Research points the way to identifying new precision treatments for cancer
Researchers at University of California San Diego and University of California San Francisco have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of discrete groups of proteins...
New treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: Opioids may cure that “bad gut feeling”
Opioids are a class of substances that control sensations such as pain and emotions in animals. While plant-derived opioid narcotics such as morphine are the most well-recognized, other opioid molecules like endorphins can also...
Cancer’s Cartographer Redraws Tumor Treatment
Like many other members of the scientific community, Nevan Krogan, PhD, pivoted his University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, (UCSF) lab to work on COVID-19 last year. The result was a splashy Nature...
Frontier instructor named Biotechnology Teacher of the Year – The Recorder
The Recorder - Frontier instructor named Biotechnology Teacher of the Year
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Researchers discover unknown childhood genetic condition and its potential cure
Describing a previously unknown genetic condition that affects children, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine say they also found a potential method to...
Editas Early Data for CRISPR Therapy EDIT-101 Shows Efficacy “Signals” in Two Patients
Editas Medicine said today its lead candidate EDIT-101, an in vivo CRISPR gene editing treatment for Leber congenital amaurosis-10 (LCA10), showed positive initial clinical data showing it to be safe, and to have generated...
Neurophth Biotechnology Opens Manufacturing Facility In Suzhou, China – Contract Pharma
Neurophth Biotechnology Ltd., a fully-integrated genomic medicines company, has opened a new manufacturing facility at the Phase II Suzhou Biomedical Industrial Park (BioBAY) in Suzhou, China. The 8,000 square-meter gene therapy-focused current good manufacturing practice (cGMP)...
Combination of two drugs may help pancreatic and liver cancer patients
A drug candidate discovered and developed decades ago in the laboratory of UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock may help control the body's raging and often deadly inflammatory response to chemotherapy treatments, especially for...
UVA scientist honored with $9 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jochen Zimmer, PhD, professor of molecular physiology and biomedical physics at the School of Medicine, has been named an Investigator by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the largest private biomedical research institution in...
Making Bioprocessing as Intriguing as The X-Files
Why should we upskill the U.K.’s biomanufacturing workforce?
The Pfizer vaccine is the first RNA technology to be approved in humans, and RNA vaccines have so much potential for the future. You could end...
