Exploring the biotechnology revolution in food and medicine – Genetic Literacy Project
Biotechnology develops cellular and bimolecular processes to create products that will make our lives easier …. Today, biotechnology fights against diseases, environmental footprints, starvation, excessive, unhealthy energy consumption, and dangerous, contaminated, inefficient industrial manufacturing...
This Legendary Billionaire Biotech Investor Has Remained A … – Forbes
In an exclusive excerpt from For Blood And Money, the untold story of Wayne Rothbaum and the worst trade of his life. But what cost him some $700 million turned out to be the...
Genome editing to treat human retinal degeneration
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
New Rochelle, NY, January 19, 2021–Gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas systems, offer the potential to correct mutations causing inherited retinal degenerations,...
UCI scientists engineer human cells with squid-like transparency
Bioinspired research project a first step toward intrinsically translucent tissue
Credit: Atouli Chatterjee / UC
Irvine, Calif., June 2, 2020 — Octopuses, squids and other sea creatures can...
El Camino Health is first in the world to adopt FloPatch advanced ultrasound technology...
El Camino Health is the first health system in the world to adopt FloPatch, an innovative new technology that monitors blood flow in real time. Developed by Flosonics Medical, FloPatch is the world’s first...
Obesity Linked to Gut-Brain Connection That Switches off Feeling Full
Scientists headed by a team at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a previously unknown gut-brain connection that helps to explain why eating a high-fat diet (HFD) leads to overeating, weight gain, and obesity....
StockWatch: Cognition Stays the Course as Shares Plunge on Alzheimer’s Data
Lisa Ricciardi, Cognition Therapeutics president and CEO
Cognition Therapeutics (CGTX) shares lost more than two-thirds of their value this past week after the company released results from its Phase II, 153-patient SHINE trial (COG0201; NCT03507790)...
New fluorescent tool tracks cancer cell movement in real time
Cancer cell movement during metastasis is a dynamic process regulated by several different signals. However, the way cells receive, process and respond to these signals has been extremely hard to detect, but is now...
Danish researchers aim to spin artificial nerve fibres with new technology
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s own immune cells attack myelin in the brain and spinal cord. Myelin or the myelin sheath is a protective layer of fat that insulates...
Lund researchers discover how E. coli bacteria target and degrade MYC oncogene
Scientists at Lund University have discovered how E. coli bacteria target and degrade the well-known oncogene MYC, which is involved in many forms of cancer. The study is now published in Nature Biotechnology. Cancer...
