SandboxAQ Taps Nvidia to Boost its Quantitative AI for Drug Discovery, Other Industries
SandboxAQ has announced a collaboration with Nvidia to combine its large quantitative models (LQMs) with the Nvidia CUDA-accelerated Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) algorithm. According to SandboxAQ, the combined technologies will make it possible...
Study finds fourfold increase in risk of overt hypothyroidism after diagnosis of gestational subclinical...
A new study has shown that subclinical hypothyroidism diagnosed before 21 weeks of pregnancy is associated with more than fourfold higher rates of overt hypothyroidism or thyroid replacement therapy within 5 years of delivery....
New discovery offers hope for overcoming CAR-T cell therapy resistance
Mayo Clinic researchers mined the molecular foundations of cancer and uncovered a new reason chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T cell therapy) fails in some patients. This discovery has fueled new strategies that incorporate antibodies and gene editing to...
Study highlights disparities in stroke burden across regions
Although stroke is highly preventable and treatable, there has been a rapid rise in the global stroke burden between 1990 and 2021, due to both population growth and the rise of aging populations worldwide,...
StockWatch: Wave’s RNA Editing Milestone Lifts Korro, ProQR
Wave Life Sciences (WVE) was not the only developer of RNA editing therapies to show significant stock gains from its historic proof-of-mechanism for its RNA editing platform, shown recently in the first-ever clinical demonstration...
Healx Candidate, SpringWorks Therapy Expand NF1 Treatment Options
The start of human dosing in a clinical trial Monday, plus a drug approval earlier this month, together offer the potential to reshape the treatment of the rare disease neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
Healx, an...
What is a Cell Line in Biotechnology? – Labmate Online
While biotechnology is a relatively modern term, humans have been practicing it for thousands of years. It describes the science of utilising living organisms and biological systems to create useful products. As the name...
FG’ll continue to deploy safe agricultural biotechnology to tackle … – Guardian Nigeria
The Director General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, said the Federal Government is conscious of the contemporary challenges affecting agricultural capabilities in the country. Ebegba, who disclosed this during the...
Study suggests fermentation as a sustainable and easily applicable biotechnology to overcome the legume...
In a recent study published in Foods, researchers used Mediterranean black chickpea flour in the form of a semi-liquid dough fermented with the bacteria Lactiplantibacillus plantarum to develop fortified semolina pasta with improved nutritional...
Rapid spread of antibiotic-resistant E. coli across Europe raises concerns
In a recent study published in the journal Eurosurveillance, researchers performed whole genome sequencing (WGS) on 874 Escherichia coli (E. coli) isolates carrying the bla NDM-5 gene, which encodes New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)-5. They...
