The art of getting DNA out of decades-old pickled snakes
Two levels underground, Chicago’s Field Museum has a secret bunker. The sub-basement Collections Resource Center houses millions of biological specimens for scientists around the world to use in their research, including countless bottles and...
HAYA Is Developing Therapeutics Targeting Long Non-Coding RNAs
HAYA Therapeutics is a Swiss precision therapeutics company that has developed tools and methods to interrogate lncRNA biology to design tissue- and cell-type-specific genomic medicines. GEN Edge talked to Samir Ounzain, PhD, co-founder and...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches Biomek NGeniuS Next Generation Library Prep System
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory workflow automation and innovation, and a company of Danaher Corporation, unleashes the power of next generation sequencing and makes it more accessible for research labs...
Shedding light on reptilian health: Researchers investigate origins of snake fungal disease in U.S.
Although only recently recognized as an issue in wildlife ecology, snake fungal disease (SFD) is of emerging concern in the U.S., with parallels among other better-known wildlife fungal diseases such as white-nose syndrome in...
EDITORIAL: Need for increased research into agricultural biotechnology – The New Times
Agricultural experts are making a case for adopting agricultural biotechnology as crop production remains insufficient for both local consumption and exportation yet Rwanda’s economy relies on agriculture. Plant or agricultural bio-technology can be defined...
35 innovators under 35: Biotechnology – MIT Technology Review
Recent advances have identified the genetic risks behind many human diseases, but the next big step is to observe how these genetic variations lead to the illnesses, and how we might modify or even...
Rewriting what we thought was possible in biotech – MIT Technology Review
What ML and AI in biotech broadly need to engage with are the holes that are unique to the study of health. Success stories like neural nets that learned to identify dogs in images...
Mother’s gut microbes can aid in the healthy development of baby, finds study
Researchers studying mice have found the first evidence of how a mother's gut microbes can help in the development of the placenta, and the healthy growth of the baby. Scientists from the Quadram Institute,...
Common HIV Treatment Improves Cognition in Down Syndrome Mice
Lamivudine, a commonly used antiretroviral drug for treating HIV, improves cognition in a mouse model of Down syndrome (DS), according to the findings of a new study by researchers at the Centre for Genomic...
Increasing heat waves affect up to half a billion people
Climate change is a reality and extremely high temperatures have been reported by India and Pakistan in the spring. In a new scientific journal article, researchers from the University of Gothenburg, amongst others, paint...
