SPT Labtech and 10x Genomics have partnered to provide automated workflows for single cell research. The collaboration will allow scientists to scale experiments on 10x’s Chromium Single Cell platform, with…
Plasmidsaurus has launched a new RNA-Seq service for Illumina short read applications, bringing the same approach they use for plasmid sequencing to gene expression analysis. Attendees at this week’s ASHG…
MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, reports that Merck KGaA signed a definitive agreement to acquire the chromatography business of JSR Life Sciences,…
New research led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science points to astrocytes as the brain cells responsible for long-term learning and memory. In a new Nature paper,…
Phages (blue) replicating inside a bacterial pathogen. Although it well known that the human gut contains a large and diverse array of bacteriophages, a functional understanding of the phage–host interactions…
Credit: Skodonnell/Getty Images Artificial intelligence’s (AI) predictive capabilities will help the vaccine industry optimize manufacturing, reduce production costs, and increase patient access to lifesaving jabs. That, at least, is the…
Scientists use AI to process and analyze scientific data in the laboratory. Artificial Intelligence and science technology. In an age defined by the convergence of life sciences, artificial intelligence (AI),…
Scientists based in New York have developed a new technique for removing impurities from mRNA therapies. The researchers, from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), found that their regenerated cellulose (RC)…
Nearly 600 cell lines commonly used in biomedical research today are misidentified or cross-contaminated, according to a recent paper and several additional studies. One estimates that nearly 33,000 studies have…
Planarian flatworms pictured in the Stowers Institute’s planarian facility. A recent discovery from Stowers scientists may help explain the flatworm’s extraordinary ability to regenerate—and could offer clues for developing new…