Solving a century-old mirror-image mystery wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
BioTechniques News Tristan Free Essential molecules like amino acids and sugars exist as two non-identical mirror-image variants, although only one of these […]
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Cordyceps couture: textiles made from live fungi shake up sustainable fashion
BioTechniques News Tristan Free ‘Living textiles’ made from a parasitic fungus could be the next big thing in sustainable fashion. Sure, it’s […]
3D printing houses on Mars using yeast – it’s not as crazy as it sounds
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from Cell Press. Forget bricks and mortar, scientists hoping to build houses on other worlds are […]
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026?
BioTechniques News Tristan Free As the phrase goes, ‘Great oaks, from little acorns grow’ and just so goes the story of the […]
Dog brains track speech in a way we thought was unique to humans
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously […]
Could magnetic bacteria hold the secret to longevity?
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China). A magnet-producing bacterium extended […]
Tapeworm drug nanotherapy sparks hope for non-hormonal endometriosis treatment
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Repurposing a tapeworm drug shows promise as a treatment for endometriosis, a disease for which there is currently […]
Unraveling 700 million years of cell evolution with AI
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST; Thuwal, Saudi Arabia). A new AI tool […]
The biotech bi-weekly: an expansion into cardiac drug discovery, the world’s largest healthy human protein atlas and large libraries of AI-designed proteins
BioTechniques News Tristan Free In this edition of the biotech bi-weekly, we highlight a product enhancing positive cell selection, a partnership making […]
Overlooked protein finally gets credit for its role in cell division
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). A previously unknown protein helps cells divide correctly. The RNA […]
Too hot to handle? ‘Fire amoeba’ beats the heat to survive at a record-breaking 63°C
BioTechniques News Tristan Free This newly discovered amoeba can survive and thrive at temperatures once thought impossible for complex lifeforms. The aptly […]
Flatworms can regrow their brains – and now we know their secret
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the University of Georgia (GA, USA). We finally know which genes allow flatworms to regenerate […]
Why do we get sleepy? Uncovering the science of sleep drive
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby We all know the feeling: bleary eyes, irrepressible yawns – both unmistakable signs the land of nod is […]
Could AI and ‘digital twin’ models of mitochondria accelerate drug discovery?
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Virtual cells based on 4D lattice light-sheet microscopy predict mitochondrial responses to drugs, potentially accelerating therapeutics discovery. Researchers […]
Decoding the ‘grammar’ of the genome with new AI model
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from the University of California, Berkeley (CA, USA). Scientists have created a new genomic language model, […]
It has to be… algae? New protein-packed ketchup has a surprising green twist
BioTechniques News Tristan Free Would you dip a chip in algae-enriched ketchup? According to new research, adding microalgae protein to the iconic […]
Construction without a blueprint: the secret to how viruses assemble
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Original story from the University of Oxford (UK). Researchers have captured the step-by-step assembly of individual virus-like particles, […]
Scientists shatter neuroimaging time barrier with cloud-based mini microscope
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from Johns Hopkins Medicine (MD, USA). A new imaging platform lets researchers monitor brain activity continuously […]
The biotech bi-weekly: new multiplex immunofluorescence tool, a human genome database and funding for rapid molecular testing
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman This edition of the biotech bi-weekly highlights the datasets revolutionizing our understanding of the human genome, new technologies […]
Deadly virus’s ancient DNA uncovered in pages of medieval manuscripts, rewriting its 3500-year history
BioTechniques News Maddy Chapman Original story from University College Dublin (Ireland). Some of Europe’s most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, […]