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  1. AstraZeneca reports tozorakimab COPD trial results

    AstraZeneca reported Phase III OBERON and TITANIA results showing tozorakimab reduced moderate and severe COPD exacerbations across broad…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #AstraZeneca #Biotechnology #COPDtreatment #FDAPriorityReview #IL-33antibody #PhaseIIItrial #respiratorymedicine #tozorakimab
    europesays.com/britain/120279/

  2. Stirling team develops new method to study salmon lice secretions

    Research led by PhD researcher Alexander Dindial alongside professor James Bron and Dr Sean Monaghan at the University’s…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AtlanticSalmon #Biotechnology #CA #Canada #Europe #Genetics #Salmonids #Scotland #Sealice #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/ca/883197/

  3. 🔬 Is it time to challenge the single-target mindset in exosome research?

    🔗 Engineering Magnetic Beads for Affinity Enrichment of Exosomes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ). DOI: doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0170

    📚 CSBJ - A Science Partner Journal: spj.science.org/journal/csbj

    #Exosomes #ExtracellularVesicles #Biotechnology #MagneticBeads #Bioengineering #Diagnostics #Nanobiotechnology #Biomarkers #DrugDelivery #PrecisionMedicine

  4. From bioluminescent "living highlighters" in cancer research to deep-sea creatures exuding glowing green plumes, the ocean floor is full of wonder. 🌊✨
    Marine biologist Dr. Steven Haddock joins us to discuss these and more.

    👉 Read the show transcript here: embedded.fm/transcripts/530.

    #Podcast #OceanScience #Biotechnology #DeepSea #Bioluminescence #EmbeddedSystems
    #mbari #jellyfish #author #biology #engineering #embedded #podcast

  5. Congrats to Francis H. Arnold and Tao Zhang on receiving the Dr. Karl Wamsler #Innovation Award from TUM and Clariant for their outstanding achievements in #catalysis research, including biocatalysis and white #biotechnology: go.tum.de/549571 👏

    📷A. Heddergott

  6. Congrats to Francis H. Arnold and Tao Zhang on receiving the Dr. Karl Wamsler #Innovation Award from TUM and Clariant for their outstanding achievements in #catalysis research, including biocatalysis and white #biotechnology: go.tum.de/549571 👏

    📷A. Heddergott

  7. Congrats to Francis H. Arnold and Tao Zhang on receiving the Dr. Karl Wamsler #Innovation Award from TUM and Clariant for their outstanding achievements in #catalysis research, including biocatalysis and white #biotechnology: go.tum.de/549571 👏

    📷A. Heddergott

  8. Congrats to Francis H. Arnold and Tao Zhang on receiving the Dr. Karl Wamsler #Innovation Award from TUM and Clariant for their outstanding achievements in #catalysis research, including biocatalysis and white #biotechnology: go.tum.de/549571 👏

    📷A. Heddergott

  9. Congrats to Francis H. Arnold and Tao Zhang on receiving the Dr. Karl Wamsler #Innovation Award from TUM and Clariant for their outstanding achievements in #catalysis research, including biocatalysis and white #biotechnology: go.tum.de/549571 👏

    📷A. Heddergott

  10. Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck

    Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction research

    Dear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.

    The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.

    THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES

    In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.

    That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

    WHY THE MONEY FLOWS

    The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.

    Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.

    The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.

