Who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine?
BioTechniques News Tristan Free The father of paleogenomics, Svante Pääbo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), has been awarded the 2022 […]
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Nanotherapy prevents both arterial and venous thrombosis
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A new nanotherapy that prevents both arterial and venous thrombosis has been developed and could lead to therapies […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]