Sharpening the gene scissors together

Max Delbrück Centre and biotech start-up AlgenScribe cooperate

29-Jul-2024 - The Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, and the biotech company AlgenScribe from Nice have agreed to cooperate to further develop their gene-editing tools. The aim is to utilize synergies, accelerate research, and ultimately develop cell therapies for genetically determined diseases. A special kind of ...

Tumor tissue on a chip: new possibilities for cell therapies and personalized medicine

Therapy effect becomes predictable: Monitoring success individually and in real time

17-May-2024 - How do tumors react to a certain therapeutic approach? Knowing this before the start of a therapy would be of enormous value for people suffering from cancer as well as for the doctors treating them. Researchers at the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute in Reutlingen and the University ...

New 'molecular computers' find the right cells

A laboratory breakthrough in cell targeting may improve the safety of cancer-killing CAR T cells

26-Aug-2020 - Scientists have demonstrated a new way to precisely target cells by distinguishing them from neighboring cells that look quite similar. Even cells that become cancerous may differ from their healthy neighbors in only a few subtle ways. A central challenge in the treatment of cancer and many other ...

Researchers predict cell conversion factors

Potential for regenerative medicine

01-Aug-2018 - Thanks to a newly developed computational method, Luxembourg researchers can accurately predict how one subpopulation of cells can be converted into another. “The method has great potential for regenerative medicine when it comes to replacing cell subpopulations that have been lost in the course ...

Biomimetic molecules to program cell mechanics

19-Feb-2018 - Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology and Leipzig University are developing a system to enable mechanical cell properties to be precisely modulated and investigated. By drawing on synthetic mimics of proteins in cells, the links between cellular scaffold ...

Anchors away – for MRI contrast agents

Italian scientists label cells with a contrast agent and track via MRI, which shows long retention times due to partial internalisation

12-Feb-2009 - Silvio Amie and his colleagues from the University of Turin and the University of Eastern Piedmont, in Italy, have anchored a gadolinium (Gd)-based contrast agent on cell surfaces via disulfide bridges. Several kinds of cells show high levels of free exofacial protein thiol (EPT) groups on the ...

GE Healthcare completes acquisition of Whatman plc

29-Apr-2008 - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Whatman plc, a global supplier of filtration products and technologies. The acquisition expands GE Healthcare's offering for life science research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. GE ...