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Steroid Panel LC-MS and Resolvex® A200

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Researchers in Japan establish novel culture system to grow HSCs in the lab

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are important immature blood cells in bone marrow that can be triggered to develop into any blood cell type. HSC transplants can be used to treat conditions where bone marrow is damaged and no longer able to produce healthy blood cells, but the widespread and safe use of HSCs is limited […]

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‘Glow-in-the-dark’ proteins could help diagnose viral diseases

Despite recent advancements, many highly sensitive diagnostic tests for viral diseases still require complicated techniques to prepare a sample or interpret a result, making them impractical for point-of-care settings or areas with few resources. But now, a team reporting in ACS Central Science < http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.2c01467 > has developed a sensitive method that analyzes viral nucleic […]

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WHO warns time running out to bring new antibiotics to market

A review from WHO on the number of new antibiotics currently in the pipeline shows that just 12 new antibiotics have entered the market in the five years from 2017-21. And there are far too few (just 27) under development in clinical trials against pathogens considered critical by WHO such as Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas […]

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Researchers develop enzyme ‘atlas’ to help decipher cellular pathways

One of the most important classes of human enzymes are protein kinases – signalling molecules that regulate nearly all cellular activities, including growth, cell division, and metabolism. Dysfunction in these cellular pathways can lead to a variety of diseases, particularly cancer.

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Roche releases two new antibodies to identify key clinical mutations in patients with brain cancer

Roche has introduced the IDH1 R132H (MRQ-67) Rabbit Monoclonal Primary Antibody and the ATRX Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody to identify mutation status in patients diagnosed with brain cancer.

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TransCure bioServices delivers CDX mouse models to advance AML preclinical studies

TransCure bioServices has developed cell line-derived xenograft (CDX) mouse models that will change how researchers tackle the preclinical studies of cancer therapies to treat acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). These models enable deeper insights into the efficacy and toxicity of AML therapies, leading to the development of better treatments and bringing hope to the thousands of […]

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PerkinElmer launches fast, sensitive EnVison Nexus multimode plate reader

PerkinElmer has launched the EnVision Nexus system, its fastest and most sensitive multimode plate reader to date, designed for demanding high-throughput screening (HTS) applications and to accelerate drug discovery efforts. The EnVision Nexus platform, with complementary microplates and optimized reagents from PerkinElmer’s drug discovery reagents portfolio, including proprietary HTRF and AlphaLISA technologies and latest reagent […]

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FDA clears ‘Selux NGP System’ for rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

Selux Diagnostics, a biotech startup in Boston whose mission is to combat superbug infections and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its proprietary Next Generation Phenotyping (NGP) System – a rapid antibiotic susceptibility (AST) testing platform that provides targeted therapeutic results days faster than the […]

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CN Bio’s new PhysioMimix single-organ HT system enables scalable drug discovery workflows

CN Bio, a leading organ-on-a-chip (OOC) company that designs and manufactures single- and0 multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has launched their PhysioMimix single-organ Higher Throughput (HT) system. The company’s first HT system has been designed to overcome adoption barriers currently limiting the use of predictive human liver models within drug discovery workflows, to enable use within […]