Biomedicine Articles

The creation of an artificial intelligence network developed by DeepMind, an AI company owned by Google, has resolved one of life science's biggest mysteries. The program, named AlphaFold, has the ability to determine the structure of a protein from its amino acid...

In 2014, MiRXES was founded as a 3-person spin-off from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR). Five years later, their flagship product GASTROClear was approved for early detection of gastric cancer (screening) – now widely used in...

Rachel Ignotofsky is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. She is based in Santa Barbara, California where she writes and publishes books about science and history. Rachel has spoken at many companies, bookstores, museums and universities including...

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with aggressive cervical cancer. She visited the John Hopkins Hospital where it was revealed that she had a large, malignant tumour on her cervix. She started undergoing radiation treatment: the only form of cancer treatment for...