BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS

Sydney Nano scientists witness spontaneous nanobubble formation Tiny gas bubbles could help reduce drag in small medical devices, university scientists have found. Drag can lead to clogging and damage biological samples, so this discovery could pave the way to more...

New gene editing technique enables millions of genetic experiments to be performed simultaneously By Lindsay Brownell (BOSTON) — While the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has become the poster child for innovation in synthetic biology, it has some major limitations....

Berkeley Lab-led team is digging into the bizarre bacteria-produced nanomachines that could fast-track microbiome science Imagine there are arrows that are lethal when fired on your enemies yet harmless if they fall on your friends. It’s easy to see how these would be...

Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) created novel, tiny self-healing biological machines from frog cells called “Xenobots” that could move around, push a payload, and even exhibit collective...

The technique uses nickel-platinum nanoparticles to increase the sensitivity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, or ELISA, that is used to test for the presence of cancers, HIV and more.   Early screening can mean the difference between life and death in a...

Using an improved version of the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers knocked out up to twelve genes in plants in a single blow. Until now, this had only been possible for single or small groups of genes. The approach was developed by researchers at Martin...

Nanomaterials show promise for treating hemophilia and cardiovascular disorder Inserting genetic material into the body to treat diseases caused by gene mutations can work, scientists say – but getting those materials to the right place safely is tricky. Scientists...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to precisely target cells by distinguishing them from neighboring cells that look quite similar. Even cells that become cancerous may differ from their healthy neighbors in only a few subtle ways. A central challenge in the...

New Study: Machine Learning Automatically Detects COVID-19 using Chest CTs in a Large Multicenter Cohort This new method discriminates COVID-19 from other types of pneumonia using quantitative patterns from chest computed tomography (CT). The researchers models...

A diagnostic face mask that signals if the wearer is infected with COVID-19 is discussed by James Collins, Ph.D a bioengineer, in a Q&A.