At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

Primerdesign releases RapidBead Pro, a fast magnetic bead kit delivering high-quality DNA/RNA extraction across diverse ...

Biosensing technology developed by engineers has made it possible to create gene test strips that rival conventional lab-based tests in quality. When the pandemic started, people who felt unwell had ...

Identify value of reporting all relevant genetic information important for carrier screening for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, and fragile X syndrome Recognize that critical genetic ...

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U.K.-based Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) opened a new laboratory in Stevenage which has been specifically designed and equipped to allow cell and gene therapy developers to monitor and ...

One autumn day in 2020 Patrick Doherty was walking his dog up a steep mountain in County Donegal, Ireland, when he noticed he was, unusually for him, running out of breath. The eventual diagnosis was ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Scientists have broken the world record for sequencing DNA and they're already using the new tech to help care for newborns ...