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Platform Validation Yields More than Twenty Such Novel Peptides

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) announced today the development and validation of its Intracellular Drug Delivery (IDD) discovery platform for identification of cell penetrating peptides. Compugen also announced that as par...

17 Mar 2010

Fibrous Polymer Scaffold Delivering Liver-Like Cells into Damaged Liver for Tissue Repair

Biocompatible materials that emulate living tissues can be used for tissue repair and regeneration. Polymer scaffolds, for example, mimic the network that connects cells and stimulates cell adhesion. They can also transp...

16 Mar 2010

Nano3D Biosciences Tests New Technique to Grow 3-D Cell Cultures

The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of scientists from Houston's Texas Medical Center this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that could save millions of dollars in drug-testing costs.

16 Mar 2010

Essen Instruments Forms Strategic Alliance with OriGene Technologies

Essen Instruments Inc. and OriGene Technologies, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance to co-develop ion channel cell lines. Essen, based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a leading provider of life science products and serv...

15 Mar 2010

Gold Nanocage Acts as Key Tool in Photothermal Cancer Therapy

In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment.

15 Mar 2010

Scientists Record First Microscopic Images Showing Deadly Effects of AMPs

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

14 Mar 2010