Antibiotic innovation helps fight against superbugs

RMIT scientists have created a new type of antibiotic that can be rapidly re-engineered to avoid resistance by dangerous superbugs. Credit: RMIT University RMIT scientists have created a new type of antibiotic that can be rapidly...

Breathing Oxygen Back into the Biological Conversation

As good scientific investigators, we strive to make our research more reproducible, repeatable, and translatable. These traits are ostensibly engrained in researchers from the start of their careers but often fall to the wayside...

Tech that turns household surfaces into touch sensors is a touch closer to application

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new calibration algorithm for technology that turns common materials into touch sensors. HumTouch detects the current that runs from our fingertips to any...

Preference for naturally talented over hard workers emerges in childhood, HKUST researchers find

    Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have found that children think more highly of the naturally talented over hard workers, a preference that they carry into adulthood. Credit:...

Black South Africans report higher life satisfaction and are at less risk for depression...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Although relocating can be stressful, a new study at the University of Missouri found Black South Africans who migrated far away from home to find work reported better emotional well-being and...

No Longer PerPLEXed: True Spatial Multiomics is Here

Broadcast Date: February 17, 2023Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CET REGISTER NOW The mechanisms mediating lymph node metastasis have remained largely unclear until the emergence of spatial analysis. Spatial biology analysis technologies...

Cryo-EM reveals the structure of hnRNPDL-2 protein fibrils associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3 (LGMD D3) is a rare disease causing progressive muscle weakness, caused by point mutations in the hnRNPDL-2 protein. A member of the RNA-associated ribonucleoprotein (RNP) family, it is a...

World Cancer Day 2023: Perspectives from The Institute of Cancer Therapeutics

Thought LeadersThe Institute of Cancer TherapeuticsThe University of Bradford To commemorate World Cancer Day, we spoke to a multidisciplinary team of researchers from The Institute of Cancer Therapeutics (ICT) based at the University...

Inside VC: Samir Kaul of Khosla Ventures on Evaluating and Managing Risk in 2023

Most of my meetings during the recent J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco were held in Union Square’s old, overpriced hotel rooms, lined with tacky wallpaper. Most of the furniture had been cleared...

Top 10 Ambition: Bayer Aims for $10 Billion in Cancer Drug Sales by 2030

Christine Roth, Executive Vice President and Head of Bayer’s Oncology Strategic Business Unit Bayer is counting on its growing oncology business to deliver one third of the $30 billion in pharmaceuticals sales it has committed...