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 […] ...

Happy New Year! 2025 was a year of exciting news in the life sciences field, and we’re sure 2026 will follow in its footsteps ...

Ahead of the Festival of Genomics and Biodata, we spoke with Joy Zhang (Professor of Sociology at The University of […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think about consciousness, we often consider it as being aware of one’s internal and external existence. But while there’s been decades of analyses and debate among philosophers and scientists ...

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 ...