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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 […]

September 12, 2022News

Old drug learns new tricks against small-cell lung cancer

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi In a mouse study telling a tale of old meets new, an experimental combination of two drugs has […]

September 8, 2022News

Malaria vaccine continues to show promise

BioTechniques News Grace Tyrrell Renewed hope for the treatment of malaria is ignited by the promising results of a Phase IIb trial […]

September 7, 2022News

Creating Pinky’s brain: researchers use stem cells to grow mouse embryo with a brain

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Do synthetic mice dream of electric sheep? We’re on the way to finding out thanks to a breakthrough […]

September 7, 2022News

Novel hydrogel bioink improves 3D-printed biomaterials

BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers are one step closer to bioprinting organs and tissues using a novel granular hydrogel bioink. Every 9 […]

September 7, 2022News

The diagnostic potential of AI: from COVID-19 to COPD

BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A recent study reveals the potential of AI models in diagnosing COVID-19 infection, utilizing a simple mobile application. […]

September 5, 2022News

How did mucus evolve to be so slimy?

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A study of mucins, a protein in mucus, gives insight into how novel gene functions evolve. From slugs […]

September 5, 2022News

Meet the good virus: virotherapy for treatment-resistant cancers

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new study reveals how coupling virotherapy with advanced immunotherapies has the potential to fight treatment-resistant cancers. Cancer […]

August 31, 2022News

The holy grail of neuroimaging: the revolutionary new sensor

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi The development of a novel sensor allows electrical brain activity to be measured for a longer period of […]

August 31, 2022News

Expansion revealing microscopy exposes unseen cellular nanostructures

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A technique called expansion revealing microscopy separates molecules in cells before fluorescence labeling, uncovering unseen nanostructures for the […]

August 30, 2022News

The bodies of Medieval Friars were far from temples

BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Archaeologists find that medieval friars had a higher rate of parasitic infections than the average population. In the […]