New polygenic danger score to help foresee the chances of medications causing liver harm Kumar Jeetendra | September 20, 2020 The ancient Romans studied the livers of sacrificial animals to read omens and create prophesies. Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Takeda-CiRA program alongside a world-wide group of collaborators, have devised a polygenic risk score (PRS) based on liver genomics that can predict the probability of medications causing liver damage. Adding new …
Researchers grow first plant-based gel to help organoid development for biomedical applications Kumar Jeetendra | November 26, 2020 Monash University researchers have created the world’s first bioactive plant-based nanocellulose hydrogel to support organoid growth and help significantly reduce the costs of research into cancer and COVID-19. This discovery by researchers in BioPRIA (Bioresource Processing Institute of Australia), Monash University’s Department of Chemical Engineering and the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute will develop organoids cheaper, …
Corning to feature most current product in 3D cell culture portfolio at SLAS2021 Kumar Jeetendra | January 23, 2021 Corning Incorporated will highlight its hottest technologies that support the advancement of 3D cell culture, automation, and drug discovery in this year’s virtual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) seminar on Jan. 25 through 27. Now more than ever, tools used to ease scale-up, reproducibility, and consistency of 3D cell culture are helping empower …
Researchers concentrate how a single gene alteration may have isolated modern humans from extinct hominins Kumar Jeetendra | February 16, 2021 As a professor of pediatrics and molecular and cellular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, has long studied how the brain develops and what goes wrong in neurological disorders. For nearly as long, he has also been curious about the evolution of the human brain -; what …
Researchers develop another approach to grow little pancreas replicas Kumar Jeetendra | September 14, 2021 In collaboration with Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute scientists, engineers from MIT have created a new method to create tiny replicas of pancreas using healthy and cancerous pancreatic cell lines. These models could be used by researchers to test and develop potential treatments for pancreatic cancer. This is one of the most difficult types. Researchers …