It is January of 2022 and the Somatek team wishes all colleagues and friends a happy, healthy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year!! Looking back at 2021 Somatek is happy to report another successful year. The business grew again significantly and revenue was up almost...
The Scientist published under the title “Moderna vs. Pfizer: Is There a “Best” mRNA Vaccine?” an interesting summary of the current data on effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. As a somewhat accidental member of #team Moderna...
A Phase-I trial of a monoclonal antibody for malaria, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has shown that one dose prevented malaria for up to nine months in those exposed to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The open-label, dose-escalating...
Optogenetics is a biological technique that uses light to control neurons that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels. As such, it is a neuromodulation method that controls the activities of individual neurons in living tissue — even...
For a long time 5 antibody types have been known in mammals, IgG, IgM, IgA, IgE, and IgD, with IgG being the work horse in biotechnology. So it drew our attention that a group at Duke University has described a new type of anti-glycan antibody that binds to a patch of...
