Tag: Biotechnology

The project will feature expertise in advanced imaging, bioenergetics and data science and will address diseases such as cancer, diabetes, ...

Understanding fruit fly behavior may be next step toward autonomous vehicles

Could the way drosophila use antennae to sense heat help us teach self-driving cars make decisions?Credit: Gallio lab With over ...

An international study reveals how the ‘guardian’ of the genome works

The study is published in 'Nature Structural & Molecular Biology'Credit: CNIO Scientists from the Genomic Integrity and Structural Biology Group ...

Origins of life could have started with DNA-like XNAs

Credit: Keiji Murayama Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor ...

IN SILICO chronicles the promises and pitfalls of big neuroscience

Credit: Couple 3 Films April 6, 2021 - NEW YORK - With major funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ...

Tattoo made of gold nanoparticles revolutionizes medical diagnostics

Color changes of gold nanoparticles under the skin reveal concentration changes of substances in the bodyCredit: ill./©: Nanobiotechnology Group, JGU ...

UMass Amherst team discovers use of elasticity to position microplates on curved 2D fluids

Research is a leap forward in the quest for flexible ultrathin materialsCredit: Weiyue Xin of Santore lab. AMHERST, Mass. - ...

New method expands the world of small RNAs

PANDORA sequencing method developed by UC Riverside-led team can detect once-undetectable small RNAsCredit: Qi Chen lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...

High expression of cell death genes associated with early death from lung cancer

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Patients with a high number of genes most associated with pathways that lead to cell ...

DNA methylation from bacteria & mircobiome using nanopore technology discovered

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Journal Name: Nature Methods Title of the Article: Discovering multiple types of DNA methylation from ...

Tracking receptor proteins can unveil molecular basis of memory and learning

April 3, 2021

Scientists from Japan employ a novel two-step method of labeling neurotransmitter receptor proteins to track their localization efficientlyCredit: Shigeki Kiyonaka ...

Signal detection theory can be used to objectively measure cognitive fatigue

Kessler Foundation research team finds that cognitive fatigue covaries with signal detection theory metrics, providing researchers with new investigative toolsCredit: ...

Bringing gene editing into high schools

Toolkit easily incorporates into any laboratory science courseCredit: ChristianaCare St. Georges Technical High School in southern New Castle County, Delaware ...

Replacing what was lost: A novel cell therapy for type I diabetes mellitus

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Type I Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune ...

BrainGate: First human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface

Credit: Braingate.ord PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on ...

Fast, portable test can diagnose COVID-19 and track variants

March 31, 2021

The field test, called NIRVANA, can simultaneously detect and sequence SARS-CoV-2, influenza and other virusesCredit: Mo Li/KAUST LA JOLLA--(March 31, ...

Revealing meat and fish fraud with a handheld ‘MasSpec Pen’ in seconds