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Interferon-induced ACE2 production shown to be safe and even effective against COVID-19

January 11, 2021
While ACE2 proteins are known to be the vehicle used by COVID-19 to enter the nose and lungs, the previously worrying increase in ACE2 found to occur as a result...

Successful AI and ML framework for repurposing drug candidates

January 8, 2021
Researchers apply causal inference theory and deep learning algorithms to sort through confounding data and successfully pinpoint drug candidates for treatment repurposing. The new framework enables artificial intelligence and machine...

Inhouse genetic analysis

January 7, 2021
Here, Dr Philip Hargreaves (business development) and Gabriela Saldanha (product management) discuss the drivers and lessons learned behind Promega's successful development collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech…

Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain disorders

January 6, 2021
A team of bioengineers has proven a novel system of nanoparticles can successfully carry three times more targeted drug across the previously difficult-to-breach healthy blood brain barrier. This shows promise...

To improve reproducibility; look first to pipetting

January 4, 2021
With years of experience and expertise with pipettes, Gustavo Chavarria outlines pipetting factors and practices that lead to success and reproducibility in the lab…

Streamlining critical workflows

January 4, 2021
Research technician, Yvette Hoade, explains how electronic pipettes and pipetting robots help speed up her workflow when investigating mutations associated with different blood diseases that can lead to leukaemia.

Vital biodiversity collections face drop in specimen deposits

January 1, 2021
Kansas researchers argue that expanded biodiversity infrastructure will be an essential front line of defense in pandemic preparedness in the wake of COVID-19 as preserved specimens capture the community of...

Kinship is beneficial – even for anti-social squirrels

December 23, 2020
Never rattle at your neighbours, killing them could endanger your health... if you're a red squirrel. Have you ever seen more than one squirrel together anywhere except an artificial feeding...

RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny

December 22, 2020
How does the cell know when to stop transcribing? What is the purpose of noncoding RNAs? Another win for multi-disciplinary research as results from the Whitehead Institute suggest that the...

A tale of tusks… or a ‘herd of treasure’?

December 21, 2020
Not all shipwrecked treasure is gold and silver. One might think of a sunken herd, rather than a sunken hoard, as more than a hundred elephant tusks raised alongside the...

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