Rapid delivery systems for future food security – Nature.com
Centre of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, IndiaRajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Rutwik Barmukh, Annapurna Chitikineni & Arvind KumarState Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Centre for Crop and Food Innovation,...
Hamilton and Rhinostics Reinvent Rapid Swab-Based Sample Workflows from Collection to Processing
Hamilton Company and Rhinostics, an early-stage Harvard University spin-out company, are combining their respective strengths to improve the speed and quality of nasal and nasopharyngeal sample workflows from collection to processing while also reducing...
Novel optogenetic implant controls activity of neurons in the spinal cord
Grégoire Courtine doesn't hesitate to use the word "revolutionary" when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that uses pulses of light to control individual neural activity – and what it could...
Enterovirus 71 vaccine candidate strains exhibit good immunogenicity and cross-neutralization activity
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this commentary researchers from Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China, Guangdong Provincial Institute of...
How SNPs can be used to detect disease pathways
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in...
Research aims to increase crop drought tolerance using biotechnology – Nevada Today
John Cushman, foundation professor with the University of Nevada, Reno, has been awarded a $1.55 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on improving drought tolerance and water-use efficiency of plants...
Restoring Balance: MiroBio’s New CEO Shepherds Precision Immunology Pipeline toward the Clinic
MiroBio aims to advance therapies that address the immune imbalance that leads to autoimmune diseases. Those therapies—checkpoint agonist antibodies—are designed to precisely restore a balanced immune response and prevent the body from attacking its...
Biotechnology Startup GenEdit Raises $26 mln In Series A Funding – Grit Daily
GenEdit, a biotechnology startup based in San Francisco, has raised $26 million in Series A funding to revolutionize in vivo delivery of genetic medicines. The funding round counted with participation from new investors like...
Living with spinal cord injury: Resilience leads to better health outcomes
September is Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Awareness month. According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, approximately 296,000 Americans are currently living with SCI, with around 17,900 new cases occurring each year.
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In a gene tied to growth, scientists see glimmers of human history
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new study delves into the evolution and function of the human growth hormone receptor gene, and asks what forces in humanity’s past may have driven changes to this vital piece...
