Creative Biomart Blog

Thu, 2017/09/28

Worldwide Mortality Rates: One in Five Deaths Linked to Poor Diet

Recent study reveals: the number of deaths among children under five is decreasing. Though overall both men and women around the world are living longer, one in five deaths were linked to poor diet last year. Life expectancy in 2016 worldwide was 75.3 years for women and 69.8 for men. Japan has the highest life expectancy at 84 years and the Central African Republic has the lowest at just over 50. There are a discrepancy of more than three decades between the highest and the lowest lifespans. Agence France Presse: more than 1.6 million people in poor country died from diarrhea caused by

Sun, 2017/09/24

Cryo-EM Technique - Uncovered the Atomic Structure of a Key Alzheimer's Protein for the First Time

Tau protein abnormal deposit is one of the most important characteristics for Alzheimer. Recently, a new finding published in Nature obtained high-resolution images of those protein deposit structures caused by Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative disease for the first time. These finding can help scientists understand how these protein harmful deposit process function at the molecular level, and help develop new treatments to prevent the formation of these proteins, and thus treat Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Alzheimer is a common neurodegenerative disease, and, at pathogenesis leve

Tue, 2017/09/05

Learn FDA’s Review of Bio-similar from ABP215

ABP215 is a biosimilar drug developed by Amgen and Allergan, using Avastin (bevacizumab) as a prototype drug. Amgen filed a drug application to the FDA in November 2016. The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) met on July 13, 2017, and the members voted in favor of approving the ABP215 drug application. The ABP215 is expected to become America's first Avastin bio-similar drug. Liu Shining, the research manager in TrendForce, pointed out that, in the process of FDA review biosimilar, we can see it’s quite different from the review of new drug. Biosimilar focuses more on the similarit

Fri, 2017/07/28

Antiviral Proteins Designed by Computer May Help Halt Pandemic

Bill Gates said in a speech at the Munich Security Conference that three threats are closely related to the fate of our human species: nuclear warfare, climate change and the next global pandemic. "If we are going to prepare for the worst, we should build an arsenal." The factory he mentioned is not referring to any guns or ammunition, but the vaccine, drugs and diagnostics. At present, what troubles us most are the influenza virus. According to the report of the World Health Organization, although we have vaccine, seasonal influenza is still causing millions of illness and as many as half a

Tue, 2017/06/20

Tea and Coffee Consumption in Relation to DNA Methylation

In a recent study published in Human Molecular Genetics, researchers from the University of Uppsala, found that tea consumption may lead to DNA methylation changes of some special genes in women bodies, while those genes are thought to have interactions between cancers and estrogen metabolism. As we all know, lifestyle factors, like food choices, smoking and exposure to chemicals, can alter DNA methylation and lead to changes in gene activity. In this study, the researchers investigated whether tea and coffee consumption will lead to changes in DNA methylation. Both coffee and tea has been

Fri, 2017/06/09

Market and R&D Analysis of Recombinant Protein Drugs

According to the report of Grand View Research, the demand for recombinant technology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, and DNA sequencing technology is increasing based on disease diagnosis and treatment requirement, and the global biotechnology market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.3%. By 2020, the market size will be $606.8 billion. Recombinant protein, a genetic engineering and cell engineering technology, produced from the creature body, has become the most important biotechnology production. Generalized recombinant protein drugs can be divided into the following

Tue, 2017/05/23

How does FGF-dependent Metabolic Control Vascular Development?

The vasculature is the earliest organ to develop. Unlike other organs it has to be functional throughout development and therefore has to constantly adapt to the changing requirements of embryogenesis. As soon as an embryo grows bigger than about 2mm it critically depends on a functional vasculature because passive diffusion is not sufficient to supply all cells with oxygen and nutrients. Similar to embryos, any tumor wanting to grow bigger than 2mm needs functional blood vessels. This will supply the tumor with oxygen and nutrients but also provides a route for the spreading of metastasis. If

Wed, 2017/05/17

Would You Accept a Pig's Heart One Day?

Imagine: your heart is failing to work, and a replacement is deadly in need. Consistently, your family waits anxiously for a call from the hospital for the found of donor. At that point, one day, the call comes. In your fervor you scarcely hear what the doctor on the flip side of the line is letting you know. There's something you ought to know, she says. The contributor is not human. It's a pig. Actually, it's not a fantasy. In 2014, scientists announced that a pig's heart had survived for more than one year after it was transplanted into a baboon, being a proof for the assumption above. Thi