What’s Next for mRNA Vaccines?
Robert Langer, ScD, is the David H. Koch Institute professor at MIT and a co-founder of Moderna, the pharmaceutical company behind a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. In this Q&A, he tells us about the present...
Major African biotechnology conference opens in South Africa – Creamer Media’s Engineering News
The fifth yearly Bio Africa Convention opened on Monday, at the Durban International Convention Centre. The convention is intended to bring together international researchers, policy makers, regulators, entrepreneurs and business leaders. It is a...
How light and temperature work together to affect plant growth
LA JOLLA—(August 29, 2022) Plants lengthen and bend to secure access to sunlight. Despite observing this phenomenon for centuries, scientists do not fully understand it. Now, Salk scientists have discovered that two plant factors—the...
Researchers propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of the monkeypox virus
In a recent perspective published in PLoS Biology, researchers proposed a novel, non-discriminatory classification of the monkeypox (MPX) virus (MPXV).
Study: Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus. Image Credit:...
Keeping Kermit: New clues to protecting frogs from deadly Bd fungus
As the globe continues to battle COVID-19, another pandemic – the deadly fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) – is ravaging the world’s frog species, contributing to the instability of Earth’s delicate ecosystem.
Credit: “Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera)”...
Weaving atomically thin seams of light with in-plane heterostructures
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to produce high quality monolayers of a selection of different transition metal dichalcogenides which meet over an atomically thin seam. By coating...
DMPK Optimization of Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras
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Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are bifunctional molecules that leverage the body’s internal protein disposal system to target and degrade disease-causing proteins....
Sustainable Chromosome-Level Engineering is a Success in Mice
Researchers for the first time have successfully fused two chromosomes in mice and shown that the new karyotype can be transmitted to offspring. The researchers used a strategy that involved haploid embryonic stem cells...
Synthetic Biologists Use Novel Tool to “See” Signal Processing in Real Time
Synthetic biologists at Rice University say they have developed the first method for observing the real-time activity of some of most common signal-processing circuits in bacteria, including deadly pathogens that use the circuits to...
Singapore unveils School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology – BSA bureau
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has officially launched the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) – a new academic unit that aims to become the pioneering model for excellence in interdisciplinary...
