Tech and Gadget How do fruit flies grow legs? Solving a molecular mystery | Digital Science Aug 28, 2018 Cross section of developing leg imaginal disc, which will develop into the fruit fly leg. Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia’s Zuckerman…
Tech News update Scientists ‘fix’ bacterial tree of life | Digital Science Aug 28, 2018 The ‘tree of life’ for the bacterial world, bacteria’s taxonomy in a phylogenetic tree. Credit: The University of Queensland Bacterial…
Tech and Gadget Esperion’s cholesterol drug cuts LDL-C in phase 3 | Digital Science Aug 28, 2018 A phase 3 trial has found that adding Esperion’s bempedoic acid to Zetia lowers LDL cholesterol by more than the statin alone. The result sets…
Tech News update How enzyme detects ultraviolet light damage | Digital Science Aug 27, 2018 Damage to DNA is a constant threat to cellular life, and so it is constantly monitored and detected by a family of enzymes called RNA polymerases,…
Tech and Gadget The birth and death of proteins in a single cell | Digital Science Aug 27, 2018 The amount of proteins inside cells fluctuate over time and this affects various functions of the cells themselves. Cells are constantly synthesizing…
Tech News update A new method for diversification of enzymes | Digital Science Aug 27, 2018 Scientists have invented a new method that allows for flexible engineering of essential and nonessential enzymes without additional engineering.…
Tech and Gadget Cryopreserving ladybird beetle ovaries | Digital Science Aug 27, 2018 A new study has found an effective way to cryopreserve — preservation by cooling to very low temperature — and subsequently transplant ovaries of the…
Tech News update SEC charges ex-Sangamo exec with insider trading | Digital Science Aug 26, 2018 The SEC has charged former Sangamo BioSciences executive Winson Tang with insider trading. Tang is accused of telling a friend about a 2014…
Tech and Gadget Merck KGaA, GlucoMe to pilot remote, digital diabetes care in Vietnam | Digital Science Aug 26, 2018 Merck KGaA has tapped digital diabetes platform provider GlucoMe for a pilot collaboration in several hospitals across Vietnam, comparing its system…
Tech and Gadget High-throughput fluorescence assay for monitoring Cas9 activity | Digital Science Aug 25, 2018 Sandia National Laboratories inhibitor search team scientists Kyle Seamon, left, and Edwin Saada hold stacks of 384-well plates used to search…