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Antibodies From Llamas Could Help In Fight Against COVID-19

The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led one team of researchers to find an improbable ally for their work: a llama named Winter.

30 Apr 2020

Study identifies causative factors for neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, UCSF, and UAB have discovered a new risk factor for various neurodegenerative diseases.

29 Apr 2020

Engineers Develop Precision Injection System For Plants

While the human world is reeling from one pandemic, there are several ongoing epidemics that affect crops and put global food production at risk.

28 Apr 2020

Beta Cells From Stem Cells

The loss of insulin-secreting beta cells leads to type 1 diabetes. Islet cell transplantation has the potential to cure diabetes, but donors are rare.

28 Apr 2020

How do cells react to stressful conditions?

Most often, cells are subjected to stressful conditions that can pose a serious threat to life, for example, toxins or high temperatures.

23 Apr 2020

Scientists find gene signature linked to worst prognosis in rare uterine cancer

Women who don't survive a rare and aggressive uterine cancer called uterine serous carcinoma, have high expression of a group of 73 genes, a score scientists say can help identify these women and improve their outcome.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers analyze genomic diversifications of five cotton lineages

Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction.

21 Apr 2020

A novel prediction method for promising antiviral drug or vaccine targets

A novel method to predict the most promising targets for antiviral drugs or vaccines is based on the conformational changes viral glycoproteins go through during the process of recognition and binding to the host cell.

21 Apr 2020

Super-Charging Drug Development For COVID-19

Researchers are ramping up production of a promising drug that has proven effective in obliterating SARS-CoV in cellular cultures.

17 Apr 2020

Identifying Potential Drugs Earlier In Discovery

Scientists have developed a technique that could significantly reduce the time of discovering potential new antibody-based drugs to treat disease.

16 Apr 2020

Breakthrough In Unlocking Genetic Potential Of Ocean Microbes

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in developing gene-editing tools to improve our understanding of ocean microbes.

10 Apr 2020

RIKEN researchers lead the world in single-cell RNA sequencing

Single-cell RNA sequencing is a major focus of intense research today.

8 Apr 2020

Gene-editing tools developed to study ocean microbes

Researchers have achieved significant progress in the development of gene-editing tools that could help gain better insights into one of the most crucial ocean microbes on the planet.

8 Apr 2020

New genetic techniques expand microbial research

A team of international scientists has developed a suite of more than 200 new genetic techniques for using marine microbes to investigate a host of questions in biology.

7 Apr 2020

Nanoneedle Technology Licensed For Early Disease Detection, Biomarker Discovery, And More

NanoMosaic LLC intends to commercialize a high-throughput, high-sensitivity platform for analyte detection developed at Harvard University.

3 Apr 2020

The Architecture Of A 'Shape-Shifting' Norovirus

Created from 13,000 separate images taken by an electron microscope, it reveals in rich detail the structure of the virus.

2 Apr 2020

Researchers develop a modular system for genetic reprogramming of bacteria

Novel biomaterials could soon be created using magnetic bacteria.

26 Mar 2020

Primitive bacterial parasites were first to use CRISPR to combat against one another

Humans are not the first to leverage the benefits of CRISPR. Pioneering research at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has enabled redefining what CRISPR is.

25 Mar 2020

Identifying the sex chromosomes of Cannabis sativa

An international team of researchers has derived a new method that can determine the sex of cannabis sativa plants.

25 Mar 2020

New CRISPR technology targets thousands of genes

Thanks to CRISPR-based genetic screens, researchers were able to detect genes that play a major role in lung cancer metastasis, cancer immunotherapy, sickle-cell anemia, and a host of other medical disorders.

18 Mar 2020