FOG London will be bringing the whole life sciences community together under one roof at ExCeL in London on 27th-28th January 2027.

This feature was written using content from out recenty published Proteomics Playbook, which you can download for FREE here. The sequence of a protein is critical as it largely dictates the protein’s ...

New research has uncovered the function of red blood cells as immune sensors that detect and bind to cell-free DNA present during sepsis. Red blood cells (RBCs) comprise the majority of circulating ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea that the experiences of our ancestors shape who we are today is not a novel one. In fact, throughout history, great thinkers from around the world have proposed theories and ideas to explain ...

Cancer is widespread in the animal kingdom. It can affect different animals – from fish to mammals – and even existed in dinosaurs. Some species develop cancers that are very similar to humans, while ...

“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.” ...

Since the discovery of the basic double-helix structure of DNA In the 1950’s, scientists have devoted a huge amount of effort to determine the sequence of a variety of different genomics. It took over ...

Written by Arpita Kulkarni (Director of the Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Core at HMS/BIDMC). Across the life sciences, a quiet anxiety is growing: what is the role of the experimental ...

The term ‘proteomics’ was first coined in 1996 by Marc Wilkins, used to define the large-scale analysis of all the proteins in a cell, tissue or organism. The goal of proteomics was to obtain a more ...

Perhaps the hottest topic in the genomics world, gene editing has gone from an idea that a sci-fi fan could only dream of, to a cornerstone of the life sciences field. With gene editing techniques now ...