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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News2 weeks ago
Aging Mice Share Features of Brain Network Decline with Humans
The human brain operates as a network of interconnected modules specialized for tasks that become less specialized as people age—a breakdown associated with memory loss and...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News2 weeks ago
StockWatch: CytomX Shares Yo-Yo on Colorectal Cancer Data
CytomX Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CTMX) drew attention a few days ago after its six-year-old, up-to-$1.68 billion cancer collaboration with Astellas Pharma (Tokyo: 4503) was terminated by the...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News2 weeks ago
Novartis Acquires Pikavation for up to $3B, Expanding Cancer Pipeline
Novartis has committed up to $3 billion—two-thirds of that upfront—toward acquiring Pikavation Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Synnovation Therapeutics that specializes in developing PI3Kα inhibitor programs designed...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
Engineered Esophagus Rebuilds Missing Organ Segment in Pig Models
A new Nature Biotechnology paper describes the process of engineering a lab-grown esophagus that can safely replace a full section of the native organ and restore...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
LazySlide: Open Framework for Integrating Whole-Slide and Molecular Data
Histopathological data remain one of the most trusted tools in science when doctors or researchers want to understand what’s happening inside a tissue. Today, they have...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
Targeting Tunneling Nanotubes Reduces Spread of Mutant Huntington’s Protein
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a devastating brain disorder that slowly robs people of movement, memory and personality. It is caused by a toxic, mutant Huntingtin (mHTT)...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
Ohio Life Science Training Center to Be Based in New Albany International Business Park
The Ohio Life Sciences Association (OLSA) and JobsOhio announced the selection of New Albany International Business Park as the location for the newly named Ohio Life...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
Metastasis Slowed by Targeting Lipid Metabolism in Healthy Lung Cells
Lung metastasis remains one of the turning points in cancer progression, in part because the lung provides a uniquely supportive niche for incoming tumor cells. Among...
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks ago
Modifying T Cell Receptor Improves Targeted Cancer Therapy
Much of the challenge in developing cancer therapies is determining methods to improve the effectiveness of the immune system’s ability to identify and kill cancer cells....
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GEN – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News3 weeks agoComputational Model Predicts Telomere Length from Images of Routine Histopathology Slides
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have developed a new computational tool, TLPath, that can infer changes occurring at the ends of chromosomes—the telomeres—by...
Sanofi Bispecific Scores in Asthma, Rhinosinusitis, but Eczema Bet Doesn’t Pay Off
