5 in 2025: our top methods papers of the year

As summer draws to a close and the academic year picks up again, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight five exciting lab methods published in 2025, covering cell culture, AI, spectroscopy, microscopy and CRISPR. From analyzing molecules on the atomic level to rapidly harvesting organoids with a gentle solution, researchers have unveiled updates to technologies and techniques that are furthering life science research. A cell culture update: an enzyme-free alcohol-based organoid harvesting solution In need of a rapid, high-yield method for harvesting organoids and patient-derived organoids from common scaffold matrices? Solution for Harvesting Organoids Efficiently, SHOE, could be...