Shrinking waveforms on electrocardiograms predict worsening health and death of hospitalized COVID-19 and influenza...
Specific and dynamic changes on electrocardiograms (EKGs) of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 or influenza can help predict a timeframe for worsening health and death, according to a new Mount Sinai study. The work, published...
Cloud Cover: Benchling Expands into Early Development
The life-sci-focused R&D cloud developer has launched what it says is the first-ever cloud solution for any R&D organization intent on bridging scientific research and product development. Benchling says its entry into early development...
ADHD Finds a More Effective Target in Dopamine Receptor Complexes
A new study has discovered complexes of dopaminergic and noradrenergic receptors that could be a therapeutic target to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and impulsivity.
The findings are published in an article titled,”Heteromerization between α2A...
The Triumph of Biotechnology and Private Capital – National Review
Medical assistant Mariasha Davis draws the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe before people are inoculated at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Ill., February 13, 2021. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters) ...
International Biotechnology Trust : Pandemic provides launchpad for multi-year biotech boom – Marketscreener.com
The biotech sector has been propelled into the limelight over the past year, with the successful development of the Covid-19 vaccine offering the world hope in overcoming the pandemic. Not only were multiple...
Novel small molecule potently attenuates neuroinflammation in brain and glial cells
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Neuroinflammation can worsen outcomes in stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury, as well as accelerate neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. This suggests that limiting neuroinflammation may represent...
Invest in the ‘golden age’ of biotech – Investors Chronicle
Biotech Growth Trust has underperformed this year but has a good long-term performance recordIts discount to NAV has recently widenedIt offers exposure to smaller and Chinese biotech companies Biotechnology is an area...
Microglia Form Networks That Engulf and Clear Pathogenic α-Synuclein
The immune cells of the central nervous system, known as microglia, recognize misfolded proteins in the brain. Now, scientists have uncovered how microglia deal with the presence of α-synuclein (α-syn) fibrils. They found that...
Deep learning enhances cancer diagnostic tools
Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the Beckman Institute’s Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory headed by Stephen Boppart, explored how deep learning...
Gram-positive and -negative bacteria found to be involved in periodontal bone loss
Mouths are filthy, harboring the second largest microbiome of the human body. Some bacteria can help break down food, among other responsibilities; other bacteria can travel into the mouth on food, fingers, pen caps...
