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Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and colleagues have developed a strategy that uses exosomes - tiny membrane-bound sacs secreted by cells - to mimic the heart-regenerating effects of cardiac cell transplants, while...

Codiak BioSciences, a clinical-stage company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics as a new class of medicines...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome...

Three proof-of-concept prototypes seek to make contactless ‘acoustic tweezer’ technology available to a wide array of laboratories Three proof of concept experimental setups that use acoustic tweezers in...

The Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer Consortium (BloodPAC) published “Generic Protocols for the Analytical Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based ctDNA Assays: A Joint Consensus Recommendation of the BloodPAC’s Analytical Variables Working Group,” in the September 2020 issue of Clinical Chemistry. Developed by consortium members, the ...

In 2018, one-half of the Nobel Prize was awarded to Arthur Ashkin, the physicist who developed optical tweezers, the use of a tightly focused laser beam to isolate and move micron-scale objects (the size of...

Mursla, a liquid biopsy company, has raised £410K from the UK Government’s Future Fund and existing investors. In addition, the organisation has secured a £40K COVID-19 grant from the Cambridgeshire Capital Grant Scheme. The funding will enable Mursla to finalise ...

A research team at LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) discovered that tumour-derived extracellular vesicles promote liver cancer metastasis. The novel findings of the tumour-derived extracellular vesicles provide insights into...

MU researchers identify novel RNAs that could serve as biomarkers for early disease detection. Pancreatic cancer is rarely detected at its early stages because symptoms often do not present themselves until after the cancer has progressed. By then, invasive procedures ...

Laura Perin, PhD, and Stefano Da Sacco, PhD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, investigate how diseases affect kidney cells at a molecular level. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases have awarded Dr. ...