Michael Scott Long

Chromosome segregation, cell division, and all other processes of cell proliferation are central to cancer progression, aging, the success of stem cell therapies, and many other research fields. The cell cycle is highly coordinated and regulated, as well as adaptive and heterogeneous on the single-cell level (Stallaert et al., 2022). Accordingly, computational tools will benefit such lines of inquiry, as in cell cycle transcriptome dynamics (Chervov and Zinovyev, 2022).

Raman spectroscopy is an invaluable life science research technique—for interrogating the intestinal microbiome (Lee et al., 2021), diagnosing oral cancer (Zhang et al., 2022), serving as a compliment to conventional biopsies (Qi et al., 2023), and more. Because it’s non-destructive and rapid, analyses can be conducted on living cells in real time, such as for identifying antimicrobial resistance profiles (Rebrosova et al., 2022).

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are classic examples of personalized diagnostics and therapeutics (Malik and Ghatol, 2021). They bind specifically to nearly any therapeutically pertinent biomolecule and can be produced by a wide range of engineered organisms (Eidenberger et al., 2023). A common use of mAbs is to help the immune system target cancer (Zinn et al., 2023) and inflammatory disease (Zhu et al., 2023), such as for past emergency use against SARS-CoV-2 (Ravi et al., 2023).