Month: August 2019

Increasingly complex brain organoids raise question of consciousness […]

TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Axiom Real-Time Metrics (?Axiom?), premier provider of unified eClinical solutions and services is supporting and exhibiting at an event today showcasing ?Women Breaking the Barriers of Science & Their M… […]

LA JOLLA?Iron is essential for plant growth, but with heavy rainfall and poor aeration, many acidic soils become toxic with excess iron. In countries with dramatic flood seasons, such as in West Africa and tropical Asia, toxic iron levels can have dire… […]

LA JOLLA?The Salk Institute announced today that The Kavli Foundation has committed $3 million to support ongoing neuroscience research at Salk as part of the joint UCSD-Salk Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind (KIBM). The gift?matched by an additional … […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONCT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing potential first-in-class product candidates for cancers with critical unmet medical needs, today announced the appointment of Fra… […]

Infections caused by the hepatitis B virus, which attacks the liver, are typically treated with drugs that keep the virus from making ever more copies of itself. However, because those treatments reduce but don?t eliminate the virus, patients have to t… […]

Hundreds of millions more possible to Ionis if drugs reach milestones […]

LA JOLLA?Your immune system comes ready for battle against bacteria, viruses, fungi and even cancer. But in cases of autoimmune disease, the immune system?s superpowers turn it into a supervillain. Now, Salk Institute scientists have discovered a way t… […]

Experts on Alzheimer’s talk with public at Date With A Cure forum […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BioXp–SGI-DNA announces the launch of the Multi-Tile Assembly Cloning (MTAC) application for its BioXp? 3200 System, providing scientists with the ability to synthesize two genes and clone them with an optional constant fr… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BayArea–Biocom, the association representing the California life science industry, today announced that it has added Judy Chou, Ph.D., senior vice president and global head of biotech/Berkeley site head, Bayer, Emad Fareed… […]

Remember the simpler times of the mid-2010s, when you could order a latte or cocktail in California without the option of adding CBD? For Justin Gover, CEO of British drugmaker GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH), society?s sudden embrace of cannabidiol … […]

LA JOLLA?The ability to edit genes in living organisms offers the opportunity to treat a plethora of inherited diseases. However, many types of gene-editing tools are unable to target critical areas of DNA, and creating such a technology has been diffi… […]

Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. Now, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a four-year grant totaling nearly half a million dollars to Sanford Burnham Prebys to find medicines that could help people repair damaged hea… […]

LA JOLLA?Star-shaped cells called astrocytes help the brain establish long-lasting memories, Salk researchers have discovered. The new work adds to a growing body of evidence that astrocytes, long considered to be merely supportive cells in the brain, … […]

Genomic travel-tracking should become standard method for monitoring dangerous infections such as Zika, study recommends […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlueNalu, a leading innovative food company producing seafood directly from fish cells, announced today its commercialization strategy and food facility design schematics for large-scale production. This is the first time th… […]