This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "Cutting-edge tools shaping early-stage drug discovery", which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: "The use-case for NGS", "Are organ-chips the future of preclinical research?" and "What spatial biology can tell us about disease and drug discovery".

In the first article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Dr Darrell Green, Lecturer in RNA Biology, Biomedical Research Centre, Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia, about his work using next generation sequencing (NGS) and the areas the technology is impacting within drug discovery and development.

In the second article, Diana Spencer catches up with Lorna Ewart, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate, about the rise of organ-on-a-chip technology.

In the third article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Benedikt Nilges, Head of Technology and Data Analytics at OMAPiX about spatial biology's use in drug discovery and bettering our understanding of disease.