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Flu Vaccine: The End of Gambling with Nature?
With the last bit of thunderstorm warning retreats into Lake Michigan, the hot and humid mist that once stretched from Willis Tower to Hancock Center dissipates – the summer time in Chicagoland is...
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US Government Announces Proposal to Revise Current Regulations Related to...
On 8th of September, the Federal Register published a notice jointly made by 14 US government agencies including, prominently, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), the National Science...
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The New Herbalism: Synthetic Biology Provides Alternative Sources for Herbal...
Throughout human history, there has been an extensive reliance on herbs (and their extracts) as sources of medicine, and such dependence still stands today. Indeed, a significant number of blockbuster...
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The Evasive Agents: How Drug-delivering Nanoparticles Avoid the Immune System
The use of artificially-designed and synthesized nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles into the human body via bloodstream infusion or direct injection has been widely applied in recent years....
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Discovery of New System for Genome Editing to Dramatically Improve Genetic...
It is of no doubt that the recent advancements of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique has provided a huge boost to the genetic research field. Evolutionary, as a defensive mechanism found in some...
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The Nobel Prize 2015: A Resurgence of Neglected Tropical Diseases Research
In the early hours of October the 5th, Professor Urban Lendahl, secretary of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine, continued with the century long tradition of announcing the winners of the...
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2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Research on DNA Repair Mechanisms
After spending a whole week of holiday on the sunny beach of the Mediterranean Sea, Sarah finally had all her luggage packed and flew back to the gloomy, rainy Manchester in Lancashire, England....
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Genetically-Modified Pets: Markets, Concerns and Possible Solutions
Sus domesticus, often called swine or hog, or more commonly and simply, just “pig”, have been considered as a domestic animal that traces back to the Tigris Basin around 12,000 BC. In addition to its...
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Vampires Zapped: Orally Administered Drug Suggests New Approach in Malaria...
Malaria prevention in under-developed regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, has been demonstrated to be both resource-demanding as well as labor intensive. Currently, the methods of prevention mainly...
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CDC Report: Columbian Man Diagnosed with Cancer of Tapeworm Origin
In the field of cancer research, there has been a long-held belief that cancer, also known as a malignant tumor or neoplasm, is the result of the unregulated proliferation of cells that invade or...
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Penn State Research: Herpes Virus Can Infect Human Neuronal Cells
The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is one of a few highly ubiquitous herpes viruses that infects an estimated 90% – 95% of the adult population without noticeable symptoms, regardless of demographics or...
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The Rise of Bispecific Antibodies in 2015
The concept of using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for therapeutic purposes was devised a long time ago, mainly taking advantage of the high specificity of antigen-antibody interactions for drug...
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The 20 Year Long March of Transgenic Salmon: From Petri Dish to Baking Dish
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally approved the sale and human consumption of a genetically modified (GM), fast-growing salmon in the US market. The salmon, commercially branded as...
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Phase Change Materials: Basics, Building Materials & Beyond
The term phase change may appear slightly peculiar and jargonish. However, both the concept and its application are not new. Imagine, for instance, you are pouring a bottle of Johnnie Walker into a...
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The Lego Game Of Macrolide Antibiotics
What Are Semisynthetic Antibiotics? Since Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in his small laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London in 1928, the research, development, and...
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Healthcare and Life Sciences: The Future of Biotech in 100 Years?
Many innovators try to predict the next big thing. Indeed, if we look back on some of those predictions made in the late 1970s and early 1980s on what year 2000 appears like, quite a few of them would...
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First Lung Cancer Trials Using CRISPR-Edited T Cells Start in August
“We are trying to develop a last resort when everything else fails.” Says Lu You, oncologist and team leader at the West China Hospital affiliated with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. His team,...
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Game of Thrones: The Pitched Battle Over CRISPR Patent Turns Even Bitter
Renowned as one of the biggest leaps in the field of biotechnology since the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the CRISPR technology has drawn extensive attention from both academia as well as industry....
View ArticlePresident Trump and Biotech-Related Industries: Opportunities, not Armageddon.
Since the new president of the United States has been elected, it is time for the insiders of the biotech industry – both decision-makers and scientists – to begin their process of the possible fallout...
View ArticleApplications of Neoantigens in Personalized Cancer Therapy
Neoantigens are mutations in the genome of a tumor that result in mutant proteins that are not found in normal cells, but that are instead unique to that tumor. The isolation, identification, and...
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