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TSRI’s rat study shows how brain stores memories
A new study led by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) sheds light on how the brain stores memories.
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Mission Therapeutics appoints Colin Goddard as Chairman
Mission Therapeutics have appointed Dr Colin Goddard as non-executive Chairman, effective January 1st 2017.
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Next-Generation Sequencing In-Depth Focus 2016
NGS technologies have been employed in a wide range of areas in drug discovery, including drug target identification, biomarker discovery and biopharmaceutics development. Pushpanathan Muthuirulan of the National Institutes of Health gives us an overview of this in his article in our NGS In-Depth Focus. Meanwhile, the possibilities that RNA-Seq…
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Enhanced CRISPR allows exploration of disease in every cell type
2 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
These systems will allow researchers worldwide to rapidly and accurately explore the changing role of genes as the cells develop into tissues...
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Orchard Therapeutics forms strategic alliance with Oxford BioMedica
2 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Under the terms of the licence agreement, Oxford BioMedica has granted an exclusive intellectual property licence to Orchard for collaboration programmes...
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Pharmaceutical water systems discussed at Pharmaceutical Microbiology 2017
29 November 2016 | By SMi Group
Pharmaceutical Microbiology 2017 will bring together MHRA, Paul Ehrilch Institut, Sanofi, Lonza, Steris, Pfizer and many more to explore the topics of contamination and endotoxins, quality assurance and control, environmental monitoring, new mechanisms of detection and the newly added topic of pharmaceutical water systems...
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Cell Medica and Baylor to develop off-the-shelf CAR-NKT cells for cancer treatment
17 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Cell Medica has expanded its partnership with Baylor College of Medicine to develop an off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapy, using T (NKT) cells...
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IVF babies: Easy as 1, 2…3?
3 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The ethics of three parent babies has been widely debated - should it be used to save children from deadly mitochondrial diseases or are scientists "playing God"? Here's everything you need to know to decide...
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Whitepaper: Discriminating copy number variation from heterogeneous samples using the S3™ Cell Sorter and the QX200™ Droplet Digital™ PCR System
By combining technologies such as flow cytometry, cell sorting, and digital PCR highly accurate and more specific results can be attributed to cell populations of interest vs. the bulk heterogeneous populations...
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Breakthrough in production of dopamine neurons for Parkinson’s disease
31 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
"In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neurons we noticed that the outcome in animal models varied dramatically, even though...
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Tweaking immune response key to combat neurodegeneration
19 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A better understanding of how we could manipulate immune system conditions might aid to develop novel therapies against Alzheimer's, Kizil argues...
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Lifestyle vs bad luck? New stem cell evidence provides insight to what causes cancer
5 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
DNA code of stem cells acquires errors at a constant rate, even with differing cancer incidence, providing insight to the bad luck vs lifestyle debate...
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Cisbio Bioassays Toolbox products and services
4 October 2016 | By Cisbio
A comprehensive line of ready-to-use HTRF toolbox reagents labeled with HTRF fluorescent dyes for studying molecular interactions using time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer...
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Using PD-L1 for immunotherapy?
21 September 2016 | By Abcam
PD-L1 [28-8] (ab205921) is an ideal tool to quantify PD-L1 expression in patients for PD-1 based therapies....
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Stem cell breakthrough unlocks mystery of inherited heart condition
31 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Using advanced stem cell technology, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created a model of a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an excessive thickening of the heart that is associated with a number of rare and common illnesses, some of which have a strong…
