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Nature Biotechnology is a peer reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. The chief editor is Andrew Marshall who is part of an in-house team of editors. The focus of the journal is biotechnology including research results and the commercial business sector of this field. Coverage includes the related biological, biomedical, agricultural and environmental sciences. Also of interest are the commercial, political, legal, and societal influences that affect this field.

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Nature Publishing Group

Website

http://www.nature.com/nbt/index.html

Impact factor

31.1 (2010)

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Study finds wide variation between human cell lines used for research

More than 70 percent of researchers failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment, according to a survey conducted by Nature in 2016. If scientists can't reproduce each other's work, important discoveries may never leave ...

Feb 19, 2019 in Cell & Microbiology

Injectable sponge-like gel enhances the quantity and quality of T-cells

Bone marrow transplants, also known as hematopoietic stem cell transplants, are life-saving treatments for aggressive diseases, such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, and infections such as HIV. The procedure entails infusion ...

Feb 11, 2019 in Biotechnology

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Researchers engineer more efficient Cas12a variants

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and MIT has engineered Cas12a variants that are able to target a wider range of protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs). In their paper published ...

Feb 12, 2019 in Biotechnology Molecular & Computational Biology report

New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human virus

During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015-16, public health officials scrambled to contain the epidemic and curb the pathogen's devastating effects on pregnant women. At the same time, scientists around the globe tried to understand ...

Feb 04, 2019 in Biotechnology

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More than 100 new gut bacteria discovered in human microbiome

Scientists working on the gut microbiome have discovered and isolated more than 100 completely new species of bacteria from healthy people's intestines. The study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hudson Institute of Medical ...

Feb 04, 2019 in Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology

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Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection

Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.

Feb 04, 2019 in Biotechnology

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The web meets genomics: a DNA search engine for microbes

Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have combined their knowledge of bacterial genetics and web search algorithms to build a DNA search engine for microbial data. The search engine, described ...

Feb 04, 2019 in Biotechnology Molecular & Computational Biology

3-D culturing hepatocytes on a liver-on-a-chip device

Liver-on-a-chip cell culture devices are attractive biomimetic models in drug discovery, toxicology and tissue engineering research. To maintain specific liver cell functions on a chip in the lab, adequate cell types and ...

Jan 17, 2019 in Analytical Chemistry feature

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Cassava high in iron and zinc could improve diets and health in west Africa

A new study led by Danforth Center principal investigator Nigel Taylor and research scientist Narayanan Narayanan, shows that field-grown cassava plants overexpressing a combination of plant genes can accumulate significantly ...

Jan 28, 2019 in Biotechnology

Long-read DNA analysis can give rise to errors, experts warn

Advanced technologies that read long strings of DNA can produce flawed data that could affect genetic studies, research suggests.

Jan 22, 2019 in Biotechnology

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