Blog articles on the latest research developments.

Research news

We dedicate our efforts to delivering products with the innovative technologies that allow you to push forward and break new ground. Here we highlight recent publications featuring the remarkable and interesting scientific discoveries being made by our customers.


Turn occasional testing into routine monitoring—before small problems become big losses

Date: April 7, 2026

Categories: Research News

A rapid, semi-automated, high-throughput workflow for faster, scalable honey bee virus screening: preventing honey bee population decline through virus surveillance.

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Uncovering new dimensions of brain development: Decoding cortical layer identity with spatial long-read technology

Date: January 27, 2026

Categories: Research News

Combining long-read RNA with spatial technology, Slide-SeqV2 (Seeker™), for precise assignment of transcript isoforms to cortical layers.

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A call for caution: Uncovering biases in GWAS-by-proxy for Alzheimer’s disease research

Date: July 1, 2025

Categories: Research News

Understanding biases in GWAS-by-proxy for Alzheimer’s disease

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Artificial intelligence in life sciences: Accelerating the future

Date: May 15, 2025

Categories: Research News

Discover how AI is revolutionizing precision medicine, virus research, gene activation, and more.

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Engineered PsCas9: a precise, efficient tool for therapeutic genome editing

Date: March 11, 2025

Categories: Research News

Enhancing efficiency and safety of CRISPR-Cas tools with the optimized version of PsCas9: engineered PsCas9.

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DNA origami: revolutionizing cell nucleus delivery of functionalized DNA nanostructures

Date: February 11, 2025

Categories: Research News

An innovative approach to deliver DNA nanostructures into live cell nuclei.

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Demystifying and simplifying the lentiviral production and transduction workflow

Date: January 28, 2025

Categories: Research News

Understanding and simplifying the lentiviral workflow to enhance the overall performance of lentiviral transduction experiments.

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On-demand pharmaceuticals in space: Bacillus subtilis revolutionizes astropharmacy

Date: December 5, 2024

Categories: Research News

Bacillus subtilis can be engineered to produce life-saving medicines on-demand, in the vastness of space.

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Optimize your NGS: work with a polymerase that works

Date: May 19, 2023

Categories: Research News

This study highlights the importance of carefully selecting enzymes when amplifying NGS libraries, with Takara Ex Premier polymerase giving unbiased, highly sensitive, and precise results.

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Takara Bio wins a Crabby!

Date: April 3, 2023

Categories: Announcement

Tom Quinn, a group leader in our R&D team, won an award at the Spring 2023 ISBioTech meeting for presenting an outstanding poster about our soon-to-be-launched baculovirus titration assay.

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