    Sources list
    ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
    Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
    Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
    Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
    Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
    Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
  11. Kefir is a fermented milk product scientifically proven to reduce high blood pressure and exhibit significant antidiabetic effects by improving glucose absorption and insulin sensitivity.
    #Biotechnology #Biochemistry #Microbiology #NutritionalScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/04/nut04302601

  12. Symrise invests in Bond Pet Foods for sustainable innovation in biotechnology

    Symrise has made an equity investment in Bond Pet Foods to complement its pet nutrition portfolio. The US biotechnology company produces animal-identical proteins with precision fermentation.  Symrise says the par…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #biotechnology #BondPetFoods #petnutrition #Symrise
    diningandcooking.com/2601998/s

  13. 3 gene editing technologies transforming biology 🧬

    CRISPR-Cas9: targeted cutting → knockout or insertion

    Base editing: single-nucleotide changes, no double-strand breaks  

    Prime editing: insert, delete, or replace sequences with precision

    For aging research: correcting genetic changes, enhancing repair, engineering resilience

    #CRISPR #GeneEditing #Biotechnology #AgingResearch #PrecisionMedicine

  14. #Jellyfish consist of approximately 1% #biological material. The rest is water. So, you could say that, evolutionarily speaking, they are perfectly tuned to hold a liquid together.
    #Biotechnology #NutritionalScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/btech120825

  15. $NWBO Stock Northwest Biotherapeutics (NWBO, $0.24) Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) Histogram turned positive on November 20, 2025

    #Biotechnology, #TechnicalAnalysis, #MACD, #Bullish, #OTCStocks, #SmallCap This is a Bullish indicator signaling NWBO's price could rise from here. Traders may explore going long the stock or buying call options. A.I. dvisor identified 46 similar cases where NWBO's MACD histogram became positive, and 34 of them led to…

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  16. Thursday, September 4, 2025

    Ukraine destroys Russian speedboat as it attempts to land troops, Navy says, shares footage -- Behind Ukraine’s manpower crisis lies a bleak new battlefield reality for infantry -- Fears of Russian hit campaign grow as another nationalist politician is murdered in Ukraine -- No regional centers captured, 1 million dead Russian soldiers — Ukrainian official responds to Putin's threats with list of Russia's military achievements ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  17. Gilead’s Trodelvy stumbles in late-stage trials but remains prized cancer asset—BMS axes Eisai ADC pact 3 years after paying $650M for would-be Elahere rival —Supreme Court’s Chevron Doctrine ruling could limit FDA’s regulatory authority—bit.ly/w28kSd #gileadsciences #cancer #antibodydrugconjufate #eisai #bristolmyerssquibb #supremecourt #fda #chevrondoctrine #pharma #pharmanews #biotech #biopharma #biotechnology #cafepharma

  18. Precision T-Cell Solid Tumor Therapy Trial Underway

    A clinical trial has begun testing a treatment for solid #tumor #cancers using engineered T-cells with proteins to attack specific tumor cells, but also avoid healthy cells.

    sciencebusiness.technewslit.co

    #News #Science #Business #ClinicalTrial #Biotechnology #Tcells #Immunotherapy #SolidTumor #PrecisionMedicine #CompanionDiagnostic

  19. CW: Long Hashtag List for the Life Sciences

    Life Sciences Hashtags

    • Animal Behaviour
    #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalCognition #AnimalPsychology #AnimalResearch #AnimalSocieties #AnimalStudies #BehavioralEcology #BehaviouralEcology #BehavioralScience #BehaviouralScience #CameraTraps #ComparativeCognition #CriticalAnimalStudies #Learning #Memory #PositiveReinforcement #Sociobiology #TrailCam

    • Astrobiology
    #AlienLife #Astrobiology #Biosignatures #Cryosphere DeepIce #EarthScience #Exoplanets #GeoScience #Habitability #Karst #MicroHabitats #OceanWorlds #OriginOfLife #PlanetaryCaves #PlanetaryScience

    • Behaviour Science
    #AnthroZoology #Behavior #Behaviour #Behaviour2023 #BehavioralScience #BehaviouralScience #Biopsychology #CognitiveDevelopment #ComparativeCognition #DevelopmentalPsychology #Ethology #Learning #Memory #Neuroethology #PhilosophyOfMind #PleasureActivism #Psychology #SelfOrganisation #SelfOrganization #SocialNetwork

