A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...
Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...
Scientists at ETH Zurich have identified a compound that sharply reduced nerve-cell death in mice engineered to develop ...
Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything ...
RNA interference is a natural mechanism for living cells to control whether specific genes are being used. Crowned with the ...
Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...
Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a large-scale screening approach that identifies ...