Reduce, reuse, bio-recycle: wax worm saliva capable of plastic degradation
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Enzymes discovered in wax worm saliva show potential for large-scale plastic biodegradation. Naturally occurring enzymes found in wax […]
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To cure or encourage: the paradoxical nature of an anti-fungal drug
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A new study has uncovered how the presence of two genes may be responsible for the adverse effects […]
CellREADR targets cells, not genes, for RNA-based editing across species
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers at Duke University (NC, USA) have developed CellREADR, a new piece of RNA-based editing technology that operates […]
Alzheimer’s drug shows promise in slowing cognitive decline
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi An experimental Alzheimer’s drug, called lecanemab, has successfully met its primary endpoints in a Phase III trial, which […]
Dogs are also the brain’s best friend
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new neuroimaging study has found that petting real dogs engages the prefrontal cortex, the area of the […]
Novel CRISPR-Cas9 platform delivers gene editing across cell membranes
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A new class of spherical nucleic acids has been developed to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 machinery across cell membranes and […]
Love really hurts without you: oxytocin helps regenerate the heart
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Oxytocin, the neurohormone responsible for pleasure, has been found to help regenerate cardiomyocytes in zebrafish and human stem […]
Who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby ‘Click chemistry’ wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its ability to simply and reliably synthesize complex molecules […]
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 […]
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) […]