Biotech Research News and Press Releases

Oier Pastor-Alonso, Irene Dura, Sara Bernardo-Castro, Emilio Varea, Teresa Muro-Garcia, Soraya Martin-Suarez, Juan Manuel Encinas-Perez, Jose Ramon Pineda

Preprints MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 11:05 AM EDT

New ‘smart tattoos’ tackle tech challenges of on-skin computing

Cornell University

Researchers at Cornell University have come up with a reliable, skin-tight computing system that’s easy to attach and detach, and can be used for a variety of purposes – from health monitoring to fashion.

Feature SCIENCE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 10:25 AM EDT

Artificial Intelligence Makes Enzyme Engineering Easy

Osaka University

You can't expect a pharmaceutical scientist to switch labs to the facilities available in a television studio and expect the same research output.

Research Results SCIENCE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

Glioblastoma Stem Cell HISTArionics

Cell Stem Cell

Glioblastomas are lethal malignancies that possess a rapidly evolving microenvironment containing necrotic/hypoxic areas, aberrant microvasculature, and glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) that promote tumor growth, recurrence, and treatment resistance. C

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

Reciprocal Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Immune Responses

Cell Stem Cell

The reciprocal regulation between mesenchymal stem/stromal cells（MSCs）and immune responses is complex and critical for designing cell therapies. Wang et al. discuss the characteristics and functions of MSCs under different pathophysiological cond

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

Uncovering the Emergence of HSCs in the Human Fetal Bone Marrow by Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis

Cell Stem Cell

Zheng et al. provide a transcriptomic landscape of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and microenvironment in human fetal bone marrow and spleen. They uncover the precise timepoint at which hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) seed fetal bone marrow

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

A Single-Cell Transcriptome Atlas of Glial Diversity in the Human Hippocampus Across the Postnatal Lifespan

Cell Stem Cell

Su et al. performed single-nucleus RNA-sequencing analysis to map diversity, molecular properties, disease relevance, and age-dependent dynamics of glial subpopulations in the human hippocampus across the postnatal lifespan. The resulting glial refe

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

Functional Renal Collecting Ducts From Human PSCs

Cell Stem Cell

Collecting ducts in the kidney control the balance of water and electrolytes, as well as pH of the urine to maintain body homeostasis. Shi et al.1 recently reported in Nature Biotechnology a protocol to generate functional collecting duct cells from

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 3-Nov-2022 5:00 AM EDT

Vade-MECOM: How to Peel Back the Layers of Hematopoiesis

Cell Stem Cell

A recent study1 demonstrates how hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) contribute minimally to blood and immune cell production during development and only become active postnatally. The work also reveals how Mecom expression can be used to distinguish rar

Research Alert MEDICINE

Released: 2-Nov-2022 3:40 PM EDT

In the Latest Human vs. Machine Match, Artificial Intelligence Wins by a Hair

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Vikas Nanda has spent more than two decades studying the intricacies of proteins, the highly complex substances present in all living organisms.

Research Results SCIENCE

Released: 2-Nov-2022 12:55 PM EDT

Patient-Specific Cancer Tumours Replicated in 3D Bioprinting Advance

University of Bristol

Bowel cancer patients could in future benefit from a new 3D bioprinting technology which would use their own cells to replicate the complex cellular environment of solid tumours in 3D models. The University of Bristol-led advance, published in Biofabrication, would allow clinicians to treat the models, known as spheroids, with chemotherapy drugs and radiation to help them understand an individual patient’s resistance to therapies.

Research Results MEDICINE

Released: 2-Nov-2022 12:00 PM EDT

Imprinted Dlk1 dosage as a size determinant of the mammalian pituitary gland

Preprints

Valeria Scagliotti, Maria Lillina Vignola, Thea L Willis, Mark Howard, Eugenia Marinelli, Carles Gaston-Massuet, Cynthia Lilian Andoniadou, Marika Charalambous

Preprints MEDICINE

Released: 2-Nov-2022 12:00 PM EDT

AMPKα2 is a skeletal muscle stem cell intrinsic regulator of myonuclear accretion

Preprints

Anita E M Kneppers, Marine Theret, Sabrina Ben Larbi, Linda Gsaier, Audrey Saugues, Carole Dabadie, Arnaud Ferry, Kei Sakamoto, Rémi Mounier

Preprints MEDICINE

Released: 2-Nov-2022 9:00 AM EDT

MIRRI and USCCN Enhance Their Cooperation to Promote the Valorization of Microbial Resources and Innovation in Biotechnology

International Phytobiomes Alliance

Leading culture collection networks in the EU and the U.S. announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance their cooperation to promote microbial resources and innovation in biotechnology.

Announcement SCIENCE

31-Oct-2022 12:00 PM EDT

DNA 'Nanotransporters' to treat cancer

Universite de Montreal

Canadian chemists specializing in nanotechnology draw inspiration from nature to create molecular transporters that optimize the release of therapeutic drugs.

Research Results MEDICINE

Released: 1-Nov-2022 6:40 PM EDT

A New Control System for Synthetic Genes

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Using an approach based on CRISPR proteins, MIT researchers have developed a new way to precisely control the amount of a particular protein that is produced in mammalian cells.

Research Results SCIENCE

Released: 1-Nov-2022 5:20 PM EDT

Dissecting the Ecology of Microalgae and Bacteria Across Time and Space

Department of Energy, Office of Science

Microalgae play an important role in the Earth’s climate, converting carbon dioxide into solid carbon. This research sought new ways to study these microalgae and their associated bacterial communities across time and space. The researchers created a new co-culture method called a “porous microplate” that passes nutrients and molecules associated with metabolism between culture cells while blocking physical contact between algae in adjacent wells.

Research Results SCIENCE

Newswise: New Technique Makes Gene Editing at Scale Possible in Animals, Turning Years of Work Into Days and Making New Kinds of Genetic Experiments Possible

Released: 1-Nov-2022 12:15 PM EDT

New Technique Makes Gene Editing at Scale Possible in Animals, Turning Years of Work Into Days and Making New Kinds of Genetic Experiments Possible

University of Oregon

A new gene editing technique developed by University of Oregon researchers compresses what previously would have been years of work into just a few days, making new kinds of research possible in animal models.

Research Results SCIENCE