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Impact of Ethics in Forensics

Ethical dilemmas can often occur in crime laboratories. Most of the time, the issues are dealt with by following rules defined in the codes of conduct constructed by employers.

27 Jan 2023

High-Content vs. High-Throughput Screening Technologies

High-content screening (HCS) and high-throughput screening (HTS) were introduced more than a decade ago and are both analytical techniques used to study biological systems in parallel for various applications such as cell biology and drug discovery.

27 Jan 2023

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology (Synbio) refers to the discipline of study that applies science, technology, and engineering to manufacture and modify genetic materials of living organisms.

27 Jan 2023

What Role do Biomarkers Play in Drug Discovery?

Biomarkers are used at every stage of the drug discovery process, and in this article we will discuss their role in more detail.

27 Jan 2023

What Role Does Molecular Dynamics play in Drug Discovery?

Molecular dynamics (MD) comprises a technique for computer simulation of complex systems modeled at the atomic scale with this article investigating its use in drug discovery.

26 Jan 2023

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

Cryoprecipitate Is a substance produced due to the gradual thawing of Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP).

26 Jan 2023

Are Biobanks the Future of Precision Medicine?

To support and advance medical research in fields such as precision medicine, it is crucial to be able to store biological samples such as genetic and clinical material such as tissue, blood, etc.

26 Jan 2023

Analyzing the Growing Threat of Soil Extinction

Soil is a complicated medium formed through biological and geological processes. It is on land on the uppermost layer of the Earth's crust.

26 Jan 2023

What Role does Functional Genomics Play in Pharmacology?

Functional genomics is a newly emerging and rapidly evolving drug discovery platform. Its purpose is to study the relationship between genetic information and the functional effects of our genetic code.

25 Jan 2023

Global Market Overview: Organ-on-a-Chip

OOAC is considered next-generation technology and has yet to meet its full potential. In this article, we discuss its uses and recent developments, give an overview of the global market, and predict how it might develop in the future.

25 Jan 2023

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