Healthy Societies: How To Create A Disease-Free City
Chandigarh and Surat, by segregating and storing waste at source and recycling and composting, show other cities the way forward. With even the national capital...
Dr Gerald Cox From Sanofi’s Genzyme Joins CRISPR’s Editas as CMO
Editas Medicine ($EDIT) has nabbed former VP of rare disease clinical development Dr. Gerald Cox from Sanofi’s Genzyme ($SNY) to become its CMO. The...
HDAC Inhibitors Could Wipe Out Breast And Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells
Scientists at the University of Miami have developed a genetically engineered cell line to show that HDAC inhibitors could potentially target and stamp out...
First Evidence: Human Stem Cells Could Decide Cancer ‘Lifestyle’ vs ‘Bad Luck’ Debate
Researchers, funded by UK charity Worldwide Cancer Research, have found that the DNA code of human stem cells acquires errors at a fairly constant...
Can Brain Waves Be Used To Detect Personal Information?
Cyber security and authentication have been under attack in recent months as, seemingly every other day, a new report of hackers gaining access to...
Amgen and Nuevolution Join To Develop Oncology & Neuroscience Treatments
Amgen has agreed to develop and commercialize novel oncology and neuroscience therapies discovered through Nuevolution’s Chemetics® drug discovery platform, through a collaboration that could...
Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Backs Two New Cancer Startups
Nearly four decades after launching Biocon, one of India’s earliest biotech companies, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is ready to be part of the country’s startup ecosystem.
Recently, she...
Medgenome in Pact to Sequence Genome of 100K People in Asia
Bangalore-based MedGenome Labs Pvt. Ltd, a genomics-based diagnostics and research services firm backed by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, said it has joined hands...
Instant Analysis: Celgene Pays $600 Million for Swiss Biotech
Celgene is at it again. The acquisitive company agreed to pay $600 million for Switzerland-based EngMab. Privately held EngMab is a biotech that concentrates its...
Global Biotech Firms Are Sure Of Good GM Regulatory Regime In India
Global biotechnology firms are positive about India's robust regulatory regime for approving genetically modified crops, which has started functioning transparently and effectively in recent...
Kerala Chief Minister Calls For Greater Focus On Biotechnology
Kerala should make an earnest attempt to tap the huge potential in the biotechnology and nanotechnology sectors and harness the State’s young scientific manpower...
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Autophagy Discoveries
Yoshinori Ohsumi, Ph.D., a microbiologist who discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying the degradation and recycling of cellular components, was named sole winner of the...
Walking The Same Path – How RNA And DNA Evolved
Hurtling toward the RNA world—the idea that RNA evolved before DNA—is an alternative hypothesis, one that suggests that RNA and DNA evolved simultaneously and,...
Life Science Candidates Apply For Project Fellow Post @ Ravenshaw University
Department of Botany, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack – 753 003
Qualified and committed candidates with keen interest in research are invited for a walk in interview for...
Verily And Radboud University Start A 650-Patient Parkinson’s Study
Verily and Radboud University are launching a study to investigate the progression of 650 patients’ Parkinson’s disease over two years. The duo aims to...
