Medicine Nobel Prize 2026: Cellular Light Switch That Rewired Neuroscience
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was today awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics: the discovery of light-gated...
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Breaking developments from across lab technology: instrument launches, company moves, funding rounds and the findings that change how work gets done at the bench.
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Google Forays into Bioelectronics along with GSK
Google is known for its interest in life sciences. While Google’s venture capital arm invested in genetic testing and analysis company 23andMe, it also ran its...
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An Exclusive Scientific Meeting Gives Birth to the Genome Project-Write
A select group of researchers from top American universities gathered last month in an invitation-only meeting at Harvard to discuss the need of technology and an...
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BioViva’s CEO Claims to Have Longer Telomeres After Gene Therapy
BioViva reported last week that the company’s CEO, Elizabeth Parrish, successfully reversed biological ageing after being treated with the biotech’s therapies. The Seattle-based company confirmed that Parrish...
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Study Identifies Individuals Resilient to Severe Genetic Diseases
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City have discovered that certain individuals have the ability to survive genetic disorders that...
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Review: The Surplus of Postdocs
An alarming number of postdocs are facing trouble in finding stable positions in academia and industry. Although this problem isn’t something new and has been...
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Half the world population will be short-sighted in 2050
Researchers from Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales Australia and Singapore Eye Research Institute have conducted a study that predicts there will...
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RNA at the Center of Epigenetics
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, and University of Chicago have discovered a new RNA modification that plays a central role in the...
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