Cytokine and Receptor Analysis in Creative BioMart

Cytokine receptors are receptors that bind cytokines. In recent years, cytokine receptors have caught much more attentions than cytokines themselves. Maybe this is because of their remarkable characteristics or because a deficiency of cytokine receptors has now been directly linked to certain debilitating immunodeficiency states. Creative BioMart, a world leading biotech company dedicated to providing quality custom analytical and translational services, has a revolutionary new platform designed for enrichment and highly…

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Human & Chimp

The appearance of Chimp is significantly different from humans, although the creature is close relative of our human beings. Recently, a paper published in Cell has revealed the molecular mechanisms that causes face structural differences between two species that have the same genetic background.   The researchers pointed out that the key point lies in how the gene involved in the genetic diversity is regulated, the level of the regulation…

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Eight Applications of Liquid Biopsy (Part Two)

The last post has given an introduction to liquid biopsy and its first four applications. This post is to analyze this rest four: Cancer Treatment Last year, some companies began to establish genetic map of cancer through mutated DNA fragments found in the blood. This “diagnosis and treatment” test can be used to determine which medication is suitable for the patients because cancer is caused by a specific mutation and…

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Eight Applications of Liquid Biopsy (Part One)

Liquid Biopsy, one of the hottest words recently, has been selected as on of the 2015 Top Ten Breakthrough Technology by MIT Technology Review. Years before, it’s only limited to researches, but now it is more frequently used in clinical. Liquid Biopsy, in fact, is to determine the human blood floating DNA fragments using high-speed sequencing. When a person’s body has exogenous DNA, such as infants, cancer or organ transplant,…

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Who Will Win The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

As it’s approaching to the Nobel Prize month, SCI certainly will make forecast by citation. However, the accuracy is not that satisfactory. Typically, the Nobel Prize mainly rely on the peer recommendation, thus hot and mature areas might win. And since the announcement day for the 2015 Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine is only 20 days left, the writer would like to make a prediction of it. What technologies might…

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New Pathway Links Epigenetics And Aging Was Found

It has been widely acknowledged for nearly ten years that epigenetic marks change as cells age. For instance, Sir2, which is implicated in the association between calorie restriction and lifespan, is known to affect metabolic pathways and alter the acetyl marks on histones. While, in the latest study, scientists have found another pathways that links epigenetic and aging-H3K36 methylation and it decreases as yeast and worm cells age.   “This…

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MIT: 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2015 (Part Two)

In the last post, we have made an introduction about 6 of the innovators. And this post will introduce the rest 8 and the achievement of them.   Zhen Gu (34 years old) Zhen Gu recently developed a fingernail-sized patches, covered with more than 100 tiny needles. When you put the patch on the skin, you will feel instantly acupuncture. These needles are filled with tiny capsules, which contains insulin…

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MIT: 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2015 (Part One)

Recently, MIT Technology Review website has selected 35 Innovators under 35 for the year of 2015, which includes six types of talents- inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, pioneers, etc., covering the area of IT, communications, biomedical and others. Those 35 selected people are all of high creativity and at the same time, they are symbols of the most important emerging technologies currently. For instance, biomedical inductees are trying to figure out how…

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Month-end Check: Biotech study topics in Nature-August

Caution urged over editing DNA in wildlife (intentionally or not) A work describing the use of a gene-editing technique to insert a mutation into fruit files that would be passed on to almost all of its offspring has brought the concern about bioengineering in to a more fierce debate. A lot of scientists feel uneasy about this study: what if the engineered creature escaped from the lab? The mutation might…

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Why Human Beings Are Called the Lord of Creation?

Why human beings are the most intelligent animals on the planet? Researchers at the University of Toronto gave an answer to it these days. This owes to a key molecular events. Studies have shown that a small change of PTBP1 protein controls the generation of neurons, helping mammals to evolve larger and more complicated brains. The size and complexity of the brain of vertebrates has significant difference. For example, humans…

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