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What is Lipinski's Rule of 5?

Some 20 years after Lipinski and colleagues proposed a series of key characteristics required of a drug for oral bioavailability.

4 Mar 2022

Wastewater Analysis of Psychoactive Drugs

Recently, a new method called improved wastewater analysis (WWA) has been used to analyze psychoactive drugs effectively.

4 Mar 2022

What Impact do Our Genes have on Health and Disease?

While the genetic code is known to impart information on cellular processes, the associations between regions of DNA and their phenotype are still being made.

4 Mar 2022

Microscopy’s Involvement in Brain Imaging

Recent innovations in microscopy have shed new light on the connectome, and neural mapping.

4 Mar 2022

What is Synthetic Biology?

Synthetic biology merges engineering and biology, enabling innovative solutions in medicine, agriculture, and sustainability through advanced genetic design.

4 Mar 2022

An Overview of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells for Antibody Production

Over the past several years, the interest in utilizing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) for therapeutic purposes has risen significantly.

25 Feb 2022

Gait Analysis in Forensics

In this article, we will focus on how gait analysis is gathered from this type of evidence in order to help criminal investigations.

25 Feb 2022

Role of Proteomics in COVID-19

Mass spectroscopy has been in use for several decades now, advancing fields like drug testing, pesticide analysis, protein assays, and carbon dating.

25 Feb 2022

What is Stem Cell Banking?

Stem cell banking is becoming increasingly important for the research and development of preventative strategies and therapies for several diseases.

25 Feb 2022

How Genes Remain Active After We Die

After death, the processes of the body don’t immediately halt. This article looks at how genes remain active after we die.

25 Feb 2022

Biotechnology vs Genetic Engineering

By harnessing the cellular and biomolecular processes of an organism, researchers can develop biotechnological tools such as the infamous CRISPR-Cas system.

25 Feb 2022

How Could the Assembly Theory Improve Drug Discovery?

Scientists have recently developed a new method for exploring chemical space that could immensely help in drug design and drug discovery.

25 Feb 2022

What is Deep-Tech?

There is not one finite detention in which to categorize “deep tech”.

25 Feb 2022

Could Eating Insects be the Future of Food?

Eating insects could be the solution to the looming global food crisis that could see millions go hungry.

25 Feb 2022

Role of Microwave-Assisted Extraction in Cannabis Analysis

The main advantage of microwave-assisted extraction in cannabis analysis is the continuous-flow operation at atmospheric pressure. Read more here.

25 Feb 2022

How has Technology Transformed Genomics Research?

In this article, we discuss how technology has transformed genomics research.

25 Feb 2022

Using Microscopy for Deep In Vivo Brain Imaging

In the field of New-Ethology, model organisms like murine models or old-world monkeys are being used to acquire a deeper understanding of the brain's biological processes.

25 Feb 2022

Advancing Personalized Health through Bioinformatics

Personalized medicine, the use of a person’s genetic information to guide medical decisions relating to disease, is an emerging field of medicine that shows much promise.

25 Feb 2022

How has Artificial Intelligence Transformed Science?

The last two decades have witnessed extraordinary advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article looks at how it has transformed science.

25 Feb 2022

Transmission Electron Microscopy: An Overview

It is now possible to see the structures of life forms as small as viruses with a Transmission electron microscope. This article looks at this in more detail.

25 Feb 2022