Strand Articles

21 February 2025
Dr. Harsha P K
NGS for Adventitious Agent Screening
Contamination is the invisible enemy of biologic products, threatening...

10 February 2025
Strand Content Team
Mito Matters: The Importance of Mitochondrial DNA
Imagine your cells as bustling factories, constantly producing the ene...

23 January 2025
Dr. Mahendra Perera
The Transformative Impact of Next-Generation Seque...
In recent years, next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized t...

08 January 2025
Sanjna Banerjee
Microbial Mysteries: Innovative Approaches to Anal...
Over the last decades, it has become clear that the microbiome is cruc...

29 November 2024
Dr. Swaraj Basu
Microarray vs. NGS for DNA Methylation Patterns:A ...
DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic mechanism characterized by...

27 November 2024
Dr. Arivusudar Everad John
Harnessing the Power of RNA Sequencing
Imagine you’ve got the full blueprint of a house, but you only want to...

22 October 2024
Strand Content Team
Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Ovarian Can...
Ovarian cancer remains one of the most challenging cancers to treat, p...

22 October 2024
Strand Content Team
Understanding Hereditary Testing for Risk Manageme...
When it comes to cancer, genetics can significantly influence an indiv...

23 August 2024
Dr. Arivusudar Everad John
5 Applications of miRNA Research: A Deeper Dive
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as pivotal regulators in cellular proc...

08 May 2024
Dr. Jannatul Ferdous
Understanding Ovarian Cancer: Risks, Symptoms, and...
Ovarian cancer, often dubbed as the "silent killer," poses a significa...

04 February 2024
Dr Ankit Batra
HRD and PARP Inhibitors: A Promising Treatment App...
When it comes to understanding cancer at a molecular level, we delve i...

15 December 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Cardiovascular Diseases in India: A Silent Genetic...
Exploring the genetic factors behind the high prevalence of cardiovasc...

14 December 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Unmasking Silent Threats: Genetic Mutations and Su...
A study from 2013 titled ‘Lives forever changed: Family bereavement ex...

09 November 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Genetic Testing: Your Personalized Path to Wellnes...
Science today has progressed enough to enable us to economically harne...

03 April 2023
Dr Ramesh Hariharan
Why is Genomics Key to the Future of Preventive He...
The costs of Genome Sequencing have decreased in the last decade from ...

27 March 2023
Dr Ramesh Hariharan
Chris Hemsworth & The Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth was recently informed by his doctor ...

27 January 2023
Lung Cancer Panel – Top 5 Questions Oncologists Ne...
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of all cancer-related deaths wor...

20 January 2023
What is Pharmacogenomics? | फार्माकोजेनोमिक्स क्या...
The world today is increasingly gravitating towards individuality than...

01 December 2022
Sakshi Shinghal
Covid Treatments: New Uses of Old Pills
In the last few weeks 2 big pharma companies — Merck and Pfizer — have...

18 March 2022
Strand Editorial Team
Don’t Blame Your Genes
“Alright, let’s beat them with a difference of 10 points”, I told my p...

23 February 2022
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
dd-cfDNA — The Alphabet Soup of Transplant Rejecti...
With the advent of the first successful xenotransplantation of a pig h...

31 January 2022
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
First Successful Pig Heart Transplant
While most of us were hunkering down and hearing about yet another rel...

06 January 2022
Sakshi Shinghal
Cancer mRNA Vaccines
Are cancer vaccines possible? While mRNA vaccines are helping vaccinat...

17 November 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
mRNA Vaccines: Back to the Basics
While research on mRNA vaccines has been ongoing for years, the advent...

05 November 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
World Hepatitis Day
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, which can lead to functiona...

15 February 2021
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Why Aren’t All Blue Whales Ridden with Cancer?
Why aren’t all blue whales ridden with cancer? As mammals that have 1,...

14 January 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
Ultrasensitive Detection of Tumour-Specific Mutati...
India has one of the highest incidences of oral cavity squamous cell c...

05 January 2021
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Liquid Biopsies: Non-Invasive Cancer Detection
When it comes to diagnosing a cancer, clinicians typically choose to b...

02 January 2021
Strand Editorial Team
Strand Life Sciences’ DNA Testing Plans
There are certain genetic mutations that are highly prevalent in the I...

31 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Turning Evolution on Its Head
Evolution is a push and pull of selective pressures that leads to cert...

18 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Case Study: Patients with variants that are not of...
Not all variants have the same levels of evidence behind them, (see ou...

09 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Recommending Targeted Therapies for Patients with ...
Cancers are often caused by an activating mutation in a specific gene....

18 November 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Single Cell Transcriptomics
While all cells may contain the same gene (excluding somatic, or non-i...

10 November 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
The Story of Osimertinib
NSCLC is the most common subtype of lung cancer in the world, accounti...

19 October 2020
Strand Editorial Team
Breast Cancer: Choosing Facts Over Myths
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Lumps or knots in breast tiss...

08 October 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Darwinian Evolution and Cancer Treatment
One of the first things we learn in Bio 101 is Darwin’s Theory of Evol...

16 September 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
StrandIRIS: Automated Interpretation of Somatic Va...
The DNA of cancer cells is different from that of normal cells, and mu...

15 May 2020
Sakshi Shinghal
AiArthritis — Autoimmune and Auto-Inflammatory Art...
Autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis (AiArthritis) are forms of a...

10 November 2019
Strand Editorial Team
Life In The Time Of Genetic Decoding
Genes rarely hold the secrets to who we are, nor are they the final ar...
