Minister for Life Sciences George Freeman MP has today visited SynbiCITE at Imperial College London, the UK innovation and knowledge centre for synthetic biology, to announce the release of the UK Synthetic Biology Strategic Plan 2016 — Biodesign for the Bioeconomy.
24 February, 2016
Scientists at the University of East Anglia are getting closer to solving the problem of antibiotic resistance.
22 February, 2016
The topic of this month’s newsletter from Drug Discovery Today is “Phenotypic screening”.
12 February, 2016
A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that a relatively high intake of dietary cholesterol, or eating one egg every day, are not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease. Furthermore, no association was found among those with the APOE4 phenotype, which affects cholesterol metabolism and is common among the Finnish population. The findings were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
11 February, 2016
Screening large “libraries” of compounds to find those with a desired biological activity is a powerful method for discovering new drugs, but requires a large, expensive and dedicated facility. Now, scientists at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised the central component of a screening system that would be orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper.“We’ve developed a device that can do the functional equivalent of high-throughput compound screening on an ultra-miniaturized scale,” said the study’s principal investigator Brian M. Paegel, an associate professor at TSRI.
10 February, 2016
Stars including Olivia Colman, Miriam Margolyes, Jose Mourinho, Caroline Quentin, Caspar Lee, Jerome Flynn, Frank Skinner, Raymond Briggs, Alison Steadman, Bertie Carvel, Joanna Lumley, Ben De Lisi, Sir Peter Blake, Lorraine Kelly, Bill Nighy and Toby Jones have put pen to paper for Epilepsy Action's National Doodle Day.
05 February, 2016
The UK Medical Research Council has announced a ‘Rapid Response’* call for research applications aimed at tackling the risk posed by the Zika virus.
04 February, 2016
F1000Research will launch a new publishing channel that will encourage and facilitate openand transparent publication and discussion of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies inthe biomedical research sector.
04 February, 2016
On April 6th - 8th, SynBioBeta with support of event host SynbiCITE, will once again bring together the synthetic biology community for the fourth annual SynBioBeta London 2016 Conference at Imperial College London, UK.
04 February, 2016
Scientific findings establish the effectiveness of Envigo’s new approach to investigate the protective effects of vaccine candidates and anti-viral microbodies and to study asymptomatic primary genital HSV-2 infection
03 February, 2016
Prolonged hammering and chiselling accelerated degenerative arthritis in the hands of Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter and one of the greatest artists of all time. But the intense work probably helped him keep the use of his hands right up until he died.
03 February, 2016
TSRI and UC Berkeley Team Solves Structure of 'Flipping' Cellular Machine, Pointing to Possible Alzheimer’s and Cancer Therapies
02 February, 2016
Bassem Hassan’s* team at VIB/KU Leuven has discovered a previously unknown mechanism that is highly conserved between species and which regulates neurogenesis through precise temporal control of the activity of a family of proteins essential for brain development: the proneural proteins. This mechanism, a simple reversible chemical modification, is critical for the production of a sufficient number of neurons, their differentiation and the development of the nervous system.
01 February, 2016