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Image: TEM (transmission electron micrograph) of a mesoporous silica nanoparticle (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Nanoparticle Delivery of Drug Combination Blocks Pancreatic Cancer Growth in Mouse Model

Cancer researchers using two potent chemotherapeutic agents combined in one nanoparticle demonstrated significant improvement in the treatment of pancreatic tumors in a mouse model.  More...
06 Apr 2015
Image: Close up of the MinION nanopore sequencer (Photo courtesy of Dr. Andrew Kilianski, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center).

Portable DNA Sequencer Functions Well in Evaluation Trials

Researchers have demonstrated the ability of a handheld nanopore sequencer to accurately identify and differentiate bacterial and viral samples.  More...
05 Apr 2015

Biotech Collaboration to Promote Animal-Based Cancer Research

Two American biotechnology companies have signed a collaboration agreement that is intended to promote animal-based cancer research and drug development.  More...
05 Apr 2015
Image: In the immunomagnetic approach, circulating cancer cells are attracted by specific biomarkers to bind to an array of micromagnets for further analyses (Photo courtesy of Dartmouth College).

Feasibility Study Supports Use of Immunomagnetic Approach to Study Circulating Cancer Cells

Cancer researchers have combined the strength of magnetic separation with the specificity of immunochemical biomarker recognition to demonstrate the feasibility of capturing and analyzing rare circulating cells from the blood stream of cancer patients.  More...
01 Apr 2015
Image: An adult cardiomyocyte has re-entered the cell cycle after expression of miR302-367 (Photo courtesy of the laboratory of Dr. Edward Morrisey, University of Pennsylvania).

Certain MicroRNAs Stimulate Regeneration of Adult Heart Tissue

Cardiac disease researchers working with a mouse model have discovered that by inducing a subset of microRNAs that are active during development but silenced in the adult they could cause damaged adult heart tissue to regenerate.  More...
31 Mar 2015
Image: Many molecular biology studies begin with purified DNA and RNA extracted from complex environments such as the human gut (Photo courtesy of Los Alamos [US] National Laboratory).

New Metagenomics Analysis Tool Reduces False Discovery Rates

Genomic researchers recently described a novel new tool for analyzing the complex data generated during DNA screens of mixed populations of organisms such as the human gut microbiome.  More...
30 Mar 2015
Image: An Austrian Research Center of Industrial Biotechnology researcher is shown working with a laboratory scale continuous antibody purification reactor (Photo courtesy of the Austrian Research Center of Industrial Biotechnology).

Continuous Purification Technique Should Significantly Reduce Antibody Production Costs

An Austrian biotechnology firm has developed a method for the continuous purification of recombinant antibodies from cultures of clarified Chinese hamster ovary cells that promises to significantly reduce the production costs of these important therapeutic and research materials.  More...
29 Mar 2015
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