Tag: Biotechnology

April 22, 2019

They contain biologically active substances of these species have shown to contain effective inhibitors of oesophageal cancer cellsCredit: FEFU press ...

A universal framework combining genome annotation and undergraduate education

New workflow for annotating genomes will help both researchers and undergraduate studentsCredit: Prashant Hosmani As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and ...

New method to detect off-target effects of CRISPR

Scientists discover how to identify off-target damage caused by CRISPR genome editing SAN FRANCISCO, CA--April 19, 2019--Since the CRISPR genome ...

On-chip drug screening for identifying antibiotic interactions in eight hours

Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team developed a microfluidic-based drug screening chip that identifies synergistic interactions between two antibiotics in ...

Scientists identify a novel target for corn straw utilization

Credit: WU Zhenying Plant cell walls, as repositories of fixed carbon, are an important source of biomass, which is mainly ...

Bioengineers add cooperative molecules to their toolkit for programming signal processing

Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals ...

Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have ...

Making digital tissue imaging better

Biomedical researchers develop first open-source, quality-control review tool for fast-growing digital pathology field CLEVELAND--There's a low-tech problem troubling the high-tech ...

Taming the genome’s ‘jumping’ sequences

The human genome is fascinating. Once predicted to contain about a hundred thousand protein-coding genes, it now seems that the ...

Growing a cerebral tract in a microscale brain model

Tokyo - It takes a lot of connections to create human intelligence. Brain function depends on contacts between multiple regions ...

New CRISPR tool executes multiple edits simultaneously, leading to unique partnership to deliver more precise cancer treatments

Technology from The Gene Editing Institute licensed to biotech firm NovellusDx to drive next-generation personalized cancer care Wilmington, Del, April ...

Bacterial therapy in a dish

Columbia engineers develop new platform that recreates cancer in a dish to quickly determine the best bacterial therapyCredit: Tetsuhiro Harimoto/Columbia ...

New software aims to reduce variability in ELISA biomarker tests

Researchers developed an accessible strategy to limit issues with commercial research biomarker testing kits BOSTON-- A new computational approach has ...

Heart patch could limit muscle damage in heart attack aftermath

Credit: Brown/Fudan/Soochow Universities PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Researchers have designed a new type of adhesive patch that can be placed directly ...

Scientists enter research collaboration to outsmart cancer

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - Cancer is a disease that afflicts an alarming number of people, with one in two ...

Improving quantum computers

For decades, experts have predicted that quantum computers will someday perform difficult tasks, such as simulating complex chemical systems, that ...

Biosensor ‘bandage’ collects and analyzes sweat

Credit: American Chemical Society Like other biofluids, sweat contains a wealth of information about what's going on inside the body. ...

Green plastic production made easy