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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

Dissecting the Current Landscape of Biotechnology in Europe

In Europe, biotech companies are growing at a rapid pace, which is helping transform academic innovations into effective commercial products.

16 Dec 2022

The Applications of Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) Technology

The Chromatin Conformation Capture 3C assay is a useful technique to understand the functional significance of the tridimensional structure of the genome and chromatin rearrangements.

16 Dec 2022

Underestimating the Role of Sample Preparation

Sample preparation consists of a series of operations to prepare the sample for analysis and improve the results.

16 Dec 2022

What are Biologics?

Biologics are a type of drug or vaccine that is made from a living organism. These drugs can consist of a variety of substances such as proteins, sugars, DNA, or cells.

16 Dec 2022

Global Market Overview: Genomics

In this article, we discuss how genomics is used in all areas of science, how this might develop in the future, and the global market outlook.

13 Dec 2022

Global Market Overview: Spectrometry

Spectrometry technology has been around for many decades; however, its status has recently been elevated due to its use by researchers at the University of Surrey in COVID-19 vaccine development.

13 Dec 2022

Importance of Accurate Yield Predictions in Agriculture

Crop yield is a key driver of agricultural productivity. Methods predicting crop yield have transitioned towards using automated ‘intelligent’ techniques, such as machine learning computational models.

13 Dec 2022