The Hungate1000 project, named after one of the great microbiologists, Robert E. Hungate (pictured), was launched with the aim of producing a reference set of rumen microbial genome sequences. Wh...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/03/20/rumen-microbial-genomics-resource
The need to feed growing populations in developing countries, especially countries in Africa, must be met by increasing the yields of crops. Also, climate-change related problem such as drought c...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/02/08/the-developing-world-needs-gmos
The First Rounders podcast with Jeff can be found here. A Boston Globe article on Leiden taking the CEO position at Vertex is here and one from Xconomy is here. Read the Forbes piece on Vertex’...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/02/22/first-rounders-jeffery-leiden
The First Rounders podcast with John Maraganore can be found here. If you’d like more background on John, read this profile in Xconomy from 2014. Here’s John being interviewed at BIO after be...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/05/08/first-rounders-john-maraganore
The answer to this question is, Not exactly. Yellow fever never left Brazil. I earlier wrote that Oswaldo Cruz eradicated yellow fever in Brazil in the 19th century. In fact the extraordinary wor...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/03/23/is-yellow-fever-back-in-brazil
At the beginning of the year, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an opinion that plants created using new plant breeding techniques, including gene-e...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/06/14/will-the-eu-deregulate-gene-edited-plants
Cytokines are small proteins that mediate signalling among immune and non-immune cells, and they trigger a range of cellular activity, such as proliferation, activation and killing. Over many dec...
Ordering synthetic oligos or genes online is now commonplace and an essential resource to scientists across disciplines. But the phosphoramidite chemistry currently used to synthesize DNA is limi...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/06/22/a-new-approach-for-dna-synthesis
On August 10, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic, a treatment for polyneuropathy caused by transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis from Alnylam The...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/08/21/alnylam-launches-era-of-rnai-drugs
To the Editor: We, the undersigned, are biotechnology executives, entrepreneurs, academic leaders and investors. We are gravely concerned about trends in the United States that are undermining ou...
https://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/09/18/biotech-leaders-call-for-free-press