Wearable Sensor for Inflammation Monitoring - BioTechniques
Dec 10, 2024 · A first-of-its-kind implantable sensor can track inflammation continuously in a rat model of diabetes. Researchers at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and Northwestern University (both IL, USA) have created a tiny implantable microdevice that continuously monitors the concentrations of inflammatory proteins in real time. This sensor could offer deeper insights into inflammatory proteins and ...
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Biotech Bi-weekly: 4 December 2024 - BioTechniques
Dec 4, 2024 · Publications and partnerships Brazil and Belgium unite for the advancement of RNA therapeutics. The Brazilian Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has signed a partnership deal with Belgian companies Quantoom Biosciences (Nivelles, Belgium) and Univercells (Charleroi, Belgium) during the recent the Belgian Economic Mission to Brazil.. The deal represents a commitment to advance the development of ...
Phage Cocktail Shows Promise for Treating Bacterial Infection ...
Oct 10, 2024 · Researchers have concocted a cocktail of bacteria-fighting viruses with the potential to successfully treat antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.. In a recent study, researchers led by Mark Mimee at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (IL, USA) created a mixture of bacteria-attacking viruses, known as bacteriophages, that holds promise as an ...
An Update on Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence
Oct 3, 2024 · Immunohistochemistry is a protein-detection technique that uses antibodies to identify antigen markers present in a tissue sample. The antibodies are tagged with enzymatic labels, which activate when an antibody binds to an antigen. This allows the antigens to be visualized under a microscope.
34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Winners - BioTechniques
Sep 13, 2024 · The Ig Nobel Prizes find the fun in science, awarding those research endeavors that comically contribute to our understanding of the world in areas such as botany, medicine, biology and chemistry. From discovering that mammals are capable of breathing through their anus to the way peoples’ hair swirls depending on which hemisphere they’re from, this year’s winning research certainly ...
Nobel Prize: Physiology or Medicine 2024 - BioTechniques
Oct 8, 2024 · The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros (University of Massachusetts Medical School) and Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School [HMS], both MA, USA) for their discovery of microRNA – small, non-coding RNA molecules – and its role in gene regulation.Revealing new layers of genome regulation. Since their discovery in the 1960s, transcription factors have ...
Who Won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? - BioTechniques
Oct 9, 2024 · This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded in half to David Baker (University of Washington, WA, USA) for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (both Google DeepMind, London, UK) for their creation of an AI model that can predict protein structure.The power of proteins. Proteins are chemical tools central to life and can take the form of ...
Microglia Change Roles in Alzheimer's Disease Progression
Dec 30, 2024 · Researchers have identified that microglia first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit its neurodegenerative effects. Researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research (Belgium) and collaborating institutions have recently ...
Let there be light: gene therapy targets cancer cells’ mitochondria
Dec 17, 2024 · A light-induced gene therapy can damage cancer cells’ mitochondria, triggering widespread cancer cell death. Researchers at Ohio State University (OH, USA) have developed a light-induced gene therapy called mLumiOpto, which targets cancer cells and activates electrical currents to damage their mitochondria. In mouse models, they have shown that this technology can shrink brain and breast ...