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Development by New Orleans biotech company to enable studies of human fat tissue in vitroCAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard University has granted an exclusive license to biotechnology company Obatala Sciences to commercialize innovations that enable the study of human fat tissue in vitro. Harv...

/PRNewswire/ -- Obatala Sciences, a biotechnology company that manufactures stem cell and hydrogel products to enable next-generation therapeutics discovery,...

Development by New Orleans biotech company to enable studies of human fat tissue in vitro ...

Obatala Sciences, Harvard partner on human fat tissue study New Orleans-based biotechnology firm Obatala Sciences has been granted an exclusive license from Harvard University to commercialize innovations that enable the study of human fat tissue in vitro. The licensed Harvard technology, an adipose-on-a-chip, provides a method of obtaining adult-size fat tissue cells for study in vitro and enables the testing of weight loss and cancer-targeting therapeutics without the need for testing in ani...

Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges September 21, 2020 By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) – When we think about sponges, we tend to think of something soft and squishy. But researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller build...

Ariadne Labs Launches Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative New collaborative offers mass vaccination sites an essential network to support 200 million vaccinations in 100 days News provided by Share this article BOSTON, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariadne Labs has launched the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative to facilitate a rapid information exchange in order to broaden the impact of and safely deliver more COVID-19 vaccinations globally. The collaborative currently has 50...

Emergence of Hospital Superbug Predates Antibiotics Unsplash March 10, 2021 Indiscriminate use of antibiotics and modern hospitals are often justifiably blamed for the growing specter of antibiotic resistant superbugs. However, a new study presents genomic evidence that at least one hospital-associated superbug acquired its adaptive edge at a timepoint that predates the modern hospital. These findings indicate that selection in another ecological niche is responsible for the hospital associate...

 E-Mail Modern hospitals and antibiotic treatment alone did not create all the antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria we see today. Instead, selection pressures from before widespread use of antibiotics influenced some of them to develop, new research has discovered. By using analytical and sequencing technology that has only been developed in recent years, scientists from Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Oslo and University of Cambridge have created an evolutionary timeline of the ...

Study maps full evolutionary journey of hospital superbug ANI | Updated: Mar 09, 2021 19:42 IST Cambridge[UK], March 9 (ANI): Researchers during a new study discovered that antibiotic treatment and modern hospitals alone dont create the antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that are seen today. Instead, it was the selection pressure prior to the widespread use of antibiotics that influenced some of them to develop. By using analytical and sequencing tech...

International travellers are particularly vulnerable to virulent strains of drug-resistant bacteria – often picking up several different types during a trip through spending time in the company of other tourists, a new study has revealed. The global spread of intestinal multidrug resistant gram-negative (MDR-GN) bacteria poses a serious threat to human health worldwide, with MDR … Continue reading "Study suggests that frequent travellers are...