HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spun out companies whose products treat cancer, diabetes, heart...
Scientists are describing a revolutionary new way to use sunlight to produce steam and other vapors without heating an entire container of fluid to the boiling point. The advance, reported in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal ACS Nano, has potential applications, especially in the poverty-stricken areas of the developing...
The study of proteins (which are found throughout every cell and tissue in the body) is of specific interest to scientists, as they are an integral part of most biological processes. Proteins are composed of amino acids chemically linked together, while shorter stretches of amino acids are commonly referred to...
FBI, a camera system that recognizes the genetic identity of fruit flies and track their movements will revolutionize the study of their behavior. An article on this advance is published in PLOS ONE.A genuine star of the laboratory, for several decades now the fruit fly has been the model organism...
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech Co., Ltd., a China-based infectious disease diagnostics company. The acquisition extends PerkinElmer's capabilities into nucleic acid blood screening and in the...
The Boston Biomedical Research Institute in Watertown has scheduled a pivotal vote this week on whether to shutter its operations for good. According to the Boston Globe, Wednesday’s vote comes amid continued financial pressure at the local life sciences research organization. The institute has been open for nearly five decades. “We’ve been...
LAHORE: Cotton leaf curl virus (CLCV) can now be cured with the help of biotechnology as a major breakthrough has been made in transferring modified genes to local varieties, said official sources here on Friday. A team of local scientists in collaboration with Canadian experts have developed a CLCV-resistant cotton plant...
LOS ANGELES — California voters have rejected a closely watched ballot measure that would have made the state the first in the nation to require the labeling of foods made from genetically modified crops. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, the measure was defeated, 47 percent to 53 percent, according...
"This election will be the food movement’s moment of truth, says Michael Pollan" Biotechnology was supposed to trigger a food revolution: Higher crop yields and the end of world hunger. Or so promised once-chemical producer Monsanto, now the mother of all agricultural biotechnology companies. But 20 years on, conventional methods of...
An older medication originally approved to treat heart problems eases pain and stiffness from a very rare muscle disease, a new study reports. The findings are good news not only for the relatively small number of people around the world estimated to have the disease—nondystrophic myotonia—but also for many other...