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Functional Assays
Functional Assays: An assay is an analytical procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively examining or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity.
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FEB 19, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Chronic wasting disease, discovered in 1967, has since spread among deer, elk, moose, and other cervids to 23 US states, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 14, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
According to the World Health Organization, over 55 million people around the world have dementia, and 10 million more a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 29, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Almost nine percent of American children will be diagnosed with ADHD at some point, according to the Centers for Disease ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 29, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
The brain is a crucial, sensitive organ that is well-protected by the skull and blood brain barrier, which prevents many ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2023Genetics & Genomics
So-called junk DNA was given that unfortunate nickname because its function was unclear. These vast regions of the genom ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 13, 2023Genetics & Genomics
A human brain organoid mosaic, created with a new tool called CHOOSE (CRISPR-human organoids-scRNA-seq) in this image - ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2023Microbiology
There are some bacteria that researchers are very familiar with. Some of them are common environmental microbes with str ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 16, 2023Genetics & Genomics
When our bodies are exposed to a pathogen, the immune system mounts a response. Antibodies that are directed against the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 09, 2023Genetics & Genomics
There are about 20,000 genes that encode for protein in the human genome, and we don't know much about many of them. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 28, 2023Microbiology
Scientists have shown that a protein called NLRP11 has an essential role in the immune system; it alerts the body that a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 17, 2023Drug Discovery & DevelopmentIntroduction Antibodies are the ideal therapeutic biomolecules due to their ability to bind to a variety of targets with ...JUL 16, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Around 700,000 US troops were part of the Gulf War. It's estimated that 1/3 of those individuals developed a chronic con ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 05, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
What are cell and gene therapies? Cell and gene therapies are used to treat, and sometimes cure, diseases by addressing ...JUL 03, 2023Cancer
Stem cells are valuable to a wide range of biomedical and pharmaceutical research applications because of their high sel ...MAY 14, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have developed a device called CapScan that people can take like a pill, and it will move through the digesti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 10, 2023Immunology
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are immune cells that promote chronic inflammatory disease, such as triple nega ...Written By: Brian G. MorrealeMAY 09, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Several neurological disorders have been associated with disrupted glucose metabolism in the brain, so this condition is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 07, 2023Technology
How small can robots get, and can they assist in human body needs? This is what a team of researchers led by the Univers ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 08, 2023Genetics & Genomics
People with bipolar disorder (BD) have alternating episodes of depression and mania, in which they are abnormally irrita ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 28, 2023Neuroscience
Scientists are still learning about how we gain the ability to read and write. One team of researchers has turned to an ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 31, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
Setting up reliable controls is one of the priorities that any scientist should be concerned with when engaging in scien ...Sponsored By: Slingshot Biosciences, Inc.JAN 07, 2023Health & Medicine
With patient cells, researchers at the National Eye Institute created a bioink that was used to 3D print eye tissue.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Humans beings carry a lot of fluid in our bodies, and we need strong connections between structures and cells to hold ev ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2022Drug Discovery & DevelopmentThe backdrop upon which every successful gene therapy is developed is the ability to safely and specifically target cell ...Sponsored By: PerkinElmer
FEB 19, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Chronic wasting disease, discovered in 1967, has since spread among deer, elk, moose, and other cervids to 23 US states,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 14, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
According to the World Health Organization, over 55 million people around the world have dementia, and 10 million more a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Almost nine percent of American children will be diagnosed with ADHD at some point, according to the Centers for Disease
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
The brain is a crucial, sensitive organ that is well-protected by the skull and blood brain barrier, which prevents many
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
So-called junk DNA was given that unfortunate nickname because its function was unclear. These vast regions of the genom
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
A human brain organoid mosaic, created with a new tool called CHOOSE (CRISPR-human organoids-scRNA-seq) in this image -
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2023
Microbiology
There are some bacteria that researchers are very familiar with. Some of them are common environmental microbes with str
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
When our bodies are exposed to a pathogen, the immune system mounts a response. Antibodies that are directed against the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
There are about 20,000 genes that encode for protein in the human genome, and we don't know much about many of them.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2023
Microbiology
Scientists have shown that a protein called NLRP11 has an essential role in the immune system; it alerts the body that a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 17, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Introduction Antibodies are the ideal therapeutic biomolecules due to their ability to bind to a variety of targets with
...
JUL 16, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Around 700,000 US troops were part of the Gulf War. It's estimated that 1/3 of those individuals developed a chronic con
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
What are cell and gene therapies? Cell and gene therapies are used to treat, and sometimes cure, diseases by addressing
...
JUL 03, 2023
Cancer
Stem cells are valuable to a wide range of biomedical and pharmaceutical research applications because of their high sel
...
MAY 14, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have developed a device called CapScan that people can take like a pill, and it will move through the digesti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2023
Immunology
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are immune cells that promote chronic inflammatory disease, such as triple nega
...
Written By:
Brian G. Morreale
MAY 09, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Several neurological disorders have been associated with disrupted glucose metabolism in the brain, so this condition is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 07, 2023
Technology
How small can robots get, and can they assist in human body needs? This is what a team of researchers led by the Univers
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 08, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
People with bipolar disorder (BD) have alternating episodes of depression and mania, in which they are abnormally irrita
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 28, 2023
Neuroscience
Scientists are still learning about how we gain the ability to read and write. One team of researchers has turned to an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 31, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Setting up reliable controls is one of the priorities that any scientist should be concerned with when engaging in scien
...
Sponsored By:
Slingshot Biosciences, Inc.
JAN 07, 2023
Health & Medicine
With patient cells, researchers at the National Eye Institute created a bioink that was used to 3D print eye tissue.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Humans beings carry a lot of fluid in our bodies, and we need strong connections between structures and cells to hold ev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
The backdrop upon which every successful gene therapy is developed is the ability to safely and specifically target cell
...
Sponsored By:
PerkinElmer