Researchers from the Christiana Care Health System have used short segments of synthetic single-stranded DNA, or oligonucleotides, to achieve a “cleaner ‘cut’” of the...
A highly influential and long-awaited report from the United Nations has attacked the market-based R&D approach used by the biopharma industry, but an industry...
An influential group of experts from the FDA has said that small cap Spectrum’s ($SPPI) experimental bladder cancer med Qapzola (apaziquone) isn’t good enough...
Stroke and brain injury diagnostic specialist Neural Analytics scored a $3 million cash infusion from the National Institutes of Health to help fund the...
Therapeutic interventions of various kinds try to improve the body’s capacity to defend, repair, and even cure itself. Interventions that attempt to enhance self-healing...
A drug prescribed to many patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may decrease negative symptoms for people with a certain variant of the COMT...
Fish scales contain collagen fibers that possess a piezoelectric property, which means that an electric charge is generated in them in response to mechanical...
Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. It was established in 1946...
In a World View opinion column published inNature, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed...
With flu season rapidly advancing, attention will begin to shift focus toward what novel ideas scientists have developed to protect the public health. Now,...
The first multicellular organism, Volvox, evolved from self-assembly of individual cells. Inspired by this organism, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a...
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm Atlas Venture has been investing in biotech since 1993 and has earned itself quite a name in the past...
