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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...