In the Age of the Microbiome blog post which initiated this series we introduced the spectacular potential that the microbiome offers for drug...

Elena Simon is just an average teenage girl, one who enjoys dancing and acting, and plans on attending Harvard in the fall to study computer...

DNA has often been likened to a book, with a set of instructions written in A’s, T’s, C’s, and G’s. But even if the contents of the book are known...

Outsourcing drug discovery and development has become the key to making the entire drug research process more efficient. Over the past few years...

We recently talked about how Green Fluorescent Protein, restriction enzymes, and CRISPR are invaluable products of basic research. These...

Over the course of the last century we’ve had the age of antibiotics, the genetic revolution, transplantation and immunotherapy, each of which...

There’s a new trend in the biotech startup world, and that’s the increasing presence of biotech startup incubators across the country. Many...

Whenever it is announced that budgets must be tightened, it is often scientists performing basic research who are among the first to be called to...

The increasing awareness of the scientific research community on the importance of open access and openscience has given rise to a new funding...

While we previously discussed how rare disease research has dramatically increased in both academic and industrial research, clinical trials of...