Researchers develop innovative hearing contact lens for people with hearing impairment
Excessive noise, hearing loss, vascular constriction, old age - hearing difficulties can be caused by many factors. To help improve the quality of life of people with hearing impairment, Mannheim start-up Vibrosonic have developed...
‘Korea needs more open educational environment to foster biotechnology experts’ – Korea Biomedical Review
Koreans are good at conducting research but do not seem to know well how to develop drugs using such research results, an expert pointed out Thursday. Suhr Sung-ae, CEO of Global Bio-Connection SSP, a...
Researchers develop the world’s first digital cancer cell model
The computer model, developed under the lead management of researchers at TU Graz, simulates the cyclical changes in the membrane potential of a cancer cell using the example of human lung adenocarcinoma and opens...
Flinders University trial to evaluate new blood test for personalized cancer treatment
A blood test to help guide the treatment of esophageal, stomach and bowel cancers will be evaluated in a new Flinders University trial set to get underway. The trial is thanks to a federal...
ERS Genomics and Nippon Gene sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement
Jul 1 2021
ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Nippon Gene Co., Ltd (Nippon Gene), a manufacturer of genetic...
Matt Kaeberlein to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
Matt Kaeberlein to present new research in the biology of aging at the world’s largest aging research for drug discovery conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine Hong Kong Limited
Thursday,...
Liver Target Identified to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Linked Obesity
Obesity is currently on the rise, along with a related increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. A hundred years after the discovery of insulin, new approaches are needed to address this global...
Alpha variant mutations help SARS-CoV-2 overcome evolutionary weaknesses
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to spread globally, infecting over 182 million people. In the process of dividing and replicating, errors in SARS-CoV-2's...
DOE Awards $45.5 Million for Projects to Advance Biotechnology Research – Energy.gov
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $45.5 million for research projects geared towards understanding and harnessing nature’s biological processes to produce clean biofuels and bioproducts. This research will push...
Discovery of the role of a key gene in the development of ALS
Loss of function of the C9orf72 gene may affect communication between neurons and muscles
Credit: Christian Fleury
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks nerve cells known as motor...
