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New treatment offers hope for children suffering from rare skin condition

It’s a beautiful moniker, but for Australia’s ‘butterfly children’ it belies a devastating reality filled with enormous pain and suffering caused by a rare skin condition – Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).

2 Aug 2023

AirGels: A game-changer for research on respiratory infections

Biofilms are highly resistant communities of bacteria that pose a major challenge in the treatment of infections.

1 Aug 2023

Boston College researcher receives grant to study role of gut microbes in Type 1 diabetes

Boston College Assistant Professor of Biology Emrah Altindis has received a two-year, $275,000-grant from the Beatson Foundation to explore the role of gut microbes and viruses triggering the autoimmunity of Type 1 diabetes.

1 Aug 2023

MGH opens first-of-its-kind center to eliminate lifelong immunosuppression after organ transplant

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health system, officially opened the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance, the first-of-its kind center in the world dedicated to preventing organ rejection after transplant surgery without the use of lifelong immunosuppressive medications.

1 Aug 2023

Phase 1 clinical trial underway to test City of Hope-developed cancer treatment

Researchers at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, today published a new study explaining how they took a protein once thought to be too challenging for targeted therapy, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and developed a targeted chemotherapy that appears to annihilate all solid tumors in preclinical research.

1 Aug 2023

Kombucha may help lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes

People with type-II diabetes who drank the fermented tea drink kombucha for four weeks had lower fasting blood glucose levels compared to when they consumed a similar-tasting placebo beverage, according to results from a clinical trial conducted by researchers at Georgetown University's School of Health, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and MedStar Health.

1 Aug 2023

IN8bio opens new cancer research lab in Birmingham's Pepper Place

Birmingham's Pepper Place has a striking new addition to its teeming farmers' market and noted food offerings -; a multimillion-dollar cancer research laboratory.

1 Aug 2023

How did trends in invasive bacterial diseases change during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Researchers analyzed the surveillance data submitted by the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Consortium.

1 Aug 2023

RSV vaccines for older adults: 2023 ACIP recommendations

A recent report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report provided clinical guidance on Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines for adults ≥60 years.

1 Aug 2023

New device can detect COVID-19 in less than a minute

Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could become a tool for use in doctors' offices to quickly diagnose people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

1 Aug 2023

Chinese researchers sequence the genomes of over 100 oat plants

Oat is among the top ten cereal crop species in terms of global production. It can adapt to different climates, and farmers can grow it successfully even in harsh environments where other crops such as rice and corn fail. However, not all oat plants are the same.

31 Jul 2023

New way to attack fungal infections discovered

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Research Science (CSRS) and the University of Toronto have discovered a new way to attack fungal infections.

31 Jul 2023

Study reveals internal structure of polyelectrolyte complexes for the first time

For years, we've known that a special kind of molecular assembly known as a "polyelectrolyte complex" helps your cells keep themselves organized.

31 Jul 2023

Rockefeller researchers reveal the mechanisms behind malignant turn of events in cancer

Early on, every stem cell faces a fateful choice. During skin development, for instance, the embryonic epidermis begins as a single layer of epidermal progenitor cells.

31 Jul 2023

The essential role of the MPL36 protein in leptospirosis

The Leptospira membrane protein L36 (MPL36) is essential for its pathogenesis.

31 Jul 2023

Gyros Protein Technologies introduces PurePep EasyClean Auto Kit for automated parallel peptide purification

Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, and a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays, today announced the launch of its PurePep® EasyClean (PEC) Auto Kit for the automated parallel purification of peptides, accelerating downstream processes for research, development, and production of simple to complex peptide drugs and therapies.

From Gyros Protein Technologies AB 31 Jul 2023

Pinto beans may have anti-inflammatory properties

Common beans are important food sources with high nutritional content. Bean seeds also contain phenolic compounds, which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that promote health.

28 Jul 2023

Golgi apparatus may play a role in neuronal circuit reorganization during postnatal brain development

Neurons are the cells that constitute neural circuits and use chemicals and electricity to receive and send messages that allow the body to do everything, including thinking, sensing, moving, and more.

28 Jul 2023

Periaqueductal gray is essential for play and laughter in rats

To study play behaviors in animals, scientists must be able to authentically simulate play-conducive environments in the laboratory.

28 Jul 2023

Microbial cell factories produce eco-friendly food and cosmetic compounds

Despite decades of global population growth, global food crisis seems to be at hand yet again because the food productivity is cut severely due to prolonged presence of abnormal weather from intensifying climate change and global food supply chain is deteriorated due to international conflicts such as wars exacerbating food shortages and nutritional inequality around the globe.

28 Jul 2023

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Laboratory News and Research

New treatment offers hope for children suffering from rare skin condition

AirGels: A game-changer for research on respiratory infections

Boston College researcher receives grant to study role of gut microbes in Type 1 diabetes

MGH opens first-of-its-kind center to eliminate lifelong immunosuppression after organ transplant

Phase 1 clinical trial underway to test City of Hope-developed cancer treatment

Kombucha may help lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes

IN8bio opens new cancer research lab in Birmingham's Pepper Place

How did trends in invasive bacterial diseases change during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic?

RSV vaccines for older adults: 2023 ACIP recommendations

New device can detect COVID-19 in less than a minute

Chinese researchers sequence the genomes of over 100 oat plants

New way to attack fungal infections discovered

Study reveals internal structure of polyelectrolyte complexes for the first time

Rockefeller researchers reveal the mechanisms behind malignant turn of events in cancer

The essential role of the MPL36 protein in leptospirosis

Gyros Protein Technologies introduces PurePep EasyClean Auto Kit for automated parallel peptide purification

Pinto beans may have anti-inflammatory properties

Golgi apparatus may play a role in neuronal circuit reorganization during postnatal brain development

Periaqueductal gray is essential for play and laughter in rats

Microbial cell factories produce eco-friendly food and cosmetic compounds

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