Scientists have developed a blood test for women over the age of 70 who are suffering from breast cancer. The test can ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multi-omics is the combining of different “omics” – the genome, epigenome, transcriptome and proteome. Studying each layer in isolation can only colour in part of the picture. By bringing all these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the discovery of the basic double-helix structure of DNA In the 1950’s, scientists have devoted a huge amount of effort to determine the sequence of a variety of different genomics. It took over ...

How will multi-omics change healthcare? With new ways to integrate data, new applications in precision medicine, and the emerging potential of AI and machine learning for analysis, it is an exciting ...

Written by Arpita Kulkarni (Director of the Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Core at HMS/BIDMC). Across the life sciences, a quiet anxiety is growing: what is the role of the experimental ...