In Depth 15 May 2019 The Missing Piece in the Microbiome Field Over the last decade, the biotech industry has built a lot of hype around the emerging field of microbiome research. Its potential to treat all sorts of diseases has captured the imagination of scientists and the number of early-stage studies is growing massively day by day. These studies have found correlation between the human microbiome […] May 15, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 9 Apr 2019 Beyond the Lab-Grown Burger: ‘Cellular Agriculture’ is Taking Over the Food Industry It’s been 6 years since scientists grew the world’s first beef burger made without the cow in the lab. As it nears its supermarket debut, researchers around the world are joining the cellular agriculture movement and growing all sorts of animal products, including delicacies such as foie gras and bluefin tuna, without the animal. As […] April 9, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 25 Mar 2019 Where Does Brexit Leave European Biotech? In the next couple of months, the UK will officially exit the EU, in a move that is popularly known as Brexit. With this date fast approaching, companies, organizations and individuals all over the world have speculated about how Brexit might impact them. According to the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, at the launch of […] March 25, 2019 - 9 minutesmins - By Karen O’Hanlon Cohrt Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 18 Mar 2019 The Search for a Better Biofuel: Can Biotech Deliver? With dire climate change reports landing one after another in 2018 the need for sustainable, scalable, and affordable biofuels to aid in this transition to a more sustainable future has never been greater. Ticking all three boxes is no easy task, but the biotech sector has several promising solutions in development. Producing carbon-neutral fuels from […] March 18, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Farhan Mitha Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 11 Mar 2019 The Three Steps Needed to Fully Automate the Artificial Pancreas New advances in diabetes research are making it possible to develop a fully automated insulin delivery system that can control blood sugar without any input from the patient. This so-called artificial pancreas could be here within the next decade, but there are still three main challenges that scientists have to address to get us there. […] March 11, 2019 - 11 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 25 Feb 2019 Accelerator or Incubator? What to Look for in a Biotech Startup Program Early stage biotech companies and scientists interested in commercialization need great accelerator programs, not more biotech incubators. Biotech companies and scientists who start out on the road to commercialization may need an accelerator to bring out the entrepreneurial spirit. The incubator and accelerator models are conflated all the time in biotech, much to the fury […] February 25, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 19 Feb 2019 How New Microbiome Diagnostic Technologies Can Save Lives With the rise of a whole new field of research around the microbiome, what role are new technologies to identify microorganisms playing in the future of healthcare? Traditionally, microbes have been seen solely as a threat. But in the last few years, microbiome research has started to shift this view. Today, we know certain microorganisms […] February 19, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 11 Feb 2019 CRISPR: One Patent to Rule Them All The gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized research in biology. With several parties fighting for the rights to the technology’s intellectual property, how difficult is it for third parties to access this coveted technology? The CRISPR patent dispute is quite unique. While universities usually work together to disseminate innovation and knowledge, in the CRISPR case […] February 11, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By Timothé Cynober Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 22 Jan 2019 No Guts, No Glory: How Microbiome Research is Changing Medicine Scientists are uncovering many ways that the microorganisms that share our body can influence our health. It appears as though the human microbiome could be the key to treating all sorts of diseases, but how can we make these tiny creatures collaborate with us? Let’s do a gut check. We’ve all been told that our […] January 22, 2019 - 10 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 14 Jan 2019 Life in Bioplastic, it’s More Fantastic Plastic is the staple material of modern life, and a sustainable future will need bioplastics. What is biotech doing to make this happen? “What do you include in bioplastics? Because bioplastics is a very large word,” commented Emmanuel Maille, formerly Director of Strategy and Development at French chemical company Carbios, which focuses on developing biobased […] January 14, 2019 - 10 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 11 Dec 2018 Easy as ATCG: Commercialization of DNA as Data Storage You could be storing information in DNA sooner than you might think. Although the technology is still quite early — the first video encoded in DNA, revealed last year, was quite simple — the rate at which the cost of writing DNA is going down might make DNA data storage a reality in the coming […] December 11, 2018 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 21 Nov 2018 5 Challenges to Unlocking the Real Potential of the Human Microbiome The study of the human microbiome — the microorganisms living in our body — is a very young field of research that is making big promises to treat all sorts of human diseases. As we get close to the approval of the first treatment based on microbiome science, it’s important to be aware of the […] November 21, 2018 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email