Tag: Biotechnology

Group leader at DTU Biosustain and co-founder of BioPhero, Irina Borodina, was awarded the prestigious 2019 EU Prize for Women ...

3D printed artificial corneas similar to human ones

Professor Dong-Woo Cho and his research team replicated human corneal structure and fabricated a transparent cornea with the lattice patternCredit: ...

Genethon emphasizes its decisive role in the first gene therapy for a neuromuscular diseas

On May 24, the Food and Drug Administration approved Zolgensma®, a gene therapy drug for the treatment of spinal muscular ...

Coming soon: A home blood test to better monitor chronic illnesses

Université de Montréal's Laboratory of Biosensors & Nanomachines, in partnership with Montreal company Nanogenecs Diagnostics, has just been awarded a ...

Could gold be the key to making gene therapy for HIV, blood disorders more accessible?

May 27, 2019

A proof-of-principle study published in Nature Materials shows that gold nanoparticles loaded with CRISPR and other gene-editing tools safely and ...

Simple test can tell if you’re stressed out

University of Cincinnati engineers are developing a home-testing kit that can measure stress hormones in sweat, blood, urine or salivaCredit: ...

Insilico to present at the 2019 Innovative China Conference

Insilico to present its research at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's 4th Innovative China Conference Friday, May 24, 2019 ...

MSU researchers use 3-D printing to push knowledge of microbial communities

Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- As enthusiasm grows for 3-D printing, hailed by hobbyists and high-tech industry ...

Discovery of hippocampal mossy cell involvement to maximize antidepressant effects

Credit: ©DGIST DGIST faculty clarified that the fundamental neural circuit mechanism involved in antidepressant efficacy to treat depression, one of ...

AFAR celebrates Women in Science and Tech

Honoring Aging2.0's Katy Fike and WOMANIUM's Prachi J. VakhariaCredit: Photo courtesy of Generator Ventures (Millbrae, CA) The American Federation for ...

UTA earns equipment grant to expand research into brain injuries

Quantifying brain traumaCredit: UT Arlington It is often easy to tell when a person has suffered a severe traumatic brain ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers create soft, flexible materials with enhanced properties

Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer ...

Vadim Gladyshev to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel

Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, to present at the 6th Aging ...

Studying the function of liver cancer genes in mini-organs

Credit: Benedetta Artegiani, © Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Radboud University have developed a human model in ...

A ‘crisper’ method for gene editing in fungi

Scientists devise a novel genome editing method for filamentous fungi, based on the CRISPR/Cas9 platform CRISPR/Cas9 is now a household ...

New understanding of how cells form tunnels may help in treating wounds, tumors

Credit: Virginia Tech A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into ...

Vascularized kidney tissue engineered by WFIRM scientists

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, May 22, 2019 - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) researchers have shown the feasibility of bioengineering ...

Producing tissue and organs through lithography

EU Project BRIGHTER sets its sights on 3D bioprinting systems with light sheet lithographyCredit: F. Pampaloni, BRIGHTER, 2019 FRANKFURT. The ...

Robots activated by water may be the next frontier

May 22, 2019

Columbia University scientists develop material that can drive mechanical systemsCredit: Ozgur Sahin Laboratory New research from the laboratory of Ozgur ...

DOD awards Pitt, CMU contracts to create an autonomous robotic trauma care system