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Kidney organoids reveal new insights into polycystic kidney disease

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have successfully grown ‘mini kidneys’ or kidney organoids in the lab and grafted them into live mice, revealing new insights into the metabolic defects and a potential therapy for polycystic kidney disease.

RheoSense initium one plus

RheoSense’s automated initium one plus viscometer tests 96 micro-volume samples in less than 24 hours

RheoSense’s flagship automated viscometer, the initium one plus, has an exciting new update. The versatile automated viscometer has been revamped to reach an impressive new throughput threshold.

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Celonic offers biotech companies use of new GS-CHOvolution cell line expression system

Celonic has signed a commercial license agreement with Revvity for its CHOSOURCE expression platform and TnT transposon technology. The Revvity expression platform will be used in combination with Celonic’s expertise and workflows to enhance the cell line development of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and complex proteins.

Thermo Fisher OpTmizer One

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces animal origin-free formulation to support scaling of cell therapy manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Gibco CTS OpTmizer One Serum-Free Medium (CTS OpTmizer One SFM), a novel animal origin-free (AOF) formulation designed specifically for clinical and commercial cell therapy manufacturing to deliver increased scalability and performance of T cell expansion. As a result, cell therapy manufacturers can use CTS OpTmizer One SFM to help […]

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APOE genotype

By Dr Jacqueline Gosink A risk factor for adverse effects from anti-amyloid therapy in Alzheimer’s disease

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Ketamine

Aggregating clinical use and purposeful laboratory monitoring By Nicholas Armfield Ketamine is gaining attention as an analgesic, antidepressant and as a treatment for refractory status epilepticus. Ongoing support from the clinical laboratory is improving patient monitoring and increasing our understanding of ketamine as a clinical therapeutic. Low-dose intravenous and a relative high volume of distribution […]

integrity of science in the age of generative AI

Scientific community in the United States calls for safeguarding integrity of science in the age of generative AI

In a groundbreaking move, a panel of leading experts across academia, industry, and government has issued a call to the scientific community to uphold the core values and norms of science amid the revolutionary advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) through the establishment of a Strategic Council on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in […]

New AI language model nach0 bridges biomedical text and chemical data

Researchers from Insilico Medicine and NVIDIA have developed a novel large language model (LLM) called nach0 that can understand and generate both biomedical text and chemical structural data.

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How Shimadzu is simplifying your compliance workload for the new IVD regulation!

What is the New EU In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR)?