Promising results from a small clinical trial highlight a growing interest in designing gene-editing treatments for common ...

Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are found almost everywhere in the world—from hot springs to arctic ice to ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why ...

The Hippo signaling pathway that helps control tissue size in animals and malfunctions in cancers already existed before ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

Developing a gene therapy typically takes years, but when Baby KJ was diagnosed with a deadly genetic condition, scientists had only months. What followed was a successful collaboration among ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...