difficulties in combating viral infectious diseases is the excellent adaptability of viruses. Especially with of SARS-CoV-2 ...

Antibodies are an important part of our immune system and work by recognizing potential hazards entering the body, such as ...

Im acib-Interview gibt Marko Mihovilovic, Dekan an der Fakultät für Technische Chemie an der Technischen Universität Wien, Einblick in die ...

The climate crisis is on everyone's lips! The chemical industry plays an important role in finding more efficient measures for ...

Despite being a promising technology, enzymatic plastic recycling is still in the development phase. This means that it is not ...

Der Verlauf der Pandemie hat es uns deutlich gezeigt: in der Gesellschaft hat sich starke Wissenschaftsskepsis breit gemacht, und Österreich ...

The art exhibition “Fermenting Futures” at Künstlerhaus Wien came to an end and it’s time to recap and draw conclusions ...

Anfang April lud acib zum österreichischen Stakeholderevent aus dem Open Innovation Test-Bed (OITB) Projekt Bionanopolys ein. acib ist Mitglied in ...

What does food have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, because as population density increases, so does the ...

Plastic materials are products of our daily life. Their various properties make them useful in many fields, such as packaging ...

What if you could produce something valuable out of the pesky greenhouse gases? What if you could even use them ...

The terms “sustainability” and “greenness” are omnipresent, whether in advertising for clothing or in project proposals for the funding of ...

An intact microbiome protects our skin as a natural shield against external influences. However, if this sensitive system is disturbed, ...

UPLIFT is a project funded from the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. The overall concept ...

Arts and natural sciences have nothing in common at first sight. But if we have a closer look, sculptural artworks ...

Climate change is causing temperatures to rise, making water an increasingly scarce resource. A natural, wood-based hydrogel that can absorb ...

Sustainability and use of renewable resources represent an important part of any production process with regard to circular economy and ...

Climate protection, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and saving of fossil resources are key elements for a more sustainable future. ...

Co-Authors: Martin Walpot & Doris Ribitsch An enzyme called tyrosinase, which is responsible for triggering a protective mechanism in plants ...

Co-Autorin: Aleksandra Fuchs Die Umwelt – Ein Thema, das global gesehen, seit 2019 immer mehr Menschen beschäftigt und oft sogar mehr ...

The pharmaceutical industry has had to resort to rather inefficient, environmentally harmful chemical synthesis routes for the production of the ...

Gut ein Jahr nach dem Ausbruch der Coronavirus-Pandemie ist sie den meisten Menschen ein Begriff: die Polymerase-Kettenreaktion, kurz PCR (englisch: ...

Like any virus, SARS-CoV-2 is constantly changing. A wide variety of mutations are the result, to which vaccine manufacturers have ...

In times of COVID-19, we are spending a lot of time at home. Some of us feel the desire to ...

Researchers from TU Graz and acib succeed in the first enzyme-driven biocatalytic synthesis of nucleic acid building blocks. This facilitates ...

,,Der Nächste bitte!“„Guten Tag! Ich hätte gerne 30 dag Hühnerfleisch aus dem Labor und … 35 dag Kochfleisch, auch aus ...

The COVID-19 crisis is currently affecting all of us and all eyes are set at the scientific community that is ...

Plastic waste management has become a challenge for our planet. Mankind produces 27.1 million tons per year of plastic waste ...

Squalene acts as a booster for potential vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. However, the richest squalene source, shark liver, can and should ...

Globally, the search for potential drugs and vaccines is proceeding rapidly. A collaborative acib-research project focuses on the identification, evaluation ...

Some magnetic materials are able to absorb electro-magnetic waves and transform them into heat. But how do they do it? ...

You have ever been in touch with biotechnology? No? We are quite sure that you have been! Many products we ...

Contactless magnetic heating may sound scary, but it is part of your daily life experience. Every time you heat-up your ...

Whether activating or silencing genes, breaking down defective cells or building new tissue, our body is constantly working to repair ...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has turned the whole world upside down. After weeks of curfew to relieve the national health care systems, ...

Wir sitzen nun schon alle seit geraumer Zeit in unseren eigenen vier Wänden fest. Doch wir sind auf gar keinen ...

recycling of baby diapers by enzymatic treatment

It is still winter outside, and some may wish warmer temperatures to come soon. While humans sometimes need warmth to ...

Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft stellen in vielen Ländern der Welt eine soziologische ,,Rarität‘‘ dar. Dieses gesellschaftliche Phänomen wurde ...

That special day I have got an email about open positions in Barcelona within H2020-MSCA-RISE acib project NEOSETAC. MSCA-RISE … ...

Automation is the future of numerous processes – not only in our everyday life but also in more specialized areas ...

We are living in a throwaway society; this is also true for clothes. When we think of the personal protective ...

A new development in the European framework programs for research and innovation is catching attention: the lump sum pilot. First ...

It is grey, waxy, smelly and very expensive: Ambra, the worlds rarest organic substance, could only be found in the ...

Plants, which are the primary source of food and animal feed, are not only affected by diseases during their growth ...

Enzymes are playing the first violin, the cell is hosting a perfectly coordinated orchestra and reserachers are the composers? Instead ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission is a massive problem for our climate; this is well-known. We urgently need measures to prevent ...

