Publications

Scientific publishing and the tools around it – preprints, peer review, open access, and the software researchers use to read and cite.

202 articles

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A New Software to Improve CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting

Scientists from Harvard and University of California have designed an online tool to optimize CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 targeting. The researchers compared...

Apps

New Immunotherapy Based on Magnetic Cells

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to improve immunotherapy with magnetic nanoparticles. The researchers used magnetic cells with artificial antigens to extract...

Bioengineering

A safer micro-RNA Guided Gene Therapy

Researchers from Dankook University in Korea have found a new method of introducing transgenes with therapeutic purposes. The study, published in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, describes how targeting the passenger strand...

Biomedicine

RNA Response to Drugs Visualized in Living Mice Brains

A Japanese research group has observed RNA dynamics in vivo for the first time. The researchers used a new method for high-resolution fluorescence RNA imaging,...

Imaging

Micro-hearts Obtained In Vitro by Physical Confinement

Researchers from the University of California in Berkeley and San Francisco have obtained cardiac microchambers in vitro by confining their space. It is the first time an organ is...

Biomedicine

Scientific Publishers Cancel Greek Academics Access to Their Contents

Greek universities and research centers have lost access to scientific journals. The Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) service was terminated the 1st of July. The HEAL-Link informed...

News

Fine-tuned Substrate Stiffness Key to Generating Functional Organ Buds

Japanese scientists have discovered a new, important factor for a successful in vitro generation of organ buds. According to this new study, the use of a hydrogel...

Biomedicine

Plants Identify Benign Bacteria by Their Exopolysaccharides

Scientists from the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB) from Denmark and New Zealand and their collaborators from the Centre for Complex Carbohydrate Research...

Basic Research