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NANOdePET
Scanning electron micrograph of a polymer layer degraded by a nanobiocatalyst Despite widespread public awareness and increasingly stringent public policies, plastic use is increasing exponentially. Aside from massive fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, plastics pose a major environmental threat.In NANOdePET, the project partners…
Agriloop
The AgriLoop consortium aims to extend the agricultural production value of two major players of the global bioeconomy: the European Union and China, by eco-efficiently upgrading under-exploited residues into a portfolio of high added-value bio-products able to generate new bio-based markets or to compete with, and gain market share of, oil- and…
Decentralised production of green fuel from surplus algae oil
The cultivation of (micro-)algae and the extraction of ingredients from them has become increasingly important in recent years. This project`s scope was to develop a dedicated downstream process as a
compact, decentralized, and reliable systems – including inline measurement for a later cloud-driven operation.
Cancer-specific Alternative Splicing Events
Novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for different cancer types CanIso.netA new database to assess the impact of cancer-specific Most Dominant Transcripts (cMDT) using an isoform-specific interaction network. Alternative RNA splicing is a regulatory cellular mechanism to create multiple mRNA molecules from the same gene…
Biosynthesis Rescue
Synthetic glycolipids for the treatment of rare diseases GPI-Anchored Proteins Biosynthesis Rescue We established a synthetic strategy for the chemical synthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositols having unsaturated lipids. This strategy was used in a project with the group of Prof. Taroh Kinoshita from Osaka University and the Max Planck…
Novel in vitro biomarkers for hepatotoxicity: exosomal miR-122
In vitro models for liver disease suffer from the lack of well-established and sensitive biomarkers of cellular damage. MicroRNAs (miRNAs; small noncoding RNAs) represent potential biomarkers for the detection of drug-induced liver injury in vivo and in vitro. Altered physiological state caused by disease or tissue damage results in altered release of exosomal- or protein-bound miRNAs, detectable in body fluids and cell culture media...