Oncologists use biopsy and imaging techniques to diagnose and monitor tumor diseases and assess treatment success. Researchers at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich have ...
DNA synthesis is vital to several processes in biopharmaceutical innovation, including the development of gene therapies, CRISPR gene editing, antisense oligonucleotides and RNA therapies. The need ...
Nowadays, there's lots of buzz about spectacular new medical treatments such as personalised cancer therapy with modified immune cells or antibodies. Such treatments, however, are very complex and ...
Herbalife has been granted a patent for methods and kits to authenticate botanical DNA fragments in processed botanical products like dietary supplements. The method involves isolating DNA, ligating ...
For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer. This allows bacteria to rapidly evolve new traits, such as antibiotic ...
A study shows that ctDNA tests can detect tumours up to three years before before traditional testing methods would have picked them up Cancer doctor and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee describes how ...