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Here, we have collated a few top tips for ensuring meaningful patient advocacy in research from a recent episode of FoGCast.

Researchers have discovered that getting ‘chills’ or tingles when listening to music or engaging with art or literature is partly heritable. Some of the genes linked to this response were associated ...

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for The Festival of Genomics, Biodata & AI in Boston this June. As the life sciences sector rapidly evolves – notably due to the rise of AI – it ...

Over the last few months, there have been multiple reports on new treatments for sickle cell disease. In this feature, we highlight the biggest updates in this field and think about what the future ...

Discover how NGS-based pharmacogenomics improves variant detection and patient safety. Join our webinar on March 10th at 2pm ...

Illumina’s systems employ short-read sequencing techniques, which has been the predominant NGS technology for the last decade. The company has made huge advances in the NGS space and now markets a ...

Nucleic acid sequencing has become an integral part of modern biomedical research. The advances in sequencing technology, from its invention to modern-day equivalents, have been extraordinary. 2022 ...

“Strange is this little animal, because of its exceptional and strange morphology and because it closely resembles a bear en miniature. That is the reason why I decided to call it little water bear.” ...

In our most recent Back to Basics feature, we took a look at CRISPR, the gene editing technique that took the world by storm in the early 2010s and continues to dominate the life sciences news cycle.

As technology advances, we’re used to hearing about the latest in a seemingly never-ending list of ‘omics’. With each one hailed as more promising than the last, opportunities in the life sciences ...

Two things that have defined the 21 st century are genomics and the internet. Through a combination of these has emerged a controversial type of ‘influencer’ on the internet – self-gene-editors or ...