Lehigh materials science professor elected to Academia Europaea

Prestigious honor from international association recognizes Christopher J. Kiely as a world-renowned expert in electron microscopy and catalyst material characterization Credit: Lehigh University Christopher J. Kiely, the Harold...

Researchers discover new active substance effective against gram negative bacteria

More and more bacterial pathogens of infectious diseases become resistant to customary antibiotics. Typical hospital germs such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae have become resistant to the most - and in some cases...

Frailty: An important predictor of worse outcome after traumatic spinal cord injury

A new study has shown that frailty is an important predictor of worse outcome after traumatic spinal cord injury in patients less than 75 years of age. In patients younger than 75 years, frailty...

Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to Manchester Institute for Biotechnology for environmental research – The...

Professor Martin Schröder, Vice-President of The University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, added that it was with real pride that the Faculty had been recognised in this way. Professor...

Dicerna, Novo Nordisk Eye 30+ Liver Targets in Up-to-$3.8B RNAi Partnership

Novo Nordisk will apply Dicerna Pharmaceuticals’ GalXC platform to discover and develop RNA interference (RNAi) therapies for liver-related cardio-metabolic diseases, the companies said this week, through a collaboration that could generate more than $3.8...

Researchers develop breakthrough in marine sponge cell culture

Vertebrate, insect, and plant cell lines are important tools for research in many disciplines, including human health, evolutionary and developmental biology, agriculture and toxicology. Cell lines have been established for many organisms, including freshwater...

CUHK Faculty of Engineering develops novel imaging approach

Bringing faster 3D imaging for biomedical researches Credit: The Chinese University of Hong Kong The research result has been published in the journal Optics Letters recently. Activities of neurons...

JACM special issue focuses on challenges in inter-rater reliability in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Diagnostic agreement between practitioners is an ongoing challenge in the evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other healthcare systems that rely on constitutional types. The topic is the subject of a Special Focus...

Detecting HCP Impurities in the Bioproduction Haystack

Host cell proteins (HCPs) are low-level, process-related protein impurities in drug products derived from the host organism during biotherapeutic manufacturing. During the expression of a recombinant protein drug, host cell systems can express many...

Fosun Pharma, MimiVax to jointly develop and commercialize SurVaxM therapy in U.S.

The inventors of a new and unique cancer immunotherapy developed at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced a major step forward with that therapy, known as SurVaxM. MimiVax LLC principals Robert Fenstermaker, MD,...