


Sample Sam rescues the lab from “Samplegeddon”
Sample management should move from being an afterthought to become an integral part of the planning and execution of each experiment and research project
As research articles authored by multiple groups across many institutions and countries…

Human Diploid Genome Sequenced without DNA Amplification Techniques
De novo assembled human genome via single molecule sequencing
The researchers from BioNano Genomics and Pacific Biosciences led by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai have presented the first comprehensive analysis…

“Sample-Geddon” or the Nightmare of the Lost Samples
Over 60% of retracted scientific articles are retracted due to unintentional errors.
This includes errors caused by mislabeling of sample tubes containing key reagents, cell lines, microbial stocks or expression plasmids.
Even with…

Recent Discovery That Shakes Up Basic Assumptions in Neuroimmunology
How Can Our State of Mind Influence Our Body’s Defense System?
You may feel that there is no conceivable relationship between the behavior of our cells, inflammation and our conduct in everyday life... I do not agree. Hans Selye
Hans Selye…

When Cellular Therapies Come to the Rescue
Mesenchymal stromal cell use in treating severe graft-versus-host disease.
The Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) is a disease resulting from allogeneic bone marrow transplantation which is the only effective therapy for some hematological…

INTERVIEW: Leading Edge Technologies for Achieving Better Diagnostics
Meet Jim Huggett LGC, Helen Parkes LGC and Mojca Milavec NIB
What we find with the methods is that they are very precise. You do them once, you do them again and again and you get high precision and very good agreement. But…

A Promising Technology for Multiple Virus Detection
Testing for more than 1000 different strains of viruses in a single, multiplex reaction by using less than a drop of blood!
The method called VirScan has been developed and published recently by George J. Xu and colleagues. It allows…

Most Impressive Large-scale Sequencing Projects
From the Human Genome Project and ENCODE, to projects that involve sequencing of millions of human genomes and were announced by the US Obama Administration and Companies such as Craig Venter’s Human Longevity Inc., 23andMe and the Chinese…

The Riddle of Swiss Cheese Holes Solved
The formation of holes in cheese has interested scientists for long time.
In 1917 William Clark published a review article on Emmental cheese “eye” (the bigger type of cheese holes) formation, where he correctly concluded that bacterial…
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