Techniques

Methods and protocols in practice – how researchers actually run experiments, and the techniques shifting what is possible at the bench.

218 articles

A Breath Test Has Potential to Detect Liver Disease

Scientists from the University of Birmingham have discovered that three breath volatiles have excellent capabilities to diagnose liver disease. Methanol, 2-pentanone and limonene levels are...

Biomedicine

Synthorx Makes its First Proteins with Novel Amino Acids

Synthorx Inc, a little known biotech startup from California, has announced success in creating in-vivo DNA with synthetic nucleic acids. The feat was possible thanks...

Bioengineering

Five-week Old Human Brain Grown in a Dish

  A research team from Ohio State University has developed a brain in vitro that has the maturity of a five-week old human brain. The brain...

Biomedicine

Protein 3D Structure Reveals New Information About Neurotransmitters Release

Scientists from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine have solved the 3D structure of the SNARE-synaptotagmin-1 complex that controls...

Basic Research

BioChain Presents a Totally Automated Nucleic Acid Extraction Platform

BioChain has released the AnaPrep (Automated Nucleic Acid Preparation System), a nucleic acid extraction platform based on magnetic beads technology. The process consists of three...

Blog

Bruker Launches the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope

Bruker has announced the release of the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope. The Opterra II™ is a high speed, quantitative live-cell miscroscope characterized by low photo-toxicity and...

Equipment

Microscopic Magnets and MRI to Detect Metastases

  Scientists from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have presented a new technique to detect early signs of breast cancer metastases. The authors have developed a magnet-coupled peptide...

Bioengineering

Fruit-Fly Nervous System Imaged at Nearly Single-Cell Resolution

  Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia have recorded the whole neural activity of a fruit fly for the first time. The team...

Basic Research