High-resolution spatial transcriptomics and imaging-based technologies are now generating large-scale, multi-dimensional datasets that are beginning to reshape how we understand tissue organisation, ...

Liquid biopsy is rapidly transforming how cancer is detected, monitored, and treated. While major progress has been made in identifying tumour-derived signals in blood, the central challenge now is ...

The idea that the experiences of our ancestors shape who we are today is not a novel one. In fact, throughout history, great thinkers from around the world have proposed theories and ideas to explain ...

Nucleic acid sequencing has become an integral part of modern biomedical research. The advances in sequencing technology, from its invention to modern-day equivalents, have been extraordinary. 2022 ...

Illumina’s systems employ short-read sequencing techniques, which has been the predominant NGS technology for the last decade. The company has made huge advances in the NGS space and now markets a ...

Two things that have defined the 21 st century are genomics and the internet. Through a combination of these has emerged a controversial type of ‘influencer’ on the internet – self-gene-editors or ...

Psychedelics include LSD, psilocybin and DMT. LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is derived from ergot, a fungi that infects grain. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI) is a synthetic psychedelic drug ...

How will multi-omics change healthcare? With new ways to integrate data, new applications in precision medicine, and the emerging potential of AI and machine learning for analysis, it is an exciting ...

As advancements in genetic technologies accelerate at an astonishing pace, the potential for gene editing to transform our world becomes closer to being realised. With the advent of revolutionary ...

Is science in the throes of a “reproducibility crisis”? If someone followed the same methods, techniques, and reagents as your experiment, would they have the same results? This describes the core ...

“Strange is this little animal, because of its exceptional and strange morphology and because it closely resembles a bear en miniature. That is the reason why I decided to call it little water bear.” ...