excavator loading a dump truck at a copper mine

When the average person says the words "heavy metal", they're probably referring to the genre of music with massive pyrotechnics, loud drums, and vocals that sound like a bag of angry cats.

scientist holding urine collection tube

Exosomes have become a hot topic lately in the field of molecular medicine. In 2020, a group of scientists from Mexico became the first to discover placental exosomes in the urine of patients with

origami bacteriophages on a laboratory shelf

If you have a passing familiarity with biological sciences then you have probably come across the term phage or bacteriophage before. But what exactly do they do?

Norgen technician in PPE using sequencing machine

In the past, diagnoses were limited to what could be observed by an attending physician with their own senses. As one might expect, this resulted in wildly varying levels of patient care and unconventional tests and treatments, many of which unfortunately involved livestock.

Two Norgen scientists holding up blue colorectal cancer awareness ribbons

Let's talk Numbers...

If experts say that colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable and often curable diseases, then why does it still consume 10.2% of all cancer cases globally?

COVID-19 positive and negative tests

Is it possible that your COVID-19 workflow is not as accurate as you may think?

wastewater treatment facility

The world as we all know it changed dramatically in the early months of 2020 with the onset of COVID-19. With business closures and hospital overloads occurring around the globe, researchers felt the urge to find solutions to the evolving pandemic.

cfDNA in tube

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) refers to all circulating DNA present in the bloodstream which may originate from apoptotic cells as a part of the natural cell turnover, from cancer cells or fetal cells.

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