Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Scientist
Christmas is days away, and you’re still struggling to figure out what to get the scientist in your life—or maybe you’re just looking for a gift for yourself! Well, rest easy, as the GEN...
Glutamine Shots in Mice Reduce Body Fat Mass and Fat Cell Inflammation
Studies by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and the University of Oxford in the U.K., suggest that the amino acid glutamine could help people with obesity reduce inflammation of fat tissue and...
Advanced technologies can significantly improve healthcare quality, productivity, and access
Real transformation in healthcare through the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, telecommunications, and other advanced technologies could provide significant improvements in healthcare quality, productivity, and access.
The current status and future challenges and opportunities...
This ‘lemon’ could help machine learning create better drugs
Credit: Purdue University/Gaurav Chopra
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – One of the challenges in using machine learning for drug development is to create a process for the computer...
Artificial ‘inclusion bodies’ developed for sustained release of therapeutic proteins
Precision medicine is becoming increasingly important, achieving to create more efficient personalized therapies for each patient and innovative pharmacological developments. In the oncology field, for example, researchers are developing different approaches aimed at directed...
Resolve to Do Better Western Blotting
The western blotting or protein blotting process was originally developed in 1979. This process has become a powerful and popular technique for the visualization and identification of proteins. The western blotting process is continually...
Truffle’s BioMedTech fund filled with €250m – European Biotechnology
Paris-based European venture capital company Truffle Capital closed its €250m BioMedTech fund – celebrating its company building approach.
The new BioMedTech fund will create and fund a dozen companies, mainly in France, developing medical devices and...
Mowing urban lawns less intensely increases biodiversity, saves money and reduces pests
Credit: Dr Chris Watson
The researchers combined data across North America and Europe using a meta-analysis, a way of aggregating results from multiple studies to increase statistical...
With $125M More in Financing, Inscripta Ramps Up Expansion
Inscripta plans to expand the capabilities of its Onyx Digital Genome Engineering platform beyond microbes, to include the ability to support mammalian cells including humans, CEO Kevin Ness tells GEN Edge . . .
The...
Bio-PAT cooperation network brings users together to develop bioprocess analytics
Dec 18 2019
What do beer, many vaccines or treated wastewater have in common? Biotechnological processes are involved in the production of all these substances and must be monitored and controlled so that they can...
