Biomedicine

Research where biology meets medicine: disease mechanisms, translational work and the instruments behind clinical discovery.

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Antibiotic Resistance Linked to Improved Fitness in Some Bacteria

Acquisition of antibiotic resistance confers bacteria better growth and increased virulence. The controversial claim comes from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical...

Biomedicine

Laboratory Mini-brains Help Understanding Idiopatic Autism

Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...

Biomedicine

New Immunotherapy Based on Magnetic Cells

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to improve immunotherapy with magnetic nanoparticles. The researchers used magnetic cells with artificial antigens to extract...

Bioengineering

A safer micro-RNA Guided Gene Therapy

Researchers from Dankook University in Korea have found a new method of introducing transgenes with therapeutic purposes. The study, published in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, describes how targeting the passenger strand...

Biomedicine

Micro-hearts Obtained In Vitro by Physical Confinement

Researchers from the University of California in Berkeley and San Francisco have obtained cardiac microchambers in vitro by confining their space. It is the first time an organ is...

Biomedicine

Fine-tuned Substrate Stiffness Key to Generating Functional Organ Buds

Japanese scientists have discovered a new, important factor for a successful in vitro generation of organ buds. According to this new study, the use of a hydrogel...

Biomedicine

Epigenetic marks associated with aging can predict cancer

A recent study demonstrates that epigenetic marks generally associated with aging are actually indicators of cancer. Scientists from the RWTH Aachen University Medical School have...

Biomedicine

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