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
Biomedicine
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New Advances in Single-Cell Genomics Allow Single Cell Investigation at Larger Scale
Computational biologist Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts is developing a new technology to identify and study cells in the human body...
Biomedicine
Genome-wide Mapping of DNA Repair Sites by XR-seq
A new method described by researchers at UNC Medical School allowed mapping the whole genome DNA repair sites for the first time. The authors, led...
Bioinformatics
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
Shape-Shifting DNA Devices Show Promising Future for Nanotechnology
Researchers from Technische Universität München have created reversible DNA structures taking advantage of the weak DNA stacking interactions. The authors created devices such as a...
Bioengineering
Stem Cells from Fingertips, A New Technique
Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore developed the finger-prick human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) technique in which a single...
Biomedicine
Agilent Offers New Bio-SEC System for Biopharmaceutical Industry
Agilent’s Infinity range of LC systems have a latest addition in the form of new 1260 Infinity Multi-Detector Bio-SEC solution for biopharmaceutical industry. This new...
Biomedicine
Supercomputer Processes 240 Whole Genomes in Two Days
University of Chicago’s Supercomputer Beagle has demonstrated that it is possible to process 240 whole human genomes in less than 48 hour. This was done...
Biomedicine