Tag: biotechnology
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RNA Therapy Helps Reduce Preeclampsia Symptoms
Experimental treatments with engineered RNA are shown in lab animals to reduce symptoms of preeclampsia, a disorder causing high blood pressure in pregnant women.
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Trial Shows Treatment Prevents Peanut Allergy Reactions
Final results from a clinical trial show a preventive treatment desensitizes children and adolescents with peanut allergies against reaction-causing proteins in peanuts for one year.
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Faster Crop Breeding Techniques Made Available to Other Scientists
Plant scientists in the U.K. and Australia are making available to their colleagues experimental techniques that speed-up breeding cycles for more commercial crop varieties.
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DNA-Encoded Synthetic Antibodies Protect Against Ebola
Synthetic antibodies derived from survivors of Ebola infections are shown to be quick and simple to develop, and in lab mice to provide long-term protection against against Ebola viruses.
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Biotechs to Develop Personal Cancer-Killing Virus Vaccines
Two biotechnology companies developing engineered viruses as cancer therapies plan to create personalized treatments for solid tumors with viruses that harness the immune system.
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RNA Therapeutics Company Raises $30M in First Venture Round
A company spun-off from a university biochemistry lab is raising $30 million to fund discovery of treatments targeting RNA, genetic material instructing protein production in cells.
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Nanotech Immunotherapy Reduces Heart Transplant Rejection
Proteins known to regulate immune cells, given as nanoscale particles, are shown in lab mice to encourage long-term acceptance of a transplanted heart.
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New Processes Devised to Boost Antibiotics
Researchers in chemistry at two institutions report new techniques that lab tests show modify current antibiotics to make them more effective against infections that resist today’s antibiotics.
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Synthetic DNA Company Raising $70 Million in IPO
A 5 year-old enterprise developing synthetic DNA for medical and agricultural chemicals, as well as data storage, is raising $70 million in its initial public stock offering.
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FDA Preparing Animal, Plant Biotech Regulatory Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration intends to issue new regulatory guidance to cover advances in biotechnology, including genome editing, in animals and plants.