The 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Open Air Program, consisting of two sections, Open Air and Open Air Premiere. The program set for the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema will be “showcasing some of the most important arthouse films of the year, as well as cinematic classics,” organizers…
Cinema can “preserve history, influence mindsets and provide a space for reflection and escape,” Cambodian auteur Rithy Panh (Graves Without a Name, Exile, Meeting With Pol Pot, Everything Will Be OK) said when he was unveiled as the surprise jury president of this year’s 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The longtime documentary chronicler…
Shift Bioscience (Shift), a biotechnology company uncovering the biology of cell rejuvenation to develop new therapies for age driven diseases, today announced the results of a new study detailing an improved approach to ranking virtual cell models for gene discovery. The research describes the introduction of new metrics and baselines to assess model performance, providing…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved more than 23,000 prescription drugs, with many more in development. Increasingly, therapeutic manufacturers are discovering that the key to treating disease may have been inside us all along, in the form of biologically-derived treatments called biologics. In this article, explore how researchers use biologics to combat…
Congratulations to the winners of The Scientist’s science writing competition! Image credit:© Istock, PeopleImages Science begins with a spark of inspiration derived from a curiosity, an idea, or a fascination. A well told scientific story has the power to ignite excitement and inspire discovery in an ongoing chain of creativity and sharing. Earlier this year,…
CRISPR tools don’t work well in cell lines of non-European descent, primarily due to a genetic ancestry-based bias in their design. CRISPR-Cas9 enables researchers to make precise and targeted edits in the genome to determine gene function. For this, scientists use guide RNAs, which are short stretches of RNA sequences that lead the Cas9 enzyme…
This webinar will be hosted live and available on-demand. Tuesday, August 5th, 202512:00 – 1:00 PM Genomic modeling and design have the potential to transform synthetic biology research. However, researchers face bottlenecks due to insufficient tools that fail to support a deep understanding of the vastly complicated information hidden in genomes. In this webinar brought…
From eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap, genetic variability influences many factors in a person’s life. These inherited differences can also determine a person’s risk of developing a particular type of cancer and possibly even the response to certain kinds of cancer therapies. For example, while immune checkpoint inhibitors represent a huge advance…
