A system of `automated design’ for new drugs could help develop the complex therapies needed for many medical conditions while also improving drug safety and efficiency, new research from the University of Dundee has shown.
12 December, 2012
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia researchers have been able to capture, by Transmission Electron Microscopy, the direct and background-free image of the DNA Double Helix, paving the way to the direct study of the interaction between DNA and proteins, RNA and other molecules.
12 December, 2012
Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
12 December, 2012
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) has announced that two of the Institute’s research teams have won Space Florida’s International Space Station (ISS) Research Competition. Eight teams were selected from a pool of international applicants to send experiments to space in late 2013. The competition was initiated by Space Florida, the state’s spaceport and aerospace authority, and NanoRacks, LLC. Sanford-Burnham’s research will fly as payloads to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and research will be conducted on board the U.S. National Lab at the ISS.
03 December, 2012