Biology & Life Sciences

30+ min ago   (445+ words) SpectaCell – a startup company spun out of Imec, VIB and Ghent University – has raised €6 million in seed financing. The round was led by imec.xpand, with participation from PMV’s Flanders Future Tech Fund, InnovationQuarter Capital, Qbic and VIB. Immunotherapies are…...

29+ min ago   (473+ words) What can our digestion tell us about how our brains work? Experts at the University of Southampton say we still don't understand enough about this important connection. A research team is asking thousands of people to take what's called the…...

10+ min ago   (546+ words) 2026 EPFL/Laure Le Blanc - CC-BY-SA 4.0 Some bacteria can sense when they bump into each other and use these interactions to shape how the group organizes and moves. This discovery reveals a new way microbes explore their environments using physical feedback…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (468+ words) A 5-day Hands-on Laboratory Course on CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing was organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, New Delhi at the SGT University campus, Gurugram in collaboration with ICAR institutes – National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack; National Institute of…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (540+ words) UC spinout Precision Chroma is commercialising a new method of chromatography to enhance manufacture of biological medicines. UC research has led to a patented 3D-printed chromatography technology designed to improve the purification of biological medicines. Research developed at UC has…...

23+ min ago   (488+ words) Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) to the nation, launched a global mission to map more than 100 human brains at cellular resolution and released a specialised atlas of…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (595+ words) Jonathan, the Aldabra giant tortoise, has long baffled biologists WATCH: Angela Rippon champions animals who served See the latest from GB News here. DNA from the planet's oldest known land animal could reveal genetic secrets that may shed light on…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (310+ words) Dapperlings and toughshanks, bonnets and brittlegills, bird’s nests and fairy clubs. Fungi season has begun, and for me it is heralded by the “fungus foray” held at Bangor University’s Treborth Botanic Garden. An annual event, this year it produced more…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago   (241+ words) Chinese researchers have found experimental evidence that the gene CCNB1IP1 plays a key role in brain development and may have contributed to the evolution of human intelligence. Experiments in mice showed that increasing the gene’s expression to human levels promoted cortical…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1072+ words) Tempe, The brain is unbelievably complicated, which is both daunting and fascinating for neuroscientists like me. In the space of a cubic millimeter – about the size of a single poppy seed – there are tens of thousands of neurons and other…...