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The life science industry is continually making advancements in every area! We want to know what cool science innovations are currently in progress and the professionals behind them.
There is a tendency to look at biotech as being all about developing drugs. And, of course, that is the primary focus of BioSpace. However, from time to time it’s a good idea to remind ourselves that biotech can and does have broader applications besides medicines, and can, in fact, impact our daily lives on a regular basis.
Stephen Quake, a Stanford University bioengineer and inventor, recently shared several years’ worth of email communications between himself and He with The New York Times.
Tapping into the unique nature of DNA, Cornell engineers have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
One of the many tricks the AIDS virus, HIV, uses to proliferate so aggressively is it hides from the body’s immune system. Until now, this has largely been a mystery.
April 11 is World Parkinson’s Day, designed to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease of the nervous system that affects movement.
There are a lot of ways to kill viruses, but it’s not that easy to kill them in the air. For the most part, if you want to prevent viruses from infecting someone, or from entering a room, for example, you use a face mask or air filters.
Researchers with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have had promising results with a cancer vaccine in an early-stage clinical trial. They published their work in the journal Nature Medicine.
Bionovate Technologies, Corp. announced that during the last fiscal year’s reporting period, it acquired a patent from Ramot University in Tel Aviv, Israel as part of the company’s strategy to develop non-invasive cancer imaging and identification systems.
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