Happy New Year! 2025 was a year of exciting news in the life sciences field, and we’re sure 2026 will follow in its footsteps ...

Ahead of the Festival of Genomics and Biodata, we spoke with Joy Zhang (Professor of Sociology at The University of […] ...

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 ...

Analysis of proteins is not simple. Unlike DNA, there is incredible diversity in the concentration and variety of proteins created by a cell at any given moment. In our Proteomics Playbook we outline ...

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 ...

This feature was written using content from out recenty published Proteomics Playbook, which you can download for FREE here. The sequence of a protein is critical as it largely dictates the protein’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Global Enteric Multicentre Study (GEMS) was a three-year initiative to identify causes of diarrhoeal disease in children from south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Whilst the study was successful in ...

Since the discovery of the basic double-helix structure of DNA In the 1950’s, scientists have devoted a huge amount of effort to determine the sequence of a variety of different genomics. It took over ...

Single-cell transcriptomics, or scRNA-seq, is widely used for analysing the transcriptome of single-cell populations. With scRNA-seq, gene expression profiling can explore genotype-phenotype ...

When we think about consciousness, we often consider it as being aware of one’s internal and external existence. But while there’s been decades of analyses and debate among philosophers and scientists ...