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New polymer material may pave the way for development of electronic pills and drug implants

Biomedicines are produced by living cells and are used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases among other things.

17 Jun 2022

Researchers understand the mystery behind DNA rings

Professor Dr Anton Henssen of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Helmholtz Association’s Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine, along with a group of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom, have received a grant for a Cancer Grand Challenge.

17 Jun 2022

Stanford scientists develop fingertip-sized millirobots to improve targeted drug delivery

If you've ever swallowed the same round tablet in hopes of curing everything from stomach cramps to headaches, you already know that medicines aren't always designed to treat precise pain points.

17 Jun 2022

Researchers discover how the protein content of centrosomes may vary on cell type

The centrosome is the organelle that organizes the cytoskeleton during cell division, which is an important role in species ranging from yeast to humans. Due to its broad functions, scientists previously considered that the centrosome was quite similar in all cells.

17 Jun 2022

New system offers a potential solution for wide-scale stem cell production

Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells in Australia at a lower cost.

17 Jun 2022

INTEGRA solutions helping to support a new generation of RNA sequencing

INTEGRA Biosciences’ electronic handheld pipetting solutions are helping to improve the throughput capacity of bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing (BRB-seq) at Alithea Genomics in Switzerland.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 17 Jun 2022

Lager beer consumption may increase men’s gut microbiome’s diversity

Like wine, beer can have health benefits when consumed in moderation. Non-alcoholic beers have become wildly popular recently, but are these drinks also healthful?

16 Jun 2022

Differentiation protocol can develop safe and efficient pluripotent stem cell-based therapies for AMD

As we age, so do our eyes; most commonly, this involves changes to our vision and new glasses, but there are more severe forms of age-related eye problems.

16 Jun 2022

Integrating Science, Software, and Data to Accelerate Antibody Discovery

As part of our SLAS Europe 2022 coverage, we speak to Andrew LeBeau, Associate Vice President for Product Integrations at Dotmatics, about the importance of managing data within the life sciences and Dotmatic's Biology Solution for Antibody Discovery.

From Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 16 Jun 2022

Study confirms the second-ever documented case of a plant creating blue berries

On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a shrub known as Lantana strigocamara.

15 Jun 2022

Novel nanoparticle therapeutic shows potential for treating human cancers

Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine have discovered a possible new approach to treating solid tumors through the creation of a novel nanoparticle. Solid tumors are found in cancers such as breast, head and neck, and colon cancer.

15 Jun 2022

Discovery may reveal new ways to control plant growth

Understanding how plants process light is key to improving crop yields. Light helps plants know when to grow and flower at the right time.

15 Jun 2022

Affordable Advanced Rapid Diagnostics from Global Access Diagnostics (GADx)

Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable medical products for global health, today formally introduced its first portfolio company, Global Access Diagnostics (GADx).

From Global Access Diagnostics 15 Jun 2022

Cost of groceries rose in tandem with COVID-19 cases, global study finds

By now, most Americans have felt the effects of global crises on their grocery bills. Recent research published in the journal Nature Food has found this to be a worldwide phenomenon.

14 Jun 2022

Urban nighttime light alters the natural circadian rhythms of plants, study finds

A new study led by Iowa State University researchers shows how artificial light has affected the natural seasonal processes of plants in urban regions of the United States.

14 Jun 2022

Study reveals possibility of changing the identity of synapses through enzymatic means

As you're reading this sentence, the cells in your brain, called neurons, are sending rapid-fire electrical signals between each other, transmitting information.

14 Jun 2022

seqWell appoints Dr Amy Liao to Board of Directors

seqWell, a global provider of genomic library workflow solutions including the plexWell™ next-generation sequencing (NGS) multiplexing technology, today announced the appointment of Dr Amy Liao to its Board.

From seqWell 14 Jun 2022

Spirea raises £2.4M ($3M) to develop antibody drug conjugates in cancer

Funding will enable the development of Spirea’s pipeline of antibody drug conjugate therapeutics for the treatment of solid tumours.

From Spirea 14 Jun 2022

Researchers demonstrate a possible new way of generating insulin-producing cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how a molecule that they have identified stimulates the formation of new insulin-producing cells in zebrafish and mammalian tissue, through a newly described mechanism for regulating protein synthesis.

14 Jun 2022

Computational approach could enable large-scale analyses of tumor-specific total mRNA levels from patient samples

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new approach to quantify tumor-specific total mRNA levels from patient tumor samples, which contain both cancer and non-cancer cells.

14 Jun 2022

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New polymer material may pave the way for development of electronic pills and drug implants

Researchers understand the mystery behind DNA rings

Stanford scientists develop fingertip-sized millirobots to improve targeted drug delivery

Researchers discover how the protein content of centrosomes may vary on cell type

New system offers a potential solution for wide-scale stem cell production

INTEGRA solutions helping to support a new generation of RNA sequencing

Lager beer consumption may increase men’s gut microbiome’s diversity

Differentiation protocol can develop safe and efficient pluripotent stem cell-based therapies for AMD

Integrating Science, Software, and Data to Accelerate Antibody Discovery

Study confirms the second-ever documented case of a plant creating blue berries

Novel nanoparticle therapeutic shows potential for treating human cancers

Discovery may reveal new ways to control plant growth

Affordable Advanced Rapid Diagnostics from Global Access Diagnostics (GADx)

Cost of groceries rose in tandem with COVID-19 cases, global study finds

Urban nighttime light alters the natural circadian rhythms of plants, study finds

Study reveals possibility of changing the identity of synapses through enzymatic means

seqWell appoints Dr Amy Liao to Board of Directors

Spirea raises £2.4M ($3M) to develop antibody drug conjugates in cancer

Researchers demonstrate a possible new way of generating insulin-producing cells

Computational approach could enable large-scale analyses of tumor-specific total mRNA levels from patient samples

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