Next issue (March 2007): Textile biotechnology

Edited by Prof. Cavaco-Paolo (Lisbon, Portugal). Highlight articles: – Catalases for cleaner bleaching – Natural retting agents – Decolorization of reactive azo dyes – Wax removal for accelerated cotton scouring – Enzymatic cotton scouring products – Photochemical immobilization on polyethylene – Nitrilases for the surface modification of acrylic fibers – PET hydrolysis by Fusarium esterases – PVA-degrading enzymes in cotton fabric desizing ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Next issue (September 2007): Talking Biotech with the Public – including a special FREE podcast!

Edited by Dr. Kristina Sinemus, Darmstadt, Germany Highlight articles: – Public perceptions of biotechnology – Future societal issues in industrial biotechnology – The co-existence debate in Europe – The Co-Extra website – Bioethics, GM crops and intellectual property – Patent scenarios for the future – Experiences in implementation of biosafety systems – Transparent communication strategy on GMOs – Options for a rational dialogue on the acceptance of biotechnology – Attitudes that predict acceptance of genetic engineering in Australia – Biotechnology: the language of multiple views in Maori communities – Science – or not? The scientific status of biotechnology ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Next issue (December 2007): Energy Production

Edited by Dr. Stefan Nordhoff, Marl, Germany Highlight articles: – Sustainable production of biofuels – Coupled production in biorefineries – Biodegradation of fuel oil hydrocarbons – Biobutanol: an attractive biofuel – Sustainable biobased energy, fuels and materials – Renewable resources in the chemical industry – breaking away from oil? – Using waste from olive oil industry for fuel production – Economic impacts of bio-refinery and resource cascading systems – Agricultural raw materials – energy or food? ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Biotec Visions September 2009

News: Fighting iron deficiency – Measuring cellular forces – Better photobioreactor design for hydrogen production – Artificial nerve cell – After GFP: Infrared IFP – Predictable transfection – RNAi for improved protein production – 3D protein map – Self-irrigating rhubarb – Cool plasma to fight biofilms – Pus elasticity – Plants surviving the frost Special Issues: Imaging host-pathogen interactions – Plant in vitro technologies – Biodiesel WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology: Drug-eluting stent coatings – Particle fabrication for diagnostic imaging and drug delivery Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences: Antiprotozoan drugs – Autoimmune disease: Treatment Opinion: A Korean vision on Green Growth Most Read Metagenomics Tips and Tricks: Increase your protein solubility – Printing viable cells Writing tips: The title impact In short: Cell cloning in micropallet array – Bioprocesses for air pollution control – Cells surviving the frost – Oil spilling onto seafloor sediments Test your Knowledge Briefs     

BiotecVisions 2010, March–April

News: Attraction of adipose tissue – Swine flu vaccine from insectcells – MicroRNA in multiple sclerosis – Proteomic detection of adenoma – Systematic engineering for arsenic removal – Bacterial cellulose to make blood vessels – The recipe for primordial soup: acid or bitter, hot or warm – Increased O₂ in hollow fiber bioreactors – Eye stem cells to treat immune disease – Super-strong collagen – Designing functional metalloproteins – Higher oil content in tobacco leaves – Alternative metabolic routes – New compass point blot helps find hTERT factors – Extracellular signals – doomed cells in the bacterial community Journal Highlights : Oils and fats for the chemical industry – Molecular Nutrition Reviews New from the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: EM analysis of protein structure Opinion: Ethics body asks: How green are new biofuels? Most Cited in 2009 Tips and tricks: Storing bacterial strains Award: Garden Award 2010 Funding News: Euro 400.000 for new malaria drug – Cardiovascular biomarker research – Support to cholera surveillance Industry News: Human genome sequencing projects – Fighting Huntington's disease – Multiple sclerosis collaboration Book Highlights: AIDS and tuberculosis – Perinatal stem cells Test your knowledge: Do you recognize this? Meeting Preview: The 9th Annual Biological Production Forum 2010     

Biotec Visions 2010, January–February

News: Plastics from E. coli – Looking again (carefully) at thalidomide – Don't kiss the chimps – Imaging microbial interactions – Probiotics prevent intestinal diseases – Drug resistance in cancer stem cell populations – Triple tag technique turns up tight and loose complexes – It pays to have an immune mother – DNA hybridization mechanisms – Chip-based breast tissue analysis – Nutrient support for engineered tissue – Nano-spheres support axon recovery – Bop-a-hepcidin Environmental News: Blueprint for molecular basis of global warming – Environmental biosensors – Predicting the fate of underground carbon Journal Highlights: Focus on Biochips – Neglected tropical diseases – New online portal Opinion: Outwitting evolution: We should pay as much for strategy as technology Most Read Industry News: Life Sciences Industry – Collaboration on forensics – New center for Systems Biology Tips and tricks: Melting your DNA Special Broadcast: Watch 50 years of B&B on YouTube Writing Tips: Get the figures right – Figure or Table? – Figure legend Algae and plants in brief: Plasmid-based methods in mosses – Antibody production in algal chloroplasts – Polysaccharides from foam cultures Test your knowledge: Do you recognize this? WIREs Author Spotlight: Toxicity of Nanomaterials     

