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Under the Sea; Importance of Underwater Robots and Drones in Sea Farming

Sea farming, or marine aquaculture, is an agricultural process that has been around for millennia, dating back to before 1,000 BCE in China.

25 Jan 2023

How can Standardization Help to Accelerate Drug Discovery?

The use of standardization within the drug discovery process may be a good strategy to improve the speed of drug discovery, which may aid with decreasing the overall length of the drug development and approval process.

25 Jan 2023

Endothelial Cell Biology

Vascular endothelial cells, a monolayer of endothelial cells, line the total circulatory system from the heart to the smallest capillaries.

25 Jan 2023

What is Western Blotting?

Western blotting is a laboratory technique used to qualify or quantify specific protein content within a sample.

25 Jan 2023

What is Assembly Theory?

In essence, assembly theory posits that the complexity of a molecular system can be measured empirically with the construction of the molecular assembly index (MA).

25 Jan 2023

The Industrial Applications of Biosurfactants

Surfactants are matrices that possess the ability to encapsulate polar substrates and, in turn, reduce the interfacial tension of fluids.

25 Jan 2023

What Role do Disease Models Play in Accelerating Drug Development?

Disease models aid in understanding the cause of a disease by being used to mirror a disease and its processes.

25 Jan 2023

Investigating the Relationship between Pharma and Biotech within the Life Sciences

Although the terms "pharma" and "biotech" might be interchangeable to many people, they are not identical. The drug development processes associated with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are different.

24 Jan 2023

How has DNA Analysis Evolved in Forensics?

DNA analysis techniques have progressed multiple times over the years as technology advances and facilitates more information with less (and even degraded) starting material.

24 Jan 2023

What are Vesicants?

A vesicant is an agent that can cause blistering, tissue sloughing (peeling), or necrosis when it escapes from the targeted vascular pathway and moves into the surrounding tissue.

24 Jan 2023

Insight into Genome Packaging in Viruses

Genome packaging is fundamental to successfully transmitting a virus from host to host.

24 Jan 2023

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

Being present in all eukaryotic organisms, the peroxisome comprises a single lipid bilayer, which is embedded with transporter proteins, as well as enzymes.

20 Jan 2023

Insight into Patents within the Life Sciences

Patents are extremely important for companies operating on life sciences-based strategies, such as pharma companies.

20 Jan 2023

Role of Applied Omics in Precision Medicine

Precision medicine has the potential to change the face of healthcare, and omics will play a vital role in seeing it reach its full potential.

20 Jan 2023

Smart Farming: The Sustainable Future for Food

Technological innovations have been gradually integrated into the agricultural sector. This is particularly true for smart technologies that use automated machinery to collect, process, and analyze data to inform decision-making.

19 Jan 2023

From Flower to Foul Play; An Insight into Forensic Botany

Forensic botany comes into play when a crime is linked to plants. Hence, the utilization of plant science in matters related to law is referred to as forensic botany.

19 Jan 2023

Optimizing a Drug's Pharmacokinetics

The pharmacokinetics of a drug is one of the main influencers of the therapeutic efficacy of a drug.

18 Jan 2023

The Role of Bioinformatics in Accessing Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA research first emerged in 1984, where DNA fragments from an extinct zebra species were extracted, sequenced, and analyzed.

17 Jan 2023

Making Sense of Life Sciences Data through Data Science

Given the rapidly increasing number of sources from which data is now available, thanks to the maturing field of the Internet of Things, it is unsurprising that the growing field of data science has accelerated in popularity.

17 Jan 2023

What are New Chemical Entities (NCE)?

During the drug discovery process, new compounds or active moieties can arise that have not previously been FDA-approved. These compounds are called New Chemical Entities (NCE).

17 Jan 2023