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Bio‑Techne Corporation, a global provider of life science tools, reagents, and diagnostic products, and Refeyn, a pioneer in mass photometric technology, today announced a first-of-its-kind integrated workflow for the characterization of charge and size variants of bispecific antibodies and biosimilars. By combining the R&D Systems MauriceFlex™ Imaging Capillary Isoelectric Focusing (icIEF) fractionation system with Refeyn’s TwoMP mass photometry platform, researchers can directly correlate charge heterogeneity with molecular weight and aggregation at single-molecule resolution in a streamlined 4-hour workflow. Bispecific antibodies are one of the fastest growing classes of biopharmaceuticals, but their structural complexity makes thorough characterization difficult. Incomplete characterization can…

The FDA approved 46 novel drugs in 2025 across oncology, infectious diseases, and rare disorders, offering key insights for regulatory and development strategies in 2026.

Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. You may have noticed a missing link in yesterday’s issue. You can read Sarah Todd’s excellent article on ultra-processed food research and policy here. Latest news on Ebola: number of cases, rebound A hodgepodge of Ebola news: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, samples from hundreds of suspected Ebola patients are being collected, and the outbreak is shrinking dramatically. As of Wednesday, the country reported 363 confirmed cases. At a WHO press conference, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said…

A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association finds that even if the scale barely moves, exercise goes far beyond just losing weight, improving cardiovascular health, maintaining physical fitness, and enhancing long-term obesity treatment outcomes. Study: The role of physical activity in obesity treatment and cardiometabolic health: American Heart Association scientific statement. Image credit: Ljupco Smokovski/Shutterstock.com recent scientific statements american heart association circulation Summarizes the role of physical activity in the treatment of obesity and cardiometabolic health. Exercise improves health beyond weight loss Obesity is associated with hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance, making it a major contributor to cardiovascular…

The research, led by leading baby sleep experts at Durham University, calls for a UK-wide campaign to ensure parents have access to trusted sources and expert advice before or at the time of purchase. This research BMJ Pediatrics Open. Unsafe use of baby slings and baby carriers has been linked to rare accidental deaths from suffocation and falls. Suffocation can occur when the baby’s nose or mouth is pressed against the parent’s body or blocked by a cloth. It can also occur when the baby collapses in the carrier, pinching the windpipe and making it impossible for the baby to…

Where fat is distributed throughout the body (and not just its total amount) has a large and independent impact on brain structure, brain function, and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults. This new research natural mental health. Body mass index (BMI) has long served as a standard clinical and research measure of obesity, but it does not capture where fat is stored in the body. Fat stored in different anatomical regions behaves biologically very differently. Visceral fat (fat accumulated around internal organs) releases inflammatory chemicals associated with neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. In contrast, limb fat is thought to have protective…

The CIC biomaGUNE Biomaterials Collaborative Research Center has developed lung surfactant nanoparticles, a mixture of lipids and proteins that line the alveoli and enable breathing. It is encapsulated in drugs used to treat lung diseases. fibrosis. These nanoparticles were shown to have a very high ability to remain entrapped in diseased tissues after being administered via the pulmonary route. This allows for lower doses of antifibrotic drugs and reduces potential side effects associated with traditional treatments. Studies conducted in mice have shown therapeutic efficacy against pulmonary fibrosis. This research advanced health care material The journal by CIC biomaGUNE’s Molecular Functional…

Imagine a train stopping at a station. Passengers board, the conductor checks their tickets, and everything appears to be ready. However, if the engineer’s clock stops, the train will never depart. The door remains open, the whistle never sounds, and the journey never begins. Similar problems can occur within living cells. If the timing systems that control development do not function, the organism may not be able to go through the stages necessary to reach adulthood. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified what appears to be the tiny worm’s master developmental clock. nematode. The discovery reveals how…

Mothers who followed a supervised exercise program throughout pregnancy gave birth to babies with a lower BMI and reduced odds of being overweight at 12 months, providing new clues about how prenatal lifestyle shapes early growth trajectories. Study: Exercise during pregnancy and infant BMI during the first year of life: a per-protocol secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Image credit: New Africa/Shutterstock.com Supervised exercise sessions during pregnancy may improve a child’s BMI trajectory and growth pattern during late infancy, according to a new study published in . Frontiers of global women’s health. How maternal health shapes infant growth Pregnancy…

The EPA’s recent rollback of climate regulations will shift economic advantage to Chinese appliance makers, according to U.S. refrigerator makers. President Donald Trump returned to office last year and vowed to revive American manufacturing. The administration has imposed high trade taxes, taken a pickaxe with regulations, and expanded oil and gas drilling, all in the name of American economic superiority. In his Rose Garden speech last year, President Trump promised that his trade policies would “strengthen our domestic industrial base,” “open up foreign markets, break down foreign trade barriers, and ultimately increase domestic production, which means more competition and lower…