Immune System Weakened by High Dietary Salt
The results of studies in mice and in humans suggest that a high-salt diet (HSD) may weaken some parts of the immune system. A research team headed by scientists at the University Hospital Bonn,...
Base Editing Promise in Treating a Mouse Model of Progeria
BANFF, CANADA — During her opening State-of-the-Union-style address at a genome engineering conference in the Canadian Rocky Mountains* last Sunday, CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, PhD, declared that “precision editing of any genome is in...
Expanding the Toolbox for Mammalian Genome Engineering
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Across biomanufacturing, disease modeling, synthetic biology, and cell therapy development, researchers increasingly need to insert large DNA constructs into mammalian genomes. Yet despite significant advances in genome editing technologies...
Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Scientist for the 2024 Holiday Season
With Thanksgiving behind us, the holidays will be here before we know it. In case there is a scientist on your list, look no further for a perfect gift! We have put together a...
A new method to produce complex natural products in amoebae
A research team at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) in Jena, Germany has developed a new method to produce complex natural products in amoebae....
New bioreactor could accelerate access to cancer-killing immunotherapy
A new tool to rapidly grow cancer-killing white blood cells could advance the availability of immunotherapy, a promising therapy which harnesses the power of the body's immune response to target cancer cells. Washington State...
Make no bones about it: How our bodies shift between making bones and breaking...
Osaka, Japan – Osteoblasts act in a group to make bone over the course of several months. However, how osteoblasts cooperate with each other in vivo is still unknown. Now, researchers at Osaka University...
Confessions of a Grizzled Biotech Survivor
“We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.”
Those famously understated words introduced a research paper written by...
MD Anderson and Panacea create Manaolana Oncology to develop novel portfolio of monoclonal antibodies
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Panacea Venture today announced the launch of Manaolana Oncology Inc., a new company created to develop and advance antibody-based therapies against novel cancer antigens. Manaolana...
Solid bone marrow aspirates may be a promising therapeutic approach for promoting wound healing
A new study compares the regenerative potential of blood/bone marrow aspirate concentrates obtained from arterial blood, venous blood, and bone marrow aspirate. The study, conducted in rabbits, is reported in the peer-reviewed journal Tissue...
