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Pacific Biosciences Launches the Most Accurate Sequencer for Long Reads

Pacific Biosciences has launched a new sequencer, the Sequel System, with improved throughput and scalability and lower costs and footprint respect to its predecessor, the PacBio®...

Equipment

CRISPR/Cas9 Eliminates Viral Transmission Risk in Xenotransplants

Researchers from  Harvard Medical School in Boston have successfully deactivated 62 viruses in embryo pigs. The achievement was possible thanks to the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. The...

Bioengineering

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

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

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
3D printers, Human Printed Heart

3D Bioprinting Directed by DNA “Stickers”

Scientists from UCSF have developed a new 3D bioprinting technique – DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) – were cells are joint together by DNA strands hanging...

3D bioprinting

Single Cell Metabolomics Thanks to Ionization Platform

A new technology can detect the metabolome of individual cells. With a detection limit in the zeptomolar range, the nanopost arrays (NAPA) technology also allows...

Basic Research

Velcro-like Scaffold to Paste Heart Cells

Engineers from the University of Toronto have assembled functional heart tissue with a biocompatible scaffold that allows  layers of cells to attach like Velcro. The...

Biomedicine