Targeted Genetic Therapy Helps Pancreatic Cancer Patients
In Pennsylvania, researchers are using genomic profiling to help future treatment of pancreatic cancer, which is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in...
PETA will be happy to hear – No more animal testing thanks to organ...
In Massachusetts, scientists are putting working tiny models of organs, like livers and lungs, on tiny chips for human biology research. Looking more like...
Medication Making You Sicker? Blame Your Gut Bacteria!
In New York, your gut bacteria can directly affect how well your body absorbs and metabolizes medication. Research on a chemotherapy drug showed that...
Newly discovered microbe is a methane-producing menace
In Ohio, a study of Lake Erie by researchers at Ohio State University suggest underestimation of methane-producing microbes and the amount of methane being...
Get dirty to fight skin cancer – Dirt microbe kills melanoma cells
In Oregon, researchers at Oregon State University found that a type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, The molecule...
uBiome Awards Grant to Study Pregnant Women Genomics and Preterm Birth
In Massachusetts, Dr. Olaf Bodamer from Boston Children’s Hospital, who is known in pediatrics, biochemistry and human and molecular genetics, is using a newly...
Magic disappearing act comes to 3D printing using stereolithography and ionic salts
In Rhode Island, Brown University engineers demonstrated a technique for making 3D printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand, which can be useful in...
Genetic Analysis Indicates Why Breast Cancer Stem Cells Survive Chemotherapy
In Maryland, scientists have long known that breast cancer stem cells can survive chemotherapy, which is not good as those cells are usually in...
Workhouse Fungus Aspergillus More Diverse Than Originally Thought
An international team has sequenced ten Aspergillus species, more than doubling the number of the industrially important Aspergillus species that have been sequenced to...
Genomics Testing Speeds Up Foodborne Bacteria Research
In Georgia, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are using new genomics testing to...