Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of the body where they're needed - and nowhere they're not - can reduce the medicine dosage and avoid potentially harmful "off…
Takara Bio USA, Inc. ("Takara Bio USA"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc. ("Takara Bio"), today announced a series of updates to its spatial biology product portfolio, extending its innovation with a new class of spatial…
Sir John Gurdon, who died on Tuesday, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that all body cells have the same gene. His work led to Dolly the Sheep. But at Eton he performed terribly in biology class.
The Second World Congress on Targeting Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) is scheduled for 15–16 October 2025 in Valencia, Spain. This landmark event, co-organized by the World Mitochondria Society and the International Society of Microbiota,…
Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining traits. Regardless of their shape, size, or sharpness, they stem from the same genetic origins, display similar…
Hollywood has used artistic license to take some liberties with dinosaurs, but new research may expose what these prehistoric beasts actually looked like.
A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a “zero day” vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used to prevent the misuse of DNA. These screening systems are designed to stop people from purchasing genetic…
I’m speaking with Meghan E. O’Kane, a partner at the Los Angeles firm Swerdlow Florence Sanchez Swerdlow & Wimmer that specializes in employer-side labor and employment law. In our brief interview, she offers valuable insights into how she…
Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface, tiny algae are defying the rules of biology. Their survival strategy not only redefines the limits of life but also raises urgent questions about ecosystems disappearing with the melting Arctic. Dormant…
ZEISS Microscopy and Concept Life Sciences, a UK-based contract research organization (CRO), announced their collaboration aimed at pioneering new approaches to workflow automation and scalable image analysis in spatial biology.
In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz discovered important differences in the physiological changes observed…
Recent studies suggest that the steady rise in life expectancy observed over the past 200 years has now stagnated. Data indicate that a limit has been reached, and that medical and health care advances no longer affect longevity in…
INTEGRA Biosciences, a leading provider of laboratory tools for liquid handling and media preparation based in Switzerland, has acquired shares in CleanNA, an established reagents manufacturer based in the Netherlands.