    • Biochemistry | Group: @biochemistry
    #Actin #AminoAcids #Biochemical #Biochemistry #Catalyst #Catalysis #DNA #Enzyme #Enzymes #Hormones #IonChannels #Kinetics #Metabolism #Metabolomics #mRNA #Peptides #Polymer #Protein #Proteins #RNA

    • Bioinformatics | Group: @bioinformatics
    #BigData #Bioinformatics #RStats

    • Biology | Group: [email protected]
    #Biochemistry #Biology #Biomes #Botany #Ecology #Ecosystem #Evolution #Genetics #Habitat #LifeCycle #MarineBiology #Microbiology #Zoology

    • Biomaterial Science
    #Biofilm #Biofilms #Biologics #Biomaterials #Biotechnology #MaterialsScience #Nanotechnology #SustainableDesign #SyntheticBiology

    • Biomedical Science
    #Biomedical #BiomedicalEngineering #BiomedicalScience #NetworkMedicine #SystemsBiology

    • Botany
    #Botany #Botanical #Botanist #FloraIncognita #Florespondence IAmABotanist #Phenology #PlantBiology #PlantCells #PlantID #PlantIdentification

    • Cell Biology | Group: @cellbiology
    #CellBiology #CellDivision #CellMigration #Chloroplast #Cilium #Cytoskeleton #EndoplasmicReticulum #Eukaryotes #Golgi #Lipids #Macrophages #Membrane #Membranes #Microtubules #Mitochondria #Nucleus #Organelle #Organoids #Ribosome #SingleCell

    • Developmental Biology
    #ChildDevelopment #Connectome #Connectomics #DevelopmentalBiology #Embryology #Embryos #EvoDevo #GeneRegulation #Pregnancy #Proteomics #ReproSci #SexDet #StemCells #Transcriptomics

    • Ecology | Group: @ecology
    #AgroEcology #BehavioralEcology #BehaviouralEcology #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #BiodiversityLoss #Biogeography #ConservationBiology #Ecocide #EcoGrief #Ecological #EcologicalMonitoring #EcologicalSurvey #Ecology #Ecosystem #ForestEcology #Habitat #InvasionEcology #InvasiveSpecies #MassExtinction #OldGrowth #Riparian #WildCounts

    • Entomology | Group: @entomology
    #Beetles #Bugs #Coleoptera #Crustaceans #Entomologia #Entomology #Hemiptera #Hymenoptera #iNaturalist #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #Invertebrates #Isopods #Lepidoptera #Metamorphosis #Orthoptera #Pupa #Taxonomy

    • Genetics
    #BasePair #CellDivision #Chromosome #Chromosomes #Clone #Epigenetics #DNA #Gene #GeneExpression #GeneRegulation #GeneticallyModified #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #GMO #Meiosis #Mitosis #Mutation #RNAseq #Telomeres #Variants

    • Immunology
    #Antibodies #Antibody #Antigen #AutoImmune #BCells #Immune #ImmuneSystem #Immunity #ImmunoCompromised #Immunology #ImmunoTherapy #Interferon #Macrophages #Monoclonal #MonoclonalAntibodies (#mAbs) #Neutrophils #TCell #Vaccinated #Vaccine #Viralimmunology

    • Marine Science
    #Acidification #Algae #Aquatic #Cetaceans #Coral #CoralBleaching #CoralReefs #DeepSea #Diatoms #Estuary #Eutrophication #Kelp #KelpForest #MarineBiology #MarineLife #MarineMammals #MarineScience #MarineTaxonomy #Oceanography #Oceans #OceanWarming #Phytoplankton #Reefs #SeaBed #SeaFloor #SeaGrass #Seaweed #ScubaDiving #Snorkeling #UnderWaterPhotography #Zooplankton

