Latest news about research and practice of biotechnology.
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet released the names of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The 2024 Nobel Prize…
Written by A. Hammouda: Over the last decade, there has been emerging interest in liquid biopsy as a powerful tool in the oncology field. Currently, it is the most innovative…
Written by A. Hammouda: After five years, more than 350,000 hours of genome sequencing, and over £200 million of investment, UK Biobank is releasing the world’s largest-by-far whole genome resource.…
Written by A. Hammouda: Mosquito-borne diseases pose a serious threat to public health worldwide. To prevent these diseases, effective mosquito control is essential. However, conventional methods of mosquito control have…
Written by A. Hammouda: VedaBio, has unlocked the true potential of CRISPR for molecular detection via the CRISPR Cascade™, a revolutionary platform derived from the intersection of engineering and biology.…
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet released today the names of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The assembly awarded the prize jointly to Katalin…
Written by A. Hammouda: A recent article in Nature Genetics showed that adenine base editing (ABE) is superior to CRISPR-Cas9 for fetal hemoglobin induction. Cas9 nuclease cuts the DNA at…
Written by A. Hammouda: Cancer is a group of diseases that can affect any part of the body. It is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Despite that,…
Written by Fazil Hussein: A recent article in Clinical Cancer Research brings good news, more personalized cancer therapy, for breast cancer patients testing HER2-positive. The researchers added a new way…
Written by Fazil Hussein: A recent article in Nature describes a draft for human pangenome. In this article, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) presents a first draft of the…
Written by Emil Luca: A new study in Annals of Internal Medicine shows that population genomic screening for three inherited conditions can save lives and money. The conditions are Lynch…
Written by A. Hammouda: Aging reversal was successful by epigenetic reprograming, according to a recent Cell article. This article summarizes the results of years of research on the epigenetic biological…
Written by A. Hammouda: The process of reversing aging may be possible. This is inferred from the results published lately in Cell Metabolism. Although the authors did not give a…
Written by Fazil Hussein: A new DNA diabetes marker augments the 10-year risk prediction of type 2 diabetes, according to news from Nature Aging. Diabetes mellitus is one of the…
Written by Fazil Hussein: A new Alzheimer’s marker detectable in the blood up to ten years prior to diagnosis was announced in a recent article. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) hits millions…
