A new user-friendly software tool is helping Rory Johnson of the University of Bern to do genome-wide screening of lncRNA function by deleting promoters.
Using two guide RNAs to excise chunks of the genome, an international team identified lncRNAs essential and inhibitory to human cancer cell line proliferation.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Horizon Discovery today announced that its CombinatoRx division has entered into a contract with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization to perform in vitro cell line screening of certain OPDC candidates in development.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health plans to fund scientists who will collaborate with established high-throughput screening facilities to discover and develop novel small molecule chemical probes.
Yale Environment 360 writes that synthetic and conservation biologists aren't always on the same wavelength, but they are trying to reach an understanding.
