It could help patients regain movement by targeting brain rhythms.
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OBT and Roche join forces for antibody-based cancer treatments
Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) has entered a multi-year partnership with Roche to discover antibody-based therapeutics for cancer treatment.
The partnership will leverage OBT’s OGAP-Verify discovery platform, which claims to offer greater sensitivity and enables target selection with enhanced drug development attributes.
OBT has entered a multi-year partnership with Roche to discover antibody-based therapeutics for cancer treatment.
Optimizing Whole Genome Sequencing Library Preparation
In addition, traditional techniques do not allow researchers to optimally handle diverse sample types, including DNA samples from common sources such as saliva, blood, or formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. Such relative inflexibility limits the ability of scientists to efficiently compare sequencing results between different samples from the same individual as well as between different individuals, further complicating downstream data collection and reliability.
Library preparation kits that are designed to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of WGS workflows are a welcome addition to the sequencing repertoires of laboratory scientists engaged in cutting-edge and scalable translational research. Importantly, the versatility, adaptability, and turnaround time of novel library preparation solutions have the power to standardize protocols, eliminate workflow bottlenecks, preserve resources, and uncover new opportunities. Overall, preparation kits that have built-in adaptability to the inherent variability of WGS protocols enable more straightforward optimization and better results than traditional approaches.
Covaris’s truCOVER WGS PCR-free Library Prep Kit is a versatile, cutting-edge solution that addresses the inherent complexity of WGS workflows using a rapid, reliable, reproducible, efficient, and cost-effective approach. The kit enables adaptable PCR-free library preparation from different types of samples, including saliva, blood, and FFPE for a wide range of downstream sequencing workflow applications. The truCOVER kit streamlines library preparation processes by eradicating rate-limiting obstacles such as fragmentation bias and eliminating the need for PCR-based quality control steps.
DeepCeres: AI-driven software redefines cerebellum research with detailed imaging
A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has developed the world’s most advanced software to study the human cerebellum using high-resolution NMR images.
Called DeepCeres, this software will help in the research and diagnosis of diseases such as ALS, schizophrenia, autism and Alzheimer’s, among others. The work of the Spanish and French researchers has been published in the journal NeuroImage.
Despite its small size compared to the rest of the brain, the cerebellum contains approximately 50% of all brain neurons and plays a fundamental role in cognitive, emotional and motor functions.
Scientists Create Microscopic Algae Robots With Incredible Swimming Abilities
Magnetized algae micro swimmers retain speed and maneuverability, showing promise for targeted drug delivery in confined biological environments. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart has developed a biohybrid microswimmer coated with magn
DNA From Beethoven’s Hair Reveals Surprise Nearly 200 Years Later
One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.
LncRNA: Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)
Long non-coding RNAs (long ncRNAs,) are a type of RNA, generally defined as transcripts more than 200 nucleotides that are not translated into protein.
Long non-coding transcripts are found in many species.
LncRNAs are extensively reported to be involved in transcriptional regulation, and epigenetic regulation.
Long non coding RNA has been proven to be associated with multiple diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, rheumatic diseases, cancer etc.
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