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• Bacterial Polysaccharides and Their Research Innovations

  by chen shanshan December 14, 2021
  Bacteria are covered by polysaccharides at the outer surface in the form of capsules, glycoproteins, or glycolipids. Such a bacterial sugar coat constitutes the principal antigens in most pathogenic bacteria and plays an important role in host-pathogen interactions. With mor...

• Nanopore direct sequencing of proteins with up to 100% accuracy

  by chen shanshan December 2, 2021
  Proteins are the primary constituents of living organisms and the primary carriers of life activities. Proteins with biological functions often have a certain spatial structure that is defined at various levels, the most important of which is the primary structure, i.e., the type ...

• What Are Sterols?

  by chen shanshan November 30, 2021
  Sterols are essential components of the membranes of all eukaryotic organisms, controlling membrane fluidity and permeability. Sterols are the third class of lipids, which play multiple roles that either individually or collectively influence cell processes, and through charge and structure the...

• Arabidopsis thaliana: Model Organism in Plant Science and Biote

  by chen shanshan November 29, 2021
  Even people who are not plant scientists may have seen thale cress, an unassuming weed growing in sandy soils or even in the concrete gaps. Thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, is the workhorse in the research field of plant genetics for decades as it was the firs...

• Bacteriophage: Mr. Nice Guys of the Virus World

  by chen shanshan November 26, 2021
  It's widely accepted that HIV, Hepatitis C, Ebola, and the ongoing coronavirus have acquired a bad reputation for viruses due to their aggressive and infectious nature. But actually, there are nice guys in the virology world, microscopic bacteriophages. Different from dreadful bad viruses ...

• Neu5Gc: Sugar Molecule in Red Meat That Causes Cancer in Humans

  by chen shanshan November 25, 2021
  Nutrition can greatly influence health. Different dietary habits are strongly associated with various human diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypertension. A large number of studies have shown that high consumption of foods of mammalian origin (i.e., red ...

• Diagnosis and Immunoassay for Acute Pancreatitis

  by chen shanshan November 23, 2021
  The number of people getting acute pancreatitis in the United States is increasing on the basis of the current average of 275,000 hospital admissions annually. Most patients admitted with pancreatitis have mild symptoms and can be discharged within a few days. However, 0.6% to 5.6% of pati...

• Research progress of the correlation between CD47 and lymphoma

  by chen shanshan November 19, 2021
  CD47 is a transmembrane protein that regulates a wide range of physiological and pathological functions in the body. CD47 expressed on tumor cells interacts with signal-regulated protein alpha (SIRP) on macrophages to prevent tumor phagocytosis, and research into the CD47-SIRP pathway suggests ...

• Structural Analysis of Plant Polysaccharides Now Available at C

  by chen shanshan November 18, 2021
  CD BioGlyco, a biotechnology company that provides a full range of glycobiology-related products, analysis, custom synthesis and design to advance glycobiology research, now provides advanced and comprehensive polysaccharide structure analysis services to meet customers’ needs.   A...

• The Classification of honey

  by chen shanshan November 17, 2021
  Honey may be contaminated by botulinum toxin during the brewing, transportation and storage process. More than 80% of honey is sugar. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar. It will crystallize at low temperatures. It is glucose that will crystallize, and the part that does not crystallize is ...

• The introduction and brief history about machine translation

  by chen shanshan November 16, 2021
  Machine translation, also known as automatic translation, is the process of using a computer to convert one natural language (source language) into another natural language (target language). It is a branch of computational linguistics, one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence, and has i...

• There are two hypotheses about the origin of mitochondria

  by chen shanshan November 15, 2021
  There are two hypotheses about the origin of mitochondria, namely the endosymbiosis theory and the non-endosymbiosis theory.   Internal symbiosis theory The theory believes that mitochondria originated from mitochondrial ancestors that were swallowed by another cell-the original mitocho...

• New Tools for Plant Genome Editing Developed

  by chen shanshan November 15, 2021
  Recently, academician Liu Yaoguang's team from College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, The State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, and Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, published a research paper entitled "The ...

• Creative Enzymes Introduces New Type of Lactase for Lactose-fre

  by chen shanshan November 15, 2021
  Creative Enzymes, a professional enzymes provider located in New York, USA, always hammers at researches and trials in order to provide customers with various enzymes services as many as possible. Last week, the product manager of Creative Enzymes announced that the company has introduced lactase&nb...

• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Gene Ontology a

  by chen shanshan October 29, 2021
  "Big data", "omics", and "data mining" are vocabulary we have often heard in recent years, and second-generation sequencing is often used in scientific research. No matter which sequencing company performs sequencing or data analysis, a standard analysis method will be seen in the final report: func...

• The key technology of RNA therapy

  by chen shanshan October 28, 2021
  It is certain that RNA therapy is no longer a no-man's land for medical innovation. Not only have several products been launched and received good market response, but there are also many pipelines in the research and development side to advance to the middle and late clinical stage, and behind...

• Pharmacopoeia standards about l- isoleucine

  by chen shanshan October 27, 2021
  This product is L-2-amino-3-methylvaleric acid. Calculated as dry product, the content of C6H13NO2 is less than 98.5%. [Properties] This product is white crystal or crystalline powder; odorless. This product is slightly soluble in water and almost insoluble in ethanol or ether. Take this product,...

• The Synthesis of Nanoparticles You Don’t Want to Miss

  by chen shanshan October 26, 2021
  Nanoparticle synthesis refers to methods for creating nanoparticles. Nanoparticles can be derived from larger molecules, or synthesized by ‘bottom-up’ methods that, for example, nucleate and grow particles from fine molecular distributions in liquid or vapour phase. Synthesis c...

• Evolutionary Drug Delivery

  by chen shanshan October 25, 2021
  Drug delivery strategies have greatly facilitated the treatment and application of drugs. The rapid development of therapeutics is dependent on the continuous pursuit of advances in delivery technologies and strategies. Decades ago, small molecule drugs were the predominant therapeutic agents, ...

• Structure biology will continue to use artificial intelligence

  by chen shanshan October 21, 2021
  Nature issued an editorial on July 27, 2021, reflecting on recent topical reporting on AlphaFold.   Our understanding of protein folding will be altered as a result of machine learning. It is important that all data be made available to the public.   "I never imagined we'd make it this...

• What is Caenorhabditis Elegans and Why Use It As Model Organism

  by chen shanshan October 20, 2021
  Speaking of worms, most people would be like "Ew, I hate to think of the feeling of treading them on bare feet in the damp swamp or image that these slimy things are squirming in the compost." However, these little worms, for scientists, are revealing precious lessons about human...

• The Age of Gene-editing and Crazy Biohackers

  by chen shanshan October 16, 2021
  Shaking liquor, flushed cheeks, excited voices, and compulsive words—it's hard to imagine this happening at a science-related conference. This is at the SynBioBeta San Francisco 2017, and the talk being delivered is A Step-by-step Guide to Genetically Modifying Yourself with CRISPR. The audie...

• An Overview of the Global Bispecific Antibody Therapeutics Mark

  by chen shanshan October 15, 2021
  Antibodies, a major component of adaptive immunity, play a critical role in protective and pathogenic immune responses. In recent years, a wide range of antibodies is discovered as candidates of cancer therapeutic agents, including the reconstructive molecules, bispecific antibodies (BsAbs).  ...

• Creative Biogene Offers One-Stop Customized CRISPR Based Microb

  by chen shanshan October 13, 2021
  Creative Biogene Offers One-Stop Customized CRISPR Based Microbe Genome Editing Service for global clients.   New York, United States - August 18, 2021—Creative Biogene has been dedicated itself to undertaking the cause of bioscience for decades and enjoys rich experiences and...

• Detailed introduction about electronic chemicals

  by chen shanshan October 12, 2021
  Also known as electronic chemical materials. Generally refers to the special chemicals and chemical materials used in the electronics industry, that is, various chemicals and materials for the production and packaging of electronic components, printed circuit boards, industrial and consumer machines...

• Creative Proteomics’s Lipidomics Services to Support Your Resea

  by chen shanshan October 10, 2021
  Creative Proteomics has over 10 years of experience in providing advanced multiomics services to customers around the world. Recently, Creative Proteomics has launched a special lipidomics analysis platform to help explore the relative relationship between lipid metabolism changes and physiolog...

