Study puts the ‘Carib’ in ‘Caribbean,’ boosting credibility of Columbus’ cannibal claims
Credit: Ann Ross/North Carolina State University
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men...
Making real a biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops – MIT News
As food demand rises due to growing and changing populations around the world, increasing crop production has been a vital target for agriculture and food systems researchers who are working to ensure there is...
AGTC Plans Pivotal Trial for XLRP Gene Therapy
Applied Genetic Technologies Corp. (AGTC) plans to launch a pivotal trial of its gene therapy candidate for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) by the end of this year, following strong positive six-month data from its...
French Biotech Raises €19M to Hit Phase I with Cancer… – Labiotech.eu
Alderaan Biotechnology has raised an €18.5M Series A round to push its lead cancer immunotherapy drug to phase I.
The UK VC firm Medicxi and the returning French VC investor Advent France Biotechnology contributed to...
Smoking HIV out of dormancy
A newly discovered mechanism allows the immune system to detect and respond to HIV
Credit: CEMIR, the Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Ever since antiretroviral treatments against HIV infection were...
Global Biotechnology Reagents Market 2019-2023 | Evolving Opportunities with Agilent Technologies and BD |...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the global biotechnology reagents market since 2014 and the market is poised to grow by USD 37.98 billion during the period 2019-2023, progressing at a CAGR of almost 9%...
Insilico and Beiersdorf use next-generation AI technology in skin research
Beiersdorf and Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing end to end drug discovery pipelines, announced today that they are entering a collaboration to jointly discover novel, safe bioactive ingredients for a specific skin...
Researchers uncover a response key to the survival of Mycoplasma genitalium in urogenital tract
A study led by an IBB-UAB research team has managed to identify the mechanisms by which the sexually transmitted bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium (Mge) can persist in conditions with very limited availability of metals, a...
TwinStrand’s Duplex Sequencing Goes Deep
As companies strive to make their sequencing capabilities longer, more accurate, faster, and cheaper, the detection of low frequency DNA mutations remains one limitation that no one has overcome. The young start-up, TwinStrand Biosciences,...
LED lighting in greenhouses helps but standards are needed
Rutgers research reveals information gaps on LED lighting for indoor crops
Credit: A.J. Both/Rutgers University-New Brunswick
While LED lighting can enhance plant growth in greenhouses, standards are needed...
