Cytiva Picks Up Where GE Leaves Off after $21B Deal

Cytiva will also look to grow through expanded activity in cell and gene therapies—and additional work with customers working toward COVID-19 drugs, vaccines, and tests . . . The post Cytiva Picks Up Where GE...

Personalized Medicine Approach May Extend Polygenic Scores to Individuals with Multiple Ancestral Origins

Researchers have published a study “Ancestry deconvolution and partial polygenic score can improve susceptibility predictions in recently admixed individuals” in Nature Communications that proposes a method to extend polygenic scores—the estimate of genetic risk...

Cell-free biotechnology could help accelerate COVID-19 therapeutics – Mirage News

When it comes to fighting a fast-spreading pandemic, speed is critical. Researchers at Northwestern and Cornell Universities have developed a new platform that could produce new therapies more than 10 times faster than current...

Researchers solve structure of ‘inverted’ rhodopsin

Credit: K. Kovalev et. al. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French, and German colleagues, have determined and analyzed the high-resolution structure of a protein from the recently discovered...

Healthy Nevada Project participants report on possible exposure and risks of COVID-19

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Apr 1 2020 The Healthy Nevada Project, a first-of-its-kind, community-based population health study combining genetic, clinical, environmental and social data, offers free genetic testing to every Nevadan interested in learning more...

Rice insight gives Large Hadron Collider better eyesight

National Science Foundation backs physicists, engineers as they upgrade sensors for deeper discoveries Credit: CERN HOUSTON – (April 1, 2020) – Rice University will receive $3 million for its direct work on the next round of...

Feel the Flow: Immune Cell Signaling Cascades Reveal Phenotype and Function

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China, Public Health, International Relations And Biotechnology – Analysis – Eurasia Review

The announcement by Dr. He Jiankui on YouTube that he used CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology, to edit the genes of twins was a timely reminder of China’s role in shaping the biotechnology sector –...

Stellenbosch University and AzarGen Biotechnologies join forces to tackle COVID-19

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Mar 31 2020 Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa and (Pty) Ltd, a South African biotechnology company focused on developing human therapeutic proteins using advanced genetic engineering and synthetic biology techniques...

New children’s book ‘Battle Robots of the Blood’ released

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Mar 31 2020 Immunology expertise has combined with beautifully evocative illustrations to create an engaging book for children and their parents. A new children's book 'Battle Robots of the Blood' launches...