Lager beer, also referred to as Pilsner, is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, with an annual consumption of almost 200 billion litres per year. To make lager beer, brewer’s wort is fermented with the yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus. This microorganism converts wort sugars into ethanol and contributes key flavour compounds to the bee...
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The notion of an ‘entourage effect’ that magnifies the drug’s effects is intriguing but lacks solid evidence.
Published in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
This paper looks at the commodification of interferon, marketed by Hoffmann La Roche (short: Roche) as Roferon A in 1986, as a case study that helps us understand the role of pharmaceutical industry in cancer research, the impact of molecular biology on cancer therapy, and the relationships between biotech start-ups and established pharmaceutical f...
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Published in Oncology
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) modified T-cell therapy, a unique platform technology highlighting precision medicine through utilization of molecular biology and cell-based therapeutics has shown unprecedented rates in patients with hematological malignancies such as acute lymphocyte leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma (MM). With...
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Ecologists are monitoring biodiversity using DNA shed by wildlife into the environment. Credit: Andrew Tilker/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ResearchA Borneo Tiger Leech on a human hand
Published in Nature
Scientists are listening in on the ways viruses communicate and cooperate. Decoding what the microbes are saying could be a boon to human health.
Environmental Engineering
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A genome of Escherichia coli that uses just 61 codons.
Published in Nature
Researchers are realizing that the DNA–protein complex doesn’t just have one form but many. Credit: Bogdan Bintu/The Xiaowei Zhuang Laboratory/The Alistair Boettiger Laboratory
