Zhijian “James” Chen, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was awarded the 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that ...

The new assay measures the enzymatic activity of cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) by directly detecting the product cGAMP, in a simple mix-and-read format. Based on the proven Transcreener platform, ...