Biologically Inspired Engineering, synbio, synthetic biology, crispr
There are 37 trillion or so cells in our bodies that work together to give us life. But it may surprise you that we still haven’t put a good number on how many distinct cell types there are within those trillions of cells. That’s why in 2016 a team of researchers from around the globe … Read more
It is inspiring to see evidence that the pace of innovation is narrowing the time between scientific curiosity and engineered scaling, leading to potential real world impacts within just a few years. One example is Sherlock Biosceinces. Its CRISPR-based SHERLOCK™ and synthetic biology-based INSPECTR™ will bring together the accuracy of PCR with the convenience and … Read more
To learn how something works is to understand how it’s built. How it came to be. That’s true not only if you play a guitar or repair motorcycle engines, but also if you study the biological systems that make life possible. Evolutionary studies, comparing the development of these systems across animals and organisms, are now … Read more
Today, Pfizer Inc. and Beam Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, announced an exclusive four-year research collaboration focused on in vivo base editing programs for three targets for rare genetic diseases of the liver, muscle and central nervous system. Investors should note Pfizer will pay Beam $300 million up … Read more
Mayo Clinic research shows treatment improvement by adding messenger RNA, or mRNA therapy improves the response to cancer immunotherapy in patients who weren’t responding to the treatment. Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to prevent, control and eliminate cancer. The study is published in Cancer Immunology Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer … Read more
Arc Institute is a nonprofit research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Arc is an independent institute that operates in collaboration with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. According to Arc, biomedical innovation in areas such as mRNA technology, gene editing, and cell therapies suggest that historic … Read more
Proteins are often called the workhorses of cells, the machinery that makes cells go. They act as key players in the many chemical reactions constantly occurring in cells, collect cellular garbage, provide structure, repair damaged DNA, and much more. But individual proteins rarely act on their own. Instead, like molecular LEGO bricks, they join together … Read more
Strand Therapeutics, a privately held biotech company developing next-generation, programmable mRNA therapeutics beyond vaccines, announced last week that the company was awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy … Read more
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. The immune system helps your body fight infections and other diseases. It is made up of white blood cells and organs and tissues of the lymph system. Cancer immunotherapy is sometimes referred to as immuno-oncology. Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy. … Read more
Researchers in gynecologic oncology have begun testing a promising surgery for premenopausal women at high genetic risk for ovarian cancer that avoids early menopause and may prevent these malignancies from developing. Studies have shown that most ovarian cancers actually begin to grow from cancer cells that developed in the fallopian tubes. This trial is testing … Read more