Technology Features

The latest in live-cell microscopy—multiphoton imaging, light-sheet techniques, and technology borrowed from Raman spectroscopy—allow researchers to study living cells in more detail with less effort.

The rise of biosensors and microfluidics may one day make animal models obsolete.

Once elusive, biomarkers for mental illnesses and other brain disorders have been found--paving the way for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

Single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing technologies are entering the marketplace. Here’s what researchers need to know before using them.

Novel purification and analytical techniques allow more tissue biopsies to enter the clinic.

Antibodies are the workhorses of basic science research and clinical assays yet many are invalid. Here's what to do when antibodies go “wrong.”

Manipulating microbes has gotten a lot easier now that new technologies and companies have entered the scene

Metabolites, small molecular byproducts of metabolism, yield big data that systems biologists are currently sorting via new tools.

3D Cell Culture has come into its own via new matrices, scaffolds, and other geometries.

The cancer treatment trio (chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation) becomes a quartet through the latest advances in immunotherapy.