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A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

It was once that only unicellular organisms existed, though, as time passed, the world saw multicellularity for the first time, which developed further through evolutionary pressure.

29 Nov 2022

From Rain to Sun; How Weather Monitoring Helps Agriculture

Weather conditions play a significant role in determining food production. Monitoring conditions is, therefore, a key aspect of agricultural management.

28 Nov 2022

Current Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Instruments

The field of mass spectrometry (MS) involves measuring the mass of a certain species in a gaseous phase.

28 Nov 2022

How does the Gut Microbiome influence Autoimmune Disorders?

The human immune system is always on full alert to distinguish harmful from harmless organisms in the body; however, it sometimes makes a mistake and attacks self-cells - this is known as autoimmunity.

28 Nov 2022

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology is a rapidly evolving technology that first emerged in the 21st century.

28 Nov 2022

Dissecting the Current Genomics Landscape

Genomics is a discipline aimed at understanding the integral functioning of the complete set of genes (i.e., the genome) present in a cell, as well as the interaction of genes with the environment.

28 Nov 2022

What are Microbial Therapeutics?

The utilization of microorganisms for medicinal purposes is known as microbial therapeutics.

25 Nov 2022

What does the Future Hold for Raman Spectroscopy?

Though Raman Spectroscopy has been in use for almost a century now, the advancements and refining of this methodology have morphed the entire practice, save for the underlining principle.

25 Nov 2022

Creating Molecules Using 3D Printing

The first application of 3D printing to creating molecules was in creating 3D models of molecules.

25 Nov 2022

What is Pharmacovigilance?

Pharmacovigilance is a relatively new discipline used to describe the science and activities within the pharmacology industry.

25 Nov 2022

Investigating the Role of Genomics in Cancer Detection

Genetic predisposition to a specific type of cancer is due to genetic variants in the nucleotide DNA sequence that may be positively associated with an increased risk of developing this condition.

25 Nov 2022

What is High Throughput Screening?

High throughput screening (HTS) can be described as an automated process that is able to identify active compounds at an accelerated level.

25 Nov 2022

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

Synthetic human embryology is an emerging field in which different aspects of human embryo development are recreated and studied in the in vitro setting.

25 Nov 2022

What is Polygenic Screening?

Identifying genetic markers and patterns associated with certain traits make it possible to determine the probability that characteristics will be presented in an individual's phenotype.

25 Nov 2022

Insight into the Biggest Challenges Faced by the Aquaculture Industry

Aquaculture is already the fastest-growing food production sector and has become a promising candidate to stabilize food security, yet aquaculture faces many challenges.

25 Nov 2022

What Role do Macrophages Play in Immunology?

Macrophages are innate immune cells that fulfill various roles within the immune system.

25 Nov 2022

What are Hematopoietic Immune Cells?

Immune cells are crucial to regulating the immune response, and a variety of cells each have different responsibilities.

24 Nov 2022

What Implications does the Dark Genome have within Precision Medicine?

The human genome is mainly composed of a type of sequence known as "dark matter", which comprises both non-coding regulatory regions and coding regions that encode functionally unknown proteins.

23 Nov 2022

Challenges Surrounding Computer Crime and Cyberbullying

Ever since the inception of the internet, the two most frequently encountered misconducts have been cyberbullying and phishing.

23 Nov 2022

Investigating the Role of Insects in Forensic Investigations

Insects have played many roles in affecting livestock, household materials, production of honey, silk, and lac used in dyes and cosmetics. Forensically, insects have played crucial roles in supporting criminal investigations.

21 Nov 2022