Life Science Articles

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

Combating Infectious Diseases Through Computational Protein Design

This article focuses on understanding how computational protein design combats infectious diseases.

17 Jan 2023

Investigating the Intersection between Microscopy and Healthcare

To be able to diagnose, treat and understand different diseases, it is crucial to be able to visualize the pathogens/microorganisms at a molecular level. This is only possible due to the developments in microscopy.

17 Jan 2023

Racial Differences in Protein Biomarkers

Protein biomarkers have many uses in clinical medicine, but overlooking racial differences in these biomarkers could significantly reduce the quality of medical care given to ethnic minorities.

17 Jan 2023

Implementing Big Data to Boost the Agricultural Sector

Over recent decades, the digital revolution driven by the advances in ICT has led to extensive innovations across industrial, financial, and agricultural sectors.

16 Jan 2023

How Walkaway Lab Solutions Can Improve Productivity

In this article, KPM Analytics details the advantages of walkway lab solutions, and how they can drastically improve productivity and expand testing capability.

From KPM Analytics 16 Jan 2023

Choosing a Passivation Service Provider

In this article, Astro Pak explains how clients can find the best service provider for their needs.

From Astro Pak Corporation 16 Jan 2023

Investigating the Intersection between Life Sciences and Technology in the 21st Century

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16 Jan 2023

How is Omics Revolutionizing Cancer Research?

Omics is important because it offers a window into how the body works and a fine-grain level, which helps reveal key information about how disease establishes and progresses.

16 Jan 2023

Investigating the Importance of Assays in Drug Discovery and Development

Drug discovery and development involve numerous stages and years of hard work and assays play an important role in many of these steps.

16 Jan 2023

Prime Editing: The Next Big Genome Editing Technology?

The original CRISPR-Cas systems and related genome editing strategies raise some important limitations, mainly associated with the generation of DNA double-strand breaks (DBSs) at target genomic sites, the need to include a donor DNA molecule, and the activation of DNA repair pathways.

13 Jan 2023

How will Digitization in Food Production Help to Address Climate Change?

The world’s food system releases excessive emissions into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, which, in turn, has a detrimental impact on food production.

13 Jan 2023

Global Market Overview: Metabolomics

Metabolomics is an emerging field of science that involves the large-scale characterization and quantification of metabolites in human and animal systems.

13 Jan 2023

What are the Differences between Genotyping and DNA Sequencing?

Genotyping and DNA sequencing are similar in some aspects, but they are functionally different.

13 Jan 2023

Insight into the Challenges of the Seafood Industry

The seafood industry faces challenges ranging from resource overexploitation to illegal fishing and ineffective policies.

20 Dec 2022

The Significance of Consensus Sequences in Bioinformatics

The generation of a consensus sequence is a fundamental previous task in many bioinformatic analyses, and it involves the obtention of a single nucleotide sequence (DNA/RNA) or amino acid sequence (protein) that represents aligned and related sequences.

20 Dec 2022

What Role Does Genomics Play in Drug Repurposing?

Drug repurposing refers to the identification of novel and original benefits for already approved drugs available to treat a disease or medical condition.

20 Dec 2022

What is Base Editing?

Base editing is a new gene editing technology that is able to create gene knockouts, correct errors in genetic code, or fix mutations in the DNA of living cells.

20 Dec 2022