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Bio-Techne Expands Global GMP Manufacturing Network with New Bristol Facility to Advance Scalable Cell Therapy Development

Bio-Techne Corporation, a global provider of life science tools, reagents and diagnostic products, today announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) grade small molecules in Bristol, United Kingdom, further expanding the company's global capabilities to support the rapidly growing cell therapy market.

From Bio-Techne 8 Oct 2026

Single-Molecule Optical Tweezers Visualize Real-Time Dynamic Protein and DNA Interactions

A protein that's essential to every cell's ability to turn off unnecessary genes is well known for its key function of compacting genes and its connection to cancer when it undergoes mutation.

1 Oct 2026

Single-Molecule Optical Tweezers Visualize Real-Time Dynamic Protein and DNA Interactions

A protein that's essential to every cell's ability to turn off unnecessary genes is well known for its key function of compacting genes and its connection to cancer when it undergoes mutation. But until now, scientists weren't quite sure how the protein gets where it needs to go to keep genes bound up so they aren't activated.

1 Oct 2026

Computational Chemistry Breakthrough Yields Targeted Molecule for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatment

Pushing the accelerator and the brake at the same time is rarely a good idea. But researchers at the University of Gothenburg are using this approach to treat leukemia.

9 Sep 2026

New MOSAIC Microscope Captures Biological Processes Across Multiple Scales

Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue.

21 Aug 2026

Rapid Wound Healing in Jellyfish Offers Insights Into How Human Skin Repairs

Jocelyn Malamy first witnessed jellyfish cells "walk" toward each other to close a wound at the Marine Biological Laboratory a decade ago.

1 Jul 2026

Researchers Identify Neural Pathway Governing Memory Organization

When a person has a new experience, their brain faces a subtle but critical decision: should this experience be categorized with other stored memories, or should it be filed away as its own new memory? Getting it right allows the brain to help people navigate the world.

28 May 2026

Bacteria Use One Simple Strategy to Navigate Complex Worlds

Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming in open water, but navigating more confined spaces poses different challenges.

19 Jan 2026

Positioning Barbados as the Caribbean’s Life Sciences Hub

Export Barbados (BIDC) and EarlyHealth Group (EHG), have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly establish EarlyHealth City Barbados, a US$200 Million world-class pharmaceutical and life sciences cluster earmarked for Newton, Christ Church.

17 Nov 2025

How Animals Use The Same Balance Control System

A study uncovers shared mechanisms of foot placement in walking, highlighting the role of feedforward-feedback systems in stable locomotion across species.

30 Oct 2025

Reversible Epigenetic Switches Influence Memory Formation

Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called "engrams". Engrams are thought to hold the information of a memory and are reactivated when we remember, which makes them very interesting to research on memory and age- or trauma-related memory loss.

30 Oct 2025

Mutation in NAMPT Gene Found to Cause Rare Neurological Disease

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown genetic disease that affects movement and muscle control.

28 Oct 2025

New Molecules from the McMaster Greenhouse Target Drug-Resistant Fungi

A research team at McMaster University has discovered a new drug class that could someday lead to breakthrough treatments for dangerous fungal infections.

13 Aug 2025

Three-Dimensionally Reconstructed Kidney Glomerulus Simulates Structural and Functional Characteristics In Vitro

A 3D engineered kidney glomerulus model replicates structural and mechanical features of the glomerular filtration barrier, enabling the study of podocyte-related diseases and drug screening with improved physiological relevance.

2 Jun 2025

Memories of Cold Experiences Influence Metabolism and Thermoregulation

A groundbreaking study reveals that recalling cold experiences can activate thermoregulation and metabolism in mice, suggesting memory-based interventions could help treat obesity, diabetes, and temperature-related disorders like Raynaud’s disease.

6 May 2025

Lariocidin Peptide Shows Promise as Novel Antibiotic for Fighting Infections

A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.

27 Mar 2025

Engineers Turn the Body’s Goo Into New Glue

Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine mollusks cluster atop rocks and along the bottoms of ships, and hold fast against the ocean’s waves thanks to a gluey plaque they secrete through their foot.

19 Feb 2025

Ancient Hominin Footprints Reveal Evidence of Coexistence

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed each other as they scavenged for food.

2 Dec 2024

The Active Role of Homeostasis in Shaping Organism Structure

Human bodies are exceptionally good at adapting to shifting situations. For example, thanks to a process known as homeostasis, the internal temperature remains constant at 37 °C during the summer and the winter.

2 Dec 2024

New Strategy Reinvigorates Exhausted T Cells to Fight Cancer

As cancer cells grow, they pump out metabolic byproducts such as lactic acid into the tumor microenvironment. Exhausted T cells -; which have lost their cancer-fighting oomph -; consume this lactic acid, which further saps their energy, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.

11 Nov 2024