“MUST READ”
The Parasite Underground When
Vik was in his late 20s, blood started appearing in his stool. He found himself
rushing to the bathroom as many as nine times a day, and he quit his job at a
software company. He received a diagnosis of severe ulcerativ…
DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
Scientists Hope to Cultivate
an Immune System for Crops The world’s crops face a vast army of enemies, from
fungi to bacteria to parasitic animals. Farmers have deployed pesticides to
protect their plants, but diseases continue to ruin a sizable por…
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Scientists Find Form of Crispr
Gene Editing With New Capabilities Just a few years ago, Crispr was a cipher —
something that sounded to most ears like a device for keeping lettuce fresh.
Today, Crispr-Cas9 is widely known as a powerful way to edit g…
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Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Still-Busy Life After Crispr Emmanuelle
Charpentier — one of three scientists credited with starting
the gene editing revolution — willingly turned her life over to science.
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Cloning Methods: 5 Different
Ways to Assemble Over the past few decades molecular biologists have developed
procedures to simplify and standardize cloning processes, allowing vast arrays
of artificial DNA structures to be more easily assembled. Are …
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- Sometimes it seems easier to hire a detective than to order a specific antibody,” concludes an overview of antibody portals5.
‘Liquid’ Cancer Test Offers
Hope for Alternative to Painful Biopsies CHICAGO — A blood test to detect
cancer mutations produced results that generally agree with those of an
invasive tumor biopsy, researchers reported, heralding a time when diagnosi…
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COMPANIES
Investors Look to Improving
Response Time of Global Life Science Reagents Market against Increased Disease
Prevalence A new research report pegs the global life science reagents market
at US$25.73 bn in 2019. The market will be able to achieve this …
SciQuest Set to go Private in
$509M Deal with Accel-KKR Software firm SciQuest is set to go private again in
a cash deal that values the company at about $509 million. Private equity firm
Accel-KKR is paying $17.75 per share to acquire all of the co…
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
Think millennials have it
tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher After our in-depth
investigation of the issues faced by young adults, Noreena Hertz takes a look
at the lives of today’s teenagers, after interviewing 2,000 of them in the pas…
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