Category: medicine
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A decade ago, bioinformatics sat quietly inside research labs. Today, it sits at the centre of biotech strategy, pharmaceutical R&D, genomic medicine, and even AI-driven healthcare startups. In 2026, biology no longer moves forward without code. Bioinformatics—the discipline that merges biology, data science, and computational modelling—has evolved from a niche academic speciality into a core…
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For over a century, industrial growth has depended on fossil fuels and petrochemicals. Plastic, fuel, textiles, packaging—modern civilisation runs on carbon extracted from the ground. However, a new shift is underway. Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons, scientists are programming living cells to manufacture them. Synthetic biology is rapidly evolving from laboratory curiosity into industrial infrastructure.…
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For decades, gene therapy lived on the edge of possibility. Scientists promised cures at the molecular level. Investors poured billions into biotech startups. Yet progress often felt incremental—punctuated by setbacks, safety concerns, and regulatory hesitation. Then, 2026 changed the tempo. This year marks a structural shift in how gene therapy is developed, delivered, and scaled.…
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If you had told a surgeon twenty years ago that they could operate on a patient thousands of miles away, they would have called it science fiction. Today, it’s clinical reality. Remote surgery and robotic assistance are no longer experimental side projects inside elite research labs. Instead, they are rapidly becoming pillars of modern healthcare…
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For centuries, medicine has fought disease at the macro level. We swallow pills. We undergo surgery. We inject therapies into the bloodstream and hope they reach the right target. Treatments circulate broadly, often affecting healthy tissue alongside diseased cells. Nanotechnology changes that paradigm entirely. Instead of treating illness with blunt instruments, nanotechnology operates at the…