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Gender Health Gap: Why Gender-sensitive Research can save Lives
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RNA, Mountains, Bears, and Maple Syrup – Research in Canada
“If it’s black, fight back. If it’s brown, lie down. If it’s white, goodnight.” I made sure to memorize this saying about bear encounters...
Towards Animal-Free Science: On the Way to Research without Animal Testing?
The thalidomide tragedy, one of the most notorious drug scandals in Germany, affected around 10,000 people. Thalidomide was a sleeping pill...
Lab goes Green: Get your Lab Ready for the Future!
Sustainability has become a key aspect in many areas of our lives. The aim is to conserve resources, protect the environment and ensure a...
Research Donors at Biomol – Right Donor, Right Sample, Right Time
You already know the British company Research Donors as our partner and supplier of high-quality human blood products. But do you also know...
Cheers, Ladies: Women in Science
"Science is not going to be the main subject, unfortunately. As a male scientist, I have a feeling of discrimination when I am here, in the...
New Addition to the Biomol Family: the Company ELK Biotechnology
In the symbolism of the animal world, the majestic elk is considered a power animal that embodies strength, endurance and sublimity. Its...
Stress Granules, Fjords and Kanelboller - a Research Internship in Norway
Hardly any other field of work thrives as much on international exchange as research. Networking and collaboration between researchers from...
You have the Vision, We have - a Vision too!
On the renaming of the Nordic Biosite Group to Europa Biosite
Application Abbreviations in the Biomol Webshop - and what they mean
In our webshop you have the possibility to filter your product search by applications for which the respective products have been validated...
The 10 Most Cited Products at Biomol - A New Edition
One of the first questions we often ask ourselves when buying online is: Does the product have the desired quality? Or to put it more...
Donating Blood for Science: The Research Donors Company
Written by Irene Protschky
Yoda, Pokemon, Spock & Co. - The Top 10 Biomol Products with the Most Unusual Names
Written by Emily Locke
Biomol at the 73rd Mosbacher Kolloquium
Normally, Biomol participates in various conferences each year to interact with the scientific community in person. However, due to the...
International Women's Day 2022
On International Women's Day, we at Biomol would like to send our warmest greetings to all female scientists, technical assistants, lab...
Top 10 Most Cited Products on Biomol
Biomol offers more than 625.000 products for life science research. Many of these products are used to enable new discoveries and are...
iGEM - How Students Shape the World of Science
iGEM (or international Genetically Engineered Machine) is a non-profit, student competition for synthetic biology. Synthetic biology...
Cardiac Tissue Engineering and Gene Therapy Approaches for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
What did you study for your master’s thesis? I have used three different heart muscle cell lines to characterize the phenotype of the...
The First Therapeutic Use of Penicillin
The Undiscovered Potential Howard Florey and his team of researchers at Oxford University were the first to seriously recognize the...
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
65 years ago the first immortalized cell line, today known as HeLa, was established.
The First Synthetic Production of Growth Hormone
On January 6, 1971 Berkeley chemists announced the first synthetic production of growth hormone.
Immune Checkpoints and Cancer
Cancer immunotherapy seeks to use the many components of the immune system to attack cancer cells. More specifically, immunotherapy...
The First Human Gene Therapy
On September 14, 1990, Ashanti DeSilva became the first of only two participants in the world's first approved gene therapy trial. The...
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
On August 25, 2006 Cell published Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka's work on the induction of pluripotency in embryonic and adult...
Invention of the Hybridoma Technology
On August 7, 1975, César Milstein and Georges Köhler published their seminal paper on the production of monoclonal antibodies in continuous...
The Discovery of Insulin
On July 27, 1921, Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best succeeded in isolating insulin from canine pancreases and thereby discovered the...
The First Ebola Epidemic
On June 27, 1976 Y.G., a storekeeper at the cotton factory in Nzara, South Sudan, suddenly became ill with a high fever, chest pain, and...
The Discovery of AIDS
On June 5, 1981, Michael S. Gottlieb, an immunologist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, and Joel Weisman, DO, jointly reported...
The Cure for Scurvy
On May 20, 1747, James Lind, the ship surgeon of the HMS Salisbury, conducted one of the first clinical trials in medical history and...
The First Modern Vaccine
On May 14, 1796, the English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tested the “world’s first vaccine” on the eight-year-old James Phipps.
The Discovery of DNA Polymerase
On April 16, 1956, about 60 years ago, Arthur Kornberg and his team of biochemists were the first to isolate and later characterize the...
The Discovery of Thermus aquaticus
On April 1, 1969, Thomas D. Brock and Hudson Freeze published their discovery and cultivation methods of a new species of thermophilic...
Creutzfeld Jacob Disease and BSE
On March 20, 1996, the government of the United Kingdom first announced the possible connection between the bovine spongiform...