Tag: Biotechnology

Cancer first develops as a single cell going rogue, with mutations that trigger aggressive growth at all costs to the ...

UM professor co-authors report on the use of biotechnology in forests

University of Montana Professor Diana Six is one of 12 authors of a new report that addresses the potential for ...

VTT develops a new sustainable way to turn forestry waste into transport fuels and chemicals

Credit: Photo by: VTT Press release, 15 January 2019 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed a new ...

Mathematical model can improve our knowledge on cancer

Credit: Ola Joensen It remains unknown how cells "know" which structures to form in order to repair tissue damage: Multicellular ...

Researchers discovered new immune response regulators

The discovery was published in the new iScience journal for interdisciplinary research by Cell Press. The newly discovered regulatory proteins ...

Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacier

Credit: NIPR Two new species of fungi have made an appearance in a rapidly melting glacier on Ellesmere Island in ...

New study shows animals may get used to drones

A new study in Conservation Physiology shows that over time, bears get used to drones. Previous work indicated that animals ...

Real-time detection of cholesterol in liver-on-chip cultures of human liver cells

January 11, 2019

Credit: Author In a paper to be published in the September/December 2019 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from ...

Researchers answer decades-old question about protein found in Alzheimer's brain plaques

Alzheimer's-affected brains are riddled with so-called amyloid plaques: protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid-β. However, this amyloid-β is a fragment ...

Award for Göttingen agricultural scientist, Matin Qaim

Professor Matin Qaim honoured as fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics AssociationCredit: University of Göttingen The agricultural scientist Professor ...

Unconventional immune cells trigger disturbed cytokine production in human spondyloarthritis

Spondyloarthritis is one of the most common types of chronic joint inflammation affecting nearly 1-2% of the Western population. Cytokine ...

Reading the signs: Semaphorin linked to lung cancer treatment resistance

Researchers at Osaka University have identified a protein that is involved in treatment resistance in lung cancer cells carrying a ...

NYSCF inks strategic partnership with Ngene Therapeutics

Research teams will use stem cell and gene editing technologies to advance cell-based therapies for devastating diseasesCredit: Samwan Rob, NYSCF ...

Scientists hit on the protein and lipid composition of the Siberian mammoth bone

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Scientists from Skoltech and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) studied the protein and lipid ...

Integral Molecular awarded NIH grant to discover neuroimmune drug targets in Alzheimer's

SBIR for target discoveryCredit: Integral Molecular, Inc. PHILADELPHIA--Integral Molecular, the industry leader in membrane protein technologies, was awarded a Small ...

Scientists design protein that prods cancer-fighting T-cells

New protein mimics interleukin-2 without toxic effects and works against cancer in an animal modelCredit: UW Medicine Scientists at UW ...

A tomato for everyone: 'Sunviva' for the good of all

Credit: Culnaris - Saatgut für Lebensmittel Plant breeders at the University of Göttingen and Agrecol have launched a joint initiative ...

Senolytic Therapeutics kicks off Q1 2019 with high-profile speaking events

Barcelona-based biotech is a daughter company of Life Biosciences -- funded and supported by pioneer in the study of age-related ...

New method to study biomechanical changes in tissues after laser surgery

Although currently laser surgery is a very popular tool for various vision disorders correction, it is still difficult to ensure ...

UTSA microbiologist Floyd Wormley elected AAAS Fellow