Are Your Genes Literally Keeping You Up At Night? Researchers Say They Might Be!
In New York, researchers at Rockefeller University say your genetic makeup can actually be keeping you awake at night. Due to a newly discovered...
Ditch the Bug-B-Gone, More bugs means healthier homes
In North Carolina, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, North Carolina State University and the Natural History Museum of Denmark found that the...
Largest ever collection of patient data of inherited epilepsy conditions gives hope
In the United Kingdom, researchers from Swansea University Medical School joined up with five other centers from around the world to compile the biggest...
New Genes Found Linked to Autism Can Offer Hope for Better Treatment Options
In Canada, researchers analyzed the genomes from more than 5,000 people and found the usual 43 genes that have shown up in prior studies,...
Monsanto Growth Ventures invests $25M in Pairwise Plants gene editing company
In California, Pairwise Plants closed a $25M Series A financing co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures, the venture capital arm of Monsanto...
Boost Biomes Launches With $2.05M to Develop Microbiome-Based Products
In California, Boost Biomes closed a $2.05M seed round, led by Nimble Ventures and Viking Global Investors and including other participants such as Tencent,...
Bacteria linked to brain’s memory function
In Washington, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that the type of bacteria and microbes we have in our guts can affect...
Four New Infection Fighting Blood Cells Discovered Using Genomics
In Massachusetts, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used new single-cell genetic techniques to discover four new types of while blood cells that...
Soil microbiome leads to discovery of new antibiotics
In New York, Rockefeller University researchers found and categorized a new class of antibiotics they call malacidins found in soil microbiomes that are active...
First global atlas of soil-dwelling bacteria compiled
In Colorado, University of Colorado, Boulder researchers compiled the first global atlas of soil bacterial communities and identified a group of around 500 key...