A cold-health watch and warning system for cold waves in Quebec
A team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec has recently developed a cold-health watch and warning system for cold waves
Credit: Josée Lecompte
Mystery behind an enigmatic organelle solved
Carbon is one of the main building blocks for life on Earth. It's abundant in our planet's atmosphere, where it's found in the form of carbon dioxide. Carbon makes its way into Earthlings' bodies...
Multi-Attribute Methods Supporting Quality Assessments of Therapeutic Proteins
Biotherapeutics require extensive characterization and quality control (QC) testing prior to product release. These tests are resource intensive, time-consuming, and require updating as manufacturing processes are improved or new analytical instruments with greater sensitivity...
An Autologous Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Cell therapies hold great promise to treat Parkinson’s disease, but there’s an ongoing debate over how to best do this. One group—and I am firmly in this camp—maintains an autologous therapy, derived from a...
Quantum nanodiamonds may help detect disease earlier
The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such as HIV, according to a study led by UCL...
Study: None of the SARS-CoV-2 mutations appear to increase transmissibility in humans
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 25 2020
None of the mutations currently documented in the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to increase its transmissibility in humans, according to a study led by UCL researchers. The analysis of...
Robotic Culture System Enables Mechanistic View of How Bacteria Evolve Drug Resistance
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan reported on the development of a robotic culture system that allowed them to experimentally evolve the common bacteria Escherichia coli, under pressure from...
ICICI Direct: Advanced Enzyme – A Play On Biotechnology With Enzymes Expertise – BloombergQuint
Bloomberg Bloomberg | Quint is a multiplatform, Indian business and financial news company. We combine Bloomberg’s global leadership in business and financial news and data, with Quintillion Media’s deep expertise in the Indian market...
Taking a shine to polymers: Fluorescent molecule betrays the breakdown of polymer materials
Credit: Tokyo Tech
Nylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC – these are all examples of man-made polymers – long chains of repeated molecular units that we call monomers....
Accelerating Clinical Biomarker Discovery for Curative Medicines
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Clinical biomarkers are critical for the acceleration of curative medicines. The identification of these novel clinical biomarkers allows researchers to better understand complex mechanisms of immune response to diseases, facilitating the development of more...
