What is a biomarker?
A biomarker, or biological marker, broadly refers to a range of objectively, accurately, and...
BioStrand Omics Analysis Blog:
Genetic research
Precision drugs for the precision medicine era
Currently, chemotherapy, using cytotoxic small molecules to kill cancer cells, is the predominant...
What is precision medicine?
In 1999, an innovative collaboration between 10 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies,...
The role of NGS in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, accounting for 25% of all female...
Top 4 challenges of equitable precision medicine
In our previous articles on precision medicine, we reviewed how advances in precision medicine...
The BioStrand Interviews: Meet Christophe Van Neste
Bioengineer, philosopher, programmer, bioinformatician and teacher, Christophe Van Neste is a truly...
How to characterise protein domains
Classifying genes and assigning functions to gene products is a fundamental step in converting huge...
Bring Meaning to the Chaotic Space of Omics & Text
Learn how to integrate and normalise omics and biomedical text data into a single data model/frame...
Defining next-generation biobanks
Since the term was first introduced in the mid-nineties, biobanking has evolved significantly from...
The metadata challenge in biological research
One of the key highlights of the global response to COVID-19 has been the importance of effective,...
Learnings from the global response to the pandemic
Prior to 2020, the fastest vaccine development program had taken four years from viral sampling to...