Engineered Therapy: Ramping Up CAR-T Biomanufacturing Goals

Immunotherapies like CAR–T are not only shaping the way that physicians can treat their patients but also how biopharmaceutical companies approach their future drug discovery and biomanufacturing projects. The success of CAR–T therapies...

Research provides better understanding of how antibiotic resistance arises

Researchers at the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park have shown how the development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria can have 'side-effects' for them including affecting their ability to cause disease. Antibiotic resistance...

DSM and TU Delft join forces to work on AI and biotechnology – Innovation...

Together with the Delft University of Technology ( TU Delft), Dutch chemical and food company DSM is going to develop biotechnological applications with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Both parties announced this today. The...

Transition metal ‘cocktail’ helps make brand new superconductors

Concept of high entropy alloys provides a discovery platform for new superconductors Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University mixed and designed a...

Large study finds higher burden of acute brain dysfunction for COVID-19 ICU patients

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care in the early months of the pandemic were subject to a significantly higher burden of delirium...

Accelerating Vaccine Development through Use of Blood-Free Components

Broadcast Date: January 26, 2021Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CET REGISTER NOW Vaccines and drug products are being developed with a higher sense of urgency but with even greater scrutiny by regulatory...

UCF engineering and biology researchers collaborate to aid coral reef restoration

UCF researchers tested how well staghorn coral skeletons withstand the forces of nature and humans in a new study. The findings will inform efforts to successfully transplant nursery-reared coral into the wild. Credit: Mahmoud Omer,...

Cancer Cells Can Hibernate En Masse to Survive Chemotherapy

All cancer cells—rather than just a subset—can enter a sluggish, slow-dividing state if they come under threat. Then, after the threat has passed, they can wake up and begin replicating at full tilt. By...

MSU researchers show how microbes could soak up toxic pollutants

When Michigan State University's Gemma Reguera first proposed her new research project to the National Science Foundation, one grant reviewer responded that the idea was not "environmentally relevant." As other reviewers and the program...

UCSF researchers discover a new way to control immune system’s ‘natural killer’ cells

UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a new way to control the immune system's "natural killer" (NK) cells, a finding with implications for novel cell therapies and tissue implants that can evade immune rejection....