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8 August 2016 | By Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, have discovered that the key controller of trunk, tail and spinal development is the Oct4 gene, one of the essential regulators of stem cells. The team intend to use their data to open new avenues to the study of spinal cord regeneration...
8 August 2016 | By St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Using vaccines prepared from killed viruses, the scientists targeted an influenza A H1N1 seasonal flu strain, finding that obese mice are not protected against influenza infections through vaccines, raising concerns about vaccine response in obese humans, who are known to be at an increased risk for severe flu...
5 August 2016 | By MDI Biological Laboratory
The ability of animals to regenerate body parts has always fascinated scientists but until the advent of sophisticated tools for genetic and computational analysis, they had no way of studying the genetic machinery that enables regeneration...
5 August 2016 | By Indiana University
Using rats carefully bred to either drink large amounts of alcohol or to spurn it, researchers at Indiana and Purdue universities have identified hundreds of genes that appear to play a role in increasing the desire to drink alcohol...
4 August 2016 | By Tokyo Institute of Technology
Certain species of amphibians and fish have the remarkable ability to regenerate tissue. Advances in molecular biological analyses have allowed researchers to identify specific molecules and signalling mechanisms involved in tissue regeneration. Fgf signalling is one such key mechanism...
4 August 2016 | By National Institute of Health (NIH)
Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression and the birth of new neurons in the developing brain...
4 August 2016 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Chronos Therapeutics, a biotech company researching ageing diseases, brain and nervous system disorders, have announced the appointment of Dr Fraser Murray and Dr Timothy Schulz-Utermoehl, as Vice Presidents of Pre-Clinical Development...
3 August 2016 | By Plasticell
Plasticell has signed a collaboration agreement with the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) focused on methods of eradicating cancer stem cells...
29 July 2016 | By Mandy Parrett, Editorial Assistant
Scientists have developed a new method of measuring the activity of disease-causing mutations in the LRRK2 gene, a major cause of inherited Parkinson’s disease.
28 July 2016 | By Epidarex Capital
Epidarex Capital announces the launch of Nodthera Limited, a new biotech company focused on the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome...
28 July 2016 | By Caleb Radford, The Lead
Assessing a patient's levels of the P-glycoprotein soon after they start receiving Glivec therapy will help to predict that patient’s long-term response to the leukaemia drug, according to new research from SAHMRI and the University of Adelaide...
27 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The investment will be used for manufacturing of new respiratory and biopharmaceuticals, to be exported outside the UK to global markets...
25 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have identified three types of vaccine-induced antibodies that can neutralise diverse strains of the flu virus that infect so many each year...
25 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
AbbVie and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of AbbVie’s investigational biomarker-specific antibody drug conjugate Rova-T...
25 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Prokarium announced the award of funding from the UK governments for the development of three new vaccines against Zika, bacterial diarrhoea and plague...
