Research has shown that blood tests early on in breast cancer treatment could help to predict outcomes. By performing liquid ...

Language can often be overlooked in conversations, seen only as a vessel to communicate ideas. But for many living with […] ...

Analysis of proteins is not simple. Unlike DNA, there is incredible diversity in the concentration and variety of proteins created by a cell at any given moment. In our Proteomics Playbook we outline ...

As advancements in genetic technologies accelerate at an astonishing pace, the potential for gene editing to transform our world becomes closer to being realised. With the advent of revolutionary ...

This feature was put together with content from Chapter 2 of the Multi-omics Playbook, released in February, 2024. For an in depth look at a number of the popular ...

The idea that the experiences of our ancestors shape who we are today is not a novel one. In fact, throughout history, great thinkers from around the world have proposed theories and ideas to explain ...

Illumina’s systems employ short-read sequencing techniques, which has been the predominant NGS technology for the last decade. The company has made huge advances in the NGS space and now markets a ...

Drug discovery can be a long and gruelling process, but this effort is vital to advance human health. As is the case in many fields, the increasing sophistication of genomics and other omics, ...

Two things that have defined the 21 st century are genomics and the internet. Through a combination of these has emerged a controversial type of ‘influencer’ on the internet – self-gene-editors or ...

Single-cell transcriptomics, or scRNA-seq, is widely used for analysing the transcriptome of single-cell populations. With scRNA-seq, gene expression profiling can explore genotype-phenotype ...

Spatial context matters in complex biology. From cancer prevention to cancer biology, and for both translational and clinical studies, multiomic spatial biology is proving to be an exceptional tool to ...

New research has uncovered the function of red blood cells as immune sensors that detect and bind to cell-free DNA present during sepsis. Red blood cells (RBCs) comprise the majority of circulating ...