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Research team develops vaccine platform applicable to viruses
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Research team develops vaccine platform applicable to viruses

by National Research Council of Science & Technology Bang Eun-kyoung(left) from the KIST’s Center for Neuro-Medicine are discussing the efficacy of RNA stabilizer containing zinc complex. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) MERS, which struck South Korea in a 2015 outbreak, was caused by a coronavirus, the same family of viruses that is...

New Scottish drug shows promise in battle against COVID-19
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New Scottish drug shows promise in battle against COVID-19

by University of St Andrews A new anti-viral drug developed by Pneumagen, a University of St Andrews spin out company, has had positive results in laboratory tests against COVID-19. Pneumagen Ltd, a company focused on treating infectious disease and developing oncology treatments by targeting the human glycome, today (28 April 2020) announced results from three...

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New microfluidics platform separates cell types for RNA profiling

A team led by scientists at the Broad Institute, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a prototype device that uses microfluidics to sort cell types extracted from clinical samples for RNA sequencing. Credit: Miguel Reyes “This platform allows us to isolate specific cell subsets in a sample, so we can perform RNA sequencing and...