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Rett syndrome is a rare devastating neurological disorder that primarily affects young girls and manifests as an impaired ability to walk and talk, along with characteristic 'hand-wringing' movements, seizures, and cognitive disability.
X-STEM - presented by Northrop Grumman Foundation and MedImmune - is an Extreme STEM symposium for elementary through high school students featuring interactive presentations by an exclusive group of
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Credits: Photo: Michele Gabriele Next image Anders Sejr Hansen, assistant professor of biological engineering at MIT, has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research for 2021. The Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research is a national initiative designed to support promising early-career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance progress toward a cure for cancer. The Hansen Lab will investigate how genetic elements, known as enhancers, control the expression of genes in cancer. Notably, enhancers can be quite far away fr...
Eikon Therapeutics closes $148M financing to develop super-resolution microscopy 06 May 2021 California-based firm to integrate advanced optics, machine learning with biochemistry; its target application is drug discovery. Eikon focuses on live-cell super-resolution microscopy for drug discovery.Eikon Therapeutics, a Hayward, California-based company focused on live-cell super-resolution microscopy and engineering for drug discovery, has this week announced that it has closed a $148 million Series A financing round. The funding is led by The Column Group with participation from Foresite Cap...