Bioinformatics Tool Tracks Individual Gut Microbial Strain Changes After Antibiotic Use

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have provided new insights into how antibiotic use in humans can disrupt the communities of bacteria that reside in our gut systems. The team’s studies...

WPI biomedical engineer is creating a new robot to detect and monitor prostate cancer

A biomedical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is creating a new medical robot that uses minimally invasive technologies to safely and accurately detect and monitor prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths...

Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence

Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world’s biodiversity, and one of the most basic is the lack...

New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses

Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer Quickly and Accurately Diagnoses Wheat Viruses Blasts cause...

Biotechnology is on the trail of cancer – Born2Invest

More and more people are getting cancer. In Germany alone, doctors diagnose around half a million new cancer patients every year. But science is also making great progress. Biotechnology, in particular, is making significant...

Biogen Shares Surge after Reversal on Alzheimer’s Candidate Aducanumab

Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos Biogen saw its shares surge nearly 40% in morning trading today after surprising analysts by announcing that it plans to file for FDA approval of the Alzheimer’s disease candidate aducanumab, being...

Ten Ways Biotechnology Makes the World More… – Labiotech.eu

As climate change looms over our future, many industries are turning to biology for solutions to make all aspects of our lives more sustainable for the environment. Biotech companies are rising to the challenge.  When...

Colorectal and pancreatic cancer rates up 10% in last 30 years, reveals major study

The Global Burden of Disease study, is the first to provide comprehensive worldwide estimates of the burden, epidemiological features and risk factors of a number of digestive diseases. Credit: UEG

Genome Editing Heads to Primetime

The feverish pace of new discoveries still being made in the genome editing revolution can make it difficult to decipher a quotidian advance from a genuine paradigm shifter. As a result, additions to the...

Global Agricultural Biotechnology Market Scope and Price Analysis of Top Manufacturers Profiles 2019-2025 –...

Up Market Research (UMR) The Agricultural Biotechnology Market study formulated by UpMarketResearch, presents a detailed analysis of the influential trends prevailing in this business sphere. This research report also offers definitive information concerning the commercialization...