In recent years, New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) have become a focal point for conversations between researchers, governments and regulators. Mounting pressures worldwide to reduce our reliance on ...

Forget your smartwatch or fitness tracker; this latest development in wearable technology turns its attention to the plant world. Tiny, tattoo-like sensors and a kirigami-inspired band that wraps ...

Studying hardy rodents adapted to life at over 6000 meters above sea level, scientists have uncovered secrets of the world’s highest dwelling mammal’s evolution. Mammals inhabit a variety of ...

Researchers have identified a key protein that allows herpesvirus, which causes genital herpes, to get into the nervous ...

We speak to the winners of the 2026 Al Yergy MS Scientist Awards to find out more about the techniques they pioneered.

A novel prime editing tool has unraveled some of the mysteries of fungi and identified compounds with promising anti-cancer ...

A novel virology tool enables expansive analysis of the proteins made by hundreds of viruses that can cause disease in humans, advancing disease research, drug development and pandemic preparedness. A ...

Original story from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Darlinghurst, Australia). Breakthrough set to enable development of new therapies to reverse bone loss. In a global breakthrough, ...

Researchers uncovered a new role for the TDP-43 protein in controlling the function of microglia, the immune cells of the brain. Their study shows how the loss of this protein in microglia may ...

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 ...

Researchers have constructed a network mapping the pathobiological impact of chemical exposures on the molecular level, with the potential to inform public health. From the air we breathe to the food ...

David Klenerman (left) is a Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he also works for the UK Dementia Research Institute (London, UK). From the late 1990s to 2007 ...