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
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Microsoft Smart Traps to Capture Mosquitoes and Analyze Pathogenic DNA
Microsoft has launched Project Premonition, an initiative that will identify pathogens in mosquitoes to foresee worldwide distribution of transmitable diseases and prevent them. The IT company will use...
Bioinformatics
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
cellFRAP: High Speed Live-cell Imaging from Olympus
Olympus presents the cellFRAP, a live cell imaging platform for the in-vivo analysis of dynamic processes by accurate and flexible photomanipulation techniques. cellFRAP´s main feature is...
Equipment
New Labeling System to Avoid Errors and Improve Lab Productivity
Errors in vial identification cause serious problems in the laboratory like loss of samples, messed up experiments or waste of reagents. In the worst case...
Equipment
First Hepatitis D Virus Detection Kit
Analytik Jena AG has presented the world´s first Hepatitis D virus (HDV) test. The kit, which is CE-IVD certified, quantifies the virus RNA. The RoboGene® HDV RNA Quantification...
Biomedicine
A Newly Discovered Prion Causes Muscular System Atrophy
Alpha-synuclein, the only prion discovered in 50 years, might be the cause of a deadly brain disorder called muscular system atrophy (MSA). The finding by UCSF...
Biomedicine
Microchip Quickly Detects Defects in Donor Lungs
Researchers from the University of Toronto have developed a microchip that detects biomarkers for lung assessment for transplantation. The microchip will detect lungs damaged...
Bioengineering