UMass Amherst cell biologist chosen for Pew Scholars Biomedical Research Program
Award includes four years of funding to explore biomedicine's most challenging questionsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lillian ...
Tag: Biotechnology
UCPH researchers on hunt for sustainable super crop recipe
Smarter food production is becoming an imperative as the world's population swells and climate changes. With the backing of a ...
Expansion microscopy and virtual reality illuminate new ways to prevent and treat disease
Innovation enables better visualization and interpretation of data from cell microscopyCredit: Carnegie Mellon University/Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason A ...
Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill’ to move cargo across bacterial cells
State-of-the-art technologies reveal bacterial cells organized like human cells, offering insights for new phage therapies on untreatable infectionsCredit: Video created ...
New imaging modality targets cholesterol in arterial plaque
Innovative research, reported in the SPIE Journal of Biophotonics, utilizes a dual-wavelength approach for the specific identification of plaque-causing cholesterolCredit: ...
Wits enters the quantum computing universe with IBM Q
IBM expands its quantum computing program with Wits as its first partner in Africa on the IBM Q NetworkCredit: Wits ...
Making the ‘human-body internet’ more effective
Human body communication can make data networks radically saferCredit: Dairoku Muramatsu & Yoshifumi Nishida Source: Equivalent Circuit Model Viewed from ...
2019 Michelson Prize winners push the next frontiers of human immunology
Credit: UCSF, courtesy of the Human Vaccines Project June 13, 2019 - The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human ...
CNIO researchers find effective drug combinations for glioblastoma in mice
Credit: CNIO Usually, scientists study the molecular biology of cancer to find new treatments, but sometimes, it is the other ...
Enhanced human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip performs in vivo-like drug and antibody transport
Microfluidic Organ Chip model of human blood-brain barrier that recapitulates in vivo barrier functions offers new preclinical tool for development ...
Superfast gene sequencing helps diagnose critically ill patients
'Metagenomic' test for neurological infections has real clinical benefit, says new study In an analysis of the real-world impact of ...
New gene editor harnesses jumping genes for precise DNA integration
Credit: Sam Sternberg/Columbia University Irving Medical Center NEW YORK, NY --A new discovery by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College ...
Promising treatment for shoulder pain in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury
Researchers report initial results for a minimally invasive intervention for relief of chronic refractory shoulder pain in upper-limb dependent individuals ...
Construction kit for custom-designed products
Biotechnologists from Goethe University develop robust and efficient methods for the production of new peptide drugsCredit: Jürgen Lecher, Goethe University ...
How the cell protects itself
Researchers from Göttingen discover the mechanism that prevents damage caused by shortened proteinsCredit: Heike Krebber The cell contains transcripts of ...
A homing beacon for chemotherapy drugs
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00195 Killing tumor cells while sparing their normal counterparts is a central ...
Opioid alternative? Taming tetrodotoxin for precise painkilling
Findings in rats suggest that a pufferfish toxin, properly packaged, could offer a safe pain blockCredit: Opioids remain a mainstay ...
An unnatural way to make natural products
Credit: University of South Florida From medicine to fragrances, nature provides many of the key chemical compounds needed in an ...
Electronic inhaler monitoring reduces hospitalizations, ER visits in patients with COPD
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Tuesday, June 11, 2019, Cleveland: In one of the first-of-its-kind studies, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that the ...
Research reveals sustainable method to produce lifesaving opiate antidotes at reduced cost
Cost of current method limits availability and generates harmful waste productsCredit: Howard Berg ST. LOUIS, MO, June 11, 2019 - ...