Video from AACC: Enzo BioChem CEO on COVID-19 test landscape Enzo BioChem develops diagnostic tests and provides testing in centers throughout New York and its surrounding areas. CEO Hamid Erfanian spoke to us at AACC 2022 about the changes he sees in the in vitro diagnostics landscape as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.Read More
Video from AACC: AACC president on Theranos, VALID Act Dr. Stephen Master, president of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, provided his thoughts about the main highlights of the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo held this week in Chicago.Read More
Linus survey finds top two techniques or applications in life sciences R&D A new survey of scientists finds that the top two techniques or applications in life sciences research and development (R&D) are CRISPR/cell-line engineering and artificial intelligence/machine learning-enabled bioinformatics when it comes to driving scientific advancements.Read More
Production technique clears barrier to widespread study of intestinal organoids The aggregation of cells removes variability from the production of small intestinal organoids, clearing a major hurdle to the widespread use of the technologies as a research tool for studying the digestive system, according to a paper published July 28 in Stem Cell Reports.Read More
Lipid in cell membrane of gut bacterium linked to effects on immunity Researchers have found a lipid in the cell membrane of Akkermansia muciniphila that is responsible for the effect of a gut-resident bacterium on immune processes, with the potential to develop drugs that fight disease by piggybacking on the molecular mechanism.Read More
Video from AACC: Cloud-connected point-of-care diagnostics Lonnie Adelman, CEO and founder of iAssay, and Dean Wong, investor and advisor to the firm, talked to LabPulse.com (sister site of ScienceBoard.net) about the importance of cloud-connected point-of-care diagnostics, which enables the testing of people wherever they are and the conservation of data from testing.Read More
Video from AACC: Reducing sequencing complexity Clear Labs Chief Commercial Officer Jeff Field and Director of Assay Development Prasanna Thwar sat down with LabPulse.com (sister site of ScienceBoard.net) to discuss the launch of a platform that makes DNA sequencing easier by integrating robotic automation and cloud-based computing.Read More