All-female team explores a promising compound against this ‘essentially incurable’ disease Society has no shortage of metaphors for cancer. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee famously titled his ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life.

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a vector that integrates the Cre enzyme gene with the specific DNA ...

Scientists are pioneering a revolutionary approach to combat climate change: genetically engineering cow gut microbes to ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

The US joins Moldova, Hong Kong, and New Zealand as countries to greenlight the company's Phase I trial of PBGENE-HBV.

This research topic focuses on the exploration and analysis of alternative nucleic acid structures within microbial systems, ...

A child with a rare genetic disorder — spinal muscular atrophy type I — was treated prenatally for the first time. Courtesy of Jakob Owens  via Unsplash During an amniocentesis test, a long, thin ...

Researchers have genetically engineered microbes to produce a strong, flexible plastic similar to nylon for the first time.