Epigenetic Clock More Accurately Aligns Dog Age to Human Years
To calculate your dog’s age in “human years” based on epigenetics, find the dog’s age along the bottom axis and trace your finger straight up until you reach the red curve. Then trace your...
New biotechnology production facility in Poland – hortidaily.com
Intermag built a new biotechnology production facility in Olkusz (Poland). The production workshops with a combined area of 1,200 square meters are equipped with an installation for multiplying microorganisms, a set of devices for...
New editorial published following adverse events of gene therapy clinical trial
The Editor-in-Chief of Human Gene Therapy, the first journal devoted to the field of gene therapy, and one of the world's leading experts on gene therapy have co-authored a new editorial, Moving Forward After...
Towards lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers
Credit: AIP Publishing
In a paper that made the cover of the...
Researchers discover marine alga from Kiel Fjord as potential remedy against infections, skin cancer
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jul 2 2020
Healing with the help of marine organisms is no utopia. Already 12 life-saving drugs, e.g. against cancer, have been developed from marine organisms and their symbiotic microbiota. Their...
Newer, More Dominant COVID-19 Variant Is More Infectious in the Lab
A SARS-CoV-2 variant that came to researchers’ attention last April and quickly came to dominate the COVID-19 pandemic has been evaluated in the laboratory, where experiments have been performed showing that an engineered version...
Freeline Closes €106M Series C to Progress Hemophilia Gene Therapy
UK biotech Freeline Therapeutics has extended its Series C round to take its gene therapy for hemophilia B to a pivotal trial, while hinting at the possibility of an IPO in the US later...
New technique reduces cell damage, improves IVF rates
Motile sperm are difficult to collect with a conventional cell sorter because they are vulnerable to physical damage.
A research collaboration between Kumamoto and Kyoto Universities in Japan has developed a technique that uses a...
New Method for Treating Myelin Disorders Discovered
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have developed a potential treatment strategy for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). Using a mouse model, the team identified a toxic protein as a therapeutic target...
Ultrafast, Stable Insulin Developed Thanks to Some “Magic Fairy Dust” Polymer Tech
Researchers at Stanford University are developing an ultrafast-acting insulin formulation that begins to take effect almost immediately upon injection, potentially working four times as fast as current commercial fast-acting insulin formulations. Tests in pigs...
