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Metabolon, has announced the close on $72 million in combined debt and equity financing. This round of financing included Perceptive Advisors as a new participant. EW Healthcare Partners and other existing investors also participated in the financing. “We are thrilled by this strong show of support from Perceptive Advisors and our current investors,” said Rohan […]

New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the first molecular explanation for why more men than women die from COVID-19. The researchers found that more than 10% of people who develop severe COVID-19 have […]

Dotmatics’ eln.online is a quick start version of its Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN). Designed for research organisations at an early stage in their development, eln.online is a new version of the company’s existing ELN Studies Notebook. According to Dotmatics the software can be easily set up. It enables search and capture of experimental data in […]

IDBS has released a fully-featured integration between the E-WorkBook electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and SCIEX Analyst Software. This expands on IDBS’s existing family of integrations. This new integration aims to strengthen IDBS’ existing preclinical capabilities by seamlessly transferring data, enabling increased regulatory compliance and improved throughput. In response to the call for improved preclinical workflows […]

NIAID intends to provide approximately $82 million over five years to support the network. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in the US, has awarded 11 grants with a total first-year value of approximately $17 million to establish the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). The global network will involve […]

Stanford chemists have developed a new tool that shuttles unwanted cell surface proteins to their deaths, by Rebecca McClellan When scientists find a potentially dangerous protein on a cell, they might imagine shrinking themselves down to become tiny surgeons, cutting out just the problematic molecule and leaving the healthy parts of the cell intact. While […]

Miltenyi Biotec has launched its SARS-CoV-2 PepTivator Peptide Pools, a new addition to its PepTivator Portfolio specifically developed to help researchers currently investigating COVID-19 Based on decades worth of experience in developing products for virus-specific T cell research, SARS-CoV-2 PepTivator Peptide Pools work by stimulating T cells specific to the novel virus, which allows subsequent […]