Nanocarriers deliver 2-in-1 cancer treatment
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An innovative nanocarrier delivers combination therapy simultaneously, showing promising results in pancreatic cancer mouse models. Pancreatic cancer remains […]
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Infographic: Organoids – history, applications and generation
BioTechniques News Annie Coulson The journey to develop the organoids we see today was a long one, starting way back in 1907 […]
Blocking TRPC6 could lead to novel Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Blocking a certain type of ion channel has been shown to prolong survival in mouse models of severe […]
How did anxiety develop during human evolution?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Why are some people more prone to anxiety than others? Researchers have shed light on the evolution of […]
Cultural codas: sperm whale dialects differ between clans
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby After decades of collaborative research, scientists have decoded Pacific Ocean sperm whale vocalizations, revealing how these whales maintain […]
AlphaFold computational modeling in drug discovery: the good, the bad and the AI
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A new study has utilized AlphaFold machine-learning software to find potential targets in the Escherichia coli (E. coli) […]
Ask the Experts: Alzheimer’s fabrication controversy
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A couple months ago we learned that an Alzheimer’s research paper from 2006, detailing the toxicity of an […]
The path to lysosome repair is the PITT pathway
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby For the first time, the pathway through which cells repair damaged lysosomes has been observed and described. Lysosomes […]
Trust your gut… even when it’s synthetic
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Researchers have constructed the most complete synthetic microbiome yet. A team of researchers from Stanford University (CA, USA) […]
Pumping Iron: expanding our understanding of iron-sulfur cluster transport with cryoEM.
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Research on Atm1 protein’s role in iron-sulfur cluster transport across membranes could improve our understanding of mitochondrial conditions. […]
Artificial fertilization reveals key protein in sperm–egg fusion
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An international team of researchers has discovered a fundamental protein in human fertilization, called MAIA, which could lead […]
Cilia say what? Important function of neurons’ tiny hairs
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Researchers have uncovered a synapse on neurons’ tiny hair-like structures, which may facilitate long-term changes to genomic information […]
No, we don’t have a ‘lizard brain’
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Despite reptiles and mammals having gone through hundreds of millions of years of separate evolution, researchers identify a […]
How can we treat cancer-related cachexia?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi The exercise hormone irisin may be responsible for muscle weakening in cancer-related cachexia, but only in males. A […]
Old drug learns new tricks against small-cell lung cancer
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi In a mouse study telling a tale of old meets new, an experimental combination of two drugs has […]
Malaria vaccine continues to show promise
BioTechniques News Grace Tyrrell Renewed hope for the treatment of malaria is ignited by the promising results of a Phase IIb trial […]
Creating Pinky’s brain: researchers use stem cells to grow mouse embryo with a brain
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Do synthetic mice dream of electric sheep? We’re on the way to finding out thanks to a breakthrough […]
Novel hydrogel bioink improves 3D-printed biomaterials
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers are one step closer to bioprinting organs and tissues using a novel granular hydrogel bioink. Every 9 […]
The diagnostic potential of AI: from COVID-19 to COPD
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A recent study reveals the potential of AI models in diagnosing COVID-19 infection, utilizing a simple mobile application. […]
How did mucus evolve to be so slimy?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A study of mucins, a protein in mucus, gives insight into how novel gene functions evolve. From slugs […]