Laboratory Mini-brains Help Understanding Idiopatic Autism
Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...
Biomedicine
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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A Window With a View of a Live Brain
A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to follow brain activity in real time. Through a small window in a...
Basic Research
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 new photoactivatable CRISPR/Cas9 engineered
The genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas has been engineered in many different ways since it first appeared. The last innovation comes from the University of Tokyo,...
Bioengineering
New Method Predicts Protein Motion from Static Structures
Researchers from Oregon Science and Health University have gone further in the understanding of protein motion. The study “Parsimony in Protein Conformational Change” has been published...
Bioinformatics
Automated Cell Culture System To Improve In Vitro Studies
Fluidigm Corporation announced last week the CallistoTM, a microfluidic cell culture system that can revolutionize the development of in vitro cell models. With this fully automated system, manual procedures and long hours at the bench are...
Biotechnology
New Advances in Single-Cell Genomics Allow Single Cell Investigation at Larger Scale
Computational biologist Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts is developing a new technology to identify and study cells in the human body...
Biomedicine
Leica integrates Digital Light Sheet and Confocal Microscopy in the Leica TCS SP8 DLS
Leica Microsystems will present the TCS SP8 DLS in the ELMI meeting 2015 in Sitges, Spain. With the introduction of the TwinFlect Mirror, Leica has...
Equipment