Researchers create world’s most power-efficient high-speed ADC microchip

Analag-to-digital converters are a key component of nearly every piece of electronic equipment Credit: BYU Photo To meet soaring demand for lightning-quick mobile technology, each year tech giants...

Finer touch for tuning stem cell “fate” with substrates of varying stiffness

Quantitative control over localization of key proteins in mesenchymal stem cells Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been quantifying how different...

Plant-based vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 shows promise

Researchers at Canadian biotechnology company Medicago report that Phase 1 trials of a plant-based vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 are underway and showing promise. The team, led by Dr. Brian Ward, professor of Medicine and Microbiology...

Complementary Challenge: Apellis Throws Down the Gauntlet

With its first FDA approval in hand for a complement inhibitor designed to treat paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), Apellis Pharmaceuticals has thrown down the gauntlet this week by launching its commercial challenge to longtime...

Codagenix and Univercells Ink Vaccine Collaboration Agreement

Codagenix, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing prophylactic vaccines and oncolytic virus therapies, and Univercells, signed a research collaboration agreement on an undisclosed, “high-priority” human vaccine target with global public health demand. The partnership will...

Heavyweight Division: Arvinas Paves the Way for Therapeutics That Degrade Disease-Related Proteins

Arvinas is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that has developed an induced protein degradation strategy to recruit targeted proteins for ubiquitination and subsequent proteasome-mediated degradation. The technology, called Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs), shows great potential...

CORRECTION — EMA Issues Positive Scientific Opinion on GSK – GlobeNewswire

– Opinion based on the EMA’s Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) review of available data on sotrovimab (previously VIR-7831) for the early treatment of COVID-19 – – EU member states can use the...

Biodiversity devastation: Human-driven decline requires millions of years of recovery

Credit: C. Albrecht (JLU) A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that killed the...

Biognosys Announces the Appointment of Kristina Beeler as Chief Business Officer

As new CBO, Kristina Beeler will continue to further potentiate the value of proteomics by collaborating with global partnersBiognosys, a leader in next-generation proteomics solutions for drug discovery and development, announces today the...

Gene Editing Seeds With CRISPR Is Transforming Agricultural Biotechnology – Forbes

Soybean field getty One of the main focuses of agricultural biotechnology is to feed a hungry world in a more sustainable way. Many current farming methods...