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Patent triumph for CRISPR inventors
Added: 17 Jun 2019
The US Patent office has recently (May 28) issued a patent to the French biologist Emmanuelle Charp…
CRISPR edit linked with increased mortality risk
Added: 5 Jun 2019
The genetic mutation made last year by a Chinese scientist using the CRISPR technique has been asso…
Korea claims advance on 3D-printed corneas
Added: 30 May 2019
A research team in South Korea have used a 3D printer to improve the transparency of artificial cor…
GE Healthcare brings purification tech to Stevenage
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 17 Jan 2019
GE Healthcare has announced a new biotechnology-manufacturing centre in Stevenage.
The centre, ba…
3D-printed biosensors for diabetes patients
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019
3D-printed biosensors in wearable monitors have picked up glucose signals more effectively than tra…
Electronic pill connects to external device
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 18 Dec 2018
An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an ext…
UK spin-out licenses CRISPR
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 23 Nov 2018
University of Cambridge spin-out DefiniGEN has licensed CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Br…
Nanomedicine takes on wound dressings
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 9 Aug 2018
Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial pepti…
Ribosome distribution key to programming cells
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 5 Apr 2018
By controlling the distribution of bacterial ribosomes, synthetic biologists say they can program c…
Bacterial nano-scaffold hails biofuel breakthrough
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 16 Jan 2018
Cell biologists have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that they say can be used to bolste…
Antibiotic-resistant genes discovered
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 30 Nov 2017
Researchers have discovered previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort an…
New bioprinting method developed
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 21 Aug 2017
Scientists from the University of Oxford have created a new method to 3D print laboratory-grown cel…
Silk cocoons promise much for medical treatments
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 8 Aug 2017
Microscopic cocoons have been created that can store sensitive proteins, making them useful for bio…
New neuronal labelling method invented
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 26 Jul 2017
Scientists have taken advantage of viral vectors to deliver genetic information past the blood-brai…
Multiplexed biomarker test for wearables
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 27 Jun 2017
Engineers in the US have created a sensor that could potentially detect multiple biomarkers and wil…
First synthetic retina created
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 31 May 2017
A soft tissue retinal implant has been created by a researcher at Oxford University, raising hopes …
New approach for polio vaccine
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 22 Feb 2017
Researchers in Leeds have proposed a new method to create a polio vaccine that does not require use…
Optogenetics breakthrough achieved in Japan
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 9 Feb 2017
Light has been successfully used by a Japanese researcher to manipulate gene expression to produce …
New DNA analysis method reveals plant immunity
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 22 Dec 2016
A new, improved method to capture longer fragments of DNA will allow researchers to understand more…
New sensor technology accelerates blood analysis
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 27 Sep 2016
Scientists in York have developed a sensor capable of detecting multiple proteins and enzymes in sm…
