A parasite, largely thought to be asexual, has been shown to reproduce sexually after scientists uncover clues hidden in its genomic code. Trypanosoma cruzi is the parasite responsible for Chagas Disease, found in Latin America. Around eight million people are currently infected by the disease, which can cause irreversible damage to the heart and digestive tract...

Agilent Technologies Inc., has announced that its instruments and expertise contributed to a groundbreaking study commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin used gas and liquid chromatography instruments, along with high-resolution mass spectrometry systems—all from Agilent—to study to the strength-building characteristics of ecdysterone, the main component of spinach extracts....

Merck, a leading science and technology company, presented Professor David Alsteens (33), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLovain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium with the 2019 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference Euroanalysis at Istanbul University in Turkey. “With his groundbreaking investigations revealing the molecular mechanisms established by viruses to hijack the cellular barrier and enter the cell....

Batavia Biosciences announced that the company has signed a license agreement to utilize Horizon Discovery’s GS knockout CHO K1 cell line expression system for the development of high yield antibody-expressing cell lines. Initially, Batavia will deploy the system for production of a potent Zika virus neutralizing antibody, working in collaboration with....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Cedars-Sinai, a leading nonprofit academic healthcare organization, have entered into a collaboration to develop a pathway to precision medicine through the development of robust, reliable and sensitive liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based workflows for clinical research applications....

Agilent Technologies, Inc., has announced that Professor Hyun Joo An has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of her work in glycomics and biopharmaceutical applications. Dr. Hyun Joo An is a professor at the Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology, Chungnam National University, in Daejeon, South Korea....

NASA astronaut and physiologist James Pawelczyk will this week seek to address one of the profound questions vexing scientists and blocking our progress to colonize other planets: Does our human biology require Earth’s gravity to survive? All life we know evolved with Earth gravity. With plans for the first human base on the Moon in the next decade, and a Moon to Mars program to follow....

Plasmid purification from bacterial culture is a commonly performed protocol in molecular biology and life science laboratories. For medium preparations 15 mL conical tubes with screw caps are typically used which often pose handling drawbacks and don’t enable achieving optimal productivity of bacterial culture and maximal yields of DNA....

Researchers led by Prof. Johan Thevelein at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, have discovered that Saccharomyces boulardii, a yeast with probiotic properties, produces uniquely excessive amounts of acetic acid, the main component of vinegar. They were able to find the genetic basis for this trait, which allowed them to abolish the acetic acid production of the yeast....

Postnova Analytics has published a new application note that demonstrates the promise of Electrical Asymmetric Field Flow Fractionation (EAF4) technology for separation and characterization of nanoplastics in the environment. Nanoplastic particles have proven challenging to separate and characterize using traditional techniques such as dynamic light scattering or size exclusion chromatography...

BioCity, the pioneering life science incubator and business collective, has announced investment in precision medicine biotech, Kinomica Ltd., via the Innovate UK Precision Medicine Investment Accelerator. Spun out from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Kinomica Ltd is an early stage precision medicine biotech developing novel technologies for companion diagnostics...

Breakthrough research has revealed a new drug that may prevent the spread of malaria, and also treat people suffering with the deadly parasitic disease. The findings, which were delivered by an international team of scientists led by the University of Glasgow and published in Science, offer fresh hope in the global fight against malaria...

Join Markes International for the day on 25 September 2019 at the Manchester Hall, Manchester, for a free-to-attend workshop, and learn about the recent advances in VOC and SVOC sampling for GC–MS. Join peers and industry experts in the stunning 1920’s former Freemasons’ Hall to learn about recent innovations in VOC and SVOC sampling...

Testa Analytical Solutions e.K reports on the development and supply of key detector components for ACOMP, a smart manufacturing system by Fluence Analytics that continuously analyzes polymers during production. ACOMP is an automated monitoring system that produces real-time data about reaction kinetics and polymer properties, including....

From daily lotions that keep skin soft to moisturizers for a refreshing face wash, emulsions are synonymous with protecting and nourishing the skin. These cosmetic products are indispensable to many, and the science behind them is quite fascinating. When you successfully combine two or more fluids that usually don’t mix well together, you create an emulsion....

The DrySyn Spiral Evaporator from Asynt is enabling the Cresswell Group within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath (UK) to improve and streamline many aspects of their synthetic organic methods development. The research activities of the Cresswell Group are focused on new reaction development, and the exploitation of novel or underutilised reactivity....

Velabs Therapeutics, specializing in the fast generation of functional therapeutic antibodies, has announced that its cooperation with Chiome Bioscience, Inc., Tokyo, will be deepened, to jointly discover modulatory and functional antibodies for one of Chiome’s GPCR target genes. The collaboration will capitalize on Velabs’ microfluidics-based technology in the field of functional antibody screening....

The Research into Inflammatory Arthritis Centre Versus Arthritis (RACE) is a University of Glasgow-led collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, and Oxford, led by Prof Iain McInnes, Director of the University’s Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. Oxford is welcomed as the newest collaborating partner.....

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Dr. Gang Yu, a professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award. The award recognizes his contributions towards understanding the problems caused by emerging organic contaminants in water, and the development of solutions to combat these problems....