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Pig Hearts and Kidneys in Humans: The 2026 Clinical Trial Era of Xenotransplantation

The FDA cleared the first US clinical trials in 2026 — United Therapeutics' 10-edit UKidney and eGenesis's 69-edit donor pigs. Here's what the science actually says.

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AlphaFold 3 to IsoDDE: How AI Drug Discovery Got Twice as Accurate in 18 Months

DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 reshaped structural biology in 2024. By mid-2026, Isomorphic Labs' IsoDDE has more than doubled accuracy on the hardest protein-ligand systems.

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The Antibiotic Pipeline Is Almost Dry — Inside the 2026 Resistance Crisis

Only 6 of 27 antibiotics in active clinical development hit WHO priority pathogens with truly novel mechanisms. AMR is one of the few major health crises getting worse on schedule.

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Long COVID in 2026: What the RECOVER Trials Ruled In, What They Ruled Out

NIH spent $1.15 billion on the RECOVER program to test long-COVID treatments. The 2026 readouts retired some hypotheses and elevated others — baricitinib, low-dose naltrexone, and semaglutide.

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What Can You Do With a Biology Degree? Career Paths and the Skills Each One Needs

Choose the work, not the job title. A practical guide to biology careers: a typical day, the way in and the first skill for each path, which need a PhD, real UK graduate data, and how to test a path in a month.

How to Read a Phylogenetic Tree: A Step-by-Step Guide With Practice Trees

Learn to read any evolutionary tree with one simple rule. Built from real primate DNA, this beginner's guide covers clades, rotations, branch lengths, bootstrap values and roots, with eight practice trees and worked answers.

FASTA, FASTQ, BAM and VCF: Bioinformatics File Formats Explained

A beginner's guide to the files every genomics project runs on. Follow one real coronavirus sample from FASTQ to BAM to VCF, decode quality scores, SAM flags and CIGAR strings, and avoid the off-by-one error that can hide a mutation.

PCR vs qPCR vs RT-PCR vs Digital PCR: What Each One Measures

The names differ by a letter, but the measurements differ in kind. A beginner's guide to what PCR, qPCR, RT-PCR and digital PCR each measure, with real data, a worked delta-delta-Cq example and a guide to choosing between them.

How to Read a Volcano Plot: Fold Change, P-Values and FDR Explained

A beginner's guide to the most misread figure in genomics: what each axis means, why adjusted p-values matter, six ways the plot misleads, and how to draw one yourself in R or Python. Every figure uses real, public data.

Dengue in Dhaka 2026: What to Do From the First Day of Fever

A day-by-day dengue guide for Dhaka: symptoms, the warning signs that mean hospital now, tests and prices, myths, 2026 hotspots and the vaccine question.

Building a Career in Cell and Gene Therapy: From Bench to Patient

Cell and gene therapy is hiring across at least six distinct job tracks — most applicants only know two. Here's the full role spectrum, the skill stack each one demands, and the under-the-radar opportunities.

From Bench to Bedside: A Practical Guide to Clinical Research Careers in 2026

The clinical research industry hits $52 billion in 2026. It hires biology and nursing graduates without requiring a PhD — and the career ladder is unusually well-documented. Here's how to get on it.

How to Break Into AI Drug Discovery: A Skill Roadmap for the AlphaFold Era

AI-driven drug discovery is one of the most aggressively hiring corners of biotech in 2026 — and one of the most talent-starved. Here's the actual skill stack, the degree paths that work, and the companies hiring entry-level.

From Pixels to Proteins: How Spatial Transcriptomics Is Rewriting Cell Biology

Single-cell sequencing told us which cells exist. Spatial transcriptomics tells us where they are and what they're saying to their neighbours. The 2026 toolkit makes both routine.

The 5-Year Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Data Just Read Out — Here's What It Means

Moderna and Merck's intismeran autogene cut melanoma recurrence-or-death by 49% at five years when combined with pembrolizumab. The platform is now expanding to lung, kidney, and bladder cancer.

Prime Editing's First Cure: Inside the PM359 Trial That Restored a Patient's Immune System

A single dose of Prime Medicine's PM359 restored NADPH oxidase activity in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease — the first prime-editing drug to show meaningful clinical effect.

CAR-T Beyond Cancer: Resetting the Immune System in Lupus, Myositis, and Scleroderma

CD19-targeted CAR-T cells are putting severe systemic lupus into drug-free remission. In-vivo CAR-T is now in NEJM. The cancer toolkit is becoming an autoimmune toolkit.

The EVOKE Trial Aftermath: Why GLP-1 Drugs Didn't Save Alzheimer's — Yet

Semaglutide's Phase 3 EVOKE trial in early Alzheimer's missed its primary endpoint — but inflammatory markers fell, and brain-penetrant successors are already lining up.

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Pig Hearts and Kidneys in Humans: The 2026 Clinical Trial Era of Xenotransplantation

AlphaFold 3 to IsoDDE: How AI Drug Discovery Got Twice as Accurate in 18 Months

The Antibiotic Pipeline Is Almost Dry — Inside the 2026 Resistance Crisis

Long COVID in 2026: What the RECOVER Trials Ruled In, What They Ruled Out

What Can You Do With a Biology Degree? Career Paths and the Skills Each One Needs

How to Read a Phylogenetic Tree: A Step-by-Step Guide With Practice Trees

FASTA, FASTQ, BAM and VCF: Bioinformatics File Formats Explained

PCR vs qPCR vs RT-PCR vs Digital PCR: What Each One Measures

How to Read a Volcano Plot: Fold Change, P-Values and FDR Explained

Dengue in Dhaka 2026: What to Do From the First Day of Fever

Building a Career in Cell and Gene Therapy: From Bench to Patient

From Bench to Bedside: A Practical Guide to Clinical Research Careers in 2026

How to Break Into AI Drug Discovery: A Skill Roadmap for the AlphaFold Era

From Pixels to Proteins: How Spatial Transcriptomics Is Rewriting Cell Biology

The 5-Year Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Data Just Read Out — Here's What It Means

Prime Editing's First Cure: Inside the PM359 Trial That Restored a Patient's Immune System

CAR-T Beyond Cancer: Resetting the Immune System in Lupus, Myositis, and Scleroderma

The EVOKE Trial Aftermath: Why GLP-1 Drugs Didn't Save Alzheimer's — Yet

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