FACT SHEET: The United States Announces New Investments and Resources to Advance President Biden’s...
Today, the White House will host a Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing. The Summit is led by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, and Director of the...
Biotechnology to the fore as Biden evokes US Moon mission in renewed cancer fight...
President Joe Biden on Monday invoked the national effort to land a man on the Moon 60 years ago in a speech touting his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aims to slash cancer death...
Alcohol Triggers Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Changes in Brain’s Emotion Center
Based on high-throughput sequencing experiments conducted on animal models of alcohol exposure, scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) found that even small quantities of alcohol can induce immediate transcriptomic and epigenomic...
The gene to which we owe our big brain
Animal studies on great apes have long been banned in Europe for ethical reasons. For the question pursued here, so-called organoids, i.e. three-dimensional cell structures a few millimeters in size that are grown in...
Update on SARS-CoV-2 variants detected in animals by USDA
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has claimed more than 6.5 million lives worldwide. In addition to directly affecting humans,...
Exercise hormone reduces protein levels linked to Parkinson’s disease
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have shown that a hormone secreted into the blood during endurance, or aerobic, exercise reduces levels of a protein linked to...
Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of...
Poll: Aching joints make older adults reach for many forms of pain relief –...
Popping a pill may bring short-term relief for arthritis-related joint pain, but many older adults may not realize that what they swallow could raise their risk of other health problems, or that other non-drug...
Background Press Call on President Biden’s Executive Order to Launch a National Biotechnology and...
Via Teleconference (September 11, 2022) 4:01 P.M. EDT MODERATOR: Hi, everyone. And thanks for joining us on a Sunday. The purpose of today’s call will be to preview the President’s executive order, which he’ll sign tomorrow,...
DeFi trial: Smart design and impressive results for the benefit of patients with rare...
Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology
First phase 3 trial shows targeting the Notch pathway improves outcomes in rare tumours
The gamma secretase inhibitor nirogacestat, which targets Notch, increases progression free survival and reduces symptoms in...
