The 12 days of BioTechniques: 2025

Written by Maddy Chapman (Digital Editor)

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

Antibodies to watch in 2025

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?

The brain on birth control

Seeking structure: an insight into cryo-EM, structural biology and drug development

Standing up for cancer research at AACR

At the core: contemplating Mars exploration, the origins of cellular life and core facility administration

Fact or fiction: debunking scientific misinformation

Rare Disease Day: national genomic medicine programs and recent research

Stories, resources and communities to explore for International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025

 

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 | Disrupting racism and cisheteropatriarchy through research, pedagogy and mentorship in STEM education

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!)

BioTechniques’ 2025 summer reading list


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