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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

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 ...

Original post by Liam Little in February 2023. Updated by Ashleigh Davey in September 2023. According to the British Journal of Cancer, one in two of us will develop cancer in our lifetime. Despite ...

This feature is written using content from our recently published Liquid Biopsy report, which you can read in full by downloading here. Thanks to a wealth of publications demonstrating the exciting ...

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 ...

Despite women making up nearly 50% of the global population, significant gender disparities in healthcare continue to be reported. Whilst diagnoses of hysteria may be a thing of the past, a continuing ...

In a recent study published in PNAS, researchers have discovered for the first time that telomeres can produce proteins. Not only does this challenge our previous understanding of telomeres, but it ...