What is new in Biotech
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Filter made from squid bone could be the solution to microplastics
1.1.2025 | Press monitoring
Sadly, we know that microplastics are getting everywhere, including our drinking water – but researchers have developed a new way to tackle the problem: a filter made of a rather unusual combination of material, which is able to remove up to 99.9 percent of tiny plastic fragments from water. The researchers, led by a team from Wuhan University in...
Growing safer spuds: Removing toxins from potatoes
30.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Scientists have discovered a way to remove toxic compounds from potatoes, making them safer to eat and easier to store. The breakthrough could cut food waste and enhance crop farming in space and other extreme environments. Potato plants naturally produce chemicals that protect them from insects. The chemicals, called steroidal glycoalkaloids, or...
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Stem cells instructed to form specific tissues and organs
27.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Arguably, stem cells represent the future of healthcare and medical research. With the potential to unlock possibilities for healing, understanding, and innovation in ways that traditional approaches can’t, they’re a foundation for how diseases could be treated and prevented and the future. Now, researchers from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences...
AI-designed nanocages mimic viral behavior for enhanced gene therapy
25.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Researchers have developed an innovative therapeutic platform by mimicking the intricate structures of viruses using artificial intelligence (AI). Their pioneering research was published in Nature on December 18. Viruses are uniquely designed to encapsulate genetic material within spherical protein shells, enabling them to replicate and invade...
CO2-eating bacteria can recycle carbon from chimney smoke directly into new products
23.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Researchers from Aarhus University (AU) have developed a new technology that uses microorganisms to convert the CO2 in flue gas directly for new purposes – for example fuels or substances for the chemicals industry. The technology can exploit CO2 as a raw material, unlike conventional carbon capture and storage (CCS), which captures carbon from...
Astronaut-on-a-chip: Multi-organ tissue chips simulate space radiations impact on human health
20.12.2024 | Press monitoring
As astronauts venture further into space, their exposure to harmful radiation rises. Researchers from Columbia University are simulating the effects of space radiation here on Earth to determine its impact on human physiology using multi-organ tissue chips. Their work documents the differential effects seen in tissues after acute and prolonged...
Sea sponge-inspired microlenses offer new possibilities in optics
18.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Beneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as they are strong. These natural structures are made of a material called silica – also known as bioglass – that is both lightweight and incredibly durable, allowing the sea sponges to thrive in harsh marine...
Precision engineering enables design of virus-like particles that can deliver genetic material into cells
16.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Scientists from NPL, working in collaboration with AI experts from IBM and the Science and Technology facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Center, are applying the principles of precision engineering of biological systems to enable the design of artificial virus-like particles capable of encapsulating genes. Such particles, known as virions, can be...
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Bacteria biofilter reduces pig farm methane emissions
13.12.2024 | Press monitoring
In the spring of 2024, Denmark housed almost 11.5 million pigs. Although many are exported, some are also consumed in Denmark. But our meatballs and roast pork leave a climate footprint because of the pig manure, which during storage in slurry tanks produces methane – an extremely potent greenhouse gas. This has created an opportunity to test...
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Nanopore direct RNA sequencing finds cancer\'s fingerprint to improve early detection
11.12.2024 | Press monitoring
Different types of cancer have unique molecular "fingerprints" which are detectable in early stages of the disease and can be picked up with near-perfect accuracy by small, portable scanners in just a few hours, according to a study published today in the journal Molecular Cell. The discovery by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation...
