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Published on May 14, 2019
VIEW NOW Broadcast Date: June 26, 2019Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CET Protein structure must be studied in its native cellular environment, otherwise, we risk overlooking the molecular crowding effects that new mass spectrometry (MS) based structural methods reveal about protein architecture in intact cells and cell…
Published on April 29, 2019
Colon cancer ranks third in prevalence and fourth in cancer deaths among all cancers worldwide. However, due to its extreme heterogeneity, progress has been slow towards precision diagnostics and treatments. The National Cancer Institute’s Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, embarked upon a mission…
Published on April 18, 2019
Statistics can be a great tool for analyzing datasets and it can also be a sobering means to provide a stark reality. For instance, recent data suggests that approximately every three minutes one person in the United States is diagnosed with some form of blood cancer. While this statistic shows…
Published on November 20, 2018
A €50 million ($53.6 million) 10-year grant from the LEO Foundation will be used to establish the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center based at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, to convene international researchers in skin immunology and skin diseases to enable better diagnoses and more effective treatments of a…
Published on November 14, 2018
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has launched the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, a research center designed to marry computational biology and experimental biology Computational biologist Yi Xing, Ph.D., leads the center, which includes the approximately 20-member laboratory team that he relocated over the summer from the University of California,…
Published on November 2, 2018
A stubborn, mountainous peak kept appearing in the lab’s mass spectrometry analyses. “We had absolutely no idea what it was,” recalled Stephen Barnes, Ph.D., director of the Targeted Metabolomics and Proteomics Laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He suspected a contaminant. At the time in 2010, however, small…
Published on September 13, 2018
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) School of Medicine revealed that the exosomes (extracellular vesicles) that contain programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), released by melanoma cells, are found far beyond the tumor microenvironment and could be purified from the plasma of patients. James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D.,…
Published on August 24, 2018
Bruker said today it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Hain Lifescience for an undisclosed price, in a deal that aligns with the buyer’s goals of expanding its presence in the infectious disease and molecular diagnostics markets. Based in Nehren, Germany, Hain is a developer of infectious disease…
Published on August 21, 2018
Caprion Biosciences said today it has acquired Primity Bio for an undisclosed price, in a deal designed to expand the buyer’s immunology and molecular profiling service offering, as well as its ability to support its clients worldwide. Based in Fremont, CA, Primity is a provider of flow cytometry services with…
Published on August 16, 2018
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) School of Medicine revealed that the exosomes (extracellular vesicles) that contain programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), released by melanoma cells, are found far beyond the tumor microenvironment and could be purified from the plasma of patients. James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D.,…
Published on August 6, 2018
Scientists at Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) have identified a new mechanism used by Henipaviruses in infection, and potential new targets for antivirals to treat them. The researchers believe their findings may also apply to other dangerous viruses. Henipaviruses are among the deadliest of viruses and have no effective treatments, according…
Published on July 19, 2018
Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a collaboration center in Cambridge, MA, focused on advancing the company’s precision medicine efforts with companies and medical centers by offering them access to advanced “omics” technologies and expertise to help them translate biomarker discoveries into new assays. Thermo Fisher says its U.S. Precision Medicine…
Published on July 9, 2018
Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) say they have adapted an existing technique to study the melting behavior of proteins so that it can be used for the study of bacteria. Antibiotic resistance is spreading worldwide so there is a strong need for new technologies to study bacteria, according to…
Published on June 20, 2018
Cell lineages that culminate in mammary gland development may also lead to breast cancer. Although these lineages, as well as the stem cells and progenitor cells they comprise, have been subjected to extensive study, the perturbations of these lineages that increase the risk of breast cancer have remained obscure, frustrating…
Published on June 6, 2018
BOSTON—Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a collaboration center in neighboring Cambridge, MA, focused on advancing the company’s precision medicine efforts with companies and medical centers by offering them access to advanced “omics” technologies and expertise to help them translate biomarker discoveries into new assays. Thermo Fisher says its U.S. Precision…