• Graphene Combines with Drugs to Kill Bacteria

  by chen shanshan October 8, 2021
  Bacterial infections associated with medical implants have brought a huge burden to medical care, and also brought huge pain to patients all over the world. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new method to prevent this infection by covering graphene-base...

• Traditional Chromosome Analysis and Chromosome Microarray: Supp

  by chen shanshan September 30, 2021
  For decades, karyotyping has been the standard diagnostic method for prenatal testing. As a method that dates back to the late 1960s, chromosome analysis or karyotype analysis is a test that assesses the size, shape, and number of chromosomes. Extra or missing chromosomes, or abnormal positions of c...

• Detailed introduction about Ochratoxin

  by chen shanshan September 29, 2021
  Ochratoxin includes 7 compounds with similar structures, the general structural formula: R1=Cl or H; R2=H, CH3 or C2H5. Among them, ochratoxin A (R1=C1, R2=H) is the most toxic, and it is most common in moldy grains and feed. Ochratoxin is another mycotoxin that has attracted worldwide attention af...

• The Wide Application of Escherichia coli Fermentation in Microb

  by chen shanshan September 28, 2021
  The microbial fermentation process has been manipulated by humans and is widely used in the production of various foods and other commercial products, including pharmaceuticals. Microbial fermentation can also be used to identify microorganisms for diagnostic purposes.    Several Gr...

• The Key Quality Attributes of ADC Drugs

  by chen shanshan September 27, 2021
  Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are conjugates of cytotoxic small-molecule drugs with targeted monoclonal antibodies through a linker. The specificity of antibodies reduces the toxicity of small-molecule drugs and increases the therapeutic window. In the past two years, ADC drugs have made...

• New Findings on Cancer Cell Growth

  by chen shanshan September 26, 2021
  Cell growth and division require the production of new proteins. This also applies to cancer cells. In a new study published in the journal Science Progress, researchers at the Carolinska Institute studied the protein eIF4A3 and its role in cancer cell growth. This study shows that by blocking ...

• The evolutionary history of drug delivery

  by chen shanshan September 25, 2021
  Recently, Samir Mitragotri's team published a review in Nature Biomedical Engineering, systematically summarizing five types of therapeutic drugs, which are small molecules, nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, and cells, as well as related drug delivery challenges and three measures taken to fac...

• Interaction Among Phage, Bacteria, and Health-2

  by chen shanshan September 24, 2021
  What are the effects of bacteriophages on the body's immune system? Bacteriophages cannot infect eukaryotic cells, but more and more studies have shown that phages can regulate the immune response of mammals. Especially when the phage and the host bacteria are in a symbiotic relationship, the ...

• Interaction Among Phage, Bacteria, and Health

  by chen shanshan September 24, 2021
  As bacterial viruses, bacteriophages have been increasingly reported for their unique role in affecting bacterial diseases. Bacteriophages can directly control the composition and abundance of bacteria and indirectly affect the body's metabolism and immune system.   The human body is like a m...

• Monitor Your Health With Microfluidic Sweat Sensors

  by chen shanshan September 23, 2021
  When it comes to sweat, the first impression would be a stinky workout byproduct for most people. However, sweat is an interesting biological fluid for researchers who focus on health-assessing wearable microfluidic sensors, because it contains electrolytes, molecules, lactate, and pr...

• CRISPR Breakthrough: First Gene Editing Work in Space

  by chen shanshan September 22, 2021
  Environmental factors, such as ultraviolet light, can cause DNA damage in organisms. In humans and animals, this DNA damage may cause cancer. Fortunately, cells themselves have several different strategies to repair damaged DNA. The human beings living on the earth are protected by the atmosph...

• Enhanced Cell Therapy by Non-genetic Methods: Showing Huge Pote

  by chen shanshan September 17, 2021
  Cell therapy is a novel disease treatment technology that has emerged as a therapeutic strategy for cancer diseases in recent years. It is a minimally invasive procedure, which aims to repair the diseased state of the tissue or organ to its original state by transplanting human cells. Cell ther...

• CD BioGlyco Announced Release of Comprehensive Fatty Acid Analy

  by chen shanshan September 15, 2021
  CD BioGlyco, a biotechnology company that is committed to discovering, developing, manufacturing and providing innovative glycobiology-related high quality products and services, recently announced the release of comprehensive fatty acid analysis services.   Fatty acids (FA) are a class of co...