A new photoactivatable CRISPR/Cas9 engineered
The genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas has been engineered in many different ways since it first appeared. The last innovation comes from the University of Tokyo,...
Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Engineering applied to living systems: tissue constructs, biomaterials, devices and the hardware bridging biology and fabrication.
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Scientists Generate a New Species Mutating the Pheromone and Pheromone Receptor Genes
Scientists from Osaka City University have succeeded in creating a new yeast species with just two mutations. Chikashi Shimoda and coworkers mutated the pheromone gene...
Bioengineering
Agreement Between Juno and Celgene for Immunotherapies Development
Celgene Corporation and Juno Therapeutics will partner for the following 10 years to create innovative immunotherapies for patients of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The first efforts will be...
Bioengineering
Waters Bridges HPLC & UPLC Gap with New Acquity Arc Systems
Waters Corporation is giving researchers divided between HPLC and UPLC a single system that combines both of these in one platform with the newly introduced...
Bioengineering
Innovative Use of CRISPR-Cas to Eliminate Antibiotic Resistance
A research group from Tel Aviv University has found a new way to re-sensitize bacteria to antibiotics. In their PNAS publication they describe how they...
Bioengineering
GeniPhys Commercializes Self-Assembling Collagen for Research and Medical Applications
Research team from Purdue University-based startup GeniPhys led by Associate Professor Sherry Harbin is commercializing their collagen polymers known as Collymers that exhibit uncommon self-assembly...
Bioengineering
Genome Editing Dampens Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Heritability
Researchers from Salk Institute in San Diego, CA have presented a breakthrough study on the elimination of defective mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The use of genome editing...
Bioengineering
New Approach to Molecular Imprinting Improves Anticancer Compound Detection
The combination of molecular imprinting and quartz crystal microbalance techniques allowed researchers from Dumlupınar University in Turkey to detect the anticancer compound kaempferol (KAE) at...
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