From an engineering classroom to a career in biotechnology – Ohio University
Laura Ndoigo For fourth-year mechanical engineering student, Laura Ndoigo, a job after graduation naturally fell into place. Like most engineering students, Ndoigo completed an internship both as part of her coursework...
Penn Medicine appoints Robert Vonderheide to second five-year term as director of the Abramson...
PHILADELPHIA — Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, has been appointed to a second five-year term as director of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at the University of Pennsylvania, following a highly successful tenure that saw...
Edible, Fluorescent Silk Protein Tags Developed to Weed Out Counterfeit Drugs
Fake or adulterated medicines are a major healthcare security problem, but the huge growth in online pharmacies, coupled with supply chain issues, has made it easier for counterfeiters to profit from their activities. As...
THE SANCTUARY OF THE SHALLOWS: CLIMATE CHANGE COULD AFFECT WHERE SEYCHELLES’ STINGRAYS CHOOSE TO...
Stingrays are in a lot of trouble, mainly because of overfishing. Scientists from the Save Our Seas Foundation D’Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC) and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity have been working to discover more...
Learning Curve: Absci, NVIDIA Partner on Antibody Design
Absci recently detailed two of its drug discovery machine learning (ML) breakthroughs, and presented validation of its in-silico lead optimization models. Absci’s first breakthrough is an ML model for quantitative prediction of antibody target...
WABI features UMaine role in biotechnology research project – UMaine News – University of...
WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) highlighted the inclusion of the University of Maine and University of New England in a $6 million project to advance research in quality control of biomanufacturing and biotechnology. The...
Study identifies a novel class of angiotensin receptor blockers that interfere with SARS-CoV-2 spike...
Scientists have discovered a new generation of angiotensin receptor blockers that may be used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In silico docking and molecular dynamics studies have shown that these drugs are capable of...
Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy before surgery improves outcomes for lung cancer patients
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Adding the immunotherapy drug nivolumab to chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) — the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide — reduced the risk of...
The Changing Landscape of CRISPR Screening
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We find ourselves at an inflection point in functional genomics, one characterized by precision, expanding functionality, and high-throughput discovery. With this new era comes a need for high performance tools and the expansion...
Exploring evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 interacting proteins in bats and primates
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, researchers performed high-throughput evolutionary analyses of genes encoding 334 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral-interacting proteins (VIPs) of modern humans, primates, and...
