Researchers have discovered that a common type of weedkiller may be fueling AMR, selecting for bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics.

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

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 ...

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

For the first time, researchers have used a genome editing technique called base editing to identify a master gene that is essential for human embryo development. Marking the first application of base ...

A new study has demonstrated that colon cancer cells may change identity to metastasize. Loss of GATA6, a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off, can reprogram colorectal ...

A tropical butterfly has evolved an ingenious anti-aging strategy by delaying the aging process enabling it to live far longer than its closest relatives. Found throughout the tropical rainforests of ...

Albert Heck (left), Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Proteomics at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), has pioneered several technological developments in MS, most notably native ...

A novel ‘asthma-on-a-chip’ platform breathes new life into study of the condition, offering hope for future treatments. University of Pennsylvania (PA, USA) engineers have developed a human ...