What’s been going on in the life sciences world this week? Check out Week in Brief for an overview of the biggest news.

Research has shown that blood tests early on in breast cancer treatment could help to predict outcomes. By performing liquid biopsy at the start of treatment and four weeks in, researchers could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study, published in Nature, outlines an AI-based approach that could help overcome some of the challenges with zinc finger (ZF) domain design and accelerate the development of gene therapies on ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...