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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This feature is written using content from our recently published Liquid Biopsy report, which you can read in full by downloading here. Thanks to a wealth of publications demonstrating the exciting ...

Is science in the throes of a “reproducibility crisis”? If someone followed the same methods, techniques, and reagents as your experiment, would they have the same results? This describes the core ...

Editorial Note (May 2025): Please note that the most recent updates and developments are now reflected in the newly released Sequencing Buyer’s Guide 7th Edition ...

“Strange is this little animal, because of its exceptional and strange morphology and because it closely resembles a bear en miniature. That is the reason why I decided to call it little water bear.” ...

Written by Charlotte Harrison, Science Writer. A paper published in Nature Communications shows that the rapid spread of the H5N1 avian influenza A virus — otherwise known as bird flu — was ...

The field of genetics is a relatively young science, beginning with Gregor Mendel’s studies on the inheritance of traits in pea plants. The term “genetic engineering” was first coined by Jack ...

Nucleic acid sequencing has become an integral part of modern biomedical research. The advances in sequencing technology, from its invention to modern-day equivalents, have been extraordinary. 2022 ...

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 ...

When used in combination with the standard prostate-specific antigen test for prostate cancer (PCa), a new epigenetic assay can improve diagnostic accuracy and potentially reduce the frequency of ...