Patents Assigned to Biotechmarine
  • Use of a lyophilisate of dedifferentiated plant cells for skin depigmentation and/or lightening
    Patent number: 7604806
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one lyophilisate of dedifferentiated plant cells in a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition for skin depigmentation and/or lightening purposes along with a protective regenerative effect. In addition, the invention relates to a topically-applied cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising one such lyophilisate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Biotechmarine
    Inventor: Nicole Mekideche
  • Decomposition and modification of silicate and silicone by silase and use of the reversible enzyme
    Patent number: 7229807
    Abstract: Silicatein is an enzyme of silicate-forming organisms used for the synthesis of their silicate scaffold. The present invention relates to the use of highly-expressed and highly active recombinant silicatein, silicatein isolated from natural sources after gene induction as well as silicatein-fusion proteins for the synthesis of amorphous silicon dioxide (silicic acids and silicates), siloxanes as well as modification of these compounds and their technical use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Biotechmarin GmbH
    Inventors: Werner E. G. Müller, Heinz Schröder, Anatoli Krasko