Cannabis Cuts Seizure Risk
BioTechniques News A compound in marijuana has striking effects on seizures. Read more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered by WPeMatico
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Zika Mosquito Genome Put on the Map
BioTechniques News Finally, a revolutionary technique allows researchers to finish piecing together the genome of the Zika virus vector. Read more… Full […]
From Sesame Street to Pennsylvania Ave, Autism Awareness & Advocacy Take Hold
BIOtech Now Jim Greenwood Like most American kids, my daughters loved Sesame Street growing up. The show’s cast of Muppets have made […]
Detecting Rare T-cells
BioTechniques News Researchers have devised a simple and inexpensive method to produce reagents for identifying antigen-specific T-cells. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article […]
The Killer Whale's Microbial Secrets
BioTechniques News The killer whale’s microbiome reveals a new reason why the species is endangered. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered […]
The Epigenetics of Marijuana Use
BioTechniques News Several states recently legalized marijuana. This may reduce legal costs for states and generate tax revenue, but what does research […]
Poking Cancer Right in Its Achilles’ Heel
BioTechniques News Using CRISPR to create paired mutations in different genes, scientists came up with 152 mutation combinations that were detrimental to […]
BIO Answers FAQs on Human Genome Editing
BIOtech Now David Thomas, CFA Genome editing has been a hot topic in drug discovery research recently, as CRISPR-based preclinical programs inch […]
How Your Nose Got Its Shape
BioTechniques News What do climates and cultural beauty standards have in common? Both influenced human nose evolution. Read more… Full BioTechniques Article […]
Jumpy Viruses
BioTechniques News A new method shows how often viruses jump into new hosts. Will this predict the next pandemic? Find out… Full […]
Vaccines: The Greatest Live-Saving Health Success
BIOtech Now Stacey Matusko Vaccines have proven to be one of the greatest public health accomplishments of the 20th century. Safe and […]
Transporting Too Many Proteins Overwhelms Cells
BioTechniques News High demands on protein transport machinery cause cellular growth defects. Full BioTechniques Article here Powered by WPeMatico
It Takes Two: Immunotherapy and Cancer Dance an Intricate Tango
BioTechniques News Cancer is crafty. Researchers are too. And they’ve just found one reason that some cancers evade novel immunotherapies. Read more. […]
The Invisible Force that Trains us to Read
BioTechniques News Sound sculpts the brain. Scientists have been studying how the brain encodes sound, and they’re using that code to not […]
Depression-fighting Bacteria
BioTechniques News One type of bacteria found in probiotic yogurt helps fight anxiety and depression. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered […]
Diabetes Management, Transformed
BIOtech Now Jim Greenwood Millions of people with diabetes know all too well the time-consuming and difficult process of calculating the precise […]
How to Use Berries for Medicine
BioTechniques News Health gurus may tout the power of berries to treat disease, but why are they considered therapeutic? Cyanidin, a small […]
Proteins Take the Heat
BioTechniques News A new study shows how cranking up the heat causes cell death through the loss of a subset of key […]
Tracking the Causal Genetics of Fragile X
BioTechniques News Researchers report a single protein underlying the cellular and behavioral symptoms associated with Fragile X syndrome, one of the leading […]
Mammalian Macrophages Get the Hang of Microgravity
BioTechniques News In real time, Earth-bound scientists witnessed mammalian cells adapting to microgravity in experiments conducted on the ISS. How long did […]