Applied biology at scale: engineered organisms, therapeutic platforms and the companies turning biological research into products.
207 articles
Scientists from the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University have developed artificial blood vessels resistant to thrombosis....
New England Biolabs has released the WarmStart® RTx, an in silico-engineered thermostable reverse transcriptase optimized for speed, sensitivity and inhibitor resistance. The new reverse transcriptase...
Dengue acquired epidemic proportions this year in Brazil. To combat it, health authorities have hired Oxitec, a biotechnology company that produces millions of genetically modified (GM)...
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering have produced the most functional hepatocytes to date. The researchers derived the liver...
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered the Ribo-T, a tethered ribosome that could be used to produce drugs and new...
Scientists from University of California San Francisco (USCF) have found an improved method to successfully edit the genome of mature human T cells. The research...
A research team from University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique that makes gene editing much easier and cheaper. Rebecca Heald has directed...
DNA origami is more promising than ever thanks to the work of Hao Yan’s team from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. Their innovative technique allows...
