Credit: Liudmyla Supynska/Getty Images Officials at India-based Syngene International, a CRDMO, report that the company executed site upgrades to accelerate drug discovery and development. The investments included a dedicated peptide…
Credit: Jezperklauzen / iStock / Getty Images Plus In a new study published in Cancer Cell titled, “Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest,” researchers from…
Credit: libre de droit / Getty Images Different variants of a gene, known as isoforms, can be transcribed and translated at varying levels within a cell or tissue. These isoforms…
John W. Weeks Bridge, Dunster House, Havard University, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, America Boston Uduak Thomas, Senior Editor at GEN, took a minute away from the talks, posters, and expo hall…
Human karyotype of Down syndrome. Autosomal abnormalities. Trisomy 21. Faulty brain circuits seen in Down syndrome may be caused by the lack of a particular molecule essential for the development…
The gut microbiome has been increasingly connected to a myriad of conditions, in part due to the metabolic output of the microbes in the gut. Studies have suggested that exposure…
Credit: nopparit / iStock / Getty Images Plus For decades, neuroscientists have debated whether synaptic vesicles “kiss-and-run” or do an irreversible “full collapse” when releasing neurotransmitters. Now, a team in…
The sensing principle of these sensors is straightforward: the molecular target or drug to be monitored (shown in green in the illustration above) can interact with a specific DNA molecule,…
Illumina campus A pair of presentations at this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics highlighted some of the latest capabilities from sequencing giant Illumina. At the…
mRNA molecule, illustration. In RNA molecules, the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) is located directly upstream of the start codon and plays a crucial role in post-transcriptional regulation by controlling RNA…