Biotech & pharma

Detecting breast cancer’s fingerprint in a droplet of blood

10 Apr 2012

Biologists and computer scientists create computational model of human tissue

10 Apr 2012

Nano-sized ‘factories’ churn out proteins

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 09 Apr 2012

Researchers have developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesise proteins on demand to get around the problem of the human body breaking down the protein in drugs made from proteins to treat cancers

Gene can turn flu into a killer

02 Apr 2012

Moving microfluidics from the lab bench to the factory floor

31 Mar 2012

DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago

31 Mar 2012

Artificial thymus tissue enables maturation of immune cells

30 Mar 2012

Researchers unravel genetic mechanism of fatty liver disease in obese children

27 Mar 2012

Faster way to probe proteins

26 Mar 2012

Mayo Clinic researchers developing melanoma vaccine for skin cancer

22 Mar 2012

Stem cells hint at potential treatment for Huntington's Disease

20 Mar 2012

Cystic fibrosis gene therapy programme gets green light with public funding

17 Mar 2012

Biologists uncover surprising connection between breast cancer cells and surrounding tissue

15 Mar 2012

Study of ribosome evolution challenges RNA world hypothesis

15 Mar 2012

New approach to treating Type I diabetes? Columbia scientists transform gut cells into insulin factories

14 Mar 2012

Major EU project to investigate genes influencing bacterial infections in children

13 Mar 2012

Scientists identify key player of protein folding

09 Mar 2012

Exercise changes the DNA

09 Mar 2012

Another mechanism discovered by which sulforaphane prevents cancer

05 Mar 2012

How red blood cells get so big — and the bad things that happen when they don’t

02 Mar 2012

Some bacteria attack using spring-loaded poison daggers

01 Mar 2012

“Labor der Zukunft” — Tomorrow’s laboratory technology

29 Feb 2012

DNA nanorobot-targeted therapeutic responses

28 Feb 2012

Researchers have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cancer cells and cause them to self-destruct

Delivering RNA with tiny sponge-like spheres

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 27 Feb 2012

In a new microchip, cells separate by rolling away

25 Feb 2012

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