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The biotech bi-weekly: kicking off 2026 with genomic drug discovery, organoid development and ADC characterization
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (32+ words) The biotech industry has certainly hit the ground running in 2026. In its first edition of the year, the biotech bi-weekly highlights new products that can visualize multimodal biological data at. .....
Achieving novel 3 D imaging of lipids with Lipid-CLEM
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (124+ words) Original story from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden, Germany). An international research team presents a new imaging technique to make lipids in cellular membranes visible and show how they are organized at the nanoscale....
How do muscles repair damage? Newly discovered metabolic "switch" provides an answer
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (374+ words) Unveiling a cellular mechanism by which muscle stem cells repair damage, researchers spark hope for remedying muscle loss caused by injury, aging and weight-loss medications." A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los…...
Herpesvirus makes itself at home: remodeling the host-cell nucleus
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (116+ words) Original story from the University of Jyv'skyl' (Finland). Researchers show that the infection remodels nuclear biomechanics, leading to dramatic softening of the nucleus. To understand the phenomenon, advanced microscopy, including cryo-soft X-ray tomography (SXT) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), and…...
The first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering system for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (329+ words) Original story from New England Biolabs (MA, USA). Microbial communities, like the one in your gut, are fueling AMR How are microbial communities, like those in the human gut and natural environment, fueling the spread of antimicrobial resistance? Here's how....
3 D printing inside cells: new method inserts lasers and an elephant directly into cytosol
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (265+ words) A novel method has enabled scientists to 3 D-print structures into live cells, paving the way for a new class of intracellular bioengineering tools and applications. In a first, scientists from the Jo'ef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) have developed a universal…...