To Infinity and Bi/ond: Microchips Underpin Dutch Goal to Make Drug Development More Inclusive
Based in Delft, Bi/ond’s technology is already being deployed across The Netherlands and beyond, notably at Leiden University Medical Center, where clinicians are making heart tissues using Bi/ond’s microchips, and Erasmus University Medical Center,...
AI-designed protein awakens silenced genes, one by one
By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Researchers from the University of Washington...
A new method to produce complex natural products in amoebae
A research team at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) in Jena, Germany has developed a new method to produce complex natural products in amoebae....
Lipid Profiling Predicts Risk of Diabetes, CVD Decades Before Onset
An international research team has demonstrated how the simultaneous measurement of dozens of types of fats in the blood can predict the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) years...
Researchers take pioneering efforts to optimize the functionality of pancreatic cells produced from stem...
Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki) Insulin is a vital hormone produced by pancreatic beta cells. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of these cells, which results in patients having to replace the...
Patterns of bat β-coronaviruses evolution
In a recent study published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers conduct an evolutionary analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related bat β-coronavirus genomes. Several studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2, the causative...
CNIC scientists identify a shuttle protein required for the nuclear import of proteins essential...
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have identified a nuclear import mechanism essential for organ growth and development. Manipulation of this mechanism has potential applications in the control of organ growth...
Foresite Capital Launches $173M Fund to Support Incubated Companies
Vikram (Vik) Bajaj, PhD, a managing partner with Foresite Capital and the Co-Founder and CEO of the firm’s Foresite Labs entrepreneurial innovation hub.
Foresite Capital, a firm that invests in early-stage healthcare and life sciences...
Multigranular and visualization approach precisely predicts SARS-CoV-2 outcomes
In a recent article posted to the journal Nature Biotechnology*, researchers presented the Multiscale potential of heat-diffusion for the affinity-based trajectory embedding (PHATE) approach that identified multimodal signatures of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...
Infectious Disease Experts Proclaim “Many Voices, One Health”
Surveillance Perspectives – Part I
NORTH AMERICA, AFRICA, EUROPE
By David Levine
Since IMED 2018—the 7th International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance—the world has seen the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the accompanying unfolding of the...
