Lasers & molecular tethers create perfectly patterned platforms for tissue engineering
Credit: Batalov et al., PNAS, 2021
Imagine going to a surgeon to have a diseased or injured organ switched out for a fully functional, laboratory-grown replacement. This remains science fiction and not reality because researchers...
New computational technique accurately differentiates between data from tumor cells and normal cells
In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new computational technique to accurately differentiate between...
VETASSESS Biotechnology or Life Science – Expat Forum
designing and conducting experiments, making observations and measurements, researching information, analysing data, preparing or supervising the preparation of laboratory reports and scientific papers, presenting findings at scientific meetings and conferences, and supervising the work...
Better diet and glucose uptake in the brain lead to longer life in fruit...
Improved neuronal glucose uptake plus healthier eating might have anti-aging effects
Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that fruit flies...
Rapid blood test identifies COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease
Measuring mitochondrial DNA could predict who will need ICU care, intubation
Credit: WANDY BEATTY
One of the most vexing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is doctors’ inability to...
Conductive nature in crystal structures revealed at magnification of 10 million times
University of Minnesota study opens up possibilities for new transparent materials that conduct electricity
Credit: Mkhoyan Group, University of Minnesota
In groundbreaking materials research, a team led by...
New Antimicrobial Streptomyces Species Discovered in Ancient Irish Soil
One of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development, as recognized by the World Health Organization, is antibiotic resistance. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics since the discovery of penicillin in 1928,...
Pfizer Invests $120 Million in Biotechnology Innovation – Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine
The first four investments of the new program will support clinical-stage biotechnology companies while new investments will include companies focused on oncology, rare disease, and inflammation and immunology.Pfizer announced on Jan. 12, 2021 that,...
Transcriptomics Reveals Liver Genes and Circadian Clock Crosstalk in Time and Space
Scientists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, have uncovered that the expression of many liver genes is dually regulated—in both space and time. This...
Bacteria “Croak” in the Presence of Toadlet Peptide
Antibacterial peptides are found across the animal kingdom, serving roles in nature by fighting microbial infections and diseases such as cancer. Now researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the European Molecular Biology...
