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October 3, 2022News

Can a molecule in green tea treat dementia?

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new study has demonstrated that a molecule commonly found in green tea breaks down tau tangles in […]

October 3, 2022News

Gotta catch ‘em all: DNA nets detect and capture SARS-CoV-2

BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An innovative COVID-19 diagnostic test has a similar sensitivity to PCR tests but without the wait time. Researchers […]

September 28, 2022News

Novel multi-target cancer therapeutics show promise at clinical and basic research stages

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new mRNA cancer therapy shows promise in mice, while a viral cancer therapy takes great strides forward […]

September 28, 2022News

Nature inspires new mitochondrial drug delivery method

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Researchers create a drug delivery system targeted to the inner membrane of the mitochondria. Targeting drugs to the […]

September 26, 2022News

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 […]

September 23, 2022News

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 […]

September 23, 2022News

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 […]

September 21, 2022News

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 […]

September 20, 2022News

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 […]

September 20, 2022News

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) […]

September 16, 2022News

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 […]

September 16, 2022News

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 […]

September 15, 2022News

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) […]

September 14, 2022News

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. […]

September 14, 2022News

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 […]

September 13, 2022News

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 […]

September 13, 2022News

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 […]

September 12, 2022News

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 […]