Study will examine impact of medical marijuana
A $500,000 gift from international best-selling author and mental health advocate Patricia Cornwell is funding research in America into the impact of medical marijuana.
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers will explore the potential...
Toxin could help treat illnesses
Research in the laboratory of Dr Michelle Linterman at the Babraham Institute ‘s Lymphocyte Signalling programme has provided fresh insights into the potentially beneficial effects that a toxin, produced by bacteria found in the...
Never lose a sample again – Extremely durable lab identification labels from Brady –
Brady Corporation R&D teams have developed extremely durable and printable identification labels for laboratory samples.
“These labels have been engineered to stay attached to samples even when frozen with liquid nitrogen or heated in an...
Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European colonisation after Columbus arrived in the New World, still have living descendants...
Planning for an ebola vaccine
Health organisations have started to plan a campaign of use for a vaccine against the deadly ebola disease.
The work is being done by the World Health Organization (WHO), its partners and affected countries after...
Patch could speed up recovery from shoulder surgery
An innovative surgical patch that promotes rapid regrowth of tendon tissue could transform the success of shoulder repair operations.
The patch will be used by surgeons to repair torn tendon tissue, and patient trials are...
US Research reveals the role of Heparan Sulfate in Obesity
AMSBIO reports how researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA) have used their 10E4 Heparan Sulfate (HS) antibody in pioneering obesity research to quantify the role of HS in the...
Research tool will help veterans
Bioscience is being used to help war veterans in America cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Cohen Veterans Bioscience, Exaptive Inc. and Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing have announced a new initiative to...
UCLB spinout Freeline Closes $120 Million Series C Financing Round
Freeline, a biotechnology company focused on developing curative gene therapies for chronic systemic diseases, today announced the closing of a $120 million extended Series C financing. The financing augments Syncona’s previously announced Series C investment in Freeline of $40 million (£30.6 million) with an additional...
Unlocking the secrets of the brain
Scientists in America have more than doubled the number of known regions in the brain’s outer mantle, known as the cortex.
The findings could help add to the understanding of how the regions evolved and...
Grants will further research into Fragile-X
The National Institutes of Health in the United States has awarded more than $35m over the next five years to support research into Fragile-X- associated disorders.
Grants have gone to researchers at three Centers for...
Beer compound could help fend off Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Scientists have discovered a potential health benefit of hops.
Writing in the American Chemical Society’s journal, they reported that a compound from hops could protect brain cells from damage and potentially slow the development of disorders such as Alzheimer’s...
Sequencing project targets diseases
An exciting new project will see 1,000 people undergo whole genome sequencing and whole transcriptome sequencing using a novel testing platform provided by American company NantHealth.
NantHealth has partnered with the University of Utah in to analyse...
Firms announce expansions
Two American bioscience companies have announced expansions and new jobs.
Seventh Wave, a consulting-based contract research organisation for the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, is expanding inMissouri. The company is increasing its presence inSt. Louis...
Pioneering cells work leads to Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 has been awarded to three scientists whose work is adding add immensely to the understanding of human cells.
Members of the judging panel awarded the prize jointly to...
Personalised medicine takes a step closer
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA), in Los Angeles, have taken a big step towards creating drug doses and combinations that are tailored to people’s specific diseases and body chemistry.
The researchers, from the...