    • Microbiology | Group: @microbiology
    #Antibiotics #AntiMicrobial #AntiMicrobialResistance (#AMR) #Bacteria #Bacterial #Bacteriophage #Bacteriology #Cilia #Microbes #Microbial #MicrobialEcology #Microbiology #Microbiome #Microbiota #MicroOrganisms #Phage #Protists

    #EColi #Legionella #Pseudomonas #Salmonella #Streptomyces

    • Molecular Biology | Group: @molecularbiology
    #Biophysics #CellBiology #MolecularBiology #MolecularEvolution #ProteinEngineering #ProteinStructure #Proteomics #StructuralBiology

    • Mycology | Group: @mycology
    #Fungi #Fungiverse #Mushrooms #Mycelium #Mycologists #Mycology #Mycophile #Spores #Sporespondence

    • Ornithology | Group: @ornithology
    #BirdID #Birding #BirdMigration #BirdPhotography #BirdResearch #BirdsOfMastodon #Corvid #eBird #Migration #Nesting #Oology #Ornithology #Raptor #SeaBirds #ShoreBirds

    • Virology | Group: @virology
    #AntiViral #AvianFlu #Bacteriophage #BirdFlu #CoronaVirus #COVID #COVID19 #GiantViruses #HIV #InfectiousDisease #Ebola #Measles #Phage #SARS #SARSCoV2 #Vaccine #Vaccines #ViralLoad #Viralimmunology #ViralPersistence #Variants #Virology #Virome #Virus #Viruses

    • Zoology
    #Animals #Biology #Zoologist #Zoology

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  20. Humble Algae: The Solution to Palm Oil Ecocide

    Consumers, businesses and researchers have shown growing interest in microalgae in recent years. Use of Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) as a food supplement is one example. Others include how microalgae can be used as crop support tools, bioplastics or biofuels. Take action for your health and be #vegan and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

    #Agriculture is destroying the planet – #algae is a #climatechange resilient answer needing no land to grow, it has a superb nutrients for human #health and more 🌱🍃🥕🥦 #Boycottpalmoil go #vegan 🌴🔥❌ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/12/28/soy-and-palm-oil-agriculture-is-destroying-the-planet-algae-is-the-answer/

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    Agriculture is destroying the planet: algae is the answer

    The emerging and predicted impacts on agriculture and food supplies are stark, according to the panel. For instance, heat waves, drought and increasing rainfall variability could adversely affect crop yields and livestock productivity. This, in turn, could cause problems with food availability and nutritional quality, as well as risks of malnutrition and hunger.

    Written by Jules Siedenburg, Research fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

    Some parts of the world disproportionately bear this burden: over three billion people are currently deemed highly vulnerable to climate change, most of them in Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Small-scale farmers and pastoralists are particularly at risk.

    The need for climate action is now evident, but finding viable pathways can be challenging. Yet effective climate actions can reduce climate-related risks while fostering sustainability. “Climate smart” agricultural technologies offer various proven climate actions, such as agroforestry or drought-tolerant seeds. Such technologies can potentially raise farm productivity while also mitigating (that is, combating) climate change or helping farmers adapt to it, or both.

    Growing interest in microalgae

    Microalgae are a diverse group of microscopic aquatic organisms. Maryna Lahereva/Shutterstock

    Microalgae are a diverse group of microscopic aquatic organisms. Like plants, they typically generate energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. But they differ from plants in basic ways. For instance, they grow in water instead of on land and absorb nutrients directly instead of via roots. While some microalgae are seen as harmful, others provide useful products.

    One question that has remained largely unexamined, however, is whether “agri-food” applications of microalgae might offer promising options to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

    A new academic paper set out to provide provisional answers. It reviewed the available evidence on microalgae as food supplements, livestock feeds, biofertilisers, biostimulants and biochar feedstocks. It then assessed the potential of these five microalgae applications to serve as the basis for climate actions.

    Agri-food applications and climate action

    Microalgae have been used as traditional foods in various countries where suitable species occur naturally, such as Mexico and Chad.

