Seeking Hidden Cancer Stem Cells
BioTechniques News Researchers have identified a mechanism that allows cancer stem cells to escape detection. How could this finding pave the way […]
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Hitting Cancer Where It’s Vulnerable
BioTechniques News The genetic defects that cause cancer offer potential therapeutic targets. Now, researchers are targeting some of these genes—those essential to […]
Breathe Easy with Natural Killer Cells
BioTechniques News A national study shows that current asthma treatments may be doing more harm than good for severe asthma patients. Learn […]
Sympathy for the Devils
BioTechniques News The Tasmanian devil is endangered by a bizarre transmissible cancer, but scientists and the devils themselves are fighting back. Find […]
The Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Sequence All Eukaryotic Species
BioTechniques News An unfunded project with an ambitious goal promises to shed light on the evolutionary history of higher organisms and enhance […]
Cannabis Cuts Seizure Risk
BioTechniques News A compound in marijuana has striking effects on seizures. Read more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered by WPeMatico
Zika Mosquito Genome Put on the Map
BioTechniques News Finally, a revolutionary technique allows researchers to finish piecing together the genome of the Zika virus vector. Read more… Full […]
From Sesame Street to Pennsylvania Ave, Autism Awareness & Advocacy Take Hold
BIOtech Now Jim Greenwood Like most American kids, my daughters loved Sesame Street growing up. The show’s cast of Muppets have made […]
The Killer Whale's Microbial Secrets
BioTechniques News The killer whale’s microbiome reveals a new reason why the species is endangered. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered […]
Detecting Rare T-cells
BioTechniques News Researchers have devised a simple and inexpensive method to produce reagents for identifying antigen-specific T-cells. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article […]
The Epigenetics of Marijuana Use
BioTechniques News Several states recently legalized marijuana. This may reduce legal costs for states and generate tax revenue, but what does research […]
Poking Cancer Right in Its Achilles’ Heel
BioTechniques News Using CRISPR to create paired mutations in different genes, scientists came up with 152 mutation combinations that were detrimental to […]
BIO Answers FAQs on Human Genome Editing
BIOtech Now David Thomas, CFA Genome editing has been a hot topic in drug discovery research recently, as CRISPR-based preclinical programs inch […]
How Your Nose Got Its Shape
BioTechniques News What do climates and cultural beauty standards have in common? Both influenced human nose evolution. Read more… Full BioTechniques Article […]
Jumpy Viruses
BioTechniques News A new method shows how often viruses jump into new hosts. Will this predict the next pandemic? Find out… Full […]
Vaccines: The Greatest Live-Saving Health Success
BIOtech Now Stacey Matusko Vaccines have proven to be one of the greatest public health accomplishments of the 20th century. Safe and […]
Transporting Too Many Proteins Overwhelms Cells
BioTechniques News High demands on protein transport machinery cause cellular growth defects. Full BioTechniques Article here Powered by WPeMatico
It Takes Two: Immunotherapy and Cancer Dance an Intricate Tango
BioTechniques News Cancer is crafty. Researchers are too. And they’ve just found one reason that some cancers evade novel immunotherapies. Read more. […]
The Invisible Force that Trains us to Read
BioTechniques News Sound sculpts the brain. Scientists have been studying how the brain encodes sound, and they’re using that code to not […]
Depression-fighting Bacteria
BioTechniques News One type of bacteria found in probiotic yogurt helps fight anxiety and depression. Learn more… Full BioTechniques Article here Powered […]