How does your body produce millions of antibodies from one genome? New research reveals how two closely related proteins help ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...

Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists. By Carl Zimmer Scientists at Columbia University have ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instructions can ...

Stoppage time can be added on for a whole range of delays during a match Visionhaus/Getty Images As the cliche goes, football is a game of two halves — specifically, two 45-minute halves to make a ...

Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining ...

Over the past decade, researchers at WashU Medicine have established that a molecule called SARM1 is a central trigger in the loss of axons, the vital wiring of the nervous system. Axon loss is ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

GIP and GLP-1 activate certain receptors (binding sites) in the body that help regulate appetite. Zepbound delays gastric emptying, which means the food you eat stays in your stomach for longer, ...