URMC biotech start-up receives funding to develop cell-based therapies for neurological disorders
Oscine Therapeutics, a new biotechnology company based on discoveries made and developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has received a significant multi-year investment to support both research and development of cell-based...
Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld
Credit: Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to...
Master’s degree in biomanufacturing and biotechnology launching this fall – Source
A master’s degree that will provide focused training in emerging biotechnology fields will be offered at Colorado State University starting this fall.
The Professional Science Master’s in Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology, housed in the Department of...
Fujifilm Invests in Full-Scale, Fully Integrated Continuous Processing Facility
Fujifilm made an initial $10 million investment to establish a full-scale, fully-integrated continuous processing facility for non-GMP manufacture of biopharmaceuticals at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies in Billingham, U.K., location.
Fujifilm officials say their advanced upstream perfusion...
Soft material research provides flexibility for new engineering, biotechnology – Daily Bruin
UCLA researchers have been developing flexible materials and structures that can perform a variety of tasks, from delivering drugs to specific parts of human body to making aircraft more efficient.
Developing and integrating soft materials...
Supportive families and schools help prevent substance use among trans youth: UBC study
Credit: University of British Columbia
Strong family and school connections are helping prevent transgender youth from smoking cigarettes and using marijuana, even among those targeted by violence....
Long-term islet transplant recipients show near-normal glucose control
Continuous glucose monitoring demonstrates improved time-in-range, key metabolic data compared to hybrid closed-loop systems
Credit: Diabetes Research Institute/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) evaluations in islet transplant recipients who have been...
How do foams collapse?
Two distinct physical mechanisms identified for how simple foams collapse
Credit: Rei Kurita
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully found two distinct mechanisms by...
Epigenetic Changes To Germline Convey Learned Danger Avoidance Behavior to Worm Offspring
Princeton University researchers Rebecca Moore, PhD, Rachel Kaletsky, PhD, and Coleen Murphy, PhD, have discovered that learned behaviors can be inherited for multiple generations in C. elegans, transmitted from parent to progeny via eggs...
Study provides new insight into how brain stem cells are activated
Our brains are notoriously bad at regenerating cells that have been lost through injury or disease. While therapies using neural stem cells (NSCs) hold the promise of replacing lost cells, scientists need to better...
