Production of recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for therapeutic use is a multibillion dollar industry. At present, mammalian cell lines are the workhorses of the biotechnology industry, due to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Scientists manipulating living cells face a fundamental challenge: working with thousands of samples at the nanoliter scale – volumes measured in billionths of a liter. At this ...

On 26 November, an experiment in a sounding rocket was launched at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, by a research group at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at ...

It's crazy to think of how far video games have come since the original Doom release in 1993. But, as iconic of a game as it is, what has even become more iconic than the game itself is getting it to ...

Snowflakes of yeast in a lab offer insights into how life on Earth transitioned from single-celled into multicellular organisms. By Veronique Greenwood In a lab in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells ...

New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a proof of concept for now. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A team of ...

All the living things that we can see evolved from those that we can’t. Every human, bird, tree, and flower can trace its ancestry across a few billion years back to microscopic, single-celled ...

If you think back to your high school biology classes, chances are you’ll have a rudimentary memory of photosynthesis. The process by which plants absorb light from the sun and use it – along with ...

Dan Worthley owns shares in GenCirq, a synthetic biology company focussed on cancer therapeutics. This work was supported by an NHMRC ideas grant (2020555) awarded to Dan Worthley. Dan Worthley is ...