Scientists Grow Mini-Brains in the Laboratory
Researchers have managed to build miniature human brains in lab by using skin cells from patients with brain disorders and reprogramming them to form human...
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Applied biology at scale: engineered organisms, therapeutic platforms and the companies turning biological research into products.
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Scripps’ Researchers Improve Gene Editing Technology
Genetic manipulation is an inherent part of molecular biology and scientists use various methods gene manipulation methods in their day to day research. But, not...
Biotechnology
Genomics XPRIZE Becomes a Victim of Innovation
Two weeks before the competition deadline the organizers of the Archon Genomics X-Prize announced its cancellation, citing that a competition wasn’t necessary to push innovation...
Biotechnology
Bina Introduces Pay-Per-User Genomic Analysis
Bina Technologies is introducing a versatile pay-per-use concept that helps it grow its footprint and get users used to its genomic analysis appliances. Under Bina...
Biotechnology
Open Microscopy App: Unifying Biological Image Data
High resolution images are ubiquitous in biological research, making the process of analyzing, saving, sharing and publishing them pivotal to research. Images promote scientific integrity,...
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Scientists Produce Transgenic Rabbits that Glow Green in the Dark
The green glowing creatures on the left portion of the above picture are not Green Lanterns from DC Comics but rabbits produced by Turkish scientists from the...
Biomedicine
Advanced Technique Involving Femtosecond Laser and Optical Tweezers for Single Cell Transfection
A group of researchers from South Korea have developed a new transfection method for delivering foreign gene fragments into a living cell. This new high...
Biotechnology