Beckman Coulter, Sciex collaborate on high-throughput screening workflows February 27, 2023 -- Life science analytical technologies company Sciex on Monday announced a collaboration with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences to provide comprehensive workflows for high-throughput screening; high-throughput absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (HT-ADME); and synthetic biology studies.Read More
Getting to the root of Alzheimer’s disease March 29, 2023 -- More than 40 experts and 13 institutions are collaborating on a five-year, $41 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging aimed at better understanding the biological pathways underlying Alzheimer’s disease.Read More
New insights into an old drug: Aspirin March 29, 2023 -- Recent discoveries about how aspirin works to reduce inflammation could lead to alternative medications with fewer side effects. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research was presented on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, held March 25-28 in Seattle.Read More
Rapid nirmatrelvir treatment may reduce long COVID risk March 24, 2023 -- A study of people with SARS-CoV-2 infection who had at least one risk factor for progression to severe disease found that treatment with nirmatrelvir within five days of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result was associated with reduced risk of post−COVID-19 condition, known as long COVID. The findings, published Thursday in JAMA Internal Medicine, held true across the risk spectrum in this cohort, regardless of vaccination status and history of prior infection.Read More
SomaLogic CEO steps down; Q4 revenue declines 18% March 31, 2023 -- Aptamer-based proteomics firm SomaLogic said after the close of the market on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter revenue declined 18% year over year, primarily due to the recognition of $1.9 million of licensing revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021.Read More
What to do when genetic tests reveal links to cardiovascular disease: Scientific statement March 27, 2023 -- Increased use of genetic testing means that people may discover they have an incidentally-found genetic abnormality, or gene variant, associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a scientific statement published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.Read More
Shared genetic markers linked with substance use disorders March 24, 2023 -- By combing through genomic data from more than one million people, scientists have identified genes commonly inherited across addiction disorders, regardless of the substance being used.Read More
At SLAS 2023, BioAuxilium Research announces expansion of TR-FRET technology portfolio March 1, 2023 -- BioAuxilium Research this week announced the expansion of its no-wash Thunder time-resolved Förster resonance energy transfer (TR-FRET) technology portfolio at the annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) International Conference and Exhibition in San Diego.Read More
Scientists create cell atlas of developing human lung December 9, 2022 -- Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, the Gordone Institute at the University of Cambridge, and collaborators have created a spatiotemporal cell atlas of the developing human lung. From the mapping, they have identified 144 cell states in the early stages of life and their interactions in new detail.Read More
Senescent neuron discovery in brains opens path for Alzheimer's drug development December 2, 2022 -- Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that neurons from people with Alzheimer's disease show deterioration and undergo a late-life stress process called cellular senescence, while senescent cells could be a way to slow neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.Read More