Tools & Techniques News

Echinoderms, with their close evolutionary similarity to humans, provide insight into fundamental stem cell biology and neural regeneration that will inform human health.

Biobanking unearths samples that have been long lost in the backs of freezers and scientific information buried in dusty notebooks to make ground breaking discoveries for human health.

Small antibodies called nanobodies produced in camels, llamas, and alpacas might help stop the spread of COVID-19, but can they stand up against the competition?

The long history of insulin discovery and its development for treating diabetes is marked with determination and serendipity, collaboration and controversy.

People metabolize drugs differently, changing the effectiveness and toxicity of drugs between individuals. Genetic testing to identify mutations in metabolic genes that may affect how someone processes a drug is an important step towards precision medicine that is becoming more common in the clinic.

Sperm, bacteria, bubbles, and shuttles are just some of the latest cancer-treating microrobots in development for human use in the next few years.

A centuries-old wound-cleaning technique is finding its place in modern medicine.

Machine learning paired with single-cell analysis helps scientists identify pathways that cause disease and potential therapeutics.

By redirecting cells’ endogenous RNA editing machinery, scientists can correct disease-causing mutations, bringing a new kind of gene therapy to the clinic.

How can scientists bridge the communication gap between themselves and the public?