Subscribe to our Biotechnology News feed
As they destroy bacteria very efficiently, plasmas constitute an alternative to chemical disinfectants and potentially to antibiotics, as well. How they achieve this effect has been investigated by a team of biologists, plasma physicists and chemists.
Oct 1st, 2013
Read more
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs. Now scientists have further refined the technology and are able to produce various tissue types.
Oct 1st, 2013
Read moreUCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels.
Sep 30th, 2013
Read more
In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called 'biochar' can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate. The class of compounds studied includes those used by some plant pathogens to coordinate their attacks.
Sep 30th, 2013
Read more
Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to 'program' how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell.
Sep 30th, 2013
Read moreAn EU-funded project has successfully established human stem cell-based in vitro tests, which are capable of replicating the development of the human central nervous system. The innovation could lead to the more accurate and efficient testing of drugs, and importantly lead to a move away from animal testing.
Sep 30th, 2013
Read more
A research team centered at Brown University has compiled the largest and most stringently validated list of RNA editing sites in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a stalwart of biological research.
Sep 29th, 2013
Read moreA discovery by a team of University of Missouri researchers could be the first step toward helping crops use less nitrogen, benefitting both farmers' bottom lines and the environment.
Sep 27th, 2013
Read moreA new method to produce accurate computer models of molecules, developed by scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute, combines existing formulas in a kind of algorithmic stew to gain a better picture of molecular structural diversity that is then used to eliminate errors and improve the final model.
Sep 26th, 2013
Read moreScientists attempt to reengineering enzymes to introduce the methods of nature into industrial chemistry.
Sep 26th, 2013
Read more
Since its discovery, researchers have hailed Cas9 - a protein 'machine' that can be programmed by a strand of RNA to target specific DNA sequences and to precisely cut, paste, and turn on or turn off genes - as a potential key to unlocking a host of new treatments and therapies for genetic conditions, but only if they fully understand how it works.
Sep 26th, 2013
Read moreERC Advanced Grant for the chemist Professor Dr. Andreas Marx from Konstanz for research on gene modification.
Sep 26th, 2013
Read moreThe liver, an essential organ, can fail due to disease or abuse. The EU-funded project MICROLIVERMATURATION has found a way to create viable liver cells from embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
Sep 25th, 2013
Read moreChemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular places. The researchers were able to do this by synthetically modifying a natural catalyst.
Sep 24th, 2013
Read moreReprogramming adult stem cells so that they are like embryonic stem cells has the potential to change medicine; however, the reprogramming process is inefficient and impractical. Now, Dr. Yaqub Hanna has found that removing one protein changes everything, raising the efficiency of this reprogramming from one percent or less to 100 percent.
Sep 23rd, 2013
Read moreResearchers at the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation and the ASU-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership have made a one-year agreement with Health Enhancement Products, Inc., which investigates and licenses algae-derived, high-value bioactive molecules that benefit human and animal health.
Sep 23rd, 2013
Read more
The bacterial outer envelope is densely packed with proteins that form small pores and facilitate the passage of nutrients, toxins and signaling molecules. Professors Timm Maier and Sebastian Hiller from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel now demonstrate how these transporter proteins are integrated into the outer membrane.
Sep 23rd, 2013
Read more
Scientists discovered that all BAR domain proteins induce strong clustering of phosphoinositides, which are important lipids involved in regulating protein functions and cellular signalling.
Sep 23rd, 2013
Read more