The 12 days of BioTechniques: 2025
This holiday season, we are highlighting our top content from the past year in the 12 days of BioTechniques, revealing a key collection of content each day!

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: our most popular article from 2025
NIH freezes rock the research world

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: two Nobel Prizes
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025?
Who won the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine?

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: three journal highlights
The journal at a glance: Q1 highlights from our Editor in Chief
The journal at a glance: Q2 highlights from our Editor in Chief
The journal at a glance: Q3 highlights from our Editor in Chief

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: four shiny eBooks
Lab essentials: Next-generation sequencing
AI and computation in cancer drug discovery
Lab essentials: Spatial biology
Advances in autoimmune disease therapeutics

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: five goooold rings five methods papers
5 in 2025: our top methods papers of the year

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: six Ig Nobel Prize winners
The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes: under the microscope

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: seven webinars
Panel Discussion: The neuroscience of the pill
Metagenomics for pathogen surveillance
Enhancing protein purification efficiency with advanced filtration solutions
Rapid epigenomic classification of acute leukemia
Multiplex imaging and spatial analysis for biomarker-driven TME profiling
How to sequence full-length 16S and ITS microbial amplicons

On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: eight opinion pieces
Industry perspective: is biotech bouncing back?
Seeking structure: an insight into cryo-EM, structural biology and drug development
Standing up for cancer research at AACR
Fact or fiction: debunking scientific misinformation
Rare Disease Day: national genomic medicine programs and recent research

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: nine STEM Tea podcasts
STEM Tea | Supporting underserved communities through STEM mentorship
STEM Tea | Impact and sustainability in mentorship
STEM Tea | Working together for better science and better opportunities
STEM Tea | Strengthening HBCUs
STEM Tea | Founding Black in Neuro
STEM Tea | Being visible as an act of service
STEM Tea | Investing in our students
STEM Tea | Humans first, professionals second

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: ten videos / infographics
Infographic: Why, when and how should you continuously monitor cell metabolism?
Infographic: Autoimmune diseases: the era of targeted treatments
Infographic: Investigating biomechanics with atomic force microscopy
Infographic: Integrating new approach methodologies into your therapeutics development research
Video: The importance of metabolic monitoring in cell culture
Video: Resolving entire plasmids
Video: Organ-on-a-chip technology in drug development
Video: Autoimmune disease research solutions
Video: An introduction to atomic force microscopy
Video: An introduction to new approach methodologies

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 11 interviews
Probing the brain for answers: a PET tracer for early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Tapping into the precision molecule-editing potential of halogenases
Quantum questions have algorithmic answers: navigating a drug discovery network
Targeting ABC to tackle AMR: taking advantage of bacterial membrane proteins
How will AI-first drug design transform human health?
Navigating the nephron with novel hyper-characterized organoids
Capturing a contradiction: T cells and the benign-to-malignant transition
What are bacteriocins and how can we harness their therapeutic potential?
Be picky: selecting cells with desirable characteristics for further development
Hosting a festival of life science: insights from the new Chair
Grand techniques for cancer research: a Cancer Grand Challenges update

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 12 science books (plus two extra because it’s Christmas!)