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Pearland, TX (USA), site will be the world's largest facility dedicated to cell and gene therapy development and manufacturing.

Company seeks funding to build on successful research programmes and commercialise new products.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for "developing Cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."

Assuring the highest accuracy in human identity testing for law enforcement and other uses.

A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are most likely to be associated with one of the most aggressive types of pancreatic cancer.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

In this exciting collaboration, students from over 60 schools in the UK will work with scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Reanalysis of data from a previous study on the familial risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) estimates the heritability to be 83 percent, suggesting that genetic factors may explain most of the risk for ASD.

The new form of treatment is based on the protein molecule named CD40, which destroys cancerous tumours without harming healthy cell tissue.

The gene is involved in the translation of proteins from RNA and in the proliferation and migration of neurons in the brain.