Hero Proteins Protect against Pathological Clumping and Extend Fruit Fly Lifespan

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a group of unusually shaped, heat-resistant proteins, dubbed “Hero” (heat-resistant obscure) proteins, which have the ability to block the formation of pathological protein clumps in lab-grown...

DeNovix becomes sponsor at Tufts Launchpad BioLabs

Mar 13 2020 DeNovix Inc. is the newest sponsor at Tufts Launchpad | BioLabs with the placement of two key pieces of laboratory instrumentation. DeNovix has provided a CellDrop™ FL Automated Cell Counter and a...

Biogen and Vir Biotechnology to Collaborate to Find a Treatment for the Coronavirus –...

COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide. The latest situation report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that there are now more than 125,000 confirmed cases of the disease and more than 4,600 deaths. Several...

Settling the Score with Genetic Diseases

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Fruit flies advance research on ACOX1-related neurodegenerative disorders

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reports that a hyperactive variant of enzyme ACOX1 produces elevated levels of...

SARS-CoV-2 Detection Kits Primed by IDT’s Quick Scale-Up

For Trey Martin, the president of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the last few weeks have been anything but typical at the Coralville, Iowa company. Indeed, IDT finds itself in the center of the COVID-19...

Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Environmental Monitoring Market to reach $+1100 m – openPR

Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Environmental Monitoring Market Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Environmental Monitoring market studies Monitoring equipment, media, reagents and covered kits, microbiology services, environmental monitoring and software used in pharmaceutical and biotechnological environmental monitoring. The...

Researchers prove the ability to grow human-derived blood vessels in a pig

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Mar 11 2020 A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently proved the ability to grow human-derived blood vessels in a pig--a novel approach that has the...

New marker may predict whether NSCLC tumor is likely to metastasize

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Mar 11 2020 Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. More than half of NSCLC patients die after developing...

African Americans, Hispanics less likely to receive recommended lung cancer imaging

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The use of PET-CT imaging gives doctors the best possible picture of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and this accurate imaging...