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Researchers have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according to a new study (“Dynamic density shaping of photokinetic E. coli”) in eLife. C…
Read guide →Boston College chemists say they have developed a technology to precisely incorporate a range of useful non-canonical amino acids into proteins made in eukaryotes. The team’s goal was to create a new method to…
Read guide →Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have described a new technique for adding glycans to cells and screening interactions between glycans and proteins. Their study (“Cell-Based Glycan Arrays fo…
Read guide →With a large swath of the population entering its senior years, the number of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cases are expected to skyrocket, placing a tremendous burden on the healthcare system. Yet, a glimmer of h…
Read guide →Scientists at the University of Warwick, U.K., have developed biomarker-based blood and urine tests for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which they suggest could enable much earlier diagnosis in children, and …
Read guide →The Prometheus NT.Plex plus with NT.Robotic Autosampler [NanoTemper] News from SLAS 2018 NanoTemper Technologies launched the NT.Robotic autosampler at the SLAS2018 Conference in San Diego. The instrument is d…
Read guide →An international research team has identified a blood marker that they hope could form the basis of a cheap and simple test to predict and monitor the development of brain damage and neurodegenerative disorder…
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Read guide →Zinc finger DNA-binding protein technology will be utilized. Sangamo BioSciences will provide Genentech with access to its zinc finger DNA-binding protein (ZFP) technology and will design and engineer ZFP nucl…
Read guide →BL-4030 induces apoptosis in cancer cells through the activation of a particular protein. BioLineRx has obtained rights from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a small molecule anticancer candi…
Read guide →Firm’s technology is already used in marketed flu and hepatitis A products. Pevion Biotech’s existing investors have put another CHF10 million (about $9.7 million) into the firm to help fund continued progress…
Read guide →New solutions are expected to help tie up protein pathway information with medicinal chemistry. Bionformatics firms Ariadne and Aureus Genomics are teaming up to see how a combination of their technologies cou…
Read guide →Protein has a two-pronged approach of silencing or activating pluripotency genes depending on context. A research team at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill is reporting on two studies on th…
Read guide →Mouse studies show protein mutations lead to chronic proliferative dermatitis. Two papers in Nature describe the role of the protein Sharpin (SHANK-associated RH domain interacting protein) in the inflammatory…
Read guide →Synthetic surface did not contain any animal materials and generated millions of cells. MIT chemical engineers, materials scientists, and biologists have devised a synthetic surface that includes no foreign an…
Read guide →ESI says that it owns 6 of the 21 hESC lines currently listed on NIH’s Stem Cell Registry. BioTime will acquire Singapore-based ES Cell International (ESI) to pad its product offerings related to stem cells an…
Read guide →Firm will work with global licensee Pfizer to address agency’s clinical and CMC issues. Israeli firm Protalix BioTherapeutics received a Complete Response Letter from FDA relating to the firm’s NDA for taliglu…
Read guide →The aim is to find new ways to discover small molecule therapeutic candidates. An interdisciplinary team of Boston University (BU) professors is launching a project to develop new ways to target protein-protei…
Read guide →EMD’s TrueSpike removal technology will be incorporated into Charles River’s services. EMD Millipore and Charles River Laboratories have inked an agreement to enhance viral clearance services. Under terms of t…
Read guide →Platform will complement zinc finger protein technology for generating new iPSCs, assays, and ADME/Tox services. Sigma Life Science obtained a worldwide license to Kyoto University’s induced pluripotent stem c…
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