New drug discovery is extremely inefficient. Estimates of the average R&D cost per new drug are less than $1 billion to more ...

Data underscore the potential to leverage comprehensive epigenomic profiling from a simple blood test to explore central nervous system disease ...

Noble shows that such an integrative view emerges as the necessary consequence of the rigorous application of mathematics to biology. Drawing on his pioneering work in the mathematical physics of ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative new method for identifying biomarkers in wastewater using origami-paper sensors, enabling the tracking of ... A New Ventilator-on-a-Chip ...

It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Li, Cheng ...

The length can vary from 50 to 250 words (or up to 100 words for Highlight articles), but it should always be concise and easy to read with recognisable words and phrases ... natural products and ...

The complexity of contemporary biology is a source of wonder, fear, and misunderstanding. Thierry Hoquet reviews the major ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — Can an immunoassay be created and selectively detect a virus in under 5 minutes? In a new study, researchers report that it can be done using a low-power laser like a laser ...

Although in the previous chapter some simple examples of significance tests were given, we were mainly concerned with the underlying ideas rather than with numerical details. We must now go on to ...