BIO Latin America: The Largest Biotech Event of the Region
BIO Latin America, the largest event in the biotechnology sector in Latin America, will be celebrated between October 14th and 16th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The...
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Applied biology at scale: engineered organisms, therapeutic platforms and the companies turning biological research into products.
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A Single Cas Protein for Gene Edition and Regulation
CRISPR-Cas9 is know for its ability to edit eukaryotic genomes, but from now it could be famous for its multifunctionality. MIT and Harvard laboratories have led a...
Basic Research
Mussel Inspired Tunable Fluorescent Metallic Gels Could Create New Biological Detectors
The ever preoccupied researchers at MIT are reporting a new family of light emitting materials that allow control of the wavelength. Potential uses could include...
Biotechnology
Biotechnica, Europe’s No.1 Event for Lab Tech, in Hannover
Biotechnica 2015, Europe´s most important event for biotechnology, life science and lab technology, will take place in Hannover between October 6th and 8th. This year,...
Bioengineering
Monobodies: Little Molecules that Alter Enzymatic Activity
Enzymatic activity can now be modified without altering the enzyme. Researchers at the University of Chicago changed the specificity of an enzyme, commonly used in...
Bioengineering
Synthetic Photosynthesis Produces Fuel Liquid from CO2
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have designed an artificial “plant” that can produce methane thanks to semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. In the synthetic photosynthesis,...
Bioengineering
Bacteria can work as antibody factories
Scientists from Cornell University and New England Biolabs have engineered E. coli as an antibody expression platform. The molecular machinery necessary for antibody production was...
Bioengineering
Oral Stem Cells Can Cure Certain Types of Blindness
Scientists from the University of Oslo have cured a special type of blindness by culturing and implanting stem cells from the own patients mucosa in...
Biomedicine