MDR: an integrative DNA N6-methyladenine and N4-methylcytosine modification database for Rosaceae
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High tunnels for specialty crops: The hope and the hinderance
Study gains a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high tunnels for specialty crops
Credit: Full Hand Farm
First Gene Therapy for Beta Thalassemia Will Cost Over €1.5M
Zynteglo, a gene therapy developed by the US company bluebird bio for the treatment of beta-thalassemia, will cost European healthcare systems more than €1.5M per patient.
Following the approval of the treatment earlier this month,...
How do engineers form subjective opinions from objective data?
Credit: Virginia Tech
Think of any engineered system or product on the market. The decision for that system or product to be operational was made by an...
French Biotech Raises €20M to Prevent Hearing Loss
The hearing loss biotech Sensorion has issued bonds to raise €20M, which it will use to fund the phase II development for first-in-class drugs treating hearing loss and severe vertigo.
The money will pay for...
Causal association between excess body fat and cardiovascular disease
Using a method called Mendelian randomisation, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that there is a causal association between high BMI and several heart and blood vessel diseases, especially if the fat mass is high....
Rheumatoid arthritic pain could be caused by antibodies
Antibodies that exist in the joints before the onset of rheumatoid arthritis can cause pain even in the absence of arthritis, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report. The researchers believe that the finding,...
Three-dimensional microenvironmental priming of human mesenchymal stem cells in hydrogels facilitates efficient and rapid...
Synthesis of photocrosslinkable polymers
Methacrylated HA (MAHA) was synthesized as previously reported25. Briefly, to prepare MAHA with a degree of substitution (DS) of 50%, methacrylic anhydride (8 mL, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) was added to a...
Special fibroblasts help pancreatic cancer cells evade immune detection
Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL 2019
Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Mostly chemoresistant, PDAC...
IDT unveils latest additions to NGS portfolio at European Human Genetics Conference
Jun 13 2019
As part of its ongoing mission to advocate for researchers in the genomics age, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) will unveil the latest additions to its NGS catalog to the European market at...
