What is STEM and is Biotechnology Part of This?
The Diwou team often get asked if we can explain what STEM is and if the field of Biotechnology forms part of this. So we have prepared this quick answer for our...
WHO issues an urgent call to accelerate access to genomics in resource-poor countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call to accelerate access to genomics, especially in resource-poor countries, in a report that examines technology gaps and opportunities.
Genomics is the branch of science that...
AI-assisted analysis helps find new targets for CAR-T cell therapy against acute myeloid leukemia
Unlike other forms of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cannot currently be treated with CAR-T cell immunotherapy. The reason is that specific molecular targets with which certain immune cells could specifically target AML...
Study highlights the potential of cell replacement therapy for Huntington’s disease
New research appearing in the journal Nature Biotechnology answers important questions about the viability of treatments that seek to replace diseased and aged cells in the central nervous system with healthy ones. Its findings...
New genomic method helps obtain high-resolution maps of DNA in the cell nucleus
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new sequencing method that makes it possible to map how DNA is spatially organized in the cell nucleus - revealing which genomic regions are at...
The age of the Earth’s inner core revised
Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier
By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of...
Heightened Genetic Disease Risk Linked to Remote Regions in the U.K.
Individuals from isolated parts of the U.K. could have variations in their genetic code that increase their chance of developing certain diseases, according to a new study “Regionally enriched rare deleterious exonic variants in...
Two defense systems in bacteria work in a complementary manner to protect from viruses
A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, Northumbria University and New England Biolabs, hopes to exploit newly characterized defense systems in bacteria...
When bad cells go good: Harnessing cellular cannibalism for cancer treatment
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Scientists have solved a cellular murder mystery nearly 25 years after the case went cold. Following a trail of evidence from fruit flies to mice to humans revealed that cannibalistic...
Novel immunotherapy platform can connect mussel adhesive proteins to the antibodies
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 29 2020
Antibody-based immunotherapy is one of treatment options for cancer immunotherapy by modulating our immune system with therapeutic antibodies. Among many strategies for cancer therapy, it has been considered...
