New cardiac rehabilitation guideline for women designed to improve their longevity and quality of...
Philadelphia, August 31, 2022 – Across the globe, women with cardiovascular disease (CVD) generally experience worse outcomes and are less likely to attend prevention and rehabilitation programs than men. A panel of experts convened...
Research provides a major step forward to growing human kidney in a dish
Kidney disease affects one in nine adults globally and the incidence of kidney failure is steadily rising around the world. Being able to grow working kidney tissue in a laboratory could help accelerate medical...
Study reinforces the potential of Huntington’s treatments that target glia cells
Huntington's disease – a hereditary and fatal genetic disorder – has long been considered a neuronal disease due to the permanent loss of medium spiny motor neurons, the death of which over time is...
Researchers identify potential new pathway for treating a sporadic form of ALS
Researchers have published two papers describing how they identified a potential new pathway for treating a sporadic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The studies were published as part of a cooperative research agreement...
Connectivity is Key in Modular Bioprocesses for New Product Modalities
What keeps Joseph Makowiecki excited is the recurrent need for multilayered connectivity in bioprocess development and manufacturing, particularly when it comes to new therapeutic modalities, flexible platforms, and multiproduct facilities.
“Connectivity is critical across the...
Investing in longevity biotechnology: VC panel discusses opportunities at Aging Research and Drug Discovery...
image: On Aug. 31, a panel of top VC investors in longevity biotechnology will talk about opportunities in the space and why they are betting on technologies...
Understanding recombination rates in RNA viruses
In a recent study posted to bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers found frequent recombination of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronaviruses (SL-CoVs) with diverse gene pools.
Study: Correlated substitutions reveal SARS-like coronaviruses recombine frequently with...
Rising inequality risks regional collapse and climate catastrophe, experts warn in “Earth for All:...
Left unchecked, rising inequality in the next 50 years will lead to increasingly dysfunctional societies, making co-operation to deal with existential threats like climate change more difficult, according to ground breaking analysis being launched...
China’s Secretive Work in Biotechnology – Daily Signal
While U.S. intelligence toils to identify the exact origins of the SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) virus in China, there are other good reasons to be concerned about Chinese work in biotechnology that could be used against...
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...
