The field of plant epigenetics is increasingly recognized for its crucial role in mediating plant responses to diverse environmental stressors intensified ...

A clinical trial to reverse age-related vision conditions using stem cell treatment could finally deliver on the promise of a ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Following Flagship's origination of generative protein and mRNA platforms, Serif is pioneering Modified DNA medicines to program the foundational information layer of biology Serif to present data at ...

Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs), relics from ancient viral infections, form a significant part of vertebrate genomes, including humans, where they constitute ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever, and general malaise. Those symptoms, which typically resolve within days, are the natural ...

Postdoctoral fellow and co-first author Dongyoon Kim demonstrates some of the equipment used to craft the new ionizable lipids. The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...