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Key Concerns Surrounding Genomic Data

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing platforms and the development of novel bioinformatics tools for sequence analysis have revolutionized the field of medical genetics.

20 Jul 2022

Investigating the Challenges Surrounding Biotherapeutics

Biotherapeutics is a rapidly growing field of pharmaceuticals that is helping to prevent and treat serious illnesses such as cancer.

20 Jul 2022

How Does Your Ethnicity Affect Your Genetic Makeup?

Genetics play a significant role in human health.

20 Jul 2022

The Link Between Food Waste and Sustainability

In this article, we explore long-term solutions to address food waste so that more people can receive sufficient nutrition each year.

20 Jul 2022

What is Expansion Microscopy?

Expansion microscopy uniformly expands biological specimens in all dimensions with the help of common reagents and hardware present in most biological laboratories.

5 Jul 2022

Application of Machine Learning and AI to Analytical Chemistry

Within the fields of chemistry and the analytical chemistry subsection, scientists are charged with synthesizing compounds with effective moieties and functional groups that can regulate and inhibit disease.

20 Jul 2022

Reproducibility in Analytical Laboratories

For the scientific method to run smoothly, reproducibility is imperative, as it provides the validity and trust associated with the realm of science.

11 Jul 2022

Is Synthetic Biology the Next Big Thing for Biopharma?

Synthetic biology is a field that combines biotechnology, genetics, and biological systems to redesign organisms and engineer features that increases their usefulness for a particular purpose and aim.

8 Jul 2022

Investigating the Biggest Challenges in Drug Discovery

Researchers face multiple challenges while developing new drugs, and this article focuses on some of the key challenges.

6 Jul 2022

How are Food Microbes Saving Lives?

We explore how food microbes are being used to save lives by detecting contamination in food and reducing the life-long health problems that arise from malnourishment.

4 Jul 2022

Using Spectroscopy to Make COVID-19 Testing More Accessible

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the global use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, a moniker that has become commonplace.

1 Jul 2022

What Makes a Good Drug Target?

In this article, we discuss the key properties of a molecule that make it a good drug target and detail the drug target selection process.

1 Jul 2022

Electrolysis: An Overview

Electrolysis is a technique that uses a DC electrical current to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.

1 Jul 2022

Role of Long-Read Sequencing in Genomic Medicine

Genomic medicine and medical genetics are relatively new fields that involve using genomic technologies for diagnostics and therapeutic decision-making.

1 Jul 2022

What Role does Collaboration have within the Drug Discovery Sector?

Collaboration has always been essential in science, especially in the drug discovery sector. This article looks at some of these collaborations in more detail.

20 Jul 2022

What are Polymorphs?

Polymorphism in pharmaceuticals alters drug properties, with implications for bioavailability and stability, essential for effective drug formulation.

16 Dec 2024

The Ocean to Humanity: Connection, Sustenance, Support

The ocean covers more than two-thirds of the planet. It is the source of all life on Earth and continues to play a vitally important role in supporting that life.

18 Jul 2022

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

The 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) is a sequence present in messenger RNA (mRNA), which serves as the point of entry for the ribosome during translation.

15 Jul 2022

Importance of Repeatability and Reproducibility in Analytical Chemistry

Repeatability and reproducibility in analytical chemistry are key indicators of the quality of experiments and analyses.

14 Jul 2022

Insight into Single-Cell Sequencing

Single-cell sequencing has emerged as a novel method for providing a deeper insight into the genetic information pertaining to the genome, transcriptome, exome, and other single-cell multi-omics.

13 Jul 2022