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Study sheds new light on the role of transcription factors in bone marrow microenvironments

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9 Jun 2022

Curia and Replicate Bioscience Enter Strategic Collaboration to Create Groundbreaking Development Platform for Self-Replicating RNA (srRNA)

From Curia 9 Jun 2022

Olympus Provi™ CM20 wins highest honor in world-renowned design competition

Evident, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, is proud to announce that its Olympus Provi™ CM20 incubation monitoring system is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious "Best of the Best" award in the Product Design category of the Red Dot Design Award. This Award is bestowed on a product that the Red Dot Jury deems as groundbreaking and is the highest honor given in this world-renowned design competition.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 9 Jun 2022

Spex CertiPrep® adds Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella Pathogen Detection Kits to its portfolio

Quickly determine the presence of S. aureus bacteria and Salmonella in agricultural samples including cannabis products with Spex CertiPrep new quantitative PCR (qPCR) detection kits.

9 Jun 2022

Metrion Biosciences appoints Dr Benedetta Montagnini as Head of European Business Development

Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, today announced the appointment of Dr Benedetta Montagnini as Head of European Business Development. Driven by the uptake of its ion channel discovery services, the appointment follows the recent creation of a Client Services team as Metrion expands its operations and enhanced drug discovery capabilities, internationally.

From Metrion Biosciences Limited 9 Jun 2022

Insilico Medicine plans to launch a fully automated AI-driven robotics lab for drug discovery

Insilico Medicine's end-to-end AI-driven drug discovery platform, Pharma.AI, draws its strength from the quality and quantity of its data. As Insilico scientific advisory board member and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Dr. Michael Levitt has said, Insilico's platform capitalizes on the ability of artificial intelligence to take vast amounts of data from many different components and find patterns and make predictions that can point the way to new life-saving medications.

9 Jun 2022

Stem cell models help determine previously unknown genetic markers of glaucoma

Stem cell models of the retina and optical nerve have been used to identify previously unknown genetic markers of glaucoma, in research jointly led by scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, and the Centre for Eye Research Australia.

9 Jun 2022

Most synonymous genetic mutations are strongly harmful, study shows

In the early 1960s, University of Michigan alumnus Marshall Nirenberg and a few other scientists deciphered the genetic code of life, determining the rules by which information in DNA molecules is translated into proteins, the working parts of living cells.

8 Jun 2022

Synthetic IL-9 receptor allows T cells to fight cancer without the need for chemo or radiation

Before a patient can undergo T cell therapy designed to target cancerous tumors, the patient's entire immune system must be destroyed with chemotherapy or radiation. The toxic side effects are well known, including nausea, extreme fatigue and hair loss.

8 Jun 2022

Study describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades

A new study from the University of Michigan describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades.

8 Jun 2022

Advanced microscopy techniques offer detailed insight into inner workings of cells' powerhouses

Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden have visualized in unprecedented detail the machinery that the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria, use to form their proteins.

8 Jun 2022

New therapeutic avoids major allergic reactions while maintaining therapeutic activity

Several years ago, a promising therapeutic using stem cell factor (SCF) emerged that could potentially treat a variety of ailments, such as ischemia, heart attack, stroke and radiation exposure.

8 Jun 2022

Discovery of small protein’s structure could lead to new therapies for neurological disorders

Scientists have, for the first time, revealed at the atomic level the structure of a protein that carries one of the body's most important neurotransmitters into neurons.

8 Jun 2022

Detailed genetic roadmap of glaucoma will help develop new drugs to combat the disease

A new, detailed genetic roadmap of glaucoma – the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness – will help researchers develop new drugs to combat the disease, by identifying potential target areas to stall or reverse vision loss.

8 Jun 2022

Diet rich in polyphenols can prevent inflammation in the elderly

Polyphenols in the foods that we eat can prevent inflammation in older people, since they alter the intestinal microbiota and induce the production of the indole 3-propionic acid (IPA), a metabolite derived from the degradation of tryptophan due to intestinal bacteria.

8 Jun 2022

Open multiplexing with Cell DIVE offers cancer researchers more choices

Leica has introduced a new generation of its multiplexed imaging solution, Cell DIVE, including software and hardware improvements. The more scalable and efficient multiplexing platform addresses spatial cell biology and function within the tissue microenvironment

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 8 Jun 2022

Irregularities in production of brain cells may lead to autism spectrum disorder, finds study

Analyzing brain stem cells of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Rutgers scientists have found evidence of irregularities in very early brain development that may contribute to the neuropsychiatric disorder.

8 Jun 2022

Researchers develop new chemical-only process for creating customized mRNA vaccines

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a new chemical-only process that may represent an important breakthrough in creating customized mRNA vaccines for a variety of diseases and allow for the inexpensive preparation of mRNA in large quantities.

8 Jun 2022

Where did Omicron's unique spike gene insertion originate?

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, scientists at nference Labs investigated the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) new variant of concern (VOC) Omicron's unique spike (S) gene insertion ins214EPE.

8 Jun 2022

Axol Bioscience introduces CiPA-validated human stem cell-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes to help improve drug discovery

Axol Bioscience Ltd. (Axol), an established provider of iPSC-derived cells, media, and characterization services for life science discovery, today announced that its human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes have undergone comprehensive in vitro pro-arrhythmia assay (CiPA) validation.

From Axol Bioscience Ltd 8 Jun 2022

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Study sheds new light on the role of transcription factors in bone marrow microenvironments

Curia and Replicate Bioscience Enter Strategic Collaboration to Create Groundbreaking Development Platform for Self-Replicating RNA (srRNA)

Olympus Provi™ CM20 wins highest honor in world-renowned design competition

Spex CertiPrep® adds Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella Pathogen Detection Kits to its portfolio

Metrion Biosciences appoints Dr Benedetta Montagnini as Head of European Business Development

Insilico Medicine plans to launch a fully automated AI-driven robotics lab for drug discovery

Stem cell models help determine previously unknown genetic markers of glaucoma

Most synonymous genetic mutations are strongly harmful, study shows

Synthetic IL-9 receptor allows T cells to fight cancer without the need for chemo or radiation

Study describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades

Advanced microscopy techniques offer detailed insight into inner workings of cells' powerhouses

New therapeutic avoids major allergic reactions while maintaining therapeutic activity

Discovery of small protein’s structure could lead to new therapies for neurological disorders

Detailed genetic roadmap of glaucoma will help develop new drugs to combat the disease

Diet rich in polyphenols can prevent inflammation in the elderly

Open multiplexing with Cell DIVE offers cancer researchers more choices

Irregularities in production of brain cells may lead to autism spectrum disorder, finds study

Researchers develop new chemical-only process for creating customized mRNA vaccines

Where did Omicron's unique spike gene insertion originate?

Axol Bioscience introduces CiPA-validated human stem cell-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes to help improve drug discovery

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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