Biotechnology Industry News

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are planning a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate a form of allogeneic cell therapy for COVID-19, after four out of six patients critically ill with the...

After the mapping of the human genome in 2003 and researchers would identify a gene associated with a 44 % risk of breast cancer in women, for example, it seemed that protecting...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect people across the world, a technological application already familiar to many in the biotech field is lending a key supporting role in the fight to treat...

Scientists have determined that interleukin-4 (IL-4), a protein that normally triggers a helpful immune response, may interact with bone marrow cells to promote harmful blood...

As far as our digestive system is concerned, peptides are foodstuffs to be broken down, not therapeutics to be kept intact until they enter the bloodstream. Peptide drugs, then, must run a gauntlet of countless...

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) called for a $2BN fund to be set up to support SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development and global manufacturing capacity expansion in...

Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a potentially life-threatening medical condition that is common after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), the only curative...

Researchers at Washington University and Shriners Hospitals for Children have developed a gene therapy that in initial in vivo tests reduced the severity of osteoarthritis (OA) in mice, helped...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are versatile killers. When they detect a target—a cell infected by a virus or deranged by cancer—they can release soluble proteins that punch holes in a targeted...

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators say they have created a new computational method for assigning the donor in single cell RNA sequencing experiments that provide...

Scientists and engineers at Tufts University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used a 3D human tissue culture model of the brain to demonstrate a possible causal...

Researchers at Utrecht University, Erasmus Medical Center and Harbour BioMed (HBM) have identified a fully human monoclonal antibody that prevents SARS-CoV-2 from infecting cultured...

By disrupting the expression of a particular gene and observing how this change affects expression of other genes, researchers can learn about the cellular roles of the disrupted...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized the ability to characterize cell types and their gene expression programs in organisms and tissues. Although great improvements in cellular...

If you want to “clean up” in the recombinant protein business, you might want to start by sweeping away process-related impurities, specifically, host cell proteins (HCPs). Undesirable HCPs are generated...

Scientists from the University of Groningen have developed a method that combines different resolution levels in a computer simulation of biological membranes. Their algorithm backmaps a large-scale...

Scientists at Purdue University and collaborators say they have developed a new technology that allows the visualization of nanoscale structures inside whole cells. The team’s technology is described...

The sugary coatings on viral proteins aren’t just for decoration. They influence how the proteins fold, thus contributing to protein function. They can also protect viral proteins...

A neuroscience lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, had inspiration for a research project come in an unusual way—via a 2015 email from the mother of a two-year-old girl who had learned...

Several drugs approved for treating hepatitis C viral infection were identified as potential candidates against COVID-19, a new disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. This is the result...