Awards Fund Women Scientists’ Travel to Tropical Medicine’s Annual Meeting
March is Women’s History Month. And, one way to advance women in science is to make it easier to get into the “room where it happens.” And that is exactly what the organization Parasites...
StockWatch: Pfizer Scales Patent Cliff by Pursuing Seagen Deal
“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.”
Shakespeare’s paean to love, contained in his...
DART impact provided real-time data on evolution of asteroid’s debris
When asteroids suffer natural impacts in space, debris flies off from the point of impact. The tail of particles that form can help determine the physical characteristics of the asteroid. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection...
Neutral or awkward behavior of mothers with infants linked to an epigenetic change in...
Adding evidence to the importance of early development, a new study links neutral maternal behavior toward infants with an epigenetic change in children related to stress response. Epigenetics are molecular processes independent of DNA...
AGBT Meets High Standards, Gets Low, Low, Low…
The Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference, held in the beach town of Hollywood, FL, last month, got its beachside groove back after a couple of landlocked years. Due to COVID-19, the...
Fishing for proteins: Scientists use new optical tweezer technology to study DNA repair
Tucked away in a small, dark room at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Brittani Schnable is on a fishing expedition.
Credit: Schaich et al., 2023, Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkad095
Tucked away in a small, dark room at...
Antiverse raises funding and demonstrates therapeutic antibody identification with AI-driven drug discovery platform
Antiverse Ltd (Antiverse), a biotechnology company developing a computational antibody drug discovery platform, today announced the successful identification of functional antibody clusters targeting two G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), both displaying versatile binding profiles and nanomolar...
Product development and drug delivery at Seda
insights from industryShanoo BudhdeoDirector of Pharmaceutical ScienceSeda Pharmaceutical Development Services In this interview, NewsMedical speaks with Shanoo about her career progression and role in Seda Pharmaceutical regarding product development and drug delivery. She...
Molecular Structure Analysis and Quantification Tool Introduced for At-Line Biomanufacturing
Novilytic released its first product, Proteometer-L short for “proteoform meter,” a kit for at-line molecular structure analysis and quantification. It is compatible with bioreactors and performs analyses of medicinal batches roughly every 10 minutes,...
Applying an evolutionary perspective to medicine can spark biomedical innovations
The word 'evolution' may bring to mind dusty dinosaur bones, but it impacts our health every day. For example, even though antibiotics were invented only a century ago, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is...
