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With the additional funds, the University of Cambridge spinout will accelerate the commercialization of its sequencing platform. It’ll also ramp up manufacturing of the first product built on the platform, which the company said is expected to be commercially available by early next year.
The first integrated digital PCR solution is ideal for oncology, cell and gene therapy development
Researchers from Duke and the University of California at Irvine screened a library of more than 1,000 compounds and discovered that an old, experimental cancer drug called kenpaullone enhances the expression of the gene KCC2, which is essential for silencing pain signals. The drug was effective in treating mouse models of pain from nerve injury and bone cancer, they reported.
The findings may shed light on a mystery that has long intrigued scientists: When did people first arrive in the Americas, after dispersing from Africa and Asia?
Fully vaccinated people might spread the delta variant at the same rate as unvaccinated people is, according to the washington post, based on a covid-19 cluster that emerged from july 4th weekend festivities in province town, massachusetts. the paper writes, quote, a person working in partnership with the cdc on investigations of the delta variant who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said the data came from a july 4th outbreak in province town. genetic analysis of the outbreak showed that people who were vaccinated were transmitting the virus to other ...