Biotech & pharma

Five ways bioengineers want to use 3-D printing

16 Aug 2016

Now that 3D printing has made it easier to generate custom-made prosthetics, bioengineers are looking ahead at manufacturing actual cellular material

St Jude researchers pinpoint key influenza-fighting immune trigger

13 Aug 2016

How HIV disrupts immune system helps vaccine development

01 Aug 2016

When the going gets tough, the tough get growing

29 Jul 2016

Dolly the sheep’s death not related to cloning: study

27 Jul 2016

Drug targeting BRAF mutation slow thyroid cancer, too

25 Jul 2016

In a first, Chinese scientists to use stem cell tech on cancer patients

23 Jul 2016

UK scientists’ genetic switch discovery holds promise of cure for asthma

23 Jul 2016

An engineered protein can disrupt tumour-promoting 'messages' in human cell

22 Jul 2016

Stem cell technique could help avert hip replacement

20 Jul 2016

Gene contributes to poor speech processing and dyslexia: study

20 Jul 2016

Proteins team up to turn on T cells

18 Jul 2016

Stanford researchers grow bone, heart muscle from embryonic stem cells

16 Jul 2016

Scientists transform lower-body cells into facial cartilage

11 Jul 2016

Researchers identify new biomarker for Parkinson’s disease in patients’ urine

08 Jul 2016

New anti-cancer strategy mobilises both innate and adaptive immune response

06 Jul 2016

Researchers identify calorie-burning pathway in fat cells with potential for obesity treatment

04 Jul 2016

Gene-editing tool CRISPR to be used to treat humans for the first time

23 Jun 2016

Drug candidate shrinks tumour when delivered by plant virus nanoparticle

09 Jun 2016

Stanford stem cell experiment helps stroke patient walk

04 Jun 2016

European regulators approve GSK’s Strivelis therapy for children with combined immunodeficiency

01 Jun 2016

Mistreating animals: US biotech firm to pay record $3.5 mn fine, shut down

23 May 2016

Scientists identify 'smoking gun' in metastasis of hybrid cells

21 May 2016

Researchers successfully excise HIV DNA from animals

21 May 2016

In scientific first, researchers visualize proteins being born

09 May 2016

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