    Nowadays microalgae food supplements are principally eaten by health-conscious consumers. Yet they can also be used to address malnutrition and to improve health in places where diet is poor. As foods, microalgae can be potent sources of nutrients, including high-quality proteins, lipids and vitamins.

    • Microalgae production has characteristics that clearly distinguish it from plant or animal production.
    • It doesn’t require fertile land.
    • It is largely independent of local weather patterns and could potentially recycle water.
    • It has elevated productivity and scope for continuous harvests.

    Microalgae is climate resilient

    This technological profile is well suited to coping with climatic shocks, so microalgae production can be climate resilient. The delivery of microalgal biomass for use as a food or for other applications can thus also be climate resilient.

    Novel feeds like microalgae, seaweed and insects offer options to improve the sustainability of livestock production by providing protein-rich complements to staple feeds like grasses and feed crops. Microalgae feeds have been tested on cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, poultry and fish. The results have typically included improved productivity, better nutritional quality of products, or both. Microalgae could also provide a secure source of feeds in places where livestock deaths linked to climate change are a growing concern.

    Green algae by Wichit on Getty Images

    Global crop production continues to rely heavily on chemical fertilisers to boost crop productivity. However, such products can sometimes undermine agricultural sustainability or not cope well with climate change impacts.

    Biofertilisers and biostimulants are natural alternative options for boosting crop production. Biofertilisers provide nutrients to plants. Biostimulants promote plant growth by stimulating biological or chemical processes in plants or microbes associated with roots.

    Early studies of microalgae-based biofertilisers and biostimulants suggest they can boost productivity while also building the resilience of crops to climate-related stresses like elevated temperatures, water scarcity and soil salinity. Treated maize plants, for example, showed more developed roots than untreated plants. This resulted in better resistance to drought.

    Microalgae could also support crop production

    by using algal biomass to make biochar, or charred biomass. Applying biochar to fields can improve soil fertility and enhance soil’s capacity to hold water. Such effects could help crops cope with climate change impacts like erratic rainfall and extreme weather events.

    Biochar was a traditional soil management tool in some cultures, and treated fields sometimes remain distinct. For instance, fields treated many centuries ago in South America were found to contain up to 9% carbon compared with 0.5% on neighbouring fields. Moreover, their productivity was twice as high as that of untreated fields. Early studies on biochar made from microalgae have suggested it could be an effective soil amendment.

    Mitigating and adapting to climate change

    Taken together, these five agri-food applications of microalgae could be seen as possible ways to enhance the climate resilience of food production, and hence as climate change adaptation measures. Concretely, they offer options to help secure both food supplies and agricultural livelihoods despite climate change.

    These five applications were also found to offer possible ways to mitigate climate change, whether by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or transforming these gases into physical form. One example is partially replacing an imported livestock feed like soymeal – associated with transport emissions and tropical deforestation – with microalgae-based feeds that need comparatively little land and could be locally sourced. Another example is using microalgae-based biochar to build up soil organic carbon in stable form.

    In future, such mitigation measures could perhaps be supported by the carbon markets. These markets offer mechanisms to pay for projects that mitigate climate change. In theory this could provide cash flows to participating stakeholders, including farmers. Such projects might moreover be attractive to potential participants given sharp rises in carbon credit prices in recent years, even if these initiatives have sometimes proven disappointing in the past. Several institutional developments would, however, be needed to make this possible.

    Agri-food applications of microalgae can help mitigate and adapt to climate change. Dr Jules Siedenburg

    The five microalgae applications examined clearly hold promise, both as avenues for fostering climate resilient food production and as climate change mitigation measures. These applications could thus be framed as climate actions. But more research is needed to explore and verify this potential, and to examine issues like consumer acceptance and managing possible contamination risks.

    In the meantime, these five microalgae technologies merit greater attention from consumers, farmers and governments as timely and hopeful innovations.

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