The world has come a long way in the fight against COVID-19, but new variants of the virus could threaten progress we’ve made over the past year. Here are five things you should know if you want to understand how variants are (and aren’t) complicating the pandemic.

Western blotting is a staple technique in protein analysis. However, the standard workflow is time-consuming and sometimes highly involved for researchers. In order to make western blotting easier, several instrument-based solutions has been developed. The streamlined workflow ...Learn More

Malaria is a human infectious disease often transmitted by mosquitoes. Researches are now altering a mosquito's gut genes using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to reduce its ability to spread the disease. As long as the modified gene is passed to the next generation of their ...Learn More

tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms. A team from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. They ...Learn More

Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, ...Learn More