A recent set of experiments at Columbia University seeking genetically to modify human embryos has rightly generated shock waves.

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Scientists engineered CMLase, an enzyme that removes CML, a form of age-related protein damage linked to tissue stiffness and ...

Deep brain stimulation researchers at UCLA and UT Southwestern published a Nature study mapping, for the first time in living ...

A new Ebola vaccine is being developed by Oxford University to help tackle an outbreak in the Congo. | ITV News Meridian ...

Corn is seemingly in everything, but many Hoosiers still don't know much about it. Consider this your corn crash course.

We came to a bench where a graduate student was working on one of the key mysteries behind antiaging: How does a cell remember its former state? Borrowing from information theory, Sinclair believes in ...

Lab-designed cells could someday be used in medicine, environmental cleanup, or manufacturing. Imagine spraying biosensing cells on a wall to test for hidden mold or swallowing a pill full of cells ...

Researchers developed a modified DNA platform designed to reduce innate immune activation while maintaining gene expression. The approach could provide durable, redosable genetic therapies without the ...

A Scenario”, by Annie Jacobsen, published this week, maps out the potential consequences of unleashing a genetically modified ...

The larvae of the screwworm, a fly, feed on living tissue. They are the epitome of flesh-eating parasites straight out of a ...

Researchers have mapped DNA methylation and 3D genome contacts in the same cells. The atlas uncovers cell-type-specific ...