It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

We spoke to David Klenerman, co-developer of sequencing by synthesis, to find out how his work heralded the next generation ...

BioTechniques’ Editor-in-chief Michelle Itano (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) casts her eye back to pick out her top three papers from April to June. Get her reviews of an ...

In this episode, the fifth in our miniseries covering the mAbs journal article collection on artificial intelligence and machine learning in antibody development, we speak to Aubin Ramon, Postdoctoral ...

In this edition of the biotech bi-weekly: a new companion module makes direct RNA sequencing protocols more convenient, antibiotic design and vaccine target prediction EDEN models have been made ...

Western blotting remains a cornerstone of molecular biology, enabling researchers to detect and quantify specific proteins from complex mixtures with high sensitivity and specificity. Yet, the ...

An experimental drug that targets the TDP-43 protein offers hope for treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a condition that still lacks both a treatment and a cure. ALS received widespread ...

Emerging evidence has hinted that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) weight loss drugs may be associated with mental health benefits. Now, researchers report that these unexpected side effects ...

Scientists have grown wheat containing super-sized starch granules – a leap forward in biological engineering with potential benefits for our daily diets and a raft of industrial applications. The ...

We also explore the cellular origins of cancer and neurodevelopmental disease, the impact of spatial proteomics and AI on cancer research and a streamlined protocol for conducting single-cell spatial ...

Mammalian cell lines are crucial in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins, vaccines and other clinically relevant drugs. A number of different lines are relied upon, but three in ...