Super-Resolution Microscopy to Diagnose Rare Platelet Disorder
A team of scientists led by a research group at University College London have developed a super-resolution microscopy method to diagnose a rare bleeding disease. The...
Biomedicine
Biomedicine
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Illumina Partners with 4 Biobanks to Genotype Their Collections
Illumina has signed agreements with Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado at Anschutz Medical Campus, Partners HealthCare, and Montreal Heart Institute to genotype their sample collections. Illumina’s...
Bioinformatics
Decline of Basic Science Papers in Medical Journals
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto have published a meta-research paper where they state the worrying decline in the number of basic research articles in...
Basic Research
Dendrimer Nanoparticles Successfully Deliver RNA Drug to Cancerous Liver
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center have successfully delivered small-RNA drugs to a cancerous liver by introducing them in synthetic nanoparticles. The...
Bioengineering
Nanopore Diagnostics Raises $600000 to Develop the iNDxer
American startup Nanopore Diagnostics has raised $600000 to develop The iNDxer, a device to detect bacterial infections. The money, provided by the Missouri Technology Corporation...
Biomedicine
Proteins That Act as Superglue Connect Virus-Like Particles to Epitopes
Researchers from Oxford University have developed a new technique to create new vaccines faster and more effectively. The scientists used a ‘bacterial superglue’ made of two...
Bioengineering
Exosomes Deliver Potent Chemotherapeutic Agent to Cancer Cells
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill have increased the effectiveness of a chemotherapeutic agent 50 fold. The drug, paclitaxel (PTX), was...
Biomedicine
A New Technique Makes Nanopore Detection 1000 Times Faster
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the University of Minnesota have developed a technique that accelerates nanopore single-molecule detection 1000 fold. Single-molecule dielectrophoretic trapping,...
Bioengineering