When magnified, our mundane everyday world attains a sense of magic. And it also adds a bit of perspective about our own place in the universe.
Meet Dr. Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He. Their tiny zebrafish video just won first prize in t…
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uBiome is jumping into therapeutics with a healthy $83 million in Series C financing
23andMe, IBM and now uBiome is the next tech company to jump into the lucrative multi-billion dollar drug discovery market. The company started out with a consumer gut health test to check whether your intestines carry the right kind of bacteria for healthy digestion but has since expanded to include over 250,000 samples for everything […]
View More uBiome is jumping into therapeutics with a healthy $83 million in Series C financingAs biological manufacturing moves to the mainstream, Synvitrobio rebrands and raises cash
The pace at which the scientific breakthroughs working to bend the machinery of life to the whims of manufacturing have transformed into real businesses has intensified competition in the biomanufacturing market. That’s just one reason why Synvitrobio is rebranding as it takes on $2.6 million in new financing to pursue opportunities in biopharmaceutical and biochemical manufacturing. […]
View More As biological manufacturing moves to the mainstream, Synvitrobio rebrands and raises cash23andMe might soon offer a more comprehensive $749 DNA service
23andMe is testing a $749 “premium” service for deeper health insights, according to several customers who saw a test page for the new product and posted about it on Reddit. First spotted by CNBC, the company served up a test web page to several customers telling them about a service that would allow them to […]
View More 23andMe might soon offer a more comprehensive $749 DNA serviceHP is ‘printing’ drugs for the CDC to speed up antibiotic testing
At least 2 million people in the U.S. become infected with so-called “super bugs” and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Now, HP’s Biohacker technology is working with the CDC on a pilot program to “print” and test antibiotics […]
View More HP is ‘printing’ drugs for the CDC to speed up antibiotic testingImplantable 3D printed organs could be coming sooner than you think
At MBC Biolabs, an incubator for biotech startups in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, a team of scientists and interns working for the small startup Prellis Biologics have just taken a big step on the path toward developing viable 3D printed organs for humans. The company, which was founded in 2016 by research scientists Melanie Matheu […]
View More Implantable 3D printed organs could be coming sooner than you thinkThat beluga whale certainly doesn’t have legs. Here’s what it does have.
Beluga whales aren’t hiding legs under their thick, rubbery skin. But a popular image of a surfacing beluga has for years created the curious illusion of a whale with legs and knees.
The image, which excites the web from time to time, has recen…
Researchers recreate a brain, piece by piece
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a method for growing and connecting single neurons using geometric patterns to route the neurons more precisely, cell by cell. The article, “Assembly and Connection of Micropatterned Single Neurons for Neuronal Network Formation,” appeared in Micromachines, a journal of molecular machinery. Thus far researchers have created simple […]
View More Researchers recreate a brain, piece by pieceAllen Integrated Cell is a powerful tool for visualizing biology in 3D
What does a cell look like? If you had to draw one, you’d probably do the usual thing: a sort of fried egg with a nucleus yolk and a couple ribosomes peppered around, maybe a rough endoplasmic reticulum if you’re fancy. But cells are vastly more complicated than that, not to mention 3-dimensional. Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.
View More Allen Integrated Cell is a powerful tool for visualizing biology in 3DMammoth Biosciences launches a CRISPR-powered search engine for disease detection
Most people tend to think of CRISPR as a groundbreaking gene-editing technology that can hunt down and snip away bits of DNA, like the cut and paste function on a keyboard. While many research projects tend to emphasize the potential of that process in replacing target bits of genetic material, for Mammoth Biosciences, the search […]
View More Mammoth Biosciences launches a CRISPR-powered search engine for disease detectionThe genomics-focused Illumina Accelerator backs five new companies
Illumina Accelerator, the genomics-focused startup accelerator backed by the publicly traded genetic sequencing pioneer Illumina Corp., has picked five startups for its seventh accelerator class, the company announced. Wth technology addressing skin microbial therapeutics, fertility science, chronic disease alleviation, post traumatic stress disorder treatments, and services for the biopharmaceutical and clinical research industries; the startups […]
View More The genomics-focused Illumina Accelerator backs five new companiesAll-star team of synthetic biologists raise $53 million for cancer therapy startup Senti
A who’s-who from the world of synthetic biological research have come together to launch Senti Biosciences with $53 million in funding from a slew of venture capital investors. Led by Tim Lu, a longtime researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the founding fathers of synthetic biology, Senti’s aim is nothing less than developing therapies that are tailored… Read More