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Planaria flatworms can be alternative screening tool to avoid rabbit skin testing
Credit: University of Reading, 2020
Tests for skin treatments could be screened using flatworms rather than other animals such as rabbits, according to new research.
A team at...
Liver Target Identified to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Linked Obesity
Obesity is currently on the rise, along with a related increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. A hundred years after the discovery of insulin, new approaches are needed to address this global...
How do blind cavefish survive their low-oxygen environment?
Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world.
Credit: ANDREW HIGLEY/UC CREATIVE
Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and...
Novel Light-Based Sensor Developed to Study Tissue Growth in the Lab
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report the development of a new kind of sensor to study tissue growth in the lab. Their paper (“A photonic pH sensor based on...
Agricultural biotechnology center being built in Almeria – hortidaily.com
Kimitec, a company dedicated to researching, developing, and commercializing biopesticides, prebiotic biostimulants, and probiotics, has invested 50 million euros in expanding its plant in the Almeria town of Vicar, which will become the largest...
Chemically engineered peptides could help fight persistent human health challenges
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 26 2020
Chemically engineered peptides, designed and developed by a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could prove valuable in the battle against some of the most persistent human...
Ocean algae get ‘coup de grace’ from viruses
Viruses don’t immediately kill algae but live in harmony with them
Credit: MODIS, NASA; Steve Gschmeissner, Photo Researchers Inc.; Kay Bidle & Christien Laber, Rutgers University
Scientists have...
Aptamer Group and PinotBio collaborate to develop new therapeutic drug conjugates
Aptamer Group Limited, the developer of Optimer™ Therapeutics, and PinotBio (Gyeonggi-do, Korea), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biotechnology company, today announce that they have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement. The agreement is to develop Optimer-drug...
Ginkgo Bioworks Rings a Bell in NYC
With the children of the company’s co-founders right up front, the Ginkgo Bioworks team rang the bell of the New York Stock Exchange this morning, taking the synthetic biology company public. The synthetic biology...
