Researchers receive £4.9 million to investigate pioneering biological electronics
Researchers from universities across the UK, led by the University of Bristol, have been awarded £4.9 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK's largest bioscience funder, to investigate how...
Lithuania Focused on Building a World-Leading Life Science Sector
In a compact laboratory on an upper floor of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center is a biotech startup being held up as one of Lithuania’s growing success stories. Delta Biosciences, which is using...
Potential COVID-19 Treatment Found in Llama Antibodies
A significant milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic was crossed this week. The number of deaths in the United States due to COVID-19—more than 675,000—has surpassed the number of deaths that occurred during the 1918...
Multi-center Phase I study of anti-VISTA opens for patient enrollment
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 7 2020
Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) will serve as one of the lead institutions for a new multi-center clinical trial of anti-VISTA, now open and recruiting...
Oncotarget: Induction of phenotypic changes in HER2-postive breast cancer cells
The cover for issue 30 of Oncotarget features Figure 4, “RNAseq results demonstrating differences between normal, cancer, and redirected cells,” by Frank-Kamenetskii, et al. which reported that the influence of breast cancer cells on...
Researchers discover mechanism by which abnormal proteins unleash toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 23 2020
Thanks to modern medicine, humans tend to live much longer than before. Unfortunately, this also opens a wider window to develop chronic diseases with late-onset, such as neurodegenerative...
FDA releases new crop biotechnology curriculum for high schools – Alliance for Science
Though a new curriculum guide offers high school teachers helpful tools for navigating the complexities of crop biotechnology and a way to build bridges to relevant disciplines beyond the sciences, it uses confusing terminology...
New computational technique accurately differentiates between data from tumor cells and normal cells
In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new computational technique to accurately differentiate between...
Servier and MiNA Therapeutics sign €220m deal – European Biotechnology News
French Servier SA and the UK’s MiNA Therapeutics Ltd have entered into a R&D partnership to identify and develop small activating RNAs (saRNA) to treat neurological disorders. Under the agreement, MiNA Therapeutics...
New discovery revises the ‘text book view’ of cell migration
Research groups at University of Helsinki and Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, discovered a new molecular mechanism that promotes cell migration. The discovery sheds light on the mechanisms that drive uncontrolled movement of cancer cells,...
