N-terminal domain antibodies play a key role in COVID immunity
Scientists are learning that a lesser-studied region on the pandemic coronavirus is recognized by COVID-19 infection-fighting antibodies. These antibodies were identified in blood samples from previously infected patients, and were found to potently prevent...
A Red List of insect experts in Europe
New EC-funded project will identify trends in taxonomic expertise across Europe to identify gaps in expert knowledge
Credit: Denitza Peneva
Insects are the largest taxonomic group in the...
Study reveals unknown immune defense system that protects the lungs from viral infections
Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown arm of the immune defense system that protects the lung from lethal viral infections. Respiratory diseases caused by viruses such as influenza A and SARS-CoV-2 cause damage not...
Can Vir Biotechnology’s share price outperform the biotech theme? – CMC Markets
Vir Biotechnology’s share price surged more than 60% last Thursday as the biotech firm’s COVID vaccine showed promising results. A Phase III trial showed that the vaccine Vir Biotechnology is developing with GlaxoSmithKline...
Can I Squeeze through? Disease-Causing Fungi Penetrate through Tiny Gaps at the Cost of...
A team of scientists at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, shed new light on how pathogenic fungi can penetrate tissues by squeezing through tiny gaps between plant and animal cells whereas non-pathogenic fungi do...
TU Graz researchers identify chemical processes as key to understanding landslides
Credit: © Kieffer – TU Graz/DCNA
Mass movements such as landslides and hill-slope debris flows cause billions of euros in economic damage around the world every year....
Scientists identify address codes in odorant receptor proteins
A team of scientists led by Dietmar Krautwurst from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now identified address codes in odorant receptor proteins for the first...
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Broadcast Date: April 7, 2021Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CET Upstream process development labs have historically depended on a core lab to get a picture of changes in critical media...
FDA Pushback on AbbVie Drug Raises More Alarms for Biotechnology – Yahoo Finance
BloombergStartup Sold DNA Kits to Test Poop. Prosecutors Say It’s a Fraud(Bloomberg) -- The founders of medical testing company uBiome Inc. were criminally charged with a $60 million fraud in an alleged scheme that...
BASF invests in Chinese biotechnology start-up – hortidaily.com – hortidaily.com
BASF Venture Capital has invested in Bota Biosciences, an industrial synthetic biotech company based in Hangzhou, China. Bota Bio, founded in 2019, is developing a proprietary next-generation biotechnology platform which enables sustainable and economical...
