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?
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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?
Have you ever seen an apple with blotchy skin or an avocado with strange yellow markings? These abnormalities could be the result of the plant suffering from a viroid infection.
According to the World Health Organization, cancer was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2020 1. With countless individuals dying from breast, lung, colorectal and other forms of cancers daily..
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...
The human body is capable of wondrous phenomena. Our white blood cells help heal cuts and wounds, our salivary enzymes help break down foods, and our gut microbiome helps us digest nutrients.
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?
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and laboratories scrambled to develop SARS-CoV-2 test kits in mass quantity.
For the first time ever, the Human Genome Project gave researchers the ability to sequence the base pairs of human DNA and read a human's entire genetic makeup.
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...
In this blog, you’re going to learn what makes saliva a viable alternative to nasal and oral swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.
Editor's Update (June 20, 2020): The information represented in this article is a representation of when the original article was written on February 26th, 2020