The journal at a glance: Q2 highlights from our Editor in Chief

It’s time to share Editor-in-Chief Michelle Itano’s (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) top article picks published in the journal between April and June 2025, detailing the motivations behind them, their key takeaways and how they made their way into her quarter two journal highlights! Assessing the necessity of technical replicates in reverse transcription quantitative PCR Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is one of the most employed techniques in molecular biology, relevant to a broad spectrum of research. Commonly, PCR is performed in three replications to ensure accurate results; however, each run requires money, materials and...