With the fiscal cliff negotiations over for now, we turn our attention to the patent cliff. A lot of industry watchers and participants often...

Scientist’s Kevin Lustig recently blogged on mendelspod, explaining how the cost of drug development for pharmaceutical companies often leads to...

Since the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) initiated a program in 2004 to advance sequencing technology development, the resulting...

We all know bacon and other fatty foods can lead to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases but the four-legged creature from where these...

Next generation sequencing has reduced costs and increased the throughput, as compared to Sanger sequencing. Importantly, it has expanded the...

In the previous post, we saw the impetus behind the technological innovation that led to development of next generation sequencing. So, for...

This holiday season, while sipping eggnog and eating some delicious holiday treats, Scientist invited Dr Sandeep Pingle, editor of Roundtable...

As 2012 comes to a close, we wanted to look back at the blog and provide a short review of the past year. To start, our top 3 most popular posts...

In our effort to promote research, Scientist sponsored the NYU Gallatin IGEM team. As we’ve seen before, the IGEM competition generates very cool...

We have seen a recent interest for Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) research services and wanted to share with our users exactly how useful this...