Next issue (July 2007): Biotech in Russia

Edited by Professor Michael Rabinovich, Moscow, Russia Highlight articles: Russia through the prism of the world biopharmaceutical market – Main trends of biosensor development in Russia – Novel Russian monoclonal antibody-based therapeutic agents – Genetic and molecular backgrounds for the novel sustainable agro-technologies – Russian safety assessment of plant GMOs – Biotechnological studies in the Far-Eastern Region of Russia – Preclinical immunological trials of candidate DNA vaccines for HIV – Russian DNA chips ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Next issue (April 2007): Milk Processing

Edited by Prof. Knut Heller, Karlsruhe, Germany. Highlight articles: – Bacteriophages in dairy products: Pros and cons – Liberation of bioactive peptides from milk proteins – Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus for yoghurt with mild taste – Prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides production using Lactobacillus reuteri – Lactobacillus kefiri biotransformation of pentoxifylline – Modification of milk proteins by microbial transglutaminase ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

BiotecVisions 2010, May–June

News: Ethanol biofuels from orange peels – Targeting leukaemia's gene addiction – Pea-derived solar cells – HIV is a kick in the head – Nano-scale DNA reader – Membrane in black – Cheese improves the immune response of elderly – Synthetic proteins built from standard parts – Therapeutic proteins produced in algae – Biosensor detects 100 mycoplasma cells – Protecting maggots against bacteria – Advanced biofuels from microbes – Fluorescent bacterial uptake – Two disparate stem cell states – Brachypodium genome sequenced Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Nuclear transfer for cell lines WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology: Nanoparticle detection of respiratory infection Journal Highlights: Biocatalysis – Synthetic Biology In the news: Nanobiotech to detect cancer Most Read Industry News: Biomarker assays for personalized medicine – Bioplastic industry defies economic crisis – SDS-PAGE monitoring of mAB Awards: BTJ Editors elected members of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Meeting highlight Writing tips: Figure preparation made simple – Some useful tutorials on the web Book Highlights: Molecular Biotechnology – Bacterial Signaling – Yeast Test your knowledge: Do you recognize this? WIREs Authors Spotlight: Nanotechnology and orthopedics     

Next issue (June 2007): Molecular Recognition Technologies

Edited by Professor Alois Jungbauer, Vienna, Austria Highlight articles: – High-throughput protein purification under denaturating conditions – Efficient solubilization of inclusion bodies – Affinity precipitation an option for early capture in bioprocessing – IgG-Fc ligands derived from a soluble peptide library – Recombinant glycerol dehydratase from Klebsiella pneumoniae – In vivo glyco-engineered antibody with improved lytic potential – Plasmid adsorption to anion-exchange matrices – Biotransformation and chromatography ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Biotech News

Awards: Smoluchowski Award for Suwan Jayasinghe – EMBO recognizes talented young group leaders in Europe New on the market: Full automation from library samples to assay plates with “Calli-L” – New bottles for laboratory use From our sister journals: – Estrogen activity biosensor – Two-photon polymerization for tissue scaffolds – Algae, do not shear this time! – Plant based Plasmodium vaccine – The Global HIV Vaccine Research Cryorepository – Bioreactor for tissue engineered arteries – Nano-magnetic bacteria separation – Predictive biodegradation models – Most read in BTJ: Gene targeting from laboratory to livestock BioEssays highlights: What doesn't kill me... – Time for adaptive radiation to move on? – Looking again (carefully) at thalidomide     

Next issue (November 2007): Singapore Biotech Crossroads

Edited by Dr. Michael Entzeroth, Singapore Highlight articles: – Singapore's biomedical sciences landscape – Re-starting malaria research at NITD – CombinatoRx moves its molecular speed-dating to Singapore – UK-Singapore relationships in life sciences – AMRI and Singapore: Driving discovery in Asia – Function of SIRT1 Deacetylase in Oncology – The chakragati mouse: rapid in vivo antipsychotic drug screening – Neuroscience drug discovery in Singapore ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

