Blog Topic: Science News

Find out who won the 2022 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.

This blog discusses xenotransplantation, the groundbreaking experimental procedure, where a man with end stage heart failure received a donor heart fr...

The winning submission in the 2021 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.

Find out who won the 2021 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.

This blog discusses the CRISPR technology that was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This blog takes a look at the career of June Almeida, who became a pioneer in the imaging and identification of viruses.

This blog discusses the reasons why non-animal derived recombinant antibodies are something that both antibody suppliers and researchers should consid...

The winners of the 2020 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition are revealed.

In this blog, we discuss the potential for a monoclonal antibody to neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

In the wake of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, social distancing has meant that labs all over the world have needed to temporarily shut. Read our blog on 9 th...

This blog highlights how A.I technology is being used to shape scientific discoveries and research direction.

The 2018 Nobel Prize announcements brought exciting news of two prizes awarded in recognition of ground-breaking achievements in the antibody field.

HuCAL technology was used to develop high specificity, high affinity antibodies to distinguish between protein isoforms with only minor differences.

In this blog, we explore the research behind a new potential vaccine against African Swine Fever.

In this blog, Rowan Cox, tells the story of the spread of the Marteilia parasite in cockles. This blog was awarded joint 2nd place in the 2022 Bio-Rad...

This blog takes a look at a study by Bergström et al. that examined the DNA from ancient wolves to help answer the origins of dogs from wolf populatio...

In this blog, we discuss Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRSS)-resistant pigs and how this could help alleviate the economic burden of ...

In this blog, we discuss new research that reveals how M. bovis manipulates bovine, but not human, macrophage defenses to cause disease, and helps exp...

This blog highlights the threat that canine distemper virus poses to the Amur tiger and discusses whether vaccinating these tigers could help protect ...

International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March all over the world to highlight the many achievements of women. To mark the occasion, in this blo...

This blog examines new findings that suggest the brain is far more resilient than we have assumed, and that challenge the idea that some functions are...

This blog discusses a recent study by Bohn et al. (2018) that highlights a mechanism that melanoma utilizes to subvert the immune response.

Krishnamoorthy et al. (2018) have identified enucleated neutrophil cell bodies, known as ‘ghosts’, as driving Th17 cell inflammation in severe asthma....

This blog focuses on gastrointestinal organoids and their role in advancing cancer research and therapy.

This blog discusses the PD-1 (programmed cell death-1) pathway and two licensed immunotherapy drugs that target it, pembrolizumab and nivolumab.

Baranska et al. (2018) identify macrophage dynamics as being key to tattoos lasting. This blog examines why tattoos are so difficult to remove.

This blog describes scientific findings describing the mechanism behind the failure of beta cells to proliferate in patients with type 2 diabetes

This blog post highlights major research findings on ZIKV in 2016, and provides a perspective on how scientists addressed this public health issue.

We are excited to share that Bio-Rad was named as the CiteAb Custom Antibody Supplier of the year.

This blog post highlights autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegeneration.

In this blog post we highlight some the current potholes on the road to reproducible antibodies.

This blog post discusses recent pre-clinical studies that suggest monocytes could be applied in a related manner to the treatment of diseases.

This blog post highlights novel gene-editing strategies to protect pigs against dangerous pathogens.

The new finding of trained immunity challenges the basic tenets of immunology, blurring the line that separates innate and adaptive immunity.

In this blog post, we describe the history, epidemiology and biology of the Zika virus.

This blog post provides an update on the current Ebola epidemic, citing evidence that the virus can linger in immune privileged sites inside the body....

Have a group of researchers really found the key to a cure to the currently incurable Dengue virus? Find out here...