The journal at a glance: Q1 highlights from our Editor in Chief

Written by Michelle Itano (Editor in Chief of BioTechniques & Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core at UNC-Chapel Hill)
CRISPR Molecular biology Opinion PCR and sequencing Plant and climate science

Here, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Itano (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) reviews her top picks of the articles published in the journal BioTechniques between January and March 2025, detailing the motivations behind them, their key takeaways and how they made their way into her quarter one journal highlights! Opportunities and challenges in implementing CRISPR-based point-of-care testing for monkeypox detection Current diagnostic methods for Mpox involve PCR, which can be time consuming and is often dependent on bulky specialized equipment that requires user expertise and a lab environment. Frequently, this moves the diagnostic process away from the region where it...

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