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BenchFly: a Virtual Advisor for Graduate Students

BenchFly's website offers many useful tips for research and labwork, from ways of doing colony PCR to the best method to keep your waterbath clean. Protocols and techniques abound! If you’re a graduate student, doing your PhD or MSc study, you probably know by now that supervisors are not quite as useful as you would like them to be. Sure, once or twice a month you have a meeting with them, where you tell them of all the results you don’t have, and they tell you what to do next. But they ...

Cancer Vaccine on the Way?

Successful experiments on mice show promise for the development of a vaccine against cancer. We live in the era of the vaccines. It has been just a little over two hundred years since the first vaccine was invented against smallpox, and eventually eradicated the disease from the face of the earth. Since then, vaccines were devised against many kinds of diseases, which are almost nonexistent today. Now, a new type of vaccine is being developed, and may serve as the turning point of the wa...

Weekly Start-up: CapsuTech Ltd

Vision: To improve treatment for cancer patients by delivering the drug straight to the tumor, and achieve a more efficient treatment without side effects.         Name: CapsuTech Ltd CEO: Dr. Eyal Neria Sector: Pharmaceuticals Suc-Sector: Natural Materials Medical Field: Cancer Est.: 2006 Stage: Pre-Clinical Vision: To improve treatment for cancer patients by delivering the drug straight to the tumor, and achieve a more efficient treatment without side effec...