While currently most production processes for biopharmaceuticals are assessed by laboriuos and time-consuming off-line analytics, a new process enables the ...

The modern business world is using a new buzzword: “Open innovation”. What does it mean? How “open” do we need ...

Scientists from the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna and the Austrian ...

Have you ever thought about how drugs are manufactured? They are often produced by microorganisms which secret them into their ...

More efficiency, more quality, more process safety, less costs, less waste – these are the target specifications of each and ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists is pioneering the development of synthetic glycobiology and trains 15 young researchers in the enabling ...

Research funding is a highly competitive process and only a small fraction of applicants get the grant in the end. ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are not only restricted to clinical environments, nor do they always pose an immediate danger for humans. Various ...

The responsible transport gene that allows the production of lemon acid in large quantities was recently discovered. A breakthrough! Citric ...

Bioproducts for various applications such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutrients or industrial enzymes are manufactured with biotechnological methods; microorganisms or immortalized ...

What lies behind the data shown on a LCD screen? What do the numbers express and moreover, can we trust ...

Did you know that nowadays bacteria and mammalian cells, especially hamster cells, produce a wide range of drugs? And who ...

Co-author: Martin Walpot In the development of drugs and pharmaceutical compounds, expensive tests are necessary, to know, which metabolic by-products ...

The complex tumour structure makes the treatment of breast cancer a medical challenge. A promising, novel selenium-based breast cancer nanoparticle ...

Auf das Abenteuer Forschung haben sich im Rahmen des Projektes „Enzyme im Alltag“ neun Schulklassen aus Volksschulen, NMS und Gymnasien ...

Sugar is not only a widely used food ingredient but can also be used as possible starting point for high-added-value ...

Have you ever wondered, why it often takes many years until a new drug is available at your local pharmacy? ...

Biosensors may soon facilitate the analysis of a patient’s entire red blood cell antigen repertoire. In the form of diagnostic ...

Conference season has already started and scientists begin to mingle and present their latest achievements. The lecture rooms are flooded ...

Microorganisms play a crucial role for the health and well-being of higher organisms. Host-specific microbial communities of varying complexity form ...

Since the early days of bioprocess engineering shear associated protein aggregation was believed to be a real thread for proteins ...

The last conference I attended had 455 poster presentations divided into 3 designated poster sessions (2 hours each). If we ...

Membrane transport proteins play a key role in several metabolic pathways. They transport either actively or passively ions or biomolecules, ...

Nacht ist die Zeit in der sich die Sonne ,,vor uns versteckt‘‘. Sobald es dunkel wird sagt uns unsere innere ...

CHO cells have become the most important cell system for the biotechnological production of pharmaceuticals. The increasing potential of chinese ...

More than 32 Million tons of plastic waste end up in our environment per year. Most of it is non-degradable ...

Im Rahmen des Talente Regional Projekts „Food for Tomorrow“, gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (BMVIT), wurden ...

Pink, fat and healthy – that’s how we visualize the ideal pig. But what if Pink Beauty’s stomach is upset? ...

The conventional treatment of wood in order to increase its hydrophobicity implies disadvantages that could be avoided when using environmentally-friendly ...

Meat is very fastidious and resource-demanding in its production, still the wastage of spoiled meat products is enormous. Nowadays, a ...

Co-author: Sabrina Mayer-Maschl On Friday, April 13th 2018, it was time to experience the world of science and research! Despite ...

Among global problems, shortage of water resources is considered one of the grand challenges humankind is facing. With growing industries, ...

Most of the active components in drugs either are compounds obtained by chemical synthesis or biomolecules produced by microorganisms (often ...

The body of a human adult consists of 1014 or 100 trillion of cells, which have specific tasks to fulfil. ...

Many bio-plastic bags have no place in the garbage. They dissolve too slowly in oxygen-deficient environments like biogas plants and ...

The contamination of chicken eggs with fipronil led to a Europe-wide outcry in 2017. Although this specific case was not ...

Enzymes are the tiny helpers of industrial biotechnology. Despite their microscopic size, they need to be tough and diligent because ...

First of all, welcome in 2018 and a happy new year full of interesting success stories of biotech! Hopefully, you ...

Plastic – the material of our time – is omnipresent. As the production is steadily increasing, its recycling lags behind. ...

Yeast cells are important workhorses for the “green” production of various chemicals and proteins. In many cases the biotechnological industry ...

Following our articles on the beneficial roles of complex microbial communities and ways to analyze them, we continue to explore ...

There are a multitude of challenges associated with the production of next-generation biopharmaceuticals and vaccines. To be effective as a ...

Microorganisms for energy – does it work? And how could this be connected with CO2 conversion? Microorganisms particularly gained interest ...

Co-author: Verena Beck While for scaling up a production process the main goal is to keep the quality and quantity ...

Some plants protect themselves with cyanide against voracious beetles, caterpillars or cattle, who want to nibble their delicious looking leaves. ...

Fungi are ubiquitous organisms which have made a beneficial contribution to human development. This association dates back to 3000 B.C. ...

What if we had a system mirroring the cross-talk between microbes and complex ‘super-organisms’ like humans or animals? Understanding the ...