Coronavirus: Researchers develop new rapid and reliable detection method

22-Aug-2023 - Commercially available mass spectrometers can reliably detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In the journal "Clinical proteomics" researchers from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) present a new method which employs equipment that is already being used in hospitals and laboratories ...

Bruker Corporation and PhenomeX Inc. Announce Definitive Agreement for Bruker to Acquire PhenomeX in All-Cash Transaction

Acquisition initiates Bruker’s entry into functional single-cell biology research solutions

18-Aug-2023 - Bruker Corporation and PhenomeX Inc. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Bruker to acquire PhenomeX for $1.00 per share in an all-cash transaction. The proposed acquisition values PhenomeX at a total equity value of approximately $108 million. PhenomeX is a functional cell ...

EVIDENT Corporation Appoints New CEO and COO

16-Aug-2023 - Evident Corporation announced the appointment of William Wesley “Wes” Pringle as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Hiroyuki Yoshimoto as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Effective immediately, Wes takes over for Evident’s interim CEO Eric Anderson. Wes has an impressive 30-year career ...

Antibiotic ribosomal compounds deciphered

Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria through high-resolution structural imaging

10-Aug-2023 - A European research team led by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg presents structures of 17 different antibiotic ribosomal compounds with high detail resolution in a study. The knowledge could pave the way for the development of novel antibiotics to combat ...

Cytomos secures £4M to advance new approach to cell analysis

09-Aug-2023 - Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £4 million to scale up market-testing of its technology platform Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS). The investment round was led by existing investors Archangels ...

UNAM creates algorithm at UNAM that improves fluorescent images with superresolution

It is based on a mathematical function known as "the Mexican hat"; it improves the resolution of optical microscopy images.

07-Aug-2023 - Scientists from UNAM's Institute of Biotechnology (IBt) designed an algorithm that, when incorporated into computers that already process fluorescence images taken with an ordinary microscope, makes it possible for them to acquire a quality comparable to that obtained with large and expensive ...

Quantitative analysis of cell organelles with artificial intelligence

The analysis of cryo-X-Ray-microscopy data still requires a lot of time: AI now identifies structures at high accuracy within a few minutes

21-Jul-2023 - BESSY II's high-brilliance X-rays can be used to produce microscopic images with spatial resolution down to a few tens of nanometres. Whole cell volumes can be examined without the need for complex sample preparation as in electron microscopy. Under the X-ray microscope, the tiny cell organelles ...

Researchers visualise activity of CRISPR genetic scissors

New method allows precise observation of gene recognition

14-Jul-2023 - Scientists at Leipzig University, in collaboration with colleagues at Vilnius University in Lithuania, have developed a new method to measure the smallest twists and torques of molecules within milliseconds. The method makes it possible to track the gene recognition of CRISPR-Cas protein ...

Extreme DNA resolution: Researchers slow down and scan multiple times individual DNA molecules

Researchers have achieved near-perfect control over the manipulation of individual molecules, allowing them to be identified and characterized with unprecedented precision

30-Jun-2023 - Aleksandra Radenovic, head of theLaboratory of Nanoscale Biologyin the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves passing a molecule like DNA through a tiny pore in a membrane to measure an ionic current. Scientists can determine DNA’s sequence of ...

Innovation Award awarded for breakthrough in X-Ray Fluorescence Tracking for Medical Imaging

Florian Grüner from the University of Hamburg receives the Innovation Award for Synchrotron Radiation

30-Jun-2023 - Grüner, professor at the University of Hamburg and at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), a cooperation between DESY, the University of Hamburg and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, has been honored for advancements in the field of in-situ and in-vivo tracking using advanced X-ray ...