The Power of the Stem Cell Our bodies are made of hundreds of different cells. Neurons, muscles, blood vessels, liver, kidney, etc., each are made of...
The Importance of Microbiomes Microbiomes are the community of bacteria present in an environment. It usually comprises hundreds if not thousands of different species interacting with...
CRISPR Beyond Human Health A lot can be said about the amazing capability of CRISPR gene editing for human health. This is something that we discussed...
Still some New Frontiers In Biology In previous articles, we discussed the rise of Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS) and its potential to revolutionize medicine. Biotechnology and medicine are...
A New Understanding When looking at the mechanics of a cell, we can resume the process as such: DNA is the template/instruction manual. RNA is the...
The Old Therapeutic Method Until recently, most of the pharmaceutical industry has been focused on finding new chemical molecules that could be used as drugs. The...
The biotech sector had suffered a steep decline by the end of 2021. While it is far from recovered, this generalized “Biotech Rout’ have also put...
The mRNA Revolution With the pandemic, mRNA has moved from a very technical term to something that virtually everybody knows. This a revolution for a technology first...
Gene Editing Hype Gene editing has for a while been hailed as the new frontier in medicine. The peak enthusiasm with investors on this topic was...
The Classic Biotech Startup Model Biotech companies live and die by innovating and creating new treatments. The basic model follows the regular steps: Start with an...
A Primer on Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology is the method of redesigning organisms to give them new useful properties. This is a step further compared to...
Carbon Neutral Fuel To reduce carbon emissions, the favored road has been to replace combustion engines and thermal power plants with alternatives like EVs and renewable...
Gene Editing Hype Gene editing has for a while been hailed as the new frontier in medicine. The peak enthusiasm for investors on this topic was...
In pre-modern times, most of the economic activity was driven by the primary sector: farming, husbandry, and other food production. With the industrial revolution, our economies...
A Brief History of CRISPR CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences....