Biotechnology Industry News

Animal and human studies by scientists at Rockefeller University have for the first time generated data to suggest that an individual’s pre-existing genetic make-up may impact on the likelihood...

The cyclodipeptide pulcherriminic acid, produced by Bacillus licheniformis, is derived from cyclo(-Leu–-Leu) and possesses excellent antibacterial activities. In this study, we achieved the...

Two human neutralizing antibodies have been isolated that bind to the glycoprotein spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and thereby prevent the virus from entering host cells. Although the antibodies...

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Nanjing Agricultural University and the University of Wisconsin has found that the protein RDE-3 in nematode worms adds pUG tails to targets of...

bout 15 percent of lung cancers are classified as small cell lung cancer. Recent studies have indicated that four major subtypes of small cell lung cancer exist, yet approaches...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) remain one of the most pharmacologically successful drug targets, with 35% of all commercial drugs and 19% of newly approved drugs targeting this protein...

Rob Taft’s job is saving lab mouse strains. As senior services program manager at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), Taft ensures that valuable strains of laboratory mice are conserved as cryopreserved...

Cytiva, formerly part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, agreed to collaborate with Takara Bio to manufacture a DNA vaccine candidate for COVID-19. Along with Osaka University and AnGes, Takara...

Knowledge of how a molecule interacts with the organism is crucial in order to consider its therapeutic potential. Headed by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, the Structural Bioinformatics...

Curbing the COVID-19 pandemic will rely on vaccines. But, they will take time to develop, test and manufacture, and distribute. Some researchers, given the urgent and immediate need...

The results of a small-scale study in human volunteers have shown how specifically low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diets (KDs)—which are widely publicized for their purported health and weight loss-promoting benefits...

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells. But drugs can sometimes leak out of liposomes before they reach their...

In an effort to create first-of-kind microelectronic devices that connect with biological systems, University of Maryland (UMD) researchers are utilizing CRISPR technology in a novel way to electronically turn...

Biocatalysis has emerged as an important tool in synthetic organic chemistry enabling the chemical industry to execute reactions with high regio- or enantioselectivity and under usually mild reaction...

Engineers at Duke University and the New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic...

Vaccines that protect people from infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which kills up to one million children ever year worldwide, train the immune system to recognize the pathogen’s...

The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University say they have devised a new imaging device capable of measuring both the thickness and texture of the various layers of the retina at the back of the eye...

Anammox bacteria can be persuaded to generate electricity from wastewater if they are grown on electrodes in the absence of nitrite. The finding is the result of new research carried out by microbiologists...

Proteins designed from the ground up are usually too regular and continuous to be useful in vaccine design, which must grapple with irregular and discontinuous epitopes, that is, the complex...