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By Chen Yung-chi and Kao Chia-ho / Staff reportersLow-cost DNA testing tools from China could present a national security risk, with the potential for genetic data collected in Taiwan to be leaked to China, a cell biologist said yesterday. ....
Pharmaceutical start-up AcadeMab Biomedical Inc (研生生醫) said it has been developing a COVID-19 antibody drug, an endeavor not being undertaken by many other Taiwanese pharmaceutical firms. The company was spun off from Academia Sinica’s Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology in 2020 and has only 16 employees. It has set its sights on the innovative field of the monoclonal antibody treatment of tumors. The start-up began developing antibody drugs in January, after seeing that COVID-19 vaccines could not effectively protect people from new variants of SARS-CoV-2, AcadeMab Biomedical chief strategy officer Pearl Fong (俸清珠) said in an interview with the Taipei Times ....
Scientists at Academia Sinica have identified a new form of cell division that occurs without the replication of DNA, challenging the scientific consensus on one of the most basic biological processes. Since the 19th century, scientists have known of only two main types of cell division in animals meiosis in germ cells (sperm or egg cells) and mitosis in somatic cells, which comprise all other cells in the body. However, in a new paper published in the British scientific journal Nature, an Academia Sinica team described a previously unknown form of cell division which, unlike mitosis, does not involve the duplication ....
ZEBRAFISH STUDY: A team at Academia Sinica tagged and colored cells, and had to catch and anesthetize tiny fish to study them under a powerful microscope/ Staff writer, with CNA ....