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
Techniques
Methods and protocols in practice – how researchers actually run experiments, and the techniques shifting what is possible at the bench.
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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
Cell Differentiation Controled with Light
Researchers from the University of California in San Francisco have discovered how to differentiate embryonic stem cells (ESCs) with light. Irradiation with beams of light transformed...
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 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