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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...