New York Loves Bio - Newsletter : December 2008

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	About NYLB Join NYLB About NYSEG Contact the Editor We’re always seeking stories to promote NY’s diverse bioscience community. Please contact Deborah Flack by e-mail with your suggestions or call 518-426-4058.

	NY Loves Bio is coordinated by the New York State Economic Development Council with statewide support from leading bio advocates in industry, academia, government agencies, and local and regional economic development organizations. Together, we’re working to promote New York globally as a thriving center for life science research and commerce.

	CALLING ALL BETA TESTERS Cataloging New York State’s bio assets and communicating how economic development organizations can help life science and related businesses invest and grow in the Empire State is a priority for NY Loves Bio. What started out as content in a static interactive touch-screen kiosk will soon be live on the Internet. The programming required to transition the database to the Web is about to enter the Beta stage. We need trial users to test the online system before we go live to the world in early January. Please contact Deb Flack if you’re interested in being part of the team to test the programming and identify bugs or glitches. READ MORE...

	BIO NEWS: 2008 World Stem Cell Summit Recap If you missed the World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisconsin, we offer you the next best thing to being there – a virtual recap via the Internet. Click here for the landing page to the main sessions. Click here for breakout sessions. Click here for the World Stem Cell Report. READ MORE...

	BIO VIEW FROM HERE: Long Island by Steve Levy, Suffolk County Executive and Anil Dhundale, PhD, Executive Director, Long Island High Technology Incubator at Stony Brook University A basic tenet of technology-based economic development is that the research institute is the driver. Basic research discoveries create technologies with potential to generate commercial products. The role of government is to offer support, along with the research institutes, to nurture the startup companies that come out of the lab, through the business incubators, and then mature in the commercial sector. Some regions are not blessed with a research institute to spark that kind of growth – but in Suffolk County we have an abundance of resources. READ MORE...

	NY BIO IN ACTION The NY Loves Bio Interactive Kiosk is currently on loan to the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium as part of a new exhibit: Putting DNA to Work. If you haven’t made it over to see this exhibit yet, I hope you will do so soon. The Museum is the only place in New York State where you will have an opportunity to see this world-class exhibit before it returns to its home base at the Marion Koshland Museum of Science in Washington, DC. It will be in Schenectady until January 25, 2009. READ MORE...

	TECH TRANSFER & COMMERCIALIZATION: RPI Researchers Create Safer Alternative to Heparin Larger amounts of fully synthetic heparin could be ready for use in patients in five years By Jason Gorss, Manager-Media Robert Linhardt has spent years stitching together minuscule carbohydrates to build a more pure and safer alternative to the commonly used and controversial blood thinner heparin. At the national conference of the American Chemical Society on August 17, 2008, Linhardt announced that his research team may have accomplished this task by building the first fully synthetic heparin. Their creation is the largest dose of heparin ever created in the lab. READ MORE...