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

A bionic cooling skin that marries protection, comfort and potent antibacterial activity could be what’s been missing in the treatment of infected wounds. A bionic skin capable of passive cooling and ...

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, ...

New research reveals the role of Camsap3-organized microtubules in ovarian follicle communication, successful ovulation and female fertility. Researchers from Japan investigated how microtubules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...