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The life sciences industry is currently undergoing its most significant paradigm shift in decades. This shift is often described as bioconvergence - the merging of biology, engineering, and advanced computing into one integrated innovation ecosystem. What used to be separate domains are now fully ...

Technology boosts hop production in Brazil and paves the way for new bioproducts

Despite being the third-largest producer and consumer of beer worldwide, Brazil depends almost entirely on hop imports. Less than 1% of the ingredient responsible for the bitterness, aroma, and flavor of beer is grown locally. However, a new project involving Brazilian scientists and producers in ...

Intelligent hydrogel microstructures enable the precise application of force to cellular systems

Within tissues, cells are embedded in complex, three-dimensional structures known as the extracellular matrix. Their biomechanical interactions play a crucial role in numerous biological processes. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have now developed a novel ...

The power of gut enzymes: why a healthy diet works differently for everyone

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Leibniz-HKI, together with international partners, have decoded a mechanism that determines how our gut microbiome processes healthy plant substances. The "chemical cookbook" ...

Rentschler Biopharma and Coriolis Pharma announce strategic collaboration for integrated biopharma solutions

Collaboration combines complementary scientific and technical expertise to provide seamless solutions along the entire biopharmaceutical value chain

Rentschler Biopharma SE and Coriolis Pharma announced that they have entered into a strategic collaboration.Together, the companies will provide clients with seamless end-to-end solutions, from early formulation to commercial manufacturing, leveraging their complementary expertise to accelerate ...

The smell of fatty foods during pregnancy promotes obesity in offspring

The brains of the offspring show similarities to those of obese adult mice

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has found that the smell of fatty foods during pregnancy increases the risk of overweight and obesity in children. The researchers fed pregnant mice a healthy diet low in fat but containing fatty smells, such as the smell of ...

Proteins in a crowd: European XFEL looks inside cells

Researchers observe in detail how the vital iron protein ferritin makes its way in highly dense environments

Inside biological cells, there is a dense crowd where millions of proteins move side by side, bump into each other or temporarily accumulate. At the same time, these proteins often have to fulfil important tasks at short notice. How exactly the proteins move in this confined space has been ...

A new tunable cell-sorting device with potential biomedical applications

Precise, label-free sorting of cells of various sizes possible due to a temperature-sensitive PNIPAM hydrogel array

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) hydrogel undergoes significant but precise changes in size between 20 and 40 °C, making it an excellent candidate for use in variable-size deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) array devices. Researchers from Science Tokyo have built a tunable DLD ...

NextPharma sells its logistics division to Cencora

The sale is part of the plan to position NextPharma as Europe's leading pure-play CDMO.

NextPharma, a leading European contract development and manufacturing organization ("CDMO"), has entered into an agreement with Cencora, Inc. ("Cencora"), a global pharmaceutical solutions company, to sell NextPharma's healthcare logistics business, NextPharma Logistics GmbH ("NextPharma ...

How an Invisible “Cap” could control Electrical Synapses

New Building Blocks of Cell Communication

An international team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, has used state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy to visualize electrical synapses (gap junctions) inside living cells. In doing so, they discovered a surprising additional structure: a previously unknown circular “cap” that is ...