Research Areas

GRENOBLE, France—Researchers have created a system that can monitor protein-peptide interactions in real time.

WALDBRONN, Germany—Researchers at Agilent devised a systematic approach to metabolite identification by LC/MSn that integrates automated software-aided data interpretation

PHILADELPHIA—Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania developed a method that combines immunological detection with nucleic acid amplification-based detection

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Multidrug treatments are becoming increasingly prevalent but little effort has gone into determining whether the drugs will interact with each other in unexpected ways

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—At the recent AACR meeting, AVEO Pharmaceuticals announced the development of fully human breast tumors in mice

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Microdosing specialist Xceleron announced an agreement with Neurocrine Biosciences for a multi-arm Phase 0 study

Over the last couple of months, I have been intently watching an editorial melodrama that has been playing out at the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

TEMPE, Ariz.—Combining lessons in plant biology and vaccine generation, scientists at Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) Biodesign Institute have engineered tobacco plants to produce vaccine antigens against the microbe that causes the legendary Black Death, Yersinia pestis. In doing so, they have taken another step toward helping the world protect itself from bioterrorist attack.