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Pleasurable Dopamine Impulses Can Be Controlled at Will, Mouse Studies Show
Dopamine, the brain’s messenger molecule associated with anticipating reward and experiencing pleasure is widely studied in the context…
IPO Raises $304M for Caribou, Developer of Gene-Edited Cell Therapies
Caribou sold 19 million shares at $16 a share—the top of its $14-to-$16 price range. Investors pushed up…
Targeting TB with a One-Two Punch
Scientists report that a novel technique that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause…
Intestinally Produced HDL Cholesterol Protects Liver from Inflammation
Research by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that a type of high-density…
Potential New Treatment against Melanoma
Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, develops in the cells (melanocytes) that produce melanin—the pigment that…
Burst of Protein Structure Predictions from DeepMind, EMBL
The tremors that shook the life sciences community last December were mere prelude. Back then, at a biennial…
Engineered Bacterial Therapeutics Get Boost from PKU Study Data
Late last week, the synthetic biology company Synlogic announced data from a Phase 1/2a study of their living…
“GEN Edge Live”: Analyzing the Latest Milestones in Genome Editing
Joining us on “GEN Edge Live” were: Michelle Gilson, a managing director with Canaccord Genuity focused on biotechnology;…
Biomarkers Found Related to Most Common Type of Leukemia
An international team of researchers published an article (“Identification of altered cell signaling pathways using proteomic profiling in…
Nanomaterial Dimmer Switch Modulates Brain and Heart Cell Activity Using Near Infrared Light
If you could chop up a meter-long stick into a billion little pieces, each would be a nanometer…
