WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is blocking shipments by the Chinese biotech company BGI Group and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor in China’s far-west ethnic region of Xinjiang. Starting Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will bar goods by BGI Group, a major biotech company known for its genetic
Theranos, the failed blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes, claimed that its device could run hundreds of tests on a few drops of blood.Credit: HBO Documentary Films/Everett Collection You Can See Everything chronicles the final weeks before disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes went to prison in 2023. Since its US release last week, the film has
After examining the results of thousands of clinical trials, a swarm of AI agents suggested that a protein that dampens immune responses could be the target for a promising treatment for lung cancer.Credit: Eoneren/Getty It’s a pharmaceutical-company executive’s dream: tens of thousands of employees working day and night, uninterrupted by meals, sleep or distraction, to
Conventional cereals and grains could be grown alongside gene-edited crops under amended EU rules.Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty In June, the European Union overturned its strict limits on the cultivation of gene-edited crops. The change comes in the wake of growing criticism that Europe lags behind other regions when it comes to adopting innovative plant
tRNA in vitro production Oligonucleotides containing tRNA under a T7 promoter and followed by an HDV ribozyme61 were synthesized by IDT as high-fidelity DNA microchip oligo pools from 254–275 nucleotides in length, and dsDNA was amplified in a single PCR reaction for each pool. These tRNA pools included 48 unique E. coli isoacceptor tRNAs with
Shinya Yamanaka in 2012, the year he won a share of a Nobel prize.Credit: Aflo/Shutterstock Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a run, often while training for a marathon, on the streets of Kyoto, Japan. Many of them call out words of
