New study finds surface disturbance can limit mule deer migration
Credit: Joe Riis
A new study shows that surface disturbance from energy development can hinder mule deer migrations when it exceeds 3 percent.
Researchers from the University of...
J&J’s Janssen Speeds Up Planned Launch of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Paul Stoffels, MD, vice chairman of the executive committee and CSO at Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said today that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies will speed up by two months the start of...
Biotechnology Institute: Gene Pool Competition – Business Wire
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shreya Ramachandran (11th Grade, American High School, Fremont, CA) was named winner of the Biotechnology Institute’s Gene Pool Competition today at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s BIO Digital 2020 Convention. In its fifth year,...
BTIG Builds Out Healthcare Research Division with Biotechnology Analyst Dae Gon Ha, PhD –...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BTIG announced today that Dae Gon Ha, PhD, has joined the firm’s Healthcare Research team as a Vice President and Biotechnology Analyst. Dr. Ha will be based in BTIG’s Boston office and...
Unique mutations could weaken Indian SARS-CoV-2 strain
A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in June 2020 suggests that the presence of unique mutations in the viral strains circulating in India has led to their attenuation.
Sequencing the Viral Genomes
The...
A drug to treat harsh complications of coronavirus infection is registered in Russia
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 9 2020
Levilimab received state approval through a fast-track mechanism, according to Decree No. 441 of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 4, 2020, since its mechanism of...
Convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 is safe and effective
A new systematic review available on medRxiv* preprint server shows that using convalescent plasma in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is well-tolerated and may prompt the clearance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...
Twitter fight: Birds use social networks to pick opponents wisely
UC biologists are studying dominance hierarchies in monk parakeets
Credit: UC
Knowing when to fight and when to flee is a big part of many animal societies, including...
Vectors and Their Successful Husbandry
Viral vectors are the essential drivers for gene transfer protocols. What’s more, the “library of viral vectors needs to be optimized based on their application for proper gene delivery to transfer gene sequences into...
Lesaffre Takes Majority shareholding in Chinese company Biohymn Biotechnology – PerishableNews
Pursuing its expansion strategy on Chinese market, Lesaffre, global key player in the field of yeasts and fermentation, has concluded a majority shareholding in Biohymn Biotechnology; a Chinese company specialized in the production of...