BTJ future topical issues

Next issue: Biotech in Korea The May 2008 issue of BTJ is devoted to Biotech in Korea. Featuring articles on: – Recent progress in microbial genome projects of Korea – Bio-Vision 2016: the 2nd Base Plan for biotechnology promotion in Korea – Strategies for systems-level metabolic engineering – Cell engineering strategies for improved therapeutic protein production in CHO cells – Development of bioadhesives from marine mussels – Dynamical analysis of the calcium signaling pathway in cardiac myocytes – Systems biology of heart and calcium signaling networks – Non-labeled detection of waterborne pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum – Injectable and sustained delivery of human growth hormone: A new method – Exploring sequence space: Screening for ω-aminotransferases Many of these exciting articles are already available online under "Early View"! A sneak preview of other content can be found under “News”. http://www.biotechnology-journal.com     

Next issue (October 2007): Multi-enzyme Systems for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Compounds

Edited by Dr. Stefan Martens, Marburg, Germany Highlight articles: – Flavonoids and other phenylpropanoid-derived natural products – Glucosylation of phenolic compounds using cultured plant cells – Ketocarotenoid biosynthesis in tobacco – Microbial production of natural raspberry ketone – A factorial approach to lactone production in yeast – Fermentative production of methylated stilbens – Biosynthesis of deoxyflavanones ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!     

Next issue (January 2008): Methods and Advances in Biotech

Edited by Dr. Barbara Janssens, Managing Editor – Recombinant therapeutic proteins – Technical aspects of biocatalysis – Advances in safe and efficient DNA therapy – SeSaM-Tv: A random mutagenesis method – Bioinformatics: Identifying interacting residues using boolean learning and support vector machines – 3D imaging flow cytometry – Flow cytometry technology responding to HIV-tuberculosis coinfections – Stem cell cultures: Technical aspects Many of these exciting articles are already available online under “Early View”! A sneak preview of other content can be found under “News”.     

Upcoming articles in BTJ

Next issue: RNA-assisted Protein Folding The July 2008 issue of BTJ is devoted to RNA-assisted Protein Folding, edited by Professor Marc Blondel (Brest, France). BTJ will be featuring articles on: – Role of ribosomes in protein folding – Tools for the study of Ribosome-borne Protein Folding Activity (RPFA) – RNA-driven cyclin-dependent kinase regulation – The presence of rRNA sequences in polyadenylated RNAs and its potential functions – Non-coding RNAs in neurodegeneration and stress response – Folding at the rhythm of the rare codon beat Many of these exciting articles are already available online under “Early View”! A sneak preview of other content can be found under “News”. http://www.biotechnology-journal.com     

Next issue (April 2008): Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery in Signal Transduction

Edited by Lodewijk Dekker, Nottingham, UK – Computational chemistry approaches – Cell-based assays for G-Protein-coupled Receptors – Cell-based label-free technologies Methods and Advances in Biotech – Application of proteomics in biotechnology – Mining marine biological wastes for bioactive molecules – PCR-based strategy to express endogenous protein levels in yeast – Method for tracking nanogel particles – Gene expression studies on bio-electrosprayed primary cardiac myocytes Many of these exciting articles are already available online under “Early View”! A sneak preview of other content can be found under “News”. http://www.biotechnology-journal.com     

Next issue: Methods and Advances in Biotech

The March 2008 issue of BTJ is again entirely devoted to Methods and Advances; featuring articles on: – BRET technology and application to screening assays – Using a commercial DNA extraction kit to obtain RNA for RT-PCR – Method of tracking nanogel particles in vivo and in vitro – RNA interference: An emerging generation of biologicals – Whole genome amplification using single primer PCR – Enzyme restriction and ligation-independent recombination expression vectors – Protoplast isolation and transient gene expression in switchgrass – Roust macroporous matrixes for cell immobilization – Hepatogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells using microfluidic chips – A transformation procedure for the recalcitrant tomato – Bioreactor scale-up and oxygen transfer rate in microbial processes: An overview – Recent research of the genus Aspergillus for food and biotech applications Many of these exciting articles are already available online under “Early View”! A sneak preview of other content can be found under “News”. http://www.biotechnology-journal.com     

Next issue (August 2007): Role of Kinases in Neuronal Function

Edited by Professor Marc Blondel, Brest, France Highlight articles: Role and regulation of Cdk5 in – neurofibrillary degeneration and neuronal death: the missing link to cell cycle reactivation – neuronal signaling, plasticity, and drug abuse – dendrite and synapse development – Cerebral ischemia, cell cycle elements ... and much more: Read the next issue of BTJ!