BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby In this edition of the biotech bi-weekly: a new companion module makes direct RNA sequencing protocols more convenient, […]
BioTechniques News Tristan Free BioTechniques’ Editor-in-chief Michelle Itano (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) casts her eye back to pick out […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the University of Arizona (AZ, USA). An experimental drug that targets the TDP-43 protein offers […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Emerging evidence has hinted that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) weight loss drugs may be associated with mental health […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK). Scientists have grown wheat containing super-sized starch granules – a leap forward in […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria). Researchers […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from Frontiers. A widely used weedkiller may be giving dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria an unexpected advantage in […]
BioTechniques News Tristan Free “It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the Wyss Institute (MA, USA). AI-enabled antibiotic discovery proves effective at identifying new chemical structures […]
BioTechniques News Tristan Free For the first time, researchers have used a genome editing technique called base editing to identify a master […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from Weill Cornell Medicine (NY, USA). A new study has demonstrated that colon cancer cells may […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from the University of Bristol (UK). A tropical butterfly has evolved an ingenious anti-aging strategy by […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman A novel ‘asthma-on-a-chip’ platform breathes new life into study of the condition, offering hope for future treatments. University […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the University of Chicago (IL, USA). A new study sheds light on how a trans […]
BioTechniques News Tristan Free Expanding the CRISPR toolbox, scientists have introduced a new technology that can rip cancer- and virus-infected cells’ genomes […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman The last 2 weeks have been full of new partnerships promoting the discovery and development of novel drug […]
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the University of California, Riverside (CA, USA). A novel gene therapy restores brain function and […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from Johns Hopkins University (MD, USA). Researchers have discovered neurons in a highly conserved vertebrate brain […]
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from the University of Michigan (MI, USA). Researchers have discovered that specialized neurons and vellus-like hair […]
BioTechniques News Tristan Free Using human cerebral organoids, researchers have revealed how Ebola virus persists in the brain. An international collaboration led […]