Blood-infused hydrogel deceives mosquitoes in behavior studies
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A 3D-printed blood-infused hydrogel patch could eliminate the need for live volunteers to study how mosquitoes transmit disease. […]
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Have you met AI? The wingman that identifies physiological synchrony underlying social interactions
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Artificial intelligence can tell what type of conversation two people are having based on physiological data, offering insight […]
Tailoring LC-MS platforms for specific applications in drug design and detection
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry is a popular analytical tool as liquid chromatography separates different substances present […]
Cryo-EM reveals an amyloid protein structure associated with a rare disease
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Solving the structure of an amyloid protein gives new insight into limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3 (LGMD D3) […]
Computational modeling takes the guesswork out of developing injectable hydrogels
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers have developed a computational framework to predict the properties of granular hydrogel matrices. A granular hydrogel […]
Magnetic tweezers reveal NIHCOLE DNA repair mechanism
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Scientists used magnetic tweezers to reveal how the RNA molecule ‘NIHCOLE’ repairs cell damage, hindering cancer treatments such […]
Could new gut insight help understand graft-versus-host disease?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi New research suggests a mechanism – and potential pharmacological treatment – for microbiome changes that affect the severity […]
Harnessing the power of antimicrobial peptides
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Researchers have developed an antimicrobial material that can be used to both treat and prevent infections, helping to […]
Grant awarded to create training materials for volume electron microscopy
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An international team of scientists has received a 2-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CA, USA) to […]
Rewriting oxytocin’s love story using CRISPR
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi The neurohormone traditionally labeled the ‘love hormone’ may have just lost that title as new research finds that […]
The evolutionary balancing act that produced both advanced cognition and cognitive disease in humans
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi New research finds patterns of compensatory evolution in human-accelerated regions of the genome, which suggest these regions could […]
Changing the brain: nanocapsule therapy edits the Alzheimer’s gene
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi In a recent study, researchers developed a nanocapsule gene therapy that can edit an Alzheimer’s-associated gene in mice, […]
Computational tool ESPRESSO discovers and quantifies RNA isoforms
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby ESPRESSO overcomes the limitations of error-prone long-read RNA sequencing, providing a useful resource to study transcriptome variation. Long-read […]
Could attaching cytokines to T cells enable CAR-T cell therapies for solid tumors?
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers have developed a new method of locally delivering cytokines alongside T cells that could lead to improved […]
Emotional blunting and reward processing: side effects of anti-depressants
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new study has revealed why anti-depressants often cause emotional blunting. A team led by researchers from the […]
Mapping age-related macular degeneration
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new study highlights a genetic risk factor associated with age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of visual […]
Infographic: Conservation of critically endangered species with nanopore sequencing
BioTechniques News Annie Coulson Critically endangered species need intensive conservation efforts to prevent them from becoming extinct. Access to high-quality reference genomes […]
An injectable hydrogel could treat infections following hip replacement surgeries
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An antibacterial hydrogel shows promise as a new minimally invasive treatment option for soft tissue infections around prostheses. […]
Characterizing metabolite messengers: how the gut and brain communicate
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi How do gut microbes communicate with the brain? A new study used a novel tool to characterize and […]
Cryo-EM of Cas12a2 reveals its potential in versatile at-home diagnostic tests
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A recently discovered CRISPR protein that indiscriminately cuts genetic material could lead to the development of at-home